Systems Analysis for Sustainable Innovation (SASI): A new
flagship in the Livestock and Fish research program
An Notenbaert (CIAT)
Livestock and Fish expert workshop on systems analysis for value chain transformation
Amsterdam, 19 November 2014

The Livestock and Fish CGIAR Research
Program
• Animal sourced food VCs:
– Dairy in Tanzania and India, dual-purpose cattle in Nicaragua, small ruminants
in Ethiopia and Burkina Faso, aquaculture in Egypt and Bangladesh, pigs in
Vietnam and Uganda
• Improving their performance ~ value chain upgrading:
– Technological interventions (breeds, feeds, animal health)
– Institutional interventions (markets, farmer groups, policies,…)
– What is improved performance?
• 6 “intermediate development outcomes” (IDOs):
– Productivity, quantity and quality, employment, income, consumption, environment, policies
• 4 CGIAR “system-level impacts” (SLOs):
– Poverty, food security, nutrition and health, environment
Up- and out-scaling

ASF Value Chains
• VC components and actors
– Production system (technologies and integrating them)
– VC system components (e.g. inputs, processing technologies and
logistics, markets, enterprises and business development)
• Context:
– Now and in the future
– e.g. sector policies and regulations, macro-economic climate &
“enabling environment “, i.e. institutions and services
• Integration
– Linkages, interactions, feedbacks, …

Systems Analysis for Sustainable Innovation
Systems analysis of animal sourced food VCs; inclusive
but not limited to agricultural production systems
1. Component research – complementing technology research
2. Systems analysis and integration
3. Learning
 Analysis and assessments supporting evidence-based
decision-making about integrated VC interventions

For discussion
Indicators of:
• Production system and VC performance
• Relevant context changes
 Issues: multiple objectives, perspectives and scales
Frameworks and models for assessment:
• Baselines and BAU
• Scenarios (technical interventions, institutional interventions,
integrated interventions)
• Comparisons (between scenarios, between sites)
 modelling or measuring; ex-ante and ex-post
 quantitive vs. qualitative; quick&dirty vs. slow&clean
 from sites to VC/country to region to globe

CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish
livestockfish.cgiar.org
CGIAR is a global partnership that unites organizations engaged in research for a food secure future. The CGIAR
Research Program on Livestock and Fish aims to increase the productivity of small-scale livestock and fish systems
in sustainable ways, making meat, milk and fish more available and affordable across the developing world.