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ICRISAT Global Planning Meeting 2019:CGIAR Research Program Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (CRP-GLDC) by Kiran K Sharma

  1. CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (CRP-GLDC) Kiran K Sharma, CRP-GLDC ICRISAT Global Planning Meeting, February 6, 2019
  2. SSA region: Burkina Faso Ethiopia Malawi Mali Mozambique Niger Nigeria Sudan Tanzania Uganda Zambia South Asia: India Myanmar Crops: Chickpea, Cowpea, Pigeonpea, Groundnut, Lentil, Soybean Cereals: Sorghum, Pearl millet, Finger Millet
  3. Flagship Programs Cross-cutting Themes o Gender & Youth o Capacity Development o Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning & Impact Assessment o New Cross-cutting theme on Markets and Partnerships in Agri-business
  4. FP1: Priority setting and impact acceleration 1. Foresight, climate change analysis and priority setting 2. Value chains, markets and drivers of adoption 3. Enhancing gender integration and social inclusion in the drylands 4. Enabling environments and scaling to accelerate impact FP3: Integrated Farm and Household Management 1. Cropping systems management 2. Innovations for managing abiotic and biotic stresses 3. Testing, adapting and validating options
  5. FP4: Variety and Hybrid Development • Environmental characterization and phenotyping • Breeding pipelines • Product testing and release • Science of scaling up seed technologies FP5: Pre-Breeding and Trait Discovery • Pre-breeding • Trait discovery • Enabling technologies
  6. Cross-Cutting Areas  Gender & Youth  Capacity Development  Monitoring, Evaluation, Impact Assessment and Learning (MEIAL)  Markets and Partnerships in Agri-business (MPAB)…New from 2019
  7. THE PROCESS FP4: Variety/ hybrid development FP1: Priority setting, impact acceleration FP2: Transforming Agri-Food Systems FP5: Pre-breeding & Trait Discovery FP3: Farm, household management Five Flagship Programs deliver into two impact pathways • M&E with key indicators • Prioritize women and youth • Capacity Development
  8. GLDC Strategic Partnerships • Critical to maximise the impact of GLDC globally • Partnerships being development through FP leaders • Partnership engagement needs to be strengthened with NARS, SROs, ARIs, NGOs and Private sector • Tap into available resources and connections • Leveraging connections for scaling successful innovations across South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa E.g. Advanta-AGRA, Corteva Agriscience™
  9. GLDC Strategic Partnerships  WLE: Interface farms and landscapes, increase water-use efficiency  CCAFS: Climate-risk management tools and information  PIM: Foresight modelling tools to assess impacts  A4NH: Biofortification and food safety  LIVESTOCK: Dual-purpose varieties and hybrids  RICE, WHEAT, MAIZE, ROOTS, TUBERS AND BANANAS: Intercropping with dominant crops of the CRPs CGIAR Centres
  10. Apex and SROs Sub-Saharan Africa Private Sector companies & consortia USAID Feed the Future Innovation Labs NARES FARA CORAF/WECARD CCARDESA ASARECA RUFORUM WACCI AWARD Corteva Agriscience™ Syngenta Foundation Seed Co, Zimbabwe Mars Chocolate Microsoft MANOBI-AFRICA, Senegal Hybrid Parent Research Consortium African Seed Trade Association India Pulses & Grains Association (IPGA) Farmer Producer Organizations, India Sorghum and Millet Peanut & Mycotoxin Legume Climate-Resilient Sorghum Climate Resilient Chickpea Climate-Resilient Cowpea South Asia NGO & Large Programs ARIs SAARC Agriculture Centre APAARI ICAR, India Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Catholic Relief Services (CRS) CARE Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition Farm Africa African Agricultural Technology Foundation Self Employed Women’s Association, India Young Professionals for Agricultural (YPARD) N2Africa HarvestPlus CSIRO, Australia CIRAD, France IRD, France FAO Research and Extension World Vegetable Center SLU, Sweden UWA, Australia GLDC Strategic Partnerships GLDC Partners
  11. GLDC Innovation Fund Innovation Fund – USD 512,300 in 2019 • Innovation Fund reserved for Non-CGIAR partners to leverage expertise and formalize engagement where mutually beneficial • Invest in unanticipated opportunities that can build a strong business case for sustainable and equitable benefits for smallholder producers of GLDC crops • Support for GLDC to systematically engage with private and public sector, civil society and smallholder farmer actors in targeted value chains that underpin GLDC crops for nutritional security • Interventions range from Innovative seed systems → value addition→ market integration through domain specific decision-support tools and delivery mechanisms • Collaborative design, implementation and outreach of GLDC projects that focus on understanding and overcoming constraints on the path to impact identified by various stakeholders, especially private sector and producer associations • Innovation should cross more than one Flagship domain; preference to farmer- and market-facing innovations to incentivize local partners to making farming GLDC crops a viable enterprise
  12. Sponsorships 2019 • Capacity building of NARS by co-sponsoring their participation in GLDC relevant global events • Increased demand for sponsorships in 2018 • US$ 100,000 for 2019 • Already committed in 2019 o 13th International Conference on Dryland Development: Converting Dryland Areas from Grey to Green (ICDD) in Jodhpur, India from 11-14 February 2019 o Beating Famine Sahel III Conference, Mali from 26-28 February 2019 o 6th Asian PGPR International Conference for Sustainable Agriculture, Tashkent, Uzbekistan from 18-22 August 2019
  13.  DryArc  Climate Change  Biofortification  Crops to End Hunger (CtEH; the Breeding Initiative) New CGIAR Initiatives
  14. DryArc Climate Change Preliminary submissions to the SMO for multi – centre/disciplinary/year initiatives targeting new ideas/regions/funding sources – 2019-2030 business plan
  15. Innovation in Agri-food Systems as a driver of Employment, Nutrition and Resilience in Fragile Drylands (Dry Arc) The ‘DryArc’ Initiative (ICARDA, ICRISAT, IFPRI, IWMI) aims to strengthen the resilience of rural communities and agri-food systems across the drylands of MENA, Central and West Asia, sub Saharan Africa. Responds to 5 major drivers: (1) Rapid economic and nutritional transitions in urban-rural areas (e.g. Egypt) (2) Rural-urban migration (e.g. Cairo, Ibadan) (3) Cross-border water resource disputes (e.g. Ethiopia, Sudan, Kenya, Egypt) (4) Protracted conflicts around resource allocations between agriculture and pastoralism (e.g. Burkina Faso, Mali, Nigeria) (5) Conflict, post-conflict and peace building with population displacements (e.g. Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Mali, Sudan, Eritrea, Somalia)
  16. DryArc Target three ecologies: Irrigated system, rainfed systems and agro- pastoral systems. Outcomes: (1) A portfolio of innovations assessed for their validity domain and enabling environment. (2) Ex-post/ex-ante integrated analysis of impacts on nutrition, farm household livelihood and natural resource management under climate change (3) Evidence of the impact in-farm and off-farm labor - impacts on migration, restauration of agriculture in post-conflict regions (4) Enhanced capacities of public and private sectors for the implementation of policies, institutions and markets
  17. Climate Change - The 2 degree initiative for agriculture and food systems Aim: make use of the 50 years plus of CGIAR work to tailor information for policy processes, embrace digital agriculture as a means of scaling , create new innovative partnerships with the private sector, financial institutions and actors.
  18. Grand Challenges #1. Tackling heat impacts on crops in three global food-baskets #2. Foster transformation in irrigation; safe and sustainable solar irrigation for smallholders in climate hotspots in SSA. #3. Preparing for saline intrusion, sea-level rise and flooding in coastal Asia #4. Building climate-resilient rural livelihoods in the Middle East and North Africa #5. Ecosystem-based adaptation through restoration agriculture in climate vulnerable hotspots in SSA. #6. Enhancing carbon for mitigation and resilience in threatened tropical forests #7. Supporting low emissions livestock production (East Africa, India, and Brazil) + Pests and Disease?
  19. Theory of change - Five key elements to achieve transformed food systems
  20. CGIAR Biofortification Strategy 2019-2023  Focus on the next 5 years, but considers a 12-year projection of the wider investments to enable biofortification reach its full potential in tackling hidden hunger by 2030.  Mainstream breeding for mineral densities at CGIAR Centers and NARS so that all germplasm developed in the future is biofortified.  Create demand for visible orange staple foods which contain provitamin A – make orange varieties for human consumption the norm.  Develop partnerships with private companies and public-sector institutions so that they incorporate biofortification in their core activities.  Raise necessary funding to ensure that objectives to make biofortification sustainable are met and a broad impact realized.  The CGIAR biofortification strategy is proposed to evolve separately from the HavestPlus strategy and governance mechanisms once endorsed by the System Management Board.
  21. ICRISAT’s efforts on biofortification • Actively engaged with HarvestPlus Program since 2002. • Initially groundnut and pigeonpea biofortification for Vitamin A through transgenics, and pearl millet for iron and zinc through breeding were supported. • Currently, pearl millet and sorghum for iron and zinc through conventional plant breeding are being supported. • Biofortified varieties of pearl millet and sorghum released. • Other opportunities to mainstream biofortification and eliminating anti-nutritional factors.
  22. Multi-donor Initiative on Crops to End Hunger (CtEH; the Breeding Initiative) Strengthen the future role of the CGIAR system in global and regional crop breeding programs
  23. Purpose of Crops to End Hunger (CtEH; the Breeding Initiative) The initiative aims to support more focused, well-resourced long term efforts on investments by the CGIAR system in modern plant breeding on priority crops: 1. The CGIAR’s demonstrated capacity for impact on food security though plant breeding 2. Its comparative advantages in global public goods research on crop breeding and genetics; and 3. The CGIAR’s central role and responsibility for the conservation and characterization of the world’s crop biodiversity, which is held in trust by the CGIAR centers for the world community.
  24. Intention of the initiative • To strengthen the CGIAR’s crop improvement programs to benefit low-income smallholder farmers • Delivering compelling products in the form of new crop varieties that respond to market demands and meet the needs of both producers and consumers • Integrate the speed and efficiency of best practices in 21st century crop improvement into the CGIAR system • A foundational investment that will contribute towards achieving SDG2 by 2030
  25. Modernization of the CGIAR Plant Breeding Programs  Strategy: Strategic direction, leadership and accountability, at both the CGIAR system and Centre level by people knowledgeable about modern plant breeding; and able to ensure accountability for delivery of products that will result in new varieties that meet market demands and farmer needs;  People: More cost-effective use of existing scientific and financial resources; and recruiting new expertise in modern plant breeding and associated disciplines, such as bioinformatics; seed systems; and the skills to develop product profiles (PPs) in conjunction with stakeholders;  Money: Mobilizing new financial resources to drive substantial investment in modern plant breeding for agriculture in the developing world.
  26. 1. The basic funding unit for plant breeding programs is the PP (not the species) - Funding levels need to support breeding for PPs, based on differences in phenotyping and line/clone generation 2. Support a “strong partnership model” for CGIAR-NARES breeding networks - Expected to collaboratively design, develop, and deliver varieties based on PP 3. Genetic gains used by the participating donors to orient and evaluate crop breeding investments Expectations
  27. In partnership with CGIAR centers, public and private organizations, governments, and farmers worldwide http://gldc.cgiar.org Thank you
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