Opening Plenary - CGIAR, AAS and Africa

CGIAR, AAS and AfricaLusaka, 14 May 2013

A strategic partnership dedicated to advancing science to address the central development challenges of our time:

• Reducing rural poverty• Improving food security• Improving nutrition and health • Sustainably managing natural resources

15 International Agricultural Research Centers, working in close collaboration with hundreds of partners worldwide.

Old New

15 Independent Centers 1 Consortium

Diffuse CGIAR priorities Focus on 15 CGIAR Research Programs (CRPs)

Donor funding of Centers

Donor funding of CRPs

Recognition of impact Focus on impact

Weak partnerships Effective partnerships

CGIAR Reform

System Level Objectives

• Reduced rural poverty

• Improved food security

• Improved nutrition and health

• Sustainably managed natural resources

SLOs CRPs – primary focusReduced rural poverty Agricultural Systems: (Drylands;

Humid Tropics; AAS) (1s)Improved food security Commodities (Wheat; Maize; Rice;

Roots Tubers and Bananas; Dryland cereals; Grain legumes; Livestock & Fish) (3s)

Improved nutrition and health Nutrition and Health (4)Sustainably managed natural resources

Water Land and Ecosystems (5)Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (6)

Policies, Institutions and Markets (2); Climate Change (7)

Strategy & Results Framework

SLOs CRPs – primary focusReduced rural poverty Agricultural Systems: (Drylands;

Humid Tropics; AAS) (1s)Improved food security Commodities (Wheat; Maize; Rice;

Roots Tubers and Bananas; Dryland cereals; Grain legumes; Livestock & Fish) (3s)

Improved nutrition and health Nutrition and Health (4)Sustainably managed natural resources

Water Land and Ecosystems (5)Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (6)

Policies, Institutions and Markets (2); Climate Change (7)

Strategy & Results Framework

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Aquatic Agricultural Systems

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South Asia

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Rural poverty and AAS

Ca. 100m people dependent on AAS

66% living in poverty

Intermediate Development OutcomesDirect• Food Security – better access• Nutrition & Health – increased consumption• Income – increased benefit from value chains

Enabling• Productivity – food systems• Gender – empowerment and equity• Capacity to Innovate – improved capacity• Resilience - adaptive capacity (people + systems)• Policies – enabling environment/ institutions• Environment – minimize adverse effects

IDO example: Rural poverty“Increased and more equitable income earned by low income value chain actors in aquatic agricultural systems, with increased share captured by women”

Specific AAS targets (within 12 years):

•50% increase in income from AAS value chains in 500,000 poor households in the Polder Zone of Bangladesh, with 40% of that income earned by women

•60% increase in income from AAS value chains in 50,000 poor households in the Barotse floodplain of Zambia, with 40% of that income earned by women

AAS Approach

IDOs

Mekong Mekong The Coral TriangleGBM*GBM*

ZambeziZambezi

Population living on <$1.25/day, per grid cell (resolution : 9 km at the equator)

NigerNigerLakes Victoria-Kyoga

Lakes Victoria-Kyoga

Source of poverty map: CGIAR SRF Domain Analysis Spatial Team (2009)

*GBM: Ganges-Brahmaputra-Megna delta

(where learning from Coral Triangle will be scaled out)

South Pacific CommunitySouth Pacific Community

African InlandAsia mega deltas

• High numbers of poor and/or High % of total population dependent on AAS• High vulnerability to change (climate/sea level/water)• Potential to scale out

Geographical Focus

African Coastal

Countries and hubs

2012 2013 2014 2015 2016Bangladesh Cambodia Myanmar As-Pac (x1) ???Solomons Philippines Africa (x2) Africa (x3) ???Zambia

CGIAR, AAS and Africa

• Dublin Process – CAADP-CGIAR partnership• Increasing the AAS contribution in Africa• Pursue through partnership• Lusaka meeting – launch of this process• Provide guidance to program focus

Thank You