Food environment and consumer behavior
Toward 2030: Food system transformation for healthier people and the planet
By: Juan Lucas Restrepo, Director General of the Alliance, and Julia Marton-Lefèvre, Chair, Alliance Board of Trustees
"Ensuring our population has access to healthy, sustainable food is one of the world’s greatest priorities, not only due to the pandemic’s ongoing impact on economies and health, but also the increasing threats of climate change and biodiversity loss.
Food system transformation is not only necessary, but imperative. If done correctly, food system transformation will improve human lives, preserve and improve ecosystems, and make significant contributions to fixing the climate crisis."
Research Highlights
Multifunctional landscapes
Digital inclusion
Faster isn’t always better: how “interplay” is needed as tech advances
Gender, youth and inclusion
Gender considerations in research are advancing, but more needs to be done
Crops for nutrition and health
Collaboration keeps our crop work alive and well
Crops for nutrition and health
Future Seeds transforms the way people interact with crop research
Regional Highlights
Finance
The Alliance posted a
USD 2.4 million surplus in 2020.
We are on strong financial footing for 2021 and beyond.
Total budget implemented
USD 104.4M
Budget surplus 2020
USD 2.4M
Scientific publications in 2020
The Alliance set a record for scientific publications in 2020 by publishing 324 journal articles, a 7.3% increase over 2019. More than 80% of the articles are open access.
Journal Articles
324
Books
18
Book chapters
39
Datasets
51
ISI Publications
275/324 84.8%
Open Access
264/324 80.8% — both green and gold
Policy and Research Briefs
67
Working/Discussion Papers
29
News coverage and social media
The Alliance’s media coverage in 2020 grew substantially with a wide variety of top-tier news outlets covering our work in several languages across the globe.
Media COVERAGE
Total
5.5K
Increase
16%
With 20,900 new followers, we reached almost 200,000 total social media followers.
Total
Posts
2.5K
Engagements
51.3K
Followers
54K
New / +10%
4.9K
Followers
86K
New / +4.2%
3.9K
Followers
57K
New / +26.7%
12K
Funders
The Alliance’s successes would not be possible without the support of our hundreds of partners and funders. We wish to extend our sincerest thanks for your continued support in advancing the missions of the Alliance and CGIAR.
Alliance Board of Trustees
CGIAR
The Alliance is proud to be part of the CGIAR network of agricultural research centers. 2020 marked the first full year of progress towards One CGIAR, an ambitious reformulation of CGIAR partnerships, knowledge, assets and global presence, aiming for greater integration in the face of the interdependent challenges facing today’s world.
This transformative approach to food, land, and water systems is outlined in the CGIAR 2030 Research and Innovation Strategy.
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