@article{McCalla:168373,
      recid = {168373},
      author = {McCalla, Alex F.},
      title = {CGIAR Reform—Why So Difficult?},
      address = {2013-09-11},
      number = {1570-2016-133698},
      series = {WP},
      pages = {56},
      month = {Sep},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {This paper reviews 40 years of tortured history of the  Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research’s  (CGIAR) attempts at structural reform. Yet the basic  structure of independent centers created in the 1960’ and  70’s remains in place despite repeated attempts to  restructure the basic building blocks of the system.  Instead successive layers of super structure: eco-regional  programs; Challenge programs; CGIAR Research Programs  (CRP’s); and finally a Consortium with another Board and  CEO have been added to foster inter-center and  interdisciplinary research.  The failure of reforms is  attributed to the unwillingness of donors, and the World  Bank leadership of the CGIAR, to take on entrenched center  interests. Some success in modest reform has occurred at  the sub-system/center level but only with much difficulty.  The paper concludes with some suggestions as to how reform  might be fostered.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/168373},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.168373},
}