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). . 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.

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. They work with local, national and regional partners in the global south, to generate innovations in agricultural landscapes