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Wadsworth came to CGIAR in 2011 from the United Kingdom's Department for International Development.

"These are more like exceptions that happened at two of our important traditional research centers," says Selcuk Ozgediz, a management adviser at CGIAR in Washington, D.C. "We would have preferred to have the continued strong and competent leadership like what Rothschild offered at IRRI".

For this reason, we also strongly support FAO's efforts to have CGIAR representation in the membership of that Coordinating Body.

In the 2014/15 cropping season in Tanzania, CGIAR Centers have worked with partners to raise and distribute 6,000 seedlings of the Gliricidia tree.

In its statement, CGIAR said: "Faced with environmental degradation, climate change... and a world population that is continuing to climb, it is critical for farm and natural resources management and policies to play a more central role in shaping the broader development and environmental agendas".

But right now, says Robert Zeigler, director-general of the International Rice Research Institute in Los Baños, the Philippines, a CGIAR center, "'[w]e're burning up another year to 2 years in a reorganization,' when the time and effort would be better spent shoring up CGIAR's finances and making tough decisions about which programs deserve the precious support".

The United States endorses the recommendation that the Coordinating Committee increase its representation from the users community, in particular those from the CGIAR system, and that issues related to the services delivered to Member Nations with regard to socio-economic, ecological, and agricultural applications be provided an increased emphasis.

With just 4 years left to the next NDC deadline, scientific organisations like CGIAR and its partners have an important role to play in providing technical support help countries put climate adaptation and mitigation into practice in the agriculture sector, and to distill lessons from implementation.

Frank Rijsberman, head of the world's leading Cgiar crop research stations, said: "There's a lot of complacency in rich countries about climate change.

►"Funding for the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), the world's premier group of agricultural research centers, is sagging in the global economic downturn," Dennis Normile reported in another Science feature.

And now CGIAR is about to undergo internal convulsions: It's reorganizing for the second time in just 5 years.