The CGIAR is a strategic
alliance of members, partners and international agricultural
centers that mobilizes science to benefit the poor.
Orangutan with young, Tanjung Puting, Central Kalimantan. Photo: Daniel Murdiyarso, CIFOR.
July 2009
How Wildlife can Boost the Appeal of Tropical Forest Protection
A new study carried out by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and its partners provides compelling evidence that paying to conserve billions of tons of carbon stored in tropical forests could also protect orangutans, pygmy elephants and other wildlife at risk of extinction. Read more...
Understanding and Containing Global Food Price Inflation.
Soaring food prices have put the CGIAR on high alert, and the international research Centers it supports are responding vigorously on several fronts. Read more.
Global Climate Change: Can Agriculture Cope?
No one understands better than farmers how the weather, especially when it takes a turn for the worse, can affect people and their land. That’s why farmers around the world have always talked and worried about the weather obsessively. But now, emerging weather patterns have a lot of other people worried, too. Read more..
Global Climate Change: Can Agriculture Cope?
