Presentation given by Ruben Echeverria, Director-General, International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) at the celebration of the 40th Anniversary of CGIAR, at the FAO in Rome. 2 December 2011
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Reform in the making: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change and Food Security (CCAFS)
1. CGIAR 40th Anniversary
Reform in the making:
CGIAR Research Program on Climate
Change and Food Security (CCAFS)
Ruben Echeverria,
Director General, CIAT
2. CCAFS: the partnership! The largest global
coalition of scientists working on
developing-country agriculture and climate
change
3. The CCAFS framework
Adapting Agriculture to
Climate Variability and Change
Technologies, practices, partnerships and
policies for:
Improved
1.Adaptation to Progressive Climate Environmental Improved
Change Health Rural
2.Adaptation through Managing Climate Livelihoods
Risk Improved
3.Pro-poor Climate Change Mitigation Food
Security
4. Integration for Decision Making
•Linking Knowledge with Action
•Assembling Data and Tools for Analysis and
Planning
•Refining Frameworks for Policy Analysis
Enhanced adaptive capacity
5. THE VISION
To adapt farming
systems, we
need to:
• Close the
yield gap by
effectively using
current
Theme 1:
technologies, pra
ctices and
policies
Adaptation to
• Increase the
bar: develop
Progressive
new ways to
increase
agricultural
Climate Change
potential
• Enable
policies and
institutions, fro
m the farm to
national level
6. Adaptation to Progressive
Climate Change
Objective One:
Adapted farming systems via integrated
technologies, practices, and policies
Objective Two:
Breeding strategies to address abiotic and
biotic stresses induced by future climates
Objective Three:
Integrate adaptation strategies for
agricultural and food systems into policy
and institutional frameworks
7. Farms of the future
• The climate analogue
tool, crucial for
adaptation planning
• Choice of sites for
cross-site farmer visits
and participatory crop
and livestock trials
8. • Joint staff position
between CCAFS and
GRiSP
• On breeding priorities
for a 2030 world
• Joint participaory action research
in Bangladesh – WorldFish led
(CRP1.3); CCAFS contributing
9. THE VISION
• Climate-related
risk impedes
development, lea
ding to chronic
poverty and
dependency
• Actions taken
now can reduce
vulnerability in
Theme 2:
the short term and
enhance Adaptation
resilience in the
long term
•Improving current
through
climate risk
management will
managing
reduce
obstacles to climate
risk
making future
structural
adaptations.
10. Managing Climate Risk
Objective One:
Building resilient livelihoods (Farm level)
Objective Two:
Food delivery, trade, and crisis response
(Food system level)
Objective Three:
Enhanced climate information and services
13. Pro-Poor CC Mitigation
Objective One:
Identify low-carbon agricultural development
pathways
Objective Two:
Develop incentives and institutional
arrangements
Objective Three:
Develop on-farm technological options for
mitigation and research landscape implications
14. At field level much of the work is
participatory action research
e.g. Cross-project
learning (community
carbon projects) on
best-bet research
needs and
institutional models
across East and
West Africa
15. • Earthscan book on
current knowledge
(with FAO)
• Involved authors from
8 Centers
16. VISION
•Provide an
analytical and
diagnostic
framework, grou
nded in the policy
context
•Effectively
engage with rural
stakeholders and
decision makers
•Communicate
Theme 4:
likely effects of
specific policies
and interventions
•Build partners’
Integration for
capacity
decision-making
17. Integration for Decision
Making
Objective One:
Linking knowledge with
action
Objective Two:
Data and tools for analysis
and planning
Objective Three:
Refining frameworks for
policy analysis
21. Communicating together: Mapping
climate-induced food insecurity
• ILRI research team for CCAFS Theme 4 (ICRAF)
• Communications efforts: CCAFS in collaboration with ICRAF, ILRI and CIAT
• Outreach, online promotion: many CG Centers and partners
• Scientists across Centers: interviews in four languages
The Result:
• Online coverage at TIME.com, BBC, Guardian, Reuters, NatureNews, VOA, and
more…
• Report downloaded 1038 times in first week
• Traffic to CCAFS website increased by 500 in 1 week
See details at http://ccafs.cgiar.org/resources/climatehotspots
• >5% reduction in growing season
• Low adaptive capacity
734 million people • High dependence on agriculture
22. Collaborating on
major events
Landscape weekend at COP17: CIAT,
CIFOR, ICRISAT, ICRAF
24. Established the Commission
• Chair: Sir John Beddington, UK Chief Scientist
• Includes senior scientists from
Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Ethiopia, Fran
ce, India, Kenya, Mexico, South Africa, United
States, Vietnam
25. Social differentiation and gender
• > 30% of milestones
have
gender/differentiation
elements
• >20% of research
budget goes to
research with explicit
gender/differentiation
elements
26. Real CGIAR reform at work!
• Program Director based outside a CGIAR center
(@ U of CPH, Denmark)
• 30% budget to non CGIAR partners
• Program Management Committee: 2 of the 6
members not from CGIAR
• Independent Science Panel (sets strategy &
oversees budget allocation) – consists of
individuals not from CGIAR
• All 15 CGIAR Centers contributing
A new way of working - New partnership model: CCAFS is not only a CGIAR program – it is actually a joint program between the CGIAR and the Earth Systems science partnership – the ESSP includes such organisations as the World Climate Research Program and Diversitas. The largest coalition of scientists working on developing country agriculture & CC!
Shown in the blue circles are the baseline sites where we are currently workingIn 2012 we will initiate work in two new regions.
Main message: this is an early output from Theme 1 – crucial for adaptation planning - Identifies sites where the climate today is similar to the projected future climate for a given location. It also demonstrates the need to work with climate scientists in this work – requiring new partnerships, e.g. with the World Climate Research Program
Main message: also need to work across the CRPs – here is an example of that.
Main message: an early output, once again indicating new partnerhsips, this one with WFP and various humanitariam organisations.
Main message: most of the field work is adaptive/action research – here is work with many carbon projects in africaBrought together all the main players setting up community carbon projects in West and East AfricaIdentified research needs – institutional models, how they might work best for efficiency, equity Direct link between research and action Strong demand from carbon project managers
Main Message: Here is a first product from the Theme – demonstrates partnership (here with FAO) and inter-centre collaboration (8 centers)Wide set of CG and ESSP partners writing book chapters for Earthscan; covering the range of ag sectors including livestock and fisheriesSimilarly full range of lessons from REDD+: technical options, “measurement, reporting and verification” (MRV), finance, institutions, incentives-Using modeling, remote sensing data and data on farmers' management practices, Winrock International and Applied GeoSolutions are estimating current agricultural emissions and generating scenarios of different mitigation strategies consistent with maintaining food supply.
Main message: inter-centre collaboration (5 centers) and a new spirit in getting data public (data was available to public 6 months after completion of the field work).An example of inter-Centre collaborationThe baseline survey included HH, village and organisational surveysThe household survey was a massive exercise – training of survey teams and partners, multi-lingual survey instrument, large number of households in remote sitesInvolved 5 CGIAR CentersIt an impressive feat the data was publically available within 6 months of final data collection
Main message: An output from Theme 4 – demonstrates the need to work with the top climate scientists.No where more do we need this kind of partnership – because it is crucial to downscale the climate data to scales that can be used in agriculture.Here is an example of a tool that was finalised this year to get downscaled data for all areas of the globe.
Main message – a major new partnership launched:The partnership will be launched in Durban at COP17 – represents a major forum for collaboration amongst the key global agencies. The Wall Street Journal just published an article about the partnership. http://blogs.wsj.com/source/2011/11/28/agriculture-orgs-up-pressure-ahead-of-durban-climate-talks/
Main message: working across the forest and agriculture boundary – with jointly planned events between forest and agriculture day. This is part of “knowledge to action work”
CCAFS probably represents the most radical reform of the research program in the new CGIAR