Abstract
The ‘Global Challenge Program’ being undertaken by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) is a formal recognition of a need to focus research efforts on larger environmental questions that resonates with similar efforts at international coordination in ecological and conservation biology research. For the last 30 years, the CGIAR, an association of 58 public and private sector members, has supported 16 agricultural research centers, conducting pioneering research on major staples of world agriculture.However, despite its many successes, recent critical assessments of the research centers have called for more coordination among them and an increased emphasis on global challenges of food production (see 13 March 2001 transmittal under ‘revitalizing CGIAR’ at http://www.cgiar.org/). These global challenges include the implications of climate change for agriculture, depletion of biodiversity and genetic resources, and the growing crisis in water resources. PK
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