CGIAR Scaling for Impact Program

The Scaling for Impact Program will tackle global poverty, food insecurity and climate risks by applying transdisciplinary science, fostering partnerships, generating evidence and delivering integrated solutions to maximize impact and minimize duplication. As the pioneering program fully dedicated to scaling land, food and water systems innovations, we will ambitiously address critical challenges to meet pressing global needs. We will further establish CGIAR as a leader in agrifood systems innovation scaling – effectively fostering partnership synergies to deliver scalable, inclusive and responsible innovation benefits.

Our work will help with supporting 62+ million people through systems and financing, applying biodiversity-friendly and climate-smart innovations to 10 million hectares of land and raising $45 million to catalyze enduring impact. The challenges that will be addressed are;

• Difficulty in achieving widespread, inclusive, and lasting change in farming practices, policies and technologies
• Climate change, environmental degradation, geopolitical instability, population growth, rising inequality and unsustainable diets create barriers to sustainable scaling
• A need for science to rapidly evolve to generate scalable innovations resilient to today’s challenges and tomorrow’s climate, ensuring transformative impact