Grain Legumes & Dryland Cereals Agri- Food Systems CGIAR ...€¦ · • The CGIAR Portfolio (2017-2022) is structured around two interlinked clusters of challenge-led research: -

D Kumara Charyulu Team GLDC, ICRISAT

Grain Legumes & Dryland Cereals Agri-Food Systems CGIAR Research Program

Demand-Driven Innovation for the Drylands

What is CGIAR Research Program?

• It is a Global research partnership for food-secure future

• Research carried out by 15 Research Centers in close collaboration with hundreds of partners in

>60 countries

• The CGIAR Portfolio (2017-2022) is structured around two interlinked clusters of challenge-led

research:

- Innovations in agri-food systems

- Cross cutting global integrating programs

• Broadly, it implements 12 CRPs and three platforms

• GLDC is one among the 12 CRPs of CGIAR

The GLDC project area covers the semi-arid and sub-humid

dryland agro-ecologies of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia

which have some of the highest rates of poverty prevalence.

WHY WHERE

Highest risk of hunger

(2030-50 projections)

TO ADDRESS THE GRAND CHALLENGES

>300 million poor and malnourished

live in the target ecologies

199 million stunted children

(as of 2016)

Food prices could double

due to climate change

Other major issues:

• Land degradation

• Competition for land

• Aging and changing workforce

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Foresight projection suggests increasing deficit between long-term

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Source: IMPACT version 3.3, IFPRI, based on SSP2 with ‘No Climate Change’ (NoCC) and Climate Change using RCP 8.5 and the Hadley Climate Model.

WHY

Crops

West Africa East & Southern Africa South Asia

Nigeria Mali Burkina Faso

Niger Ethiopia Sudan Uganda Malawi Tanzania Zambia Mozambique India Myanmar

Sorghum

Groundnut

Soybean

Cowpea

Pearl millet

Pigeonpea

Chickpea

Finger millet

Lentil

PROMOTE KEY NUTRITIOUS CROPS Increase productivity, profitability, resilience and marketability of GLDC crops

ROI ranges: 4-28 BCR; 4 million–1.6 billion NPV

HOW 1

First order priority crops and countries

SUPPORT NATIONAL POLICIES

Use country strategies to address issues pertinent to the

region and accelerate interventions

TRANSFORM AGRI-FOOD SYSTEMS IN THE

TARGET ECOLOGIES

• Take up a more holistic approach to unlock the

potential of cereal-legume-tree-livestock synergies

• Create an enabling environment for demand-driven

innovation

BUILD ON CGIAR INITIATIVES

Build on three CRPs (2012-2016)

Grain Legumes, Dryland Cereals and Dryland Systems

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A Phase I outcome: Farmers harvest

bumper yields of pigeonpea in India.

Market-preferred and disease-resistant

hybrids were developed in

partnership with the NARS, India

HOW

Glimpse of phase 1(2012-16): Grain Legumes Achievements

Thrust areas in Chickpea research

• Development of drought & heat tolerant types

• Cultivars suitable to machine harvesting

• Early maturing and herbicide tolerant cultivars

• Dry root rot resistance

• High protein, Fe & Zn content

• Use of transgenics for insect and herbicide tolerance

Early varieties of chickpea expansion in India

Impact of short duration chickpea varieties in Andhra Pradesh

New cultivars (JG11, KAK2) developed through ICRISAT-NARS partnerships covers 98% area

> six-fold increase in area and doubling of yield

Benefits estimated at US $358.9 million

ROI estimated at 28%

Thrust areas in Pigeonpea research

• Resistance to Fusarium wilt and SMD

• Resistance to Maruca and Helicoverpa

• Expansion of pigeonpea hybrids (7 states)

• Development of super early types

• Transgenics events for insect resistance

• Cultivars suitable for mechanization

• Value chains and value addition

Thrust areas in Cowpeas research

• Development of drought tolerant types

• Focus on low ‘P’ tolerant cowpeas

• Aphid and collar rot resistance

• Stover yield and digestibility

• Post-harvest processing and market opportunities

• Formal and informal seed systems

Thrust areas in Lentils research

• Development of drought & heat tolerant types

• Development of early maturing cultivars

• Cultivars suitable to machine harvesting

• Herbicide tolerant types

• Resistance to rust and root rot diseases

• High protein, Fe & Zn content

Targeting of Rice fallows in India/South Asia

Legume seed systems

• Inadequate access to improved quality

seed and other farm inputs

• Role of private sector in pulse seed

system is minimal

• Still farmer’s own saved seed is the

major source

• Improving the Seed Replacement Ratio

(SRR) ratio is the need of the hour

• Community or village seed banks is

way to enhance adoption

• Poor on-farm seed storage facilities

Business Services:

Promoting FPOs and value chains

• FPO initiatives for better integration of small and

marginal farmers

• Creating value at farm-gate level through primary

processing units

• Linking farmers to supply processors for

remunerative prices

• Facilitating supply of improved cultivars of pulses

and millets

• Providing on-field crop and seed production support

• Providing training on value addition opportunities

THE PROCESS

Integrated technological,

institutional and policy solutions

FP4: Variety/ hybrid

development

FP1: Priority setting,

impact acceleration

FP2: Transforming

Agri-Food Systems

FP5: Pre-breeding &

Trait Discovery

FP3: Farm, household

management

Five Flagship Programs deliver

into two impact pathways

• M&E with key indicators • Prioritize women and youth

THE OUTCOMES

Intermediate Development Outcomes (IDOs)

1. Increased climate change resilience

2. Improved diets

3. Sustainable agro-ecosystems

4. Increased incomes and employment

5. Increased productivity

System level outcomes (SLOs)

1. Reduced poverty

2. Improved food and nutrition security for health

3. Improved natural resources and ecosystem services

Projected outcomes (2022-2030)

8.9-21.7 million farm

households adopt

improved varieties

4.4-11.8 million

exit poverty

12.7-24.8 million meet

their daily nutritional

needs

50% women benefit

Impact of early chickpea cultivars in Myanmar:

• Seven cultivars released based on ICRISAT germplasm

• >96% of the chickpea area in Myanmar during 2014-15 was

covered by ICRISAT-originated material

• Production increased five folds, 3.3 folds area expansion and 2.2

fold yield enhancement over 15 years

ICRISAT: Sorghum, pearl millet, finger

millet, chickpea, pigeonpea and groundnut

IITA: Cowpea and soybean

ICARDA: Lentil and chickpea

ICRAF : Agroforestry and

Natural Resource Management

WHO

Tier I

CGIAR research partners to build on the synergies in cereal-legume-tree-livestock systems

Tier II

IWMI: Water management

Bioversity International:

Promote biodiversity on farms

ILRI: Crop-livestock integration

WLE: Interface farms and

landscapes, increase

water-use efficiency

CCAFS: Climate-risk

management tools and

information

CRP partners

PIM: Foresight modelling

tools to assess impacts

A4NH: Biofortification

and food safety

RICE, WHEAT, MAIZE,

ROOTS, TUBERS

AND BANANAS:

Intercropping with

dominant crops of

the CRPs

LIVESTOCK: Dual-purpose

varieties and hybrids

Apex and SROs

Sub-Saharan Africa

Private Sector companies & consortia USAID Feed the Future Innovation Labs

FARA CORAF/WECARD CCARDESA ASARECA RUFORUM WACCI AWARD

DuPont Pioneer Advanta Seeds Syngenta Foundation Seed Co, Zimbabwe Mars Chocolate Microsoft MANOBI-AFRICA, Senegal Hybrid Parent Research Consortium African Seed Trade Association

India Pulses & Grains Association (IPGA) Farmer Producer Organizations, India

Sorghum and Millet Peanut & Mycotoxin Legume Climate-Resilient Sorghum Climate Resilient Chickpea Climate-Resilient Cowpea

South Asia NGO & Large Programs ARIs

SAARC Agriculture Centre APAARI ICAR, India National Institute of Nutrition, India

Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Catholic Relief Services (CRS) CARE Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition Farm Africa African Agricultural Technology Foundation Self Employed Women’s Association, India Young Professionals for Agricultural (YPARD) N2Africa HarvestPlus

CSIRO, Australia CIRAD, France IRD, France FAO Research and Extension World Vegetable Center SLU, Sweden UWA, Australia

PARTNERS

GLDC: A prospectus for transforming Agri-Food Systems in the

drylands of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia

An R4D investment of $413 million over five years (2018-2022)

A global initiative of partners for the grain

legume and cereal crops of the drylands of

sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia

A Mali Agri-business Incubation Hub

member exhibits processed products.

Tackling extreme poverty and

malnutrition in the most fragile ecologies

Thank you

In partnership with CGIAR Centers, public and private organizations, governments, and farmers worldwide

Demand-driven Innovation for the Drylands

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