First SWEP created in 1992 (ASB)

Improve fodder yield and nutritive quality of the world’s major food–feed crops

Improve and sustain the production of food–feed crops through better use of soil nutrients and water

Encourage research with benefits that can be transferred across regions

Identify policy and institutional measures that enable uptake of food–feed crops and related natural resource management innovations

Determine the SLP’s priority research areas

Evaluate, approve and allocate available resources to SLP projects

Agree on which centres or other partners are best placed to lead in priority research thrusts, and allocate responsibility for convening consortia to support such lead institutions

Ensure the global coherence of SLP research investments and their efficient use

SLP provides simple and flexible coordination where individual Centers lead and implement individual research projects with at least one other CGIAR Center partner. Thus, SLP serves as a platform for networking and coordination and as a platform for Centers to develop research projects that require expertise from a number of Centers.

University of Kassel

University of Hohenheim

FAO

CORAF/WECARD

CPWF for Volta Basin

Focus on delivering for on-going projects over the next two years

Knowledge, achievements, past - current collective actions and good partnerships can be instrumental in contributing to drafting the CGIAR research agenda especially for MP1 and MP5 (strong link with PLE)