Annual Technical Report 2025: Gender Equality and Inclusion Accelerator

In 2025, CGIAR launched the Gender Equality and Inclusion Accelerator that builds on the Impact Platform on Gender Equality, Youth and Social Inclusion (GENDER) and the Research Initiative on Gender Equality (HER+) from CGIAR’s 2022–2024 Portfolio. The Accelerator places equality and inclusion at the center of food, land and water systems (FLWS) research and development. Building resilient, sustainable and equitable agrifood systems by 2030 requires tackling systemic, multidimensional and deeply entrenched inequalities, which are intensifying amid a polycrisis of climate change, environmental degradation, geopolitical instability and shifting consumption patterns. The Accelerator has a dual mandate to co-develop solutions and catalyze change through science-to-policy engagement, partnerships, coalition building, resource curation, and capacity sharing. Solutions must be comprehensive, multi-actor, multi-sectoral and adaptive, and change must be systemic.