Presentation by Hervé Bisseleua, CGIAR Research Program on Integrated Systems for the Humid Tropics. Presented at the side event “Extension’s Role in Scaling up Agricultural Innovation”, AFAAS Africa-Wide Extension Week 2015, 12-16 October, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

1. CGIAR and the CRPs in International
AR4D and Impact
AFAAS Africa-wide Extension Week
Hervé Bisseleua
CGIAR Research Program on Integrated Systems for the Humid Tropics
14 October 2015

2. CGIAR Strategic Result Framework
Vision
A world free of poverty, hunger and environmental degradation
Mission
Advance agri-food science and innovation to enable poor people,
especially poor women, to increase agricultural productivity and
resilience; share in economic growth and feed themselves and their
families better; and manage natural resources in the face of climate
change and other threats.
Goal or System Level Outcomes
1. Reduce poverty
2. Improve food and nutrition security for health
3. Improve natural resource systems and ecosystem services

3. CGIAR Strategic Result Framework
Societal Grand Challenges
1. Competition for land
2. Soil degradation
3. Overdrawn and polluted water supplies (leading to social
breakdown and conflicts)
4. Unsustainable harvests of fish and other aquatic products
5. Climate change
6. Diminishing genetic resources
7. Nutritious and diverse agri-food systems and diets
8. Post-harvest losses
9. Food safety
10.Emerging new entrepreneurial and job opportunities

4. CGIAR Strategic Result Framework

5. CGIAR Institutions
1. Africa Rice, Cotonou, Benin
2. Bioversity International, Rome, Italy
3. Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia
4. International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA),
Beirut, Lebanon
5. International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Cali, Colombia
6. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT),
Patancheru, India
7. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington DC, USA
8. International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Nigeria
9. International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Nairobi, Kenya
10.International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Mexico DF,
Mexico
11.International Potato Center (CIP), Lima, Peru
12.International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Los Baños, the Philippines
13.International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Colombo, Sri Lanka
14.World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya
15.WorldFish, Penang, Malaysia

6. CGIAR CRPs I Portfolio
1. Agriculture for Nutrition and Health
2. Aquatic Agricultural Systems
3. Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
4. Dryland Cereals
5. Dryland Systems
6. Forests, Trees and Agroforestry
7. Grain Legumes
8. Humidtropics
9. Livestock and Fish
10.Policies, Institutions and Markets
11.Maize
12.Global Rice Science Partnership
13.Roots, Tubers and Bananas
14.Water, Land and Ecosystems
15.Wheat

7. CGIAR CRPs I Portfolio
1. Agriculture for Nutrition and Health
2. Aquatic Agricultural Systems
3. Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
4. Dryland Cereals
5. Dryland Systems
6. Forests, Trees and Agroforestry
7. Grain Legumes
8. Humidtropics
9. Livestock and Fish
10.Policies, Institutions and Markets
11.Maize
12.Global Rice Science Partnership
13.Roots, Tubers and Bananas
14.Water, Land and Ecosystems
15.Wheat

8. CGIAR Research
• Theory of Change (logic of transformations)
• Impact Pathway (research -> development)
• Partnerships (strategic alliances; multi-
dimensional)
• Stakeholder involvement

9. Mechanisms for Stakeholder
Involvement
• R4D Platforms (Res – Dev – Policy – Impact)
• Innovation Platforms
• Learning Alliances
• Research in Development
 Collective Action elements

10. CRPs and Collective Action
• The research of the CGIAR can be seen as
covering a spectrum from
– Discovery (novel science), to
– Delivery (systems improvement, value chains,
sustainability, trade-off analysis, etc.) to
– Dissemination and Development (Scaling, Impact
at scale)
• Collective Action Relevance
• Systems thinking and approaches

11. CRP II Portfolio
Priority to Agri-food Systems of the World
1. Dryland Cereals, Legumes and (Dryland) Systems
2. Fish agri-food Systems
3. Forestry & Agroforestry Landscapes,
4. Livestock Agri-food Systems,
5. Maize Agri-food Systems,
6. Rice Agri-food Systems,
7. Roots-Tubers-Banana Agri-food
8. Systems,
9. Wheat Agri-food Systems.

12. CRP II Portfolio
The Integrating CRPs – Co-learning and connecting Knowledge
to Action
1. Climate Change;
2. Nutrition and Health;
3. Water, Land and Ecosystems (including soils)
4. Policies, Institutions and Markets
Integrating approaches
1. Gender platform
2. Capacity development platform (including youth)
3. Big data and ICT
Genebank CRP

13. 2nd Cycle CRP
• Revamping of current CRPs in line with recent
revision of the Strategy and Results Framework
– and also to strengthen linkage and alignment
with national and regional strategic plans for
agriculture and development.
• Mainstreaming of systems approach in all CRPs
(Agri-Food Systems)
• Great need/opportunity for strengthening
collective action

14. Thank YOU !