CIP 2014-2023 strategy and the CRPs

Oscar OrtizDeputy Director General for Research and DevelopmentMay 25, 2016

Outline:

1. CIP’s background2. The 2014-2023 CIP strategic plan:

• CIP-RTB coevolution of concepts

• Strategic programs: outputs and outcomes

• Relationship with CRPs3. Concluding remarks

1. CIP’s background

MissionThe International Potato Center (CIP) works with partners

to achieve food security, well-being, and gender equity

for poor people in root and tuber farming and food

systems in the developing world. We do this through

research and innovation in science, technology, and

capacity strengthening

Vision

Roots and tubers improving the

lives of the poor

CIP’s Mission • Vision

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• 1971: a project with North Caroline State University

• 1972: 5th Center to join the CGIAR

• 1980’s: pioneering participatory methods

• 1988: inclusion of sweetpotato

• 1990- 2000: leading System Wide Programs: Urban and

Peri-urban Agriculture, Sustainable Development in the

Andes – leading capacity development and impact

assessment

• 1999 – 2007: FFS introduction and adaptation to potato

• 2001-2016: leading value chain development

• 2010: part of the new CGIAR Consortium

• 2012 – 2016: leading RTB – active in CRP 1st / 2nd phase

Institutional evolution

Net annual benefit from CIP related technology documented in impact studies

CIP an excellent return on investment for

reducing poverty and hunger

• Annual net benefit: $225 million

• Estimated IRR: 20%

• Benefits accrue mostly to the poor

and hungry in developing countries.

Potatoes: total area of surveyed countries and CIP-related

share, 1972 - 2007

1,000,000

2,000,000

3,000,000

4,000,000

5,000,000

6,000,000

7,000,000

8,000,000

9,000,000

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Area under varieties not related to CIP Area under CIP-related varieties

• CIP conducts ex post impact studies

• More than one million hectares with CIP

related varieties in developing countries (2007)

• 13% of potato area in developing world

• Currently revisiting adoption estimates

Some potato facts

• Third most important food crop

• Over 4,000 edible varieties of potato

• About 1.4 billion people eat potato

• Essential during the “hunger months”

• Produced and consumed locally –

less subject to international trade

variations

• Energy-rich, nutritious (Fe, Zn)

• Climate resilient – short period

• Cash crop in Africa and Asia

Sweetpotato facts

• Eight in the order of food crops

• Roots and foliage edible

• Short period – fits in “hunger months”

• Wide range of skin and flesh color, from

white to yellow-orange and deep purple.

• First biofortified crop (orange varieties-

vit. A) leading he way

• Gender crop: improves nutrition,

eliminates childhood blindness, reduces

stunting

• Climate resilient, grows in marginal

conditions

1. Ecuador

2. Peru

3. Bolivia

3. Ghana

4. Burkina Faso

5. Nigeria

6. Ethiopia

7. Kenya

8. Uganda

9. Rwanda

10. Tanzania

11. Malawi

12. Mozambique

13. Uzbekistan

14. Taijikistan

15. Georgia

16. Nepal

17. Bangladesh

18. India

19. China

20. Vietnam

21. Philippines

22. Indonesia

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CIP around the world

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Resilient Nutritious Sweetpotato

AgilePotato for Asia

PotatoSeed for Africa

Game ChangingSolutions

ResilientFoodSystems

ConservingDiversity forthe Future

2. The 2014-2023 CIP strategic plan:The strategic objectives

Delivery oriented programsDiscovery oriented programs

• RTB first phase, both CIP and RTB ensured programs to be

more focused:

• The “flagship product” a well-defined central product with

potential for substantial impact

• Shared theories of change and impact pathways

• Estimation of beneficiaries from ex ante impact assessment –

used CIP methodology

• CIP focused in few but ambitious objectives (flagship

products), which became “core products” for CIP’s SCP and

clusters in RTB

• CIP-RTB to use common M&E system to keep track of

progress towards outputs and outcomes

Co-evolution of concepts CIP-RTB

CIP and RTB alignment

RTB migrating to flagship and cluster structure in 2016

Resilient Food Systems: SO5

Resilient NutritiousSweetpotato:

SO1

The CIP Genebank: Conserving Biodiversity

for the Future: SO6

Director General

Directorof RTB

DDG-RDResearch

Agile Potato Asia : SO2

Seed Potato for Africa: SO3

Game Changing Solutions: SO4

DCE Genetics & Crop Improvement

DCE Crop Systems Intensification & Climate Change

DCE Social Health Sciences & Innovation

Systems

Deputy Director of Research

Programs

Disciplines

CIP Programs and RTB Flagships

RTB structure

Opportunity: use a naturally biofortified

crop as a source of vitamin A to reduce

childhood blindness and stunting

Target: Reach fifteen million resource-

poor households

Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Haiti.

Improve their diet, crop income,

production and intake of OFSP

Resilient Nutritious Sweetpotato

RTB clusters:

• SW 4.4 (Nutritious

sweet potato)

• SW 2.6 *(User

preferred

sweetpotato

varieties

Vitamin A deficiency

and sweetpotato

cultivationJust 120 grams of OFSP per day is enough to

provide sufficient Vitamin A for a child

This can be produced in 500 sq meters per

family per year

Delivery oriented programs: Research for development at different stages and with different partnership arrangements

Genetic Gains Platform

Examples of research outputs:• Improved breeding methods: accelerated breeding,

screening for virus disease, drought tolerance -increasingly using genomics and genetics

• At least two suitable lab and field detection methods (including LAMP – amplification of DNA, simple, robust, easy) assessed for contribution to quality seed production

• Communication materials and methods for nutrition and health education and Social and Behavior Change adapted to socio-economic and nutrition contexts in at least 16 countries

• Scalability of integrated agriculture-nutrition-marketing approaches assessed through Randomized Control Trial and qualitative methodologies

• At least 20 NGO’s and 10 government programs use modified nutrition social behavior change materials and methods when incorporating SP into their nutrition programs

• At least 15m households in 16 countries consume OFSP and/or other Vitamin A rich foods as a result of integrated agriculture-nutrition interventions, Vitamin A deficiency reduced

Examples of research and development outcomes:

• Breeders from CIP, NARS, and other RTB centers from at least 10 African countries and 2 Asian countries use improved breeding methods, …genomic-related breeding tools…

Agile Potato for Asia

Opportunity: millions of ha of cereal-

based systems could diversified in a

sustainable way with potato

Target: Seven million households in

China, Bangladesh, India, Vietnam,

Pakistan, Nepal, and Central Asia

Intensify and diversify cereal based

systems with early-maturing agile

potato varieties

RTB cluster:

• PO 2.5 (Potato

varieties for Asia)

Genetic Gains Platform

Examples of research outputs

• At least two gender-responsive methods for value chain development and strengthening of potato demand validated in at least three Asian countries

• Population and candidate varieties biofortified with Fe and Zn, adapted to subtropical lowlands and highland ecologies, resistant to virus or late blight and tolerant to drought and heat

• Models developed to assess trade-offs for labor and resource use in intensive cereal-based production systems that include new potato varieties (China, India and Bangladesh)

• At least 600,000 farmers have access to high quality seed of improved varieties, improve yield (20%), and income from the crop (20%) in China, India and Bangladesh

Examples of research and development outcomes

• CIP and NARS breeders (India , Bangladesh and China) use new breeding tools aiming at reducing time frame to achieve yield jumps, new trait levels and combinations

• At least 20,000 households improve potato-income (15%) through strengthened value chains in India, Bangladesh by 2017

Opportunity: Public and private sector

interest in improving seed potato systems

– seed as an entry point for other

innovations – initially focused in Africa

Target: Increase potato productivity and

improve the livelihoods of at least 600,000

smallholder farmers in Africa by the use of

high-quality seed of suitable varieties – 3

M indirect

Potato Seed

for Africa

RTB cluster:

PO 2.4 (Potato quality

seed)

Genetic Gains Platform

Game

Changing Solutions

Opportunity: Use of advanced

science to accelerate the

development of varieties and

technologies needed in the next

30-50 years

Target: Develop the proof of

concept of at least one solution

in the next 10 years

Contribute to RTB

clusters:

• DI 1.1 (Breeding

platform)

• DI 1.2 (Next

generation

breeding)

• DI 1.3 (Game

changing traits)

Genetic Gains Platform

First potato GM varieties with extreme resistance to late blight under confined trials in Uganda

Opportunity: demand exist for

decision support tools and process

models to tackle complexity of food

systems facing challenges such as

climate change

Target: Improve decision making

using process models to reduce

food system vulnerability

Resilient

Food Systems

Contribute to RTB

clusters:

• CC 5.1 (Foresight,

impact

assessment)

• CC5.2 Sustainable

intensification and

diversification

• CC5.3: Gender

equitable

development

• CC5.4 Institutional

Innovation

Big Data Platform

Opportunity: ex-situ and in-situ

conserved biodiversity offer possibilities

to develop innovative solutions:

varieties and options to reduce

vulnerability in the agroecosystems

Target: Improving the efficiency of

genetic resources conservation and

use for the future

Conserving Diversity

for the Future:

The Genebank

Contribute to RTB

cluster:

DI 1.5 (Adding value to

genebanks

Integral part of the

Genebank Platform

Responding to customer needs

Contribute to

Genebank Platform

Resilient Nutritious Sweetpotato

AgilePotato for Asia

PotatoSeed for Africa

Game ChangingSolutions

ResilientFoodSystems

ConservingDiversity forthe Future

Through its strategic objectives, CIP will contribute to the CGIAR goals and SDGs

6. Concluding remarks

• CIP’s strategy focused on promoting two climate

resilient, nutritious, gender-related, competitive crops,

essential to deliver SRF commitments

• Need to manage innovative, more complex partnership

with both research organizations and development-

oriented partners towards outcomes and impact

• Need to strengthen M&E capabilities to track science

progress, partner roles and CapDev towards outcomes

and impact

• Pursue further coevolution of CIP and RTB during the

flagship and cluster implementation

Thank you very much

Monitoring key potato pests: Effects of climate change on potato tuber moth, 2000 - 2050