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Annex I : The CGIAR

Annex I

The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) was founded in 1971. It is an international consortium sponsored by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The Group is serviced by a Secretariat (CGIAR Secretariat) and advised on technical issues by a Technical Advisory Committee (TAC). Thirteen autonomous international agricultural research centres (IARCs) operate under the aegis of the CGIAR. They are listed on the last page of this Annex.

In 1989 areas of international forestry research were accepted to be funded by the CGIAR in the future and a study was begun by TAC to define other areas of (and some existing further institutions for) international agricultural research that should be included among the activities of the CGIAR.

The membership of the CGIAR consists of the three co-sponsors (FAO, UNDP and the World Bank); 25 donor countries (Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States of America); representatives of the five developing regions (sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America, Near East and North Africa and Southern and Eastern Europe) the African Development Bank; the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development; The Asian Development Bank; the Commission for the European Communities; the Inter-American Development Bank; the International Development Research Centre; IFAD; the OPEC Fund for International Development; UNEP; the Ford, Kellogg and Rockefeller Foundations and the Leverhulme Trust.

The recently adopted goal of the CGIAR is: "Through international agricultural research and related activities to contribute to increasing sustainable food production in developing countries in such a way that the nutritional level and general economic well-being of low-income people are improved".

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The stated objectives of the Group are as follows:

On the basis of a review of existing national, regional and international research activities, to examine the needs of developing countries for special effort in agricultural research at the international and regional levels in critical subject sectors unlikely otherwise to be adequately covered by existing research. facilities and to consider how these needs could be met;

To attempt to ensure maximum complementarity of international and regional efforts with national efforts in financing and undertaking agricultural research in the future and to encourage full exchange of information among national, regional and international agricultural research centres;