Crops for the Future: Current Activities by Max Herriman, CFF, Malaysia - Regional Expert Consultation on Underutilized Crops for Food and Nutritional Security in Asia and the Pacific November 13-15, 2017, Bangkok

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Current Activities –
2017
Max Herriman
Member & Chair of

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We depend on a few crops to feed over 7 billion people
Can these major crops, by themselves, feed 9 billion people?
The same crops are increasingly supporting non-food needs

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Support for Global Initiatives
CFF Secretariat to the Global
Action Plan for Agricultural
Diversification (GAPAD)
United Nations Sustainable
Development Agenda 2030 -
SDG2 (End Hunger) Second
Roundtable Meeting Rome - Sep
2017
Shortlisted GAPAD SDG2 Action
Items
HRH Prince of Wales Launched
‘The Forgotten Foods Network’
at CFF – November 2017

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CONNECT Initiative

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CONNECT
`Proof-of-Concept Value Chain’ that spans genetic resources
to potential markets for particular underutilised crops at any
location

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Exemplar crops
Moringa (Moringa oleifera) Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterannea )

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Intelligent Automated In-line
Bambara Flour Production (BamPro)
Smart Challenge Fund 2017
CFF-UNMC Collaboration
Dr Rajprasad Rajkumar, Lead Researcher
Prof Dino Isa, Member
Hilda Hussin, Project Leader

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An in-line automated process to produce Bambara flour
Collaboration : BamPro
Bambara Seed Desheller
Front View
1.5m
1.0m
75cm
1.2m
1.5m
Load Cell
Top View

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Animal Nutrition -
FishPLUS

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Wild caught fisheries in an alarming state
20% to
Fishmeal Average
10kg to
produce
1kg

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Insects and Underutilised Crops for Sustainable Aquaculture

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Insects and Underutilised Crops for Fish
Feed
• Moringa
• Black
soldier fly
larvae
• Barramund
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• Sesbania
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Disruptive innovation
Wealth generation
Sustainable
aquaculture
Environmental security
Funded by:Delivery Partner:

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Soybean in Tilapia
Aquafeed
Replacement with
Crop-based Insect
Meal
Sustainable Tilapia
Aquaculture
Funded by:
Research Delivery Partners:
Mitigating Climate Change Impact on Tilapia Aquaculture in SE Asia
Thailand Philippines Cambodia
Commercial Partner:

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Optimised crop-
insect Freshwater
Prawn
Enhanced tolerance
level in Vannamei
via Feed additives
Sustainable
Aquaculture Rural
Development -SARD
Research Projects in Development for 2018
Indonesia

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Global Knowledge
Base for Underutilised
Crops

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Global Knowledge Base for Underutilised Crops
APPLICATION
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DATABASE
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Apps in support of diversification in Agriculture

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CropBASE: data-driven startup
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Data-driven start-up active in agriculture
First Asian Data Start-up Accelerator (ADSA)
programme
Supported by Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation
and Open Data Institute UK

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Knowledge Base data
CropBASE
28Scientists
9 MCrop Data
9 KMetadata
220 Crops 92K Plants
281 Locations

21. Linking indigenous knowledge of underutilised crops

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SELECTCROP
https://www.cropbase.org/

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SNAP
Sustainable living, Nutritious
diets And Partnerships

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Sustainabl
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Nutritious
diets
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Partnership
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CFF SNAP

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SNAP Activities
Sustainable
Living
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Fruit and vegetable production
Managing environmental resources
Agricultural and environmental
education
Nutritious
Diets
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Diversifying food basket
Nutritional labels and needs
Responsible eating
Partnership
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Workshops
Progress to personal and school
targets
Community culture of eating healthy
CFF SNAP

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SNAP1 Pilot Project
SNAP1 Partners
Pilot school: SJK (T) Ladang Semenyih

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DTP: CFFPLUS Research
Performance and
Capacity Development

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Male FemaleLocal
International
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Arts & Social Sciences
Engineering
Science
Brazil
China
Egypt
England
Ethiopia
Ghana
India
Indonesia
Ireland
Italy
Nigeria
Vietnam
South
Africa
Sri Lanka
Zimbabwe
Doctoral Training Programme -
Diverse Teams
Student nationalities Gender and disciplines

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Registration at partner
institutes with mobility
between institutes
39 months programme
of study on research
topic within the theme
Training modules on
interdisciplinary and
transferable skills
Workshops and group
exercises to build cohort
networks
Co-supervision for
collaboration and
monitoring
The DTP Student

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Research that answers bigger
questions
Breed bambara groundnut
lines for improved drought
tolerance
Part of a multi-site field trial
across Africa and Asia
Increasing the uptake of bambara groundnut to address food security
and poverty alleviation

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CFF Publications since 2012
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Publications in Top Journal Percentiles
Top 10% Publications Top 25% Publications
93 Publications* 349 Citations* 35% in Top 10% Journals
47% in Top 25%
Journals**
**by CiteScore

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CFF Publications since 2012
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Citations & Views*
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1.77 Field-
Weight Citation
Impact**
24% in Top 10%
Citation
Percentile*
*data up to 19 Sep 2017, SCOPUS
33% in Top 10%
Viewed
Percentile*
**SciiVal analysis

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Institution Publications Citations
Outputs in Top
10% Journals
Citation per
Publication
Field-Weighted
Citation Impact
CFF 93 349 34.8% 3.8 1.77
UNMC 2,152 10,448 33.1% 4.9 1.35
UPM 18,073 71,148 15.5% 3.9 0.85
FRIM 437 2,223 18.9% 5.1 0.84
UKM 18,121 62,231 13.8% 3.4 0.78
MARDI 379 1113 11.1% 3.0 0.69
Institution Publications Citations
Outputs in Top
10% Journals
Citation per
Publication
Field-Weighted
Citation Impact
CIFOR 626 6,580 53.4% 10.5 2.35
ILRI 921 8,394 47.6% 9.1 1.99
IRRI 1,078 9,931 52.9% 9.2 1.77
CFF 93 349 34.8% 3.8 1.77
Nottingham 27,400 236,507 42.1% 8.6 1.73
IFPRI 1,165 7,552 42.2% 6.5 1.70
ICRISAT 1,229 9,438 36.2% 7.7 1.41
National
International
(Based on SCOPUS data for 2012-2017 as of 19 Sep
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Our Alumni

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Agricultural Diversification Advanced Postgraduate
Training (ADAPT)

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Lower
Risk
Conclusion

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Options for APAARI
Collaboration
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Examples:
Projects that contribute to the Forgotten Foods
Network
Contribute data into CropBASE
Participate in GAPAD Roundtable Fora and SDG
Actions
Build capacity by nominating participants to CFFPLUS
DTP
Participate in CFF Programmatic research either as
collaborating institutions or individual experts
Share knowledge, including research focus and
outcomes
Share networks and ideas for collaboration