EU announces 140 million EUR to support research in sustainable food systems [04.10.21]
The EU will provide 140 million EUR to the CGIARS (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research) for research on sustainable food systems. This was announced by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Saturday (25.09.2021) at the Global Citizen Live event.
Founded in 1971, CGIAR is a network of 15 research centers around the world with some 8,000 scientists engaged in food systems research in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean. Its mission is to help feed a rapidly growing world population while meeting the challenges of the 21st century: reshaping food, land and water systems in a climate crisis and increasing the resilience of the global food systems to crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
EU support will strengthen CGIAR's capacity and operations. The funding will be used to renew its research and innovation portfolio and address production methods, practices and related policies. In addition, nature-based solutions and ecosystem-based approaches (e.g. agroecological and regenerative approaches, agroforestry, sustainable land management, etc.) will be scaled up to improve productivity based on ecological processes, contributing to economic, social and environmental sustainability.