CGIAR 2022–2024 Investment Plan Theory of Change

Innovation Demand
Demand Action Areas & scaling & scaling
Challenges partners and RIIs partners Outcomes partners Impact

Nutrition, health
More than 10 percent of the
world’s population lives on less than and food security
US $1.90 a day, making a healthy National governments Regional Integrated
diet unaffordable to more than including Ministries Initiatives National and local
3 billion people of Agriculture, Uptake and delivery of co-designed governments
Environment, Health National agricultural and co-delivered innovations,
More than 85 percent of the
and Finance research and for example: International NGOs Poverty reduction,
world’s 1.2 billion youth live in extension services livelihoods and jobs

Innovation through coupled technologies,

International financial Systems Input providers to small-scale
low- and middle-income countries, Transformation Private sector 
and many face limited institutions International research farmers supply farmer-preferred

policies and capacity building

work opportunities organizations and seed varieties, livestock health
Global and regional universities services, digital tools, climate Multi-stakeholder
bodies advisories – tailored to both platforms Gender Equality,
Human health is threatened
by poor food safety and diseases Private sector –
women and men youth and
transmitted within food systems, Private sector including farmer Global and regional social inclusion
including emerging diseases associations organizations and Public, private and finance sector bodies
Resilient industry associations invest in climate-smart and more
Agrifood systems produce almost CGIAR funders Agrifood inclusive business models and International financial
systems supporting services institutions
a third of global greenhouse Multi-stakeholder Environmental health
gas emissions National Agricultural platforms
Research and
National policymakers, international App developers, ICT and biodiversity
organizations and market actors providers, distributors
Climate change poses major Extension Services Global and regional use innovative tools for policy
risks for agriculture through bodies of agricultural inputs
analysis, investment decisions and
high temperatures, erratic rainfall, National and regional management of natural resources –
drought, flooding, and sea level rise Regulatory bodies
farmers & trade
Genetic
NGOs and civil society bringing together goals for healthy Climate adaptation
associations organizations diets, jobs and environment
Agriculture is the biggest driver Innovation Multi-stakeholder and mitigation
of forest and biodiversity loss, Civil society platforms
including of diversity crucial to organizations
healthy diets and nutrition, and the Contributing to
single largest user of freshwater

2022 2024 2030

SPHERE OF
CONTROL
SPHERE OF
INFLUENCE

SPHERE OF
INTEREST
Source: CGIAR 2022–2024 Investment Prospectus