The global partnership of agricultural research centers, founded in 1971 to carry the Green Revolution's institution-building forward. CGIAR's network includes IRRI, CIMMYT and a dozen sister centers, and its genebanks hold in trust the largest crop diversity collections in the world. Much of the improved seed planted across the developing world traces to a CGIAR center. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Founding Year HeadquartersMontpellier, France (system organization) 1 Classification
KindInternational Agricultural Research Center 1 Connections
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Source Geoffrey Hawtin (Wikipedia)
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: France, found in there.
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1. Wikipedia: CGIAR
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CGIAR (formerly the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research)
lead description (institution-kind)
The global partnership of agricultural research centers, founded in 1971 to carry the Green Revolution's institution-building forward.
View the Source Geoffrey Hawtin (Wikipedia)
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He has headed two CGIAR Research Centers and currently is on the Executive Board of the Crop Trust.
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