CGIAR and the CRPs in International

AR4D and Impact

AFAAS Africa-wide Extension Week

Hervé BisseleuaCGIAR Research Program on Integrated Systems for the Humid Tropics

14 October 2015

CGIAR Strategic Result Framework

Vision

A world free of poverty, hunger and environmental degradation

Mission

Advance agri-food science and innovation to enable poor people,

especially poor women, to increase agricultural productivity and

resilience; share in economic growth and feed themselves and their

families better; and manage natural resources in the face of climate

change and other threats.

Goal or System Level Outcomes

1. Reduce poverty

2. Improve food and nutrition security for health

3. Improve natural resource systems and ecosystem services

CGIAR Strategic Result Framework

Societal Grand Challenges

1. Competition for land

2. Soil degradation

3. Overdrawn and polluted water supplies (leading to social

breakdown and conflicts)

4. Unsustainable harvests of fish and other aquatic products

5. Climate change

6. Diminishing genetic resources

7. Nutritious and diverse agri-food systems and diets

8. Post-harvest losses

9. Food safety

10.Emerging new entrepreneurial and job opportunities

CGIAR Strategic Result Framework

CGIAR Institutions

1. Africa Rice, Cotonou, Benin

2. Bioversity International, Rome, Italy

3. Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia

4. International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA),

Beirut, Lebanon

5. International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Cali, Colombia

6. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT),

Patancheru, India

7. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington DC, USA

8. International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Nigeria

9. International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Nairobi, Kenya

10.International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Mexico DF,

Mexico

11.International Potato Center (CIP), Lima, Peru

12.International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Los Baños, the Philippines

13.International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Colombo, Sri Lanka

14.World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya

15.WorldFish, Penang, Malaysia

CGIAR CRPs I Portfolio

1. Agriculture for Nutrition and Health

2. Aquatic Agricultural Systems

3. Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

4. Dryland Cereals

5. Dryland Systems

6. Forests, Trees and Agroforestry

7. Grain Legumes

8. Humidtropics

9. Livestock and Fish

10.Policies, Institutions and Markets

11.Maize

12.Global Rice Science Partnership

13.Roots, Tubers and Bananas

14.Water, Land and Ecosystems

15.Wheat

CGIAR CRPs I Portfolio

1. Agriculture for Nutrition and Health

2. Aquatic Agricultural Systems

3. Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

4. Dryland Cereals

5. Dryland Systems

6. Forests, Trees and Agroforestry

7. Grain Legumes

8. Humidtropics

9. Livestock and Fish

10.Policies, Institutions and Markets

11.Maize

12.Global Rice Science Partnership

13.Roots, Tubers and Bananas

14.Water, Land and Ecosystems

15.Wheat

CGIAR Research

• Theory of Change (logic of transformations)

• Impact Pathway (research -> development)

• Partnerships (strategic alliances; multi-dimensional)

• Stakeholder involvement

Mechanisms for Stakeholder

Involvement

• R4D Platforms (Res – Dev – Policy – Impact)

• Innovation Platforms

• Learning Alliances

• Research in Development

Collective Action elements

CRPs and Collective Action

• The research of the CGIAR can be seen as covering a spectrum from – Discovery (novel science), to

– Delivery (systems improvement, value chains, sustainability, trade-off analysis, etc.) to

– Dissemination and Development (Scaling, Impact at scale)

• Collective Action Relevance

• Systems thinking and approaches

CRP II Portfolio

Priority to Agri-food Systems of the World

1. Dryland Cereals, Legumes and (Dryland) Systems

2. Fish agri-food Systems

3. Forestry & Agroforestry Landscapes,

4. Livestock Agri-food Systems,

5. Maize Agri-food Systems,

6. Rice Agri-food Systems,

7. Roots-Tubers-Banana Agri-food

8. Systems,

9. Wheat Agri-food Systems.

CRP II Portfolio

The Integrating CRPs – Co-learning and connecting Knowledge

to Action

1. Climate Change;

2. Nutrition and Health;

3. Water, Land and Ecosystems (including soils)

4. Policies, Institutions and Markets

Integrating approaches

1. Gender platform

2. Capacity development platform (including youth)

3. Big data and ICT

Genebank CRP

2nd Cycle CRP

• Revamping of current CRPs in line with recent

revision of the Strategy and Results Framework

– and also to strengthen linkage and alignment

with national and regional strategic plans for

agriculture and development.

• Mainstreaming of systems approach in all CRPs

(Agri-Food Systems)

• Great need/opportunity for strengthening

collective action

Thank YOU !