Ethical challenges for the CGIAR: Report of Three Studies

CONSULTATIVE GROUP ON INTERNATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH

Ethical challenges
for the CGIAR:
Report of Three Studies

November 2008

Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), 2008

The Science Council of the CGIAR encourages fair use of this material provided proper citation is made.

CGIAR Science Council. 2008. Ethical challenges for the CGIAR: Report of three studies. CGIAR
Science Council Secretariat: Rome, Italy

ABSTRACT

This volume brings together the results of three different but related studies of ethics in the CGIAR, together with commentary and recommendations from the Science Council which commissioned the studies over a four‐year period. In 2004, at the request of the Science Council, Professor Peter Sandøe, assisted by Karsten Klint Jensen, prepared a review paper (entitled How Should the CGIAR Handle Ethical Challenges?) on the possible ethical issues affecting the CGIAR. This Report, constituting Study I of this volume, identified four major areas of ethical concern to the CGIAR: research ethics, equity, protecting nature and respect for donors and partners.