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North Africa/West Asia - Inception Phase Outcomes
1. The global research partnership to improve agricultural productivity and income in the world's dry areas
Ali Nefzaoui, Rachid Serraj , Maarten van Ginkel ,
William Payne, and NARES from Egypt, Iran, Jordan,
Morocco, Syria and Tunisia
Integrated Agricultural Production
Systems for Improved Food Security
and Livelihoods in North Africa and
West Asia
1
2. TitleNA & WA Target areas
and action sites
Sites characterization
Biophysical descriptors
Climate
Topography
Soils)
Water resources
Land use/land cover
Land degradation
Socio-economic
descriptors
Demography
Agricultural systems
Governance,
institutions, policies
Opportunities for
agricultural research
2
3. CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Agricultural Production Systems – Launch Meeting, Amman 21-23 May 2013
Title Sites characterization
High potential areas:
Cereal-based system
Fruit trees based system
Low potential areas:
Agropastoral system
Pastoral system
3
11. The driest areas of NA&WA embrace more than 60 % of the arable
land.
High population growth rates, large and rapidly increasing food
and feed deficits, rural poverty
Limited natural resources, especially water
Rural livelihoods based on production systems in which small
ruminants represent the principal economic output.
Production systems in transition
Inappropriate policies of land use, incentives and lack of secured
property rights
More frequent and prolonged droughts associated with global
warming have worsened the vulnerability of agropastoral societies
TitleLow potential areas/ Constraints
11
12. TitleLow potential areas/ Hypotheses
Hypothesis 1: The use of innovation platform (IP) in
community-based organization of rangeland involving agro-
pastoral stakeholders will help halt land degradation and
restore ecosystems and improve livelihoods
Hypothesis 2: Rangeland production systems can be made less
risky and more resilient by integrated technical, institutional
and policy innovations that aim at rangeland rehabilitation and
sustainable management
Hypothesis 3: Barley-sheep system productivity and resilience
can be enhanced through integrated improvements in policy,
institutional set-up and technologies (feed, health, adapted
breeds), and markets (capital, input and product).
12
13. TitleLow potential areas/ Hypotheses
Hypothesis 4: Integrating appropriate water harvesting as well
as soil and water conservation practices will improve livestock
productivity and reduce risks and vulnerability of agro-pastoral
communities
Hypothesis 5: System analysis including bioeconomic modeling
and market analysis will facilitate policy and institutional
changes and the outscaling of innovations
Hypothesis 6: Equitable distribution of benefits and
responsibilities through more effective participation of youth
and women in the decision making process will enhance socio-
economic development of the target areas
13
14. TitleLow potential areas/ Outputs (7)
Output 1. Functional innovation platforms established for the
design and transfer of improved R4D options in target sites
Output 2. Integrated socio-economic and biophysical baseline
data established and regularly updated for monitoring and
tracking the dynamics of the systems and program outcomes
Output 3. Adapted technological, institutional and policy options
(TIPOs) for reducing vulnerability of the barley–sheep
production system developed and implemented
Output 4. Options for improving rangeland-livestock system
resilience, livelihoods of agro-pastoralists and natural resources
conservation developed
14
15. TitleLow potential areas/ Outputs
Output 5. Gender-specific options for income diversification
& risk management for vulnerable households in the target
sites
Output 6. Trade-offs amongst options for reducing
vulnerability and risk mitigation analyzed to develop adapted
coping strategies and optimized systems design, and scaling
up/out improved integrated TIPOs
Output 7. Impact of the R4D measured and future scenarios
developed for the target vulnerable areas
15
16. Title High potential areas
Sustainable intensification for more
productive, profitable and diversified
dryland agriculture with well-
established linkages to markets
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20. TitleHigh potential areas/ Constraints
Production systems are under pressure to be efficient in
order to compete with global players.
Small farms cannot benefit from economies of scale such as
effective mechanization, and lack opportunities of
capitalization and access to input markets.
Youngsters are increasingly looking for alternative
opportunities in the cities where employment is scarce. The
result is unbridled urbanization with slums and social unrest.
Two-pronged approach: aggregate the smaller units while
retaining the work force on the farms or develop alternative
production systems that can be competitive on a world
market through high-value crops or animal products.
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21. TitleHigh potential areas/ Hypotheses
Hypothesis 1: Some form of farm aggregation (association/
organized farmers groups) will lead to the realization of
economies of size, thereby leading to increased access to
innovations, improved market efficiencies, competitiveness
and value addition
Hypothesis 2: Rainfed wheat-based system can be
sustainably intensified and diversified through crop-tree-
livestock integration, agricultural innovations, and
institutional arrangements providing pathways out of
poverty
Hypothesis 3: Irrigated production systems can be
sustainably intensified through policies and institutions that
ensure efficient use of land and water resources.
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22. TitleHigh potential areas/ Hypotheses
Hypothesis 4: Use of innovation systems approach will enhance
the adoption and utilization of improved technologies, markets
and policies
Hypothesis 5: Equitable distribution of responsibilities and
benefits along the value chain among men, women and youth
will enhance development of the target areas;
Hypothesis 6: System analysis of production and market system
performance will allow optimal intensification of the production
and market systems and the assessment of potential impact of
innovations both in socio-economic and ecological terms.
Hypothesis 7: Achieving gender equality will greatly contribute
to the elimination of hunger and poverty through achieving
equality between women and men in sustainable agricultural
production and rural development efforts.
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23. TitleHigh potential areas/ Outputs (9)
Output 1. Innovation platforms for technology transfer, access to
market, credit and insurance are developed and operational
Output 2. Rainfed mixed wheat-based system are profitably and
sustainably intensified and diversified through integrated crop-
vegetable-tree-livestock TIPOs in the action sites
Output 3. Irrigated production systems sustainably intensified by
optimizing water and land productivity while conserving and
valorizing natural resources (land, water, biodiversity)
Output 4. Harvest and post-harvest practices improved, and
added-value options tested for better market access in the target
sites
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24. TitleHigh potential areas/ Outputs
Output 5. Policy and institutional options related to farmers’
aggregation, market and value chain integration, land
fragmentation, water valuation and allocation evaluated
Output 6. Effective mechanisms for rural women and youth
empowerment developed and tested, to equitably share benefits
and responsibilities
Output 7. Models and knowledge management systems developed
and applied for optimized systems design, and scaling up/out
improved Integrated TIPOs
Output 8. Trade-offs between systems intensification, diversification
and resource use and conservation analyzed and sustainability
scenarios developed
Output 9. Impact of the R4D monitored and future scenarios
developed for the target sites
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