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Humid Tropics: New opportunities for improved livelihoods in a sustainable environment
1. New opportunities for improved
livelihoods in a sustainable environment
Alan Duncan
Africa RISING Annual Learning Event
ILRI, Addis Ababa
24-26 September 2013
Humid tropics
2. 3 billion hectares of land
2.9 billion people
High proportion of poor smallholder farmers
The humid tropics
7. Unlocking the potential
- Humidtropics as key
Integrated systems approach…
People
Partnerships
Production systems
Innovation
Policies
Markets
Crops & livestock
Livelihoods
Food system
Institutions…
8. 2: 2017
1: 2012
3: 2020
Action AreasAction Areas
• Representative and capture diversity
• Urgent need for large-scale impacts
• Advance earlier investments/projects
• CIALCA, SSA-CP, Africa Rising, STCP…
• Build on existing and potential partnerships
9. Central America and Caribbean West African humid lowlands
Central Mekong East and Central African humid highlands
Flagship Projects
11. West Africa
humid
lowlands
East and
Central
Africa humid
highlands
Central
Mekong
Central
America and
Caribbean
Cross-cutting
Themes
Provide opportunities for improved livelihoods in a sustainable
environment for smallholders in the humid tropics
Tier1
Sustainable
Intensification
Systems
Innovation
Women & Youth
Empowerment
Livelihoods
Improvement
ProductivityNutrition Environment Gender InnovationIncome
FlagshipProjectsIDOsSOs
Tier2
West Africa
Moist
Savanna
Southern
Africa Moist
Savanna
Northern
Andes
Transect
Indonesian
Humid
Lowlands
Programmatic Framework
12. Progress so far
• Inception Workshop – Nov 2012
• Research framework workshops I&II, Feb & May 2013
• IDOs development workshop, May 1-3
• Launching of Action Areas and Action Sites
– Central America and Caribbean, May 8-12, Nicaragua
– Central Mekong, May 13-17, Vietnam
– East and Central African Highlands, May 20-24, DR Congo
– West African Humid Lowlands, June 10-14, Nigeria
• Initiating situational analysis and rapid entry point
identification – current.
14. Links to Africa RISING
• Very similar objectives – sustainable
intensification
• Very similar programme structure
• Many of the same people and partners
• Some overlap in geography