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Ruben G. Echeverría, Director GeneralApril 2012

www.ciat.cgiar.org Eco-Efficient Agriculture for the Poor

Strengthening a Joint Global Research for Development Agenda

CGIAR Consortium: 15 Member Research Centers

The CGIAR is a strategic partnership consisting of a consortium of 15 international research centers supported by a multi-donor fund

The CGIAR conducts research to reduce poverty, strengthen food security, improve human health and nutrition, and enhance natural resource management in developing countries

CGIAR Core Assets

• A group of 64 member countries and organizations addressing global development challenges through international agricultural research

• A critical mass of scientists with multidisciplinary knowledge of key agroecosystems

• An extensive global research infrastructure, including research stations representing many agro-ecosystems

• Global and regional research networks with strong links to national agricultural research and innovation systems

• Global collections of genetic resources held in trust for the world

CGIAR Research Program PortfolioTitle Lead Center

Water, land, and ecosystems IWMI

Climate change, agriculture, and food security CIAT

GRiSP - A global rice science partnership IRRI

Grain legumes ICRISAT

Roots, tubers, and bananas CIP

Policies, institutions, and markets IFPRI

Agriculture for improved nutrition and health IFPRI

Integrated systems for the humid tropics IITA

Meat, milk, and fish ILRI

Forests, trees, and agroforestry CIFOR

Integrated production systems in dry areas ICARDA

Wheat CIMMYT

Maize CIMMYT

Dryland cereals ICRISAT

Aquatic agricultural systems WorldFish

• Nearly 900 partners

• Objectives: break yield ceilings using genomics, breed drought and flood- tolerant varieties, and find innovative ways to get new varieties to farmers and make the rice sector more efficient and equitable

• Expected outcomes: by 2020 income gains of US$11 billion annually should lift 72 million people out of poverty and enable 40 million people to reach food security

Global Rice Science Partnership (GRiSP)

• More than 400 partners, including climate change research community

• Objective: Overcome threats to food security by identifying pro-poor technologies and policies for mitigation and adaptation

• Expected outcomes: by 2020, reduce poverty by 10%, lower number of malnourished rural people by 25% in targeted regions, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by equivalent to 1,000 million tons of CO2

Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS)

CCAFS: Research Themes

• Adaptation to progressive Climate Change• Managing climate risk• Pro-poor Climate Change mitigation• Integration for decision making

• CIAT is involved in several global programs and leads CCAFS- Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

• CIAT participates in CRP 4-Nutrition and Health, through HarvestPlus

• Major activities ongoing in Africa related to biofortification and its delivery with strong CIAT’s Cassava and Bean research programs engagement

• Outcomes:

oFirst trial packets of bean seeds distributed in 2012 by collaborating NGOs and government agencies of Rwanda and DR of Congo

oGovernment Health Ministry of Rwanda and DR of Congo support efforts to disseminate high-iron beans

CIAT, A Key Partner in Several CGIAR Global Programs

40 Years of Bean Research in CIAT

’75 ’80 ’85 ’90 ’95 ’00

Disease & Pest Management

Drought Tolerance

Low Phosphorus Tolerance

Genetic Resources Research

DNA Marker Technology

Nutritional Quality

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High priority Medium priority Reduced priority

’10 ’15

• Created in 1996; now includes 28 African countries

• PABRA´s main objective is to enhance the food security, income, and health of small-scale farmers through bean research

• The major beneficiaries of PABRA´s work are rural women, who are primarily responsible for the crop´s production and postharvest

The Pan-Africa Bean Research Alliance

• Member of the CGIAR Consortium, founded in 1967 near Cali, Colombia

• A global staff that includes 200 scientists working in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean

• Mission: to reduce hunger and poverty, and improve human health in the tropics through research aimed at increasing the eco-efficiency of agriculture

• Eco-efficient agriculture, that is, more productive, profitable, competitive, sustainable, resilient, and equitable

CIAT - Leveraging Global Research for Agricultural and Rural Development

2012: Join us to celebrate our 45th anniversary!

CIAT’s Active Presence in Three Key Regions

Since 1990s, currently with activities in China,

Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand

Since 1980s, currently with activities in 28

African countries

Since 1960s, currently focusing in Central

America, Colombia, and Amazon region

Research-for-Development Initiatives 2012

Genetic Resources & Biotechnology

Bean

Tropical Forages

Tropical SoilsCassava

Rice Adaptation to Climate Change

Capacity Strengthening & Knowledge Management

FUNDACIATAGRONATURAScience Park

Policy Analysis(Linking Farmers to

Markets, Gender Analysis)

•Over 5.3 million rural households in sub-Saharan Africa have adopted modern bean varieties over the last 17 years, generating benefits worth nearly US$200 million

•Adoption of improved cassava varieties in Thailand and Vietnam has nearly reached 90%, creating benefits worth almost $12 billion over the last 20 years

• Improved forages now cover an area estimated at 25.4 million hectares in tropical America, generating huge benefits through improved livestock production – estimated at $1 billion in Colombia, for example

•Nearly 60% of Latin America’s rice area is planted to improved rice, with benefits valued at $860 million from 1967 to 1995 alone

Examples of Impacts

UF & CIAT: Potential Themes for Collaboration

• Climate Change & Natural Resource Management

• Crop Modeling , Ag MIP, inc. genetic and economic data

• Policy analysis (Gender) & capacity building

New research to assess the effects of climate change in the agricultural sector

UF key contact: Prof. Jim Jones

•Assess future global food security utilizing improved models in LAC

•Enhance adaptation capacity in developing and developed countries

Opportunity for Collaboration

CIAT Focal point: Julián Ramírez

Modelling Crop-livestock Systems

Development and validation of new forage germplasm adapted to different soil conditions typical of the Orinoquia region in Colombia (including well-drained and poorly drained soils)

Opportunity for Collaboration

CIAT Focal point: Michael Peters

Current Collaboration Beans

•Gene Based modelling of common bean (Professor: Eduardo Vallejo)

Objective: to characterize physiological response of a population of 180 lines from a cross of two common beans, Calima x Jamapa, and to perform analysis on physiological processes

• José Clavijo, Research Assistant in the Department of Agronomy at University of Florida, visited CIAT and received training in genetic modelling of beansCIAT contacts: S. Beebe and I. Rao

Current Collaboration Gender

• Jennifer Twyman (UF), will start in June 1st as part of CIAT’s gender analysis research initiative

Work closely with the CCAFS theme Adaptation to Progressive Climate Change

Investigate social inequalities and gender differences in time and labor allocation, adaptive learning, risk management and innovation on farms and in value chains affected by environmental stress

• Carmen Diana Deere will coach and continue to help identify UF students to gain international research experience by conducting gender analysis and gender research with CIAT in LAC, Africa and Asia

Opportunity for Collaboration

Expected results

• Identification of opportunities for women’s economic empowerment

• More gender-sensitive indicators developed

• Evidence on gender differences in adaptation to climate change in national adaptation plans leads to inclusion of rural women’s economic empowerment

Reducing gender inequities caused by climate change

Objectives

•Analyze gender differences in adaptation, using selected market chains important for women’s economic empowerment

•Develop indicators for monitoring adaptation over time and drudgery in market chains

•Conduct policy dialog to influence national adaptation plans

Equal opportunities for rural indigenous women in adapting Latin America’s agriculture

to climate change Objective

Develop and test adaptation strategies that enhance biophysical, economic, social, and cultural resilience as well as the sustainability of indigenous communities, benefitting women and men equally

Expected results

• Adaptation strategies designed and tested for at least six different types of indigenous farming systems in Amazonia, Central America, and the Andean region

• Recommended innovations that blend indigenous with scientific knowledge for climate change adaptation

Opportunity for Collaboration

• Pest and disease management (cassava)

•Soils and sustainable land management related to cassava production, forages and livestock, and/or digital mapping and information systems

• Improvements in cassava agronomy

• Cassava crop modeling

• Spatial analysis and climate change, especially related to crop suitability

• Biotechnology and breeding, especially for cassava

Opportunities for Collaboration in SE Asia

CIAT Focal point: Rod Lefroy

Tropical Fruits

Research themes such as plant breeding and phytosanitary management in LAC

Opportunity for Collaboration

CIAT Focal point: Alonso Gonzalez

Promoting innovation for development

Latin America: A Food Basket for the World?

• Vast, underutilized areas suitable for agriculture

• Abundant supplies of water and other natural resources

• Highly diverse agro-ecologies and climates

CIAT: Science for Impact

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