Integrated and Sustainable Agricultural Production Systems for Improved Food Security and

Livelihoods in Dry Areas [CRP1.1]

Regional Inception Workshop NA & WA Rabat, 2-4 July 2012

Dryland Systems:

CRP1.1: Integrated and Sustainable Agricultural Production Systems for

Improved Food Security and Livelihoods in Dry Areas

SRT1: Effective & efficient R4D partnerships oriented to provide lasting solutions that help ensure impacts delivery

SRT2: More resilient & sustainable dryland agriculture that better manages risks & vulnerability.

SRT3: More productive, profitable, diversified & sustainably intensified dryland agriculture with well-established market linkages .

SRO4: Target, measure & maximize R4D impacts in dryland agriculture.

Ground work to address ISPC ‘must haves’:

(a) Site characterization; Identification of major production systems within each Target Region, Benchmark Area and Action Sites.

(b) Research work plans; Identification of major constraints to and opportunities for increasing production system resilience by reducing vulnerability, and for diversifying and sustainably intensifying these production systems.

Steps:

• CRP1.1 Dryland Systems Framework Development Workshop- 30 January – 1 February 2012, Dubai

• Task Force workshop SRT2 (system resilience): April 1-4, Amman

• Task Force workshop SRT3 (Sustainable intensification): April 9-12, Rabat

• Expert Consultation Systems analysis and Innovation systems: May 7-10, Rabat

• RIW July 2-4, Rabat.

Selection of benchmark areas & action sites

1. Reducing vulnerability (SRT2 type)2. Sustainable intensification (SRT3 type)

Circles/ovals indicate roughly the 5 Target Regions.

WANA benchmark areas and action sites

Implementation programs

INSTITUTIONALMANAGEMENT

EXOGENOUSENDOGENOUS

Livelihood Capitals

Livelihood strategies

Institutions and policy network

Key variables

Aridity index

Length of growing period

Climate variability

Vegetation heterogeneity

Spatial Scale

Physical – livestock & crops

Financial – income & services

Human – knowledge & skillsSocial

– herd size, communities

Natural – water, land, vegetation

Mixed crop & livestockAgro-pastoralism

Extensive pastoralism

Access to marketsRoad network

Infrastructural development

Village – district level governanceFinancial services

Non agricultural employment

Objectives of the RIW

• Stakeholders involvement. To bring all up to speed, in terms of CRP1.1 scope, approach and intended impacts;

• to finalize and validate selection and characterization of target areas, action and satellite sites;

• to analyze lessons learned and failures in target areas, fine-tuning of research hypothec and R4D priorities;

• to develop impact pathways, logframes and implementation plans.

Monday 02 Opening - Introduction

11:00-13:00 Reports on the groundwork in NA & WA

Lunch break14:00-17:30 Site characterization, problem diagnosis, research

hypotheses and priorities – WGs Tuesday 03 8:30-12:30 Fine-tuning and validation of the impact pathways and

logframes

Lunch break14:00-17:30 Gender, innovation platforms and partnership, systems

analysis, communication, Monitoring & Evaluation, implementation plans

Wednesday 04

8:30-12:30 Reports & DiscussionsStakeholders feedbackClosing

Agenda