GRM 2013: CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Cereals -- S Sivasankar

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CGIAR Research Program

on Dryland Cereals

Generation Challenge Program GRM 27-30 Sept, 2013 Lisbon, Portugal

OVERVIEW PHASE I (2012-2015) PHASE II (2016-2024)

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Focus regions

Spillover Potential?

>150 Partnerships Synergies with other CRPs, new partnerships

Current end-use research Expanded end-use research

4 Crops Other Millets?

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Phase I: Vision

16% increase in dryland cereal farm-level production on at least 11.8 M ha

5.8 million smallholder households

$30 billion cumulative benefits

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Phase I: 7 Product Lines (4 Crops, 5 Focus Regions)

ESA

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CWA

SA

WCA

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Phase I: Focus Regions

South Asia Millet – 12.1 M Ha Sorghum – 7.9 M Ha Barley - 2.5 M Ha <USD 2 per day : 1,082 M Western & Central Africa

Millet – 16.8 M Ha Sorghum – 14.2 M Ha Barley – 0.5 M Ha <USD 2 per day : 210 M Eastern & Southern Africa

Sorghum – 10.8 M Ha Millet – 4.1 M Ha Barley – 1.1 M Ha <USD 2 per day : 230 M

Northern Africa Barley – 3.6 M Ha Sorghum – 0.1 M Ha <USD 2 per day : 26 M

Central & Western Asia Barley – 7.4 M Ha Sorghum – 0.5 M Ha Millet – 0.2 M Ha <USD 2 per day : 20 M

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Strategic Partnerships

Collaborative Research Collaborative Development Training Capacity Building Infrastructure Development Extension Seed/Technology Dissemination Partner Involvement in Management and Oversight of CRP

o Steering Committee membership o Research Management Team Membership o Flagship Project (Product Line) Co-ordinators

IRD

Sorghum & Millet Innovation Lab

>70 Programs in Africa &

Asia

15 Advanced Research

Institutes

20 NGOs, CSOs &

Farmer Organizations

30 Private Sector

Companies

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Owned by Seed cooperative Funded by Seed project (GIZ)

Training, varieties for

testing

NGO: Agro-business training

PASS: Seed processing training

NGO: Cooperative training

Farmer preferred improved sorghum variety

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A Partnership Success Story: Sorghum in W Africa

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Trends in Aggregate Demand, 2010-2050

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Adoption Constraints

Phase II: Intermediate Development Outcomes

1. Improved productivity

2. Increased and stable access to dryland cereal food, feed and fodder

3. Increased consumption of nutritious dryland cereals

4. Increased and more equitable income

5. Increased capacity to adapt to environmental variability

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Food Security

Reduced Poverty

Nutrition & Health

Envtl Sustainability

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Crop improvement for stable yield, nutritive value

Crop management Storage, post-harvest processing End-use products for evolving

consumer preferences Market access

Barley straw for fodder

New processed

products from

sorghum

Opportunities throughout the value chain

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Changing End Uses, 2000-2050

Gender-disaggregated data, gender sensitive analyses

Cultivars to create market opportunities for women

Increase “whole plant value” for women

Crop management interventions appropriate for women

Increased access to seed for women

Benefit from agro-enterprise opportunities

Participatory R4D, training and knowledge-sharing

Gender Research and Strategy

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DRYLAND CEREALS

DRYLAND SYSTEMS

CCAFS

GENE BANKS

LIVESTOCK & FISH A4NH

WLE

Grain Legumes

Linkages with Other CRPs

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Integration and testing of system components Baseline data on households Systems typologies Gender disaggregation Participatory research System models Trade-off analysis

Genetic diversity and improvement of crop species in resource capture and use efficiency (N, P, H2O) Develop science of integrated crop management (IPM, IDM, NRM) technologies

Feedback to CRPs for priority setting & design of products or technologies

Joint activity in CRP1.1 action sites Testing Cultivars and adaptation in different systems Integrated crop management (IPM, IDM, NRM) technologies

Dryland Systems Dryland Cereals

Dryland Cereals & Dryland Systems

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Dryland Cereals & CCAFS

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Morris et al., 2013. PNAS 110: 453-458

Population genomic and genome-wide association studies of agroclimatic traits in sorghum – 971 accessions

Momentum from existing resources: a snapshot

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Momentum from existing initiatives – a snapshot

Affordable Mini-Packs

HOPE: Sorghum Yield Increases

Agriculture & Nutrition Training

Sorghum Diversity Studies: GCP

Research Management Committee

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Shoba Sivasankar, ICRISAT, India Serge Braconnier, CIRAD, France Tim Dalton, Sorghum and Millets Innovation Lab, USA Ndiaga Cisse, ISRA/CERAAS, Senegal Tom Hash, ICRISAT, Niger Stefania Grando, ICRISAT, India Henry Ojulong, ICRISAT, Kenya Ramesh Verma, ICARDA, Morocco AICMIP, India; SK Gupta, ICRISAT, India Ashok Kumar, ICRISAT, India

Thank you!

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