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Eco-Efficient Agriculture for the Poor
Elcio Guimarães
Climate Change & Capacity Strengthening Area
Annual Program Review 2011Nairobi, Kenya 10 May 2011
Eco-Efficient Agriculture for the Poor
Content
• Climate Change and Policy
• Capacity Strengthening & Knowledge Management
• PRGA
• Tropical Fruits
• Challenges
Eco-Efficient Agriculture for the Poor
Climate Change and Policy (1/8)
• Climate Change
o Supported CIAT’s lead centre status for the CCAFSo Theme Leadership of the CCAFS
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• Climate Change (CC)
o Grounding CC - major activities in Colombia, Jamaica and Guatemala on supply chain adaptation (with Oxfam)
o Policy Briefs on CC implications for agriculture in Colombia and on coffee for Mesoamerica
Climate Change and Policy (2/8)
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• Ecosystem Services (ES)
o Development of national methods for calculating opportunity costs for REDD+ developed and included in WB training manuals
o Finalization of the Amazon Spatial Policy Targeting tool online
Climate Change and Policy (3/8)
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• Ecosystem Services (ES)
o Quantification of ES in watersheds and the identification of their correspondent priority service-providing unit (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru)
Climate Change and Policy (4/8)
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Contingent valuation
Urban water users
Travel cost
Tourists
Marginal costs and benefits
Hydropower company
• Ecosystem Services (ES)
o Economic valuation of the benefits derived from ES by downstream ES users as an input for a BSM negotiation in Peru
Production function
Agriculture
Climate Change and Policy (5/8)
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• Linking Farmers to Markets (LFM)o Synthesis of PROGRESO methodology for agro-
enterprise development post conflict - Policy briefo Major new projects established in 2010
IFAD (LFM LAC strategy) Ford Foundation (public policy analysis)
Climate Change and Policy (6/8)
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• Impact targeting and assessmento Continued analysis of impact of rice in LACo Studies on impacts of CIAT’s bean work in
East Africa ongoingo Major forage study ongoing in SE Asia
Climate Change and Policy (7/8)
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• Impact targeting and assessmento Site Specific Agriculture in fruits in Colombia
delivering first impacts with 1000s of farmerso Two new economists working on agricultural
trends in LAC and climate change policy (joint IFPRI positions)
Climate Change and Policy (8/8)
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Content
• Climate Change and Policy
• Capacity Strengthening & Knowledge Management
• PRGA
• Tropical Fruits
• Challenges
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Research Design
ResearchImplementation
Monitoring and Evaluation
Knowledge Sharing with Stakeholders
Training
Documentation
Communication
Participatory strategic planning
Collaborative tools and methods;
participatory research
Theories of change,Innovation histories,
surveys
Social Media, workshops, conferences
Courses, field daysMulti-media training materials
Text, photo, video, interviews
Conferences, press releases,
policy briefs
Capacity Strengthening & Knowledge Management (1/9)
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Capacity Strengthening & Knowledge Management (2/9)
• Regional Capacity Strengthening Platformo IP meetingo Seed platform
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Capacity Strengthening & Knowledge Management (3/9)
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Printed Material• Annual Report 2010 - published (1st among CGIAR centers)
• CIAT Briefs – Expandingo Project Initiativeso Strategy in Actiono Donor Briefs
• CIAT Briefs - Existing series
o 18 - CIAT Briefso 12 - Program Syntheseso 2- Policy Briefs
Capacity Strengthening & Knowledge Management (4/9)
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Other publications
• Cassava in the Third Millennium
• 9 – Laboratory guides
• Eco-Efficient Rice Production – Tome II (awaiting funding)
• Financial Statements 2010
Capacity Strengthening & Knowledge Management (5/9)
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• High visibility eventso CIAT Agricultural Forumo Biodiversity, Biotrade, and Sustainable Developmento World Food Day and World Rural Women's Day
• Exhibitso AgroExpo: bi-annual agricultural fair in Bogotao ExpoCiencia: annual science fair in Bogota
Capacity Strengthening & Knowledge Management (6/9)
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• Events in the regions o CIAT Annual Program Review in Kenya (9-11 May)
Joint planning and execution (press release, media event on first-day morning session)
o International CIALCA conference in Rwanda (24-27 Oct) Joint preparation of press release; promotion; social
media coverage; and, social reporting during the event
Capacity Strengthening & Knowledge Management (7/9)
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• New corporate websites (En-Oct 2010; Sp-Mar 2011)
• Social mediao Blogs
English: > 1,400 visits, 93 countries (Mar-Apr 2011) Spanish: > 1,700 visits, 40 countries (Mar-Apr 2011)
o Picture sharing Flickr : > 250,000 views (since May 2009) CIAT pictures used in many print and digital
publications – all with visible credit to CIAT
Capacity Strengthening & Knowledge Management (8/9)
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• Videos o Blip.tv: > 8,500 views (since May 2009)o YouTube: high number of views
(stats difficult to retrieve)
• Poster & presentation sharingo Slideshare: > 200 posters; > 180 presentation
(user stats retrieval is time consuming)
• Micro messagingo Twitter: > 990 tweets, 729 followers, 58 listed
Capacity Strengthening & Knowledge Management (9/9)
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Content
• Climate Change and Policy
• Capacity Strengthening & Knowledge Management
• PRGA
• Tropical Fruits
• Challenges
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PRGA
• Participatory Plant Breeding and Gender with PABRA in Kenya and Tanzania “Differentiating among female and male bean variety preferences in a range of dynamic scenarios (low/high stress; market-driven/subsistence)”
• ICARDA PPB Program - “Genetic Resources and Farmers’ Knowledge to Adapt Crops to Climate Changes”
• Program Final Report (in prep.) and conceptualization of PPB and Gender work conducted over almost 14 years
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• Supporting CIAT Programs in LAC - Development of new gender-sensitive research proposals and criteria that include gender analysis:o Fruits of success: women, sustainability and peach palmo Meeting the Challenges of Food Insecurity and CC in
Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago - action on PVS and adaptation of cassava
o New “Gender & Breeding Initiative” for CIAT crops
PRGA
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• Global Gender Research o “Demand Analysis” study on Gender-Responsive
Participatory Research (GRPR) needs at the CGIAR level with 12 Centers
o Determined strength and gaps in the implementation of GRPR
PRGA
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Content
• Climate Change and Policy
• Capacity Strengthening & Knowledge Management
• PRGA
• Tropical Fruits
• Challenges
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Tropical Fruits
• Event to socialize the strategy (IICA, Corpoica, UNAL, FHIA, ICA, Casa Luker, Productora de Jugos, CRS, Biotec, Embrapa, Bioversity International) – Outputs:o Four concept noteso Tropical Fruit Strategy consolidated
• 2011 research proposals - 4.6 million (earned US$250,000 – more results in August)
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• Currently there is a visiting scientist from USAID working with the program
• A national research agenda for Colombia was agreed with Corpoica and will be discussed with the fruit chain shortly
Tropical Fruits
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Content
• Climate Change and Policy
• Capacity Strengthening & Knowledge Management
• PRGA
• Tropical Fruits
• Challenges
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Challenges
• How to have a CIAT agenda complementary to CRPs
• Fund raising opportunities, but with partners and responding to full cost recovery
• Keep the critical mass in all programs