The UK-CGIAR Centre aims to support global food security by bringing together scientists from the UK and the CGIAR to form impact-focused research collaborations.
Our food system has faced unprecedented challenges in recent years. Driven by the war in Ukraine, food costs have reached a 50-year high. Climate change is hitting some of the world’s most fragile regions hard, exacerbating the vulnerability of food supplies. At the same time, agriculture is negatively affecting the environment; it is the primary driver of biodiversity loss and accounts for 30% of GHG emissions.
Objectives
The Centre has 3 objectives:
How the Centre was put together
The Secretariat was tasked with identifying research areas and topics as well as potential partners for the first round of funding. It took a mixed methods approach to meet this challenge. The Secretariat reviewed the CGIAR research initiatives, mapped them with FCDO strategic priorities and conducted a bibliometric analysis to identify UK science areas of excellence. The analysis helped inform the FCDO’s and CGIAR’s selection of research areas and topics, and potential partners.
All UK-CGIAR Centre projects are commissioned through a closed competition process for invited applicants only and these are determined by a careful selection process involving the Centre Secretariat, funders and senior CGIAR representatives. We do not, under any circumstances, accept unsolicited approaches for funding.