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What is GLDC and why it is crucial

  1. It tackles the grand global challenges How it achieves this 9 crops 13 countries Foresight projection suggests increasing deficit between long-term aggregate supply and demand for these crops, especially for grain legumes • By promoting key nutritions crops • By building on three CRPs (2012-2016): Grain Legumes, Dryland Cereals and Dryland Systems • By adding value to country strategies: Addressing issues pertinent to the region and accelerating interventions • By transforming agri-food systems in the target ecologies: Take up a more holistic approach to unlock the potential of cereal-legume-tree-livestock synergies and create an enabling environment for demand-driven innovation Partnerships is the key System level outcomes (SLOs) • Reduced poverty • Improved food and nutrition security for health • Improved natural resources and ecosystem services What is GLDC and why it is crucial The CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC) is a global partnership that harnesses the potential of crops to alleviate poverty, improve food security, nutrition, climate change resilience, and boost incomes in the semi-arid and sub-humid dryland agroecologies of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia >300 million poor and malnourished live in the target ecologies Highest risk of hunger (2030-50 projections) 199 million stunted children (as of 2016) Food prices could double due to climate change Strategic partnerships are critical to the success of the GLDC. The CRP will feature a multidisciplinary team from CGIAR centers, public and private organizations, governments, and farmers. http://gldc.cgiar.org Projected outcomes (2022-30) meet their daily nutritional needs cumulative carbon inputs to soils Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals Other major issues: • Land degradation • Competition for land • Aging and changing workforce GLDC priority crops and countries Intermediate Development Outcomes (IDOs) • Increased climate change resilience • Improved diets • Sustainable agro-ecosystems • Increased incomes and employment • Increased productivity farm households adopt improved varieties exit poverty 8.9 million 4.4 million 12.7 million 4.9 million tons 21.7 million 11.8 million 24.8 million 13.1 million tons 2022 2022 2022 2020 2030 2030 2030 2030 50% women beneficiaries across the project
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