The International Center for Tropical Agriculture ( The International Center for Tropical Agriculture, a non-profit organization of the Consultative Group on International Agriculture (CGIAR), founded in 1967 and headquartered in Colombia, is a research institute that promotes social and environmental areas in developing countries through collaborative research to improve agricultural productivity and natural resource management, reduce hunger and poverty. It is an organization that promotes social and environmental research in developing countries to improve agricultural productivity and natural resource management through collaborative research, reduce hunger and poverty.