GFAR and the GCARD: Transforming Agricultural Research for Development - Monty Jones, GFAR Chair

GFAR and the GCARD: Transforming Agricultural Research for Development

Monty Jones, GFAR Chair

Putting the farmer at the centre of innovation:Business as usual is not an option…

How can we increase food & nutrition

security and farmer incomes while:• Ensuring the needs of resource-poor

smallholders & householders are met• Sustainably managing environmental

resources • And what kind of innovation systems do

we need to meet these challenges?

All knowledge has value

• Scientific knowledge is reductionist, trusted & validated by its method

• Local knowledge is holistic, trusted & validated by experience

• Need to link & reconcile these knowledge & trust bases

• Sustainable development must value & capitalize on both

Advocacy for Change Transforming Institutions for the Future Global Collective Partnership actions Sharing Knowledge for All

Global Forum on Agricultural Research: the Multi-stakeholder Catalyst for action

G8 Statement on Food Security 2009:

“We support the fundamental reform processes underway in the global agricultural research system through the Global Forum on

Agricultural Research"

CGIAR – a new vision of impacts achieved with partners

To reduce poverty and hunger, improve human health and enhance ecosystem resilience through high-quality international agricultural research, partnership and leadership

Strategy & Results Framework has 4 System Level Outcomes

Reducing Rural Poverty

Improving Food Security

Improving nutrition and health

Sustainable Management of Natural Resources

Why GCARD? Why have many apparently effective technologies not been adopted and

yield gaps remain?

How can knowledge and innovation better benefit the poor?

How can international public goods fit with national processes?

Why isn’t agricultural innovation better valued in development?

How can we build more collective action towards large scale development impacts?

GCARD’s EvolutionGFAR – Catalyzing partnerships for action among all those generating, accessing, adapting & using agricultural knowledge & technologies

CGIAR – Reform & SRF of International agricultural research system requires partnership, consultation & accountability

GCARD: Outcome-focused process for transforming and strengthening agricultural innovation systems around the world

GCARD 2010: We’ve come a long way together

WDR 2008

Millennium

Ecosystem

AssessmentIAASTD

PRSPs

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Regional ReviewsE-Consultations

Face to Face Workshops

Regional AR4D Priorities

GCARD Global Report

CGIAR Strategy &Results Framework

CGIAR Consortium Research Programs

GCARD Synthesis &Proceedings

GCARD Roadmap

GCARDConference

National, Regional and Global Actions

1. Inclusively define priorities and actions, driven by development needs

2. Develop equitable partnerships among all stakeholders

3. Achieve increased investments to meet development needs

GCARD Roadmap4. Develop required human &

institutional capacities

5. Embed innovation in development programs & policies

6. Involve stakeholders in accountability and value systems used

GCARD 2: 2012

It’s all about you:Your aims

Your actionsYour commitments

Foresight and partnership for innovation and impact on small-holder livelihoods

Not just for projecting what the world will become but for deciding what kind of world we would like to see in future

The nature of the process by which we develop our future visions determines its influence: smallholders must have a say in envisioning their future.

Changing mindsets… always a long process

Better envisioning our future needs

Roadmap: Improving foresight & prioritization

GCARD 2010 - need a better understanding of future needs & research prioritization

G20-ARD 2011 - G20 Ministers widely welcomed concept of a Global Foresight Hub

Science Forum 2011 - Hub concept developed, bringing together forecasts and scenarios and valuing both

Many lenses focused on our futures


Global Foresight Hub: what is the future of smallholder farming?

Over 40 studies analyzed in depth: global, regional and national scales

Developing the capacities required: African Foresight Academy

Envisioning the future agriculture we wish to see, and its implications, so that research works towards our desired aims

Foresight in 2012


Food Security

CGIAR CRPs & GCARD processes supporting development of the jigsaw puzzle of actions required between innovation and impact

Mobilizing partnerships, policies and capacities for scaling out CRP Intermediate Development Outcomes to impact

Practical accountability to smallholder farmers: World Bank and IFAD processes for scaling-out innovations Framework for increasing wheat productivity in S Asia - APAARI & CIMMYT End-user feedback loops piloted with GRiSP and FARA Reconciling farmers rights and breeders rights: GFAR with CGIAR, International Treaty,

Commission, NGOs, seed companies

Roadmap: effective Partnerships for Impact

Fostering Collective Action in Nutrition

GCARD bringing together FAO Sustainable diet diversity, CRP Nutrition and Health, WFP Purchase for Progress, Scaling-Up Nutrition, NGO actions, London Declaration etcDeveloping new understanding and linkagesIntegrating diet diversity, biofortification, food safety and supplementary feeding processesNutrition-centred research and index of nutritive quality in productionLinkage with Gender in Agriculture Partnership & child nutrition and growth


Global joint actions: CCAFS/ GFAR /CTA /IFAD /GDPRD /FANRPAN /FAO /WB /WFO etc Agriculture & Rural Development Day… now Agricultural Landscapes & Livelihoods

Day Joint advocacy in Rio+20

Supporting regional actions: CCAFS,WMO and Regional Fora working with national partners to examine policy

environment and needs in climate smart agriculture Tsukuba Framework – APAARI (Asia-Pacific) then climate smart agriculture meeting Kuwait Framework – AARINENA (West Asia/North Africa)

Now require practical & collective actions delivering on the frameworks

Climate change


Frameworks for action developed through Year of Biodiversity , linked Regional Fora and CGIAR, esp. Bioversity International:

FARA - Agro-Biodiversity Initiative for Africa (ABIA)

APAARI - Suwon Framework and subsequent actions on framework implementation, invasive species

AARINENA - Regional Commission on Genetic Resources in Food and Agriculture

Agro-biodiversity


GFAR & International Treaty now formally linked in sustainable use of agrobiodiversity & technology transfer – Bali ITPGRFA Governing Body 2011 & Rio+20

Diversity for Development – collective action on under-utilized crops

Beijing Science Forum with ISPC, 2011: Biodiversity research challenges, issues of functional scale required, invasive threats, sustainable systems

Agro-biodiversity - Promoting international actions


Partnerships in Action: LANDSCAPES

CRPs on Forests & Trees, Water & Land, CCAFS Catalyzing Association of International Centres for Research & Development in

Agriculture (AIRCA) Farmers & research together promoting Conservation agriculture in S Asia, Latin

America (APAARI, FORAGRO) Better water management & governance: CTA


Rio+20 ARDD conference – new focus on landscape-based approaches and system resilience

Integrating land and water management, forests, fisheries and alternative resource uses – biofuels etc

Livelihood-based approaches

Welcome new CRPs that focus collective actions on system-based approaches

SSA-CP innovation platform sites, demonstrating livelihood changes

Brazil-Africa and Brazil-Caribbean Innovation Marketplaces

ProLINNOVA and local innovation EFARD - PAEPARD and extension to

other regions


Linking Smallholder Farmers to Markets

Producer-focused regional experiences documented and shared

Empowering Small Farmers Into Markets grew out of GFAR initiative, now a wide range of farmer-driven successes and learning experiences

Further mobilizing farmer organizations – global actions now emerging from World Farmer Organization and regional networks, International Year of Cooperatives


Building concerted action on gender in agriculture through the GFAR mechanism:

CGIAR and FAO gender specialists – desire for collective action FAO & FARA – examining gender-based innovation priorities in Niger and use of

women’s community radio networks to share knowledge AARINENA – review of gender-related issues in 4 WANA countries FORAGRO – new study underway IFPRI – review of engendering agricultural innovation AWARD – strengthening M&E and outreach APAARI & ICAR – Global Conference on Women in Agriculture


First Global Conference on Women in Agriculture (GCWA), New Delhi, 13-15 March, 2012

A global urgency to empower women to ensure household food and nutrition security and inclusive growth in agriculture

Global Conference on Women in Agriculture New Delhi, March 2012

Gender in Agriculture Partnership (GAP)• Open & inclusive partnership mobilizing actions across many national, regional & international bodies• Linking gender work of international agencies; CGIAR &UN• Engaging national, regional and international bodies from all sectors• Advocacy, knowledge sharing, connecting & triggering programmes • Brought gender focus into Rio+20 & GCARD

• Key issues: access to resources and returns, reorienting innovation systems to reduce labour, energy and time in production, focus on value-addition post harvest, child nutrition• Formulated 5 point Plan to ‘engender’ Agriculture & AR4D systems

AR4D Investments & Returns

GCARD 2010 called for a better system for tracking AR4D investments ASTI supported to establish a Global Baseline, working via Regional Fora

GFAR Berlin workshop January 2012 Established links between diverse databases and analyses on state of investments around

the world e.g. ASTI,GDPRD, EIARD, OECD, G8-AFSI, FAO and Regional For a Product: integrated system now underway e.g. OECD-DAC indicators, G8-AFSI

Now linking with Economic Returns from investment: National analyses: Uruguay CGIAR analyses: ISPC & SPIA

Challenges: New metrics needed beyond gross productivity e.g. environmental value Major data gaps remain for advisory services & private sector

Public Agricultural R&D spending: Developing countries drive growth

Source: ASTI 2012

Roadmap: increasing investments

Public Agricultural R&D spending: Regional distribution and growth

Source: ASTI 2012

Roadmap: increasing investments

Inter-regional Capacity Development & Research Partnerships in a changing global economy

Facilitated through Regional Fora or institutional networks, reflecting the new skills required Europe-Africa e.g. PAEPARD INIAS Ibero-America Eurasian Centre for Food Security (Central Asia)

G20 MACS – advanced science now becoming linked with GFAR, CGIAR & GCARD process in fostering international partnerships e.g. FAO Tropical Agriculture Platform Opening access to research and genomic data Data integration with GIS

Roadmap: developing required capacities

Capacities: connecting people and networks through GFAR & GCARD

YPARD : Young Professionals rejuvenating AR4D systems and creating attractive agricultural careers

GCHERA: Agricultural Universities working together to share experiences and transform education, also through regional education networks and regional fora linkages, e.g. RUFORUM & FARA, UNIBRAIN, TEAM-Africa

AGRIVIVO: networking AR4D professionals CSO-GARD: Networking civil society organizations

active in innovation systems


Sharing and Mobilizing Knowledge - CIARD

Strengthening regional agricultural information & learning systems (RAILS) and National systems

Opening Access – Coherence in Information for AR4D (CIARD) creates the collective frame enabling information to be mobilized, transformed and used

CIARD RING now >4 million records readily accessible between databases


Bridging Knowledge Gaps: Examples from the work of APAARI


Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development (CIARD) initiative in the region with the support of GFAR and FAO.Workshop on CIARD and Strengthening RAIS in South Asia, BangladeshWorkshop on ICM for Agricultural Innovation in Southeast Asia” in ThailandWorkshop on “Moving Beyond Strategy to Improve IKM for Agricultural Development in the Pacific Islands Countries and Territories, Fiji IslandsWorkshop on Openness in Agricultural Information and Knowledge Sharing, New DelhiStrengthening Regional Agricultural Information Systems /RAILSStatus Report on ICT/ICM in AR4D in the Asia-Pacific RegionSuccess Stories on Agricultural Information and Knowledge for All in the Asia-Pacific RegionDevelopment of database of institutions and experts to provide access to existing ARD Institutions/Scientists. Training programs relating to ICT/ICM

The New Roles of Extension: GFRAS

Strengthening of advisory services, GFRAS: GFAR, FAO , BMGF, AFAAS & Neuchatel group catalyzed collective global action to mobilize and strengthen rural advisory services

Together established the Global Forum on Rural Advisory Services

Continued support has seen GFRAS mobilize regional actions around the world: Learning and sharing best practices –international conferences Nairobi, Delhi Working directly to strengthen innovation brokers transforming knowledge into field use Learning from experiences on what is required of ‘New Extensionists” in innovation systems Advocacy for change based on best practices


Better Linking Research into Development Policies and Commitments

Presently only 4/24 African Poverty Reduction Strategies include agricultural research focus GCARD 2010: Farmers identified CAADP as the essential mechanism for CGIAR

engagement in Africa FARA manages implementation of CAADP Pillar 4 – agricultural productivity 2011 Zurich process supported by GFAR, then Dublin process direct links CGIAR in

support of CAADP aims and country compacts G8 New Alliance 2012 and public-private linkages: Grow Africa & PANAAC

Inspired CACAARI – first regional framework developed for agricultural research for development

How can agricultural knowledge and innovation better help rebuild communities shattered by crises?

25 States now considered in protracted crises, most in Africa. Recent wars have decimated AR4D systems elsewhere e.g. Iraq, Sierra Leone

Practical application of outcomes from Committee on Food Security and past work of e.g. ICARDA:Kigali Movement established August 2012 Rebuilding trust and knowledge systems, from informal to formal Examining what we can learn from successful experiences of growing out from

conflict

Protracted crises

Where we are now

In last 2 years GFAR has catalyzed many actions delivering to the GCARD Roadmap principles

CGIAR reform provides a change–enabling environment for collaboration and wider reform

Research is essential, but not itself sufficient to deliver impact

Achieving impacts requires our continued efforts together and commitment to practical actions

GCARD 2012 is your opportunity to set out your own commitments

The time for action is NOW

THANK YOU!

GFAR and the GCARD: Transforming Agricultural Research for Development - Monty Jones, GFAR Chair

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