The consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) was established in 1971 to scale up years of effort by the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations in supporting four international agricultural research centers, in Colombia, Mexico, Nigeria, and the Philippines. As the first global program to receive grants from the World Bank's net income, the CGIAR's original mission was a strategic, science-based focus on increasing "the pile of rice...
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