Partner institutions

Reducing poverty, ensuring food and nutrition security for all, addressing climate change, protecting natural resources and ecosystem services, and achieving sustainable production and consumption are among the greatest challenges of our time, from the local level to a global scale. The CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA) is the world’s largest research for development partnership recognizing that forests, trees and agroforestry are central to solving these challenges.

Partnerships are critical to achieving research outputs and outcomes at scale for FTA. Codesigning, implementing and delivering FTA research together with strategic partners enhances FTA’s internal capacity to generate demand-driven and relevant research results.

In carrying out its research, FTA is led by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), in partnership with Bioversity International, CATIE (the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center), the Agricultural Research Center for International Development (CIRAD), the International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR), Tropenbos International (TBI), and the World Agroforestry (ICRAF), and links with dozens of scientific and development institutions.