The Bioversity International Strategic Plan 2014-2024 aims to enhance agricultural biodiversity to improve global food and nutrition security amidst challenges like rising food demand, climate change, and malnutrition. The plan outlines four strategic objectives focused on expanding access to nutritious diets, increasing agricultural productivity, improving seed diversity, and safeguarding agricultural biodiversity. It emphasizes partnerships, research, and policy development to support these objectives globally and particularly in vulnerable regions.

1. Presenter Ann Tutwiler
Topic Bioversity International Strategic Plan 2014-2024
Date 28 May 2014
Venue Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
Acknowledgements:
Ann Tutwiler(2014), Bioversity International Strategic Plan 2014-2024, ACIAR
Seminar Series presentation, 28 May 2014, Canberra, Australia.

2. STRATEGIC PLAN, 2014-2024

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OUR VISION: AGRICULTURAL
BIODIVERSITY NOURISHES PEOPLE
AND SUSTAINS THE PLANET

4. Challenge: Increase Productivity
Rising global food demand requires increased agricultural
productivity and reduced food losses

5. Challenge: Reduce Double Burden of Malnutrition
 30 million overweight children live in developing countries
 Number of overweight adults in developing countries tripled
between 1980 and 2010
 Malnourished children lose 10% of lifelong earnings

6. Challenge: Adapt to Climate Change
 Up to 40% of the world will develop novel climates, often with
new pest and disease complexes

7. Challenge: Reduce Vulnerability
 Up to 30% of arable land is marginal and fragile land
 Desertification and drought affect 1.5 billion people

8. Challenge: Expand Options
 Increasing crop yields and stress tolerance requires genetic
diversity
 Intensification of agricultural systems has led to a substantial
reduction of biodiversity

9. Biodiversity Offers Solutions
Convention on Biodiversity
International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and
Agriculture
Commission on Plant Genetic Resources

10. OUR MISSION:
TO DELIVER SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE, MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND POLICY
OPTIONS TO USE AND SAFEGUARD AGRICULTURAL BIODIVERSITY TO
ATTAIN SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY

11. Our Strategic Objectives
Strategic Objective 1: Low-income consumers have expanded
access to and use of affordable, nutritious diets.
Strategic Objective 2: Rural communities have increased the
productivity, ecosystem services and resilience of farming systems,
forests and landscapes.
Strategic Objective 3: Farm households and rural communities have
increased access to a diversity of quality seeds and other planting
materials
Strategic Objective 4: Policymakers, scientists and rural communities
have safeguarded, assessed and are monitoring priority agricultural
biodiversity.

12. Our Theory of Change

13. Strategic Objective One: Consume
Strategic Sub-Components
 Farm households and rural communities manage nutrition
sensitive landscapes
 Agrifood sectors mainstream nutrition sensitive value chains
 Households improve dietary quality through a whole of diet
approach
Bioversity International will
 Investigate how agricultural biodiversity within food production
systems and the access to nutritionally-rich food sources
contribute to dietary diversity
 Identify effective and equitable policies to close nutritional gaps
and improve the quality of diets through diversity
For example: climate change and nutritional resilience

14. Strategic Objective Two: Produce
Strategic Sub-components
 Farm households use agricultural biodiversity to sustainably
intensify their systems, reduce enterprise risk and increase
profitability
 Rural communities benefit from managing diversity in forests
 Rural communities integrate agricultural biodiversity into
landscape management practices for enhanced ecosystem
services
Bioversity International will
 Explore how the use of agricultural biodiversity within broader
landscapes to improve rural livelihoods, productivity, resilience,
and deliver ecosystem services.
For example: restoration of degraded lands

15. Strategic Objective Three: Plant
Strategic Sub-components:
 Farm households and rural communities use a diversity of planting
materials to enhance productivity, nutrition and adaptation
 Formal and informal seed systems deliver high quality, diverse
planting materials required by farm households and rural
communities
Bioversity International will
 Work with stakeholders to develop ‘smart seed systems’ that are
responsive to biotic and abiotic stresses to improve productivity,
resilience, dietary diversity and quality
 Develop policy options in support of high quality, diversified seed
systems
For example: banana disease management

16. Strategic Objective Four: Safeguard
Strategic Sub-components
 Global treaties and conventions use a shared mechanism for
monitoring agricultural biodiversity status and trends
 National policymakers adopt mechanisms for safeguarding
agricultural biodiversity and knowledge
 Farm households, rural communities, scientists, breeders and
policymakers have information on priority traits
Bioversity International will
 Develop systems for providing farm households and rural
communities, scientists, breeders and policymakers with
information on priority traits.
 Promote global actions for monitoring and safeguarding priority
agricultural biodiversity to increase current and future options for
improved productivity and nutrition.
For example: Coconut Genebank; Timber Tracking

17. Focus: People and Global Public Goods
People
 Farm households
 Rural communities and
landscapes
 Urban consumers
 Women and children
Global Public Goods
 International treaties and
conventions
 Banana, Coconut
Genebanks

18. Focus: Markets
 Value Chains: nutrition and
resilience
 Commercial and pre-
commercial systems: rural
and urban markets
 Marginal and remote regions,
local production and
consumption
 Poor and vulnerable
communities: nutrition-
oriented interventions and
social policies

19. Geography
Limited number of low-income
countries or ecosystems in Asia-
Pacific, Mekong, India sub-continent,
East/Central/West Africa, Central
American, Andes
Criteria will include:
 high levels of agricultural
biodiversity;
 high vulnerability to climate
change;
 high levels of malnutrition.
 long-standing Bioversity
partnerships and CRP engagement
Emerging partner countries, e.g Brazil

20. Crops and Trees
 Cropping systems and forests
 Neglected and underutilised
species,
 Nutritionally and economically
useful trees, and
 Vegetatively-propagated crops
 Generate income
 Enhance resilience and adaptive
capacity of production systems
 Improve dietary quality
 Secure future options

21. CGIAR Research Programs
 Humidtropics; Drylands; Aquatic
Agricultural Systems
 Policy, Institutions and Markets
 Roots, Tubers and Bananas
 Agriculture for Nutrition and Health
 Climate Change, Agriculture and
Food Security
 Water, Land and Ecosystems
 Forests, Trees and Agroforestry

22. Partners
 National research systems
 Advanced research institutes
 Development organisations
and international bodies
 Local, national and global
agri-food value chain actors
 Timber concessionaries
 Conservation organisations

23. Why Bioversity International?
 Biodiversity integrates multiple scientific disciplines to provide an
agricultural biodiversity lens on the adaptation of food systems to
climate change, rural transformation, provision of environmental
services, nutrition and dietary transformation
 Biodiversity boasts expertise in value chains, nutrition, landscape
ecology, environmental services, information management,
bioinformatics and genomics
 Biodiversity combines multidisciplinary team of agronomists,
population geneticists, plant breeders, entomologists, economics,
anthropologists, law and policy
 Bioversity brings strong partnerships with NARs, farmers
organizations and NGOs

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