CGIAR

02/25 Assessment of the Quality of Evidence Supporting CGIAR Contributions to the 2022 Aspirational System Level Outcome Targets. Rao, X. CGIAR  System Organization report 

25/09/24   CGIAR publishes an overview of its recent policy outcomes—how many, where, and what kind

08/24          CGIAR System Organization. 2024. Policy outcomes: An analysis of the 2017–2021 Outcome Impact Case Reports submitted by the CGIAR Research Programs – Overview and country insights. Montpellier, France: CGIAR System Organization.

02/05/24   Check out two just published reports (CGIAR 'The Feed Newsletter)

18/12/23   Refining Targets for CGIAR’s Aspirational Goals

08/23           Assessment of CGIAR contributions to the 2022 aspirational System Level Outcome targets

11/12/23   Can AI enhance CGIAR syntheses and quality assurance?

Agrifood system innovations

18/06/24   Transforming African Food Systems from the Ground Up

26/01/24   Facilitating the ‘innovation journey’

Innovation scaling

21/05/25 "Lifting all boats" with a heat-tolerant and cost-effective vaccine against goat plague, CGIAR website

01/04/25 Putting the Responsible into Scaling Readiness: Integrating GenderUp with CGIAR’s IPSR Process, CGIAR website

25/03/25 Fail, Learn, Innovate, Scale, Repeat: Failure as Fuel for Innovation, CGIAR website

11/03/25 Where voices of change fuel the future of scaling, CGIAR website

11/03/25 Scaling Week 2024: The unconference experience, CGIAR website News

03/25         CGIAR has established a Regional Scaling Hub in Nairobi, CGIAR The Feed newsletter

13/02/25 Developing scaling strategy guidelines for CGIAR innovations: An update from Scaling Week on what CGIAR is learning along the way

06/01/25 VarScout, a digital app for all seasons that is transforming crop varietal data collection—and visualization and use By Dinah Borus, CGIAR website 

06/01/25 A smart—and smartly delivered—advisory service for Rwanda's small-scale farmers By Bester Mudereri, CGIAR website

06/01/25 'ShambaShield'—Delivering inclusive finance and climate-smart solutions to Kenyan farmer By Shalika Vyas, CGIAR website

15/01/25 On scaling agricultural innovations: Insights from 2024 Scaling Fund winners

11/07/24   Integrating responsible innovation and scaling into CGIAR‘s scaling processes and strategies: Highlights of a new report from CGIAR, ILRI, WUR and UC  Davis for BMGF

• 2:18-minute video 

• 27 slides 

06/24          Responsible Innovation & Scaling Strategy Development Process for CGIAR’s IPSR Framework Workshop Report

10/06/24   Meet this year's winners of CGIAR’s Scaling Fund

06/06/24   CGIAR Scaling Community (CGIAR ‘The Feed Newsletter)

04/05/24   The Rwanda-SNS innovation expansion: Tailored fertilizer recommendations for smart and sustainable farming, by Mutangana Emmanuel, in Top Africa News (Rwanda)

28/02/24   Announcing the winners of a first round of funding to take agricultural innovations to scale in Africa

13/01/24   New CGIAR agricultural innovation “Scaling Directory” goes live!

11/01/24   CGIAR Scaling Directory goes live

01/24           Scaling for Agricultural Impacts: Together and Responsibly

01/24           CGIAR Scaling Directory

Science of scaling

27/05/24   "Science of Scaling": Strengthening the network of researchers passionate about innovation for responsible impact at scale

20/05/24   Agricultural economist and World Food Prize Laureate Jan Low joins CGIAR innovation scaling team

08/05/24   5 takeaways for navigating the waters of agricultural innovation: Charting a course for responsible scaling, by Hanna Ewell

06/05/24   What does it take to scale an agricultural innovation? Loraine Ronchi talks with Agnes Kalibata

24/04/24   HarvestPlus Solutions to Pilot CGIAR’s Novel Agricultural Innovation Scaling Methodologies

27/02/24   Why ‘inclusivity’ and ‘sustainability’ must be baked into the science and practice of scaling for the transformation of food systems

14/02/24   Breakfast meeting co-hosted by the Netherlands Food Partnership and CGIAR 

14/02/24  Scaling African innovations for African food systems also available via this page.

13/02/24   NL-CGIAR eat "scaling" for breakfast

25/04/23   2023 Innovation Packages: CGIAR's transformative strategy for scaling agricultural solutions 

Innovation Portfolio Management

22/04/25   Game-On: Rethinking Innovation for Impact at Scale, CGIAR website News

02/25 CGIAR’s 2025–2030 Portfolio includes twelve programs and accelerators, including the Scaling for Impact Program, CGIAR’s unified effort to fully                         integrate research with scaling, CGIAR The Feed newsletter

30/01/25 Business as unusual: CGIAR's next-level investment in scaling agricultural innovations

17/09/24 Innovation portfolio management for the public non-profit research and development sector: What can we learn from the private sector?  by Marc Schut, Ismail Adeyemi, Benjamin Kumpf, Emma Proud, Iddo Dror, Chris Barrett, Donald Menzies, Julien Colomer, and Cees Leeuwis. 2024. Innovation and Development,

15/07/24   Dutch social scientist Marc Schut appointed Senior Innovation Portfolio Management Advisor for the CGIAR System Organization, Scaling Up Community of Practice Newsletter.

07/03/24   How to implement "innovation portfolio management" in a public R&D organization

05/03/24   Innovation portfolio management for responsible food systems transformation in the public sector: Lessons, results and recommendations from CGIAR by Marc Schut, Julien Colomer, Emma Proud, Enrico Bonaiuti, Iddo Dror, Edwin Kang'ethe, Lorena Esquivias, and Cees Leeuwis, Agricultural Systems, Volume 216, April 2024.