1. The global research partnership to improve agricultural productivity and income in the world's dry areas
Ali Nefzaoui
Integrated Agricultural Production
Systems for Improved Food Security
and Livelihoods in North Africa and
West Asia (CRP-DS NA&WA)
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2. CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Agricultural Production Systems – Launch Meeting, Amman 21-23 May 2013
Title 5 Sites
Favorable areas:
 Cereal-based system
 Fruit trees based system
Marginal areas:
 Agropastoral system
 Pastoral system
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3. More resilient livelihoods
for vulnerable households in
marginal areas.
More stable and higher per
capita income for
intensifiable households
IDO 7. Policy reform removing
constraints and creating
incentives for rural households
to engage in more sustainable
practices that improve
resilience and intensify
production
IDO 5. Better functioning
markets underpinning
intensification of rural
livelihoods
IDO 6. More integrated,
effective and connected
service delivery institutions
underpinning resilience and
system intensification.
IDO 4. More sustainable and
equitable management of
land and water resources in
pastoral and agropastoral
regions.
IDO 8. Women and youth have
better access to and control over
productive assets, inputs, services,
information and market
opportunities and capture a more
equitable share of increased
income, food and other benefits
IDO 3. Women and children in
vulnerable households have year
round access to greater quantity
and diversity of food sources

4. More resilient livelihoods
for vulnerable households in
marginal areas.
More stable and higher per
capita income for
intensifiable households
IDO 7. Policy reform removing
constraints and creating
incentives
IDO 5. Better functioning markets
underpinning intensification of rural
livelihoods
IDO 6. More integrated, effective and connected
service delivery institutions underpinning
resilience and system intensification.
IDO 4. More sustainable and
equitable management of land and
water resources in pastoral and
agropastoral regions.
IDO 8. Women and youth have better access to and
control over productive
assets, inputs, services, information and market
opportunities and capture a more equitable share
of increased income, food and other benefits
IDO 3. Year round access to greater
quantity and diversity of food
sources for women and children
IDO X.

5. IDO 6. More integrated, effective and connected service delivery
institutions underpinning resilience and system intensification.
Outcome. Service providers adopt innovations to improve
their effectiveness, integration and reach
Output 1. Improved and
innovative extension methods
better targeted to message
and context and tools to assist
in selection of appropriate
methods
Output 2. Improved models for
interaction amongst service
providers to enable integration
of service provision amongst
sectors
Output 3. Innovative
public-private partnership
models for service delivery
AC
Post-harvest & market access
AC
Innovation platforms & scenarios
IDO 4. More sustainable and
equitable management of land and
water resources in pastoral and
agropastoral regions.
IDO 8. Women and youth have better access to and control over
productive assets, inputs, services, information and market
opportunities and capture a more equitable share of increased
income, food and other benefits

6. Outcome. NARES and health sector organizations work together and adopt diagnostic and systematic
research approaches to promoting and developing interventions to improve vulnerable women and
children’s access to, and control of, more and more diverse food sources, throughout the year
Output 1. Diagnosis of constraints and
opportunities of local food systems leading to
identification of constraints and opportunities
to improve year round access to food
Output 2. Systematic research on interventions to address
identified constraints and opportunities, leading to a
matrix of tested interventions and delivery strategies
associated with the contexts in which they work
IDO 8. Women and youth have better access to and control over productive assets, inputs,
services, information and market opportunities and capture a more equitable share of increased
income, food and other benefits
IDO 3. Women and children in vulnerable households have year round
access to greater quantity and diversity of food sources
IDO 4. More sustainable and equitable
management of land and water resources in
pastoral and agropastoral regions.
IDO 7. Policy reform
removing constraints and
creating incentives
Assess gender
barriers to greater
access to natural
resources
Identify options for new
income generating activities
and employment
opportunities for women
and youth
Develop and test new
mechanisms for
empowering rural
women and youth
IDO 6. More integrated, effective and connected service delivery
institutions underpinning resilience and system intensification.

7. IDO 4. More sustainable and equitable management of land and
water resources in pastoral and agropastoral regions.
Output 1. Technologies, tools, methods, processes
and approaches developed and tested for evidence
based ecosystem management
Output 2. Focus on negotiation
support (amongst stakeholders)
and governance models
Outcome. Multiple stakeholders in pastoral / agropastoral areas, use evidence based
ecosystem management, at community level in the governance of common and
privately managed land and water resources
IDO 7. Policy reform
removing
constraints and
creating incentives
IDO 8. Women and youth have better access to and
control over productive assets, inputs, services,
information and market opportunities and capture a
more equitable share of increased income, food and
other benefits
IDO 6. More integrated,
effective and connected
service delivery institutions
underpinning resilience and
system intensification.
IDO 3. Year round access to greater quantity and
diversity of food sources for women and children
AC 1. Managing rangelands
In-situ biodiversity
Small ruminants productivity
AC 2. Conservation agriculture
Water & land productivity in irrigated
systems
Water harvesting & soil conservation

8. IDO 7. Policy reform removing constraints and creating incentives for rural households to
engage in more sustainable practices that improve resilience and intensify production
Outcome. Policy makers reform and institutions implement policies that
remove constraints to, and improve incentives for, rational management of
natural resources
Output 3. Policy briefs
providing evidence targeting
key fora for policy change
Output 2. Quantified
impact of effectiveness of
policy alternatives
Output 1. Analysis of policy and
institutional barriers to
adoption of sustainable
intensification options
AC 3
System
vulnerability
AC 2
Policies on natural
resources
AC 1
Innovation platforms & scenarios
High-value chain clusters
Bio-economic farm models
IDO 5. Better functioning markets
underpinning intensification of rural
livelihoods
IDO 4. More sustainable and equitable
management of land and water resources in
pastoral and agropastoral regions.
IDO 8. Women and youth have better access to and control
over productive assets, etc.
IDO X.
IDO 3. Year round access to greater quantity and
diversity of food sources for women and children

9. IDO 5. Better functioning markets underpinning intensification of rural livelihoods
Outcome. Farmers and pastoralists (especially women) have better access to
more diverse, efficient and equitable markets
Output 1. Modes of operation to
lower transaction costs through
development of assembly points and
market hubs
Output 2. More innovative partnership
models involving entrepreneurs,
marketing commissions, traders and
warrantage (inventory credit systems)
Output 3. Improved market
information systems
Post-harvest & market access Innovation platforms & scenarios
IDO 7. Policy reform removing
constraints and creating
incentives
IDO 3. Year round access to greater
quantity and diversity of food
sources for women and children
IDO X.

10. IDO X. !!!!!!!!!!
AC 1
Seed system & dissemination
Cereal & legume species
adaptation
Cereal & legume systems IPM
AC 2
Conservation agriculture
Livestock productivity
In-situ biodiversity
AC 3
Water & land productivity
in rainfed/irrigated systems
Managing salinity
IDO 3. Women and children in vulnerable households have year round
access to greater quantity and diversity of food sources
More stable and higher per capita
income for intensifiable households
IDO 7. Policy reform removing
constraints and creating
incentives
IDO 5. Better functioning markets
underpinning intensification of rural
livelihoods

11.  The driest areas of NA&WA embrace more than 60 % of the arable
land.
 High population growth rates, large and rapidly increasing food
and feed deficits, rural poverty
 Limited natural resources, especially water
 Rural livelihoods based on production systems in which small
ruminants represent the principal economic output.
 Production systems in transition
 Inappropriate policies of land use, incentives and lack of secured
property rights
 More frequent and prolonged droughts associated with global
warming have worsened the vulnerability of agropastoral societies
TitleMarginal areas (Resilience)/ Constraints
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12. TitleFavorable areas (intensifiable)/ Constraints
 Production systems are under pressure to be efficient in
order to compete with global players.
 Small farms cannot benefit from economies of scale such as
effective mechanization, and lack opportunities of
capitalization and access to input markets.
 Youngsters are increasingly looking for alternative
opportunities in the cities where employment is scarce. The
result is unbridled urbanization with slums and social unrest.
 Two-pronged approach: aggregate the smaller units while
retaining the work force on the farms or develop alternative
production systems that can be competitive on a world
market through high-value crops or animal products.
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13. Clustering activities
 Conservation agriculture
 Small ruminants productivity
 Managing agropastoral
rangelands
 In-situ biodiversity
 Water & land productivity in
irrigated systems
 Water & land productivity in
rainfed systems
 Managing Salinity
 Water harvesting & soil
conservation
 Seed system & dissemination
 Cereal & legume species
adaptation
 Cereral & legume system IPM
 Policies on natural resources
 System vulnerability
 Bio-economic modeling
 Innovation platforms &
scenarios
 High-value chain clusters
 Post- harvest & market
access
 Gender