Draft:Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture

The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) (shortened as Alliance Bioversity & CIAT) is a research for development agricultural organization with offices in 31 countries along four continents: Europe (Italy, France, Belgium); the Americas (Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru); Africa (Benin, Cameroon, Ethiopia, DR Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe); and Asia (Cambodia, China, India, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines, Uzbekistan, Vietnam).[1]. Despite both centers being kept as separate legal entities, from 2020 work as a unified research system. The Alliance Bioversity & CIAT is also a CGIAR center, a network of 14 international non-profit organizations conducting agricultural research[2].

The organization comprises almost 2,000 staff members, and the headquarters are located in Rome with three regional hubs: Palmira (Colombia), Nairobi (Kenya), and Penang (Malaysia). Its main focus of work is around food systems, climate change, environmental degradation, biodiversity loss and nutrition[3]. They work with local, national and regional partners in the global south, to generate innovations in agricultural landscapes[4]

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