Oration slides from World Food Day medal presentation of the Crawford Fund with the Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, University of Melbourne, October 16, 2019
Presented at the High-Level Ministerial (HLM) Conference on Rice Development in Sub-Saharan Africa 25 September 2018
Dakar, Senegal
Presented by Dr Amadou Beye, Seed Specialist,
Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice)
Un-tapping Crop Biodiversity for Climate Change and Sustainable Food ProductionCIMMYT
Dr Kevin Pixley, CIMMYT Director, Genetic Resources Program, (MasAgro Biodiversidad” / Seeds of Discovery “SeeD” team). Presentation to the World Bank, 14 January 2015.
Presented at the High-Level Ministerial (HLM) Conference on Rice Development in Sub-Saharan Africa 25 September 2018
Dakar, Senegal
Presented by Dr Amadou Beye, Seed Specialist,
Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice)
Un-tapping Crop Biodiversity for Climate Change and Sustainable Food ProductionCIMMYT
Dr Kevin Pixley, CIMMYT Director, Genetic Resources Program, (MasAgro Biodiversidad” / Seeds of Discovery “SeeD” team). Presentation to the World Bank, 14 January 2015.
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Savenda Farms is engaged in integrated agricultural activities comprising livestock farming (poultry and fish), crop farming -grain production (maize, soya beans, dry beans and wheat), horticulture (tomatoes, red onions, cabbage, peppers, herbs) and orchard plantation (avocado and citrus).
With a staff of over 150 people, Savenda Farms is also strongly rooted within the countryʼs socio-economic ecosystem and
supports the many different communities in which we cultivate and harvest our diverse
range of produce.
Madhur Gautam, David Laborde, Abdullah Mamun, Will Martin, Valeria Piñeiro, Rob Vos
POLICY SEMINAR
Can agricultural policies deliver better value for money for people, the planet, and the economy?
Co-Organized by IFPRI and World Bank Group
FEB 2, 2022 - 9:30 TO 11:00AM EST
Presentation during IITA R4D week 2015 (23 - 27 Nov. 2015). By: F. Baijukya, P. Ebanyat, S. Adjei-Nsiah, E. Sangodele, E.
Wolde-meskel T. Ampadu-Boakye, F. Kanampiu, E. Baars,
B. Vanlauwe.
Research advances of HarvestPlus socioeconomic studies in LACCIAT
The socioeconomic area of HarvestPlus LAC seeks to generate information to guide the decision related to biofortified crops in the region. The idea of this seminar is to present advances made in three socioeconomic studies: a. Potential departments/regions for an intervention with biofortified crops (cassava, rice, beans and maize) in Colombia; b. Adoption, consumption and ommercialization of improved rice varieties in Bolivia and c. Preliminary results of a consumer acceptance of a High Iron Bean variety (Super Chiva) in Guatemala.
Annual Meetings are a speciality of Real World and its sister companies report and Streamit. We work closely with the great team at Dairy to help craft the messages to Australian dairy farmers represented by Dairy Ausytralia.
Real World design the visuals ground up from the script supplied and also direct the show on the day to the audience of 400.
The ultra-wide 3:1 format is to accommodate a special screen we use in that venue because of low ceiling height and use of a stage to seat the directors. The low height, but extra width of the screen allows for the same screen real estate as a traditional 16:9 or 4:3 screen and adds a 'cinematic' aspect to the content. Event design, management and direction is a 20 year speciality for Real World.
We also webcast the event via our Streamit brand.
http://ireport.com.au
http://streamit.net.au
Rainbow revolution in Agriculture-a step towards sustainabilitysatarupa modak
Agriculture is the main pillar in our country occupies the centre stage of India’s social security and overall economic welfare. Unfortunately the allied sector has remained neglected in the past, now fully realising the emerging complex challenges, need to set a vision to attain rainbow revolution covering the entire spectrum of activities in agriculture, which will make India a developed nation free of poverty, hunger, malnutrition, and make environmentally safe.Rainbow revolution with focus on allied activities new concepts has emerged out and the white, yellow, golden ,red, silver , blue, pink, black and grey revolution are major areas of thrust by the govt. respectively for dairy, oil seed, horticulture, meat industry, egg industry, fisheries, onion, fuel, fertilizer and shrimps production will have to be integrated in a sustainable manner for preserving a healthy environment and enhancing ecosystem that means need to a step towards sustainability. The first agricultural revolution started with shifting cultivation. Then the Industrial revolution made to move agriculture beyond subsistence to generate the kinds of surpluses. And Green revolution has been the corner stone in India for agricultural achievement and transformation from begging bowl to self sufficient in food surplus.
Production of Organic Vegetable Seeds and Seedlings; by Australian Government
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http://scribd.com/doc/239851079
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Free School Gardening Art Posters
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159`
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Increase Food Production with Companion Planting in your School Garden
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159
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Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success
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City Chickens for your Organic School Garden
http://scribd.com/doc/239850440
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Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide
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Presentation delivered by Dr. Tray Thomas (The Context Network, USA) at Borlaug Summit on Wheat for Food Security. March 25 - 28, 2014, Ciudad Obregon, Mexico.
http://www.borlaug100.org
Keynote address to the International Conference on “ASEAN Sustainable Development on Research and Social Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)” held in Hatyai, Thailand, July 20- 21, 2023
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Savenda Farms is engaged in integrated agricultural activities comprising livestock farming (poultry and fish), crop farming -grain production (maize, soya beans, dry beans and wheat), horticulture (tomatoes, red onions, cabbage, peppers, herbs) and orchard plantation (avocado and citrus).
With a staff of over 150 people, Savenda Farms is also strongly rooted within the countryʼs socio-economic ecosystem and
supports the many different communities in which we cultivate and harvest our diverse
range of produce.
Madhur Gautam, David Laborde, Abdullah Mamun, Will Martin, Valeria Piñeiro, Rob Vos
POLICY SEMINAR
Can agricultural policies deliver better value for money for people, the planet, and the economy?
Co-Organized by IFPRI and World Bank Group
FEB 2, 2022 - 9:30 TO 11:00AM EST
Presentation during IITA R4D week 2015 (23 - 27 Nov. 2015). By: F. Baijukya, P. Ebanyat, S. Adjei-Nsiah, E. Sangodele, E.
Wolde-meskel T. Ampadu-Boakye, F. Kanampiu, E. Baars,
B. Vanlauwe.
Research advances of HarvestPlus socioeconomic studies in LACCIAT
The socioeconomic area of HarvestPlus LAC seeks to generate information to guide the decision related to biofortified crops in the region. The idea of this seminar is to present advances made in three socioeconomic studies: a. Potential departments/regions for an intervention with biofortified crops (cassava, rice, beans and maize) in Colombia; b. Adoption, consumption and ommercialization of improved rice varieties in Bolivia and c. Preliminary results of a consumer acceptance of a High Iron Bean variety (Super Chiva) in Guatemala.
Annual Meetings are a speciality of Real World and its sister companies report and Streamit. We work closely with the great team at Dairy to help craft the messages to Australian dairy farmers represented by Dairy Ausytralia.
Real World design the visuals ground up from the script supplied and also direct the show on the day to the audience of 400.
The ultra-wide 3:1 format is to accommodate a special screen we use in that venue because of low ceiling height and use of a stage to seat the directors. The low height, but extra width of the screen allows for the same screen real estate as a traditional 16:9 or 4:3 screen and adds a 'cinematic' aspect to the content. Event design, management and direction is a 20 year speciality for Real World.
We also webcast the event via our Streamit brand.
http://ireport.com.au
http://streamit.net.au
Rainbow revolution in Agriculture-a step towards sustainabilitysatarupa modak
Agriculture is the main pillar in our country occupies the centre stage of India’s social security and overall economic welfare. Unfortunately the allied sector has remained neglected in the past, now fully realising the emerging complex challenges, need to set a vision to attain rainbow revolution covering the entire spectrum of activities in agriculture, which will make India a developed nation free of poverty, hunger, malnutrition, and make environmentally safe.Rainbow revolution with focus on allied activities new concepts has emerged out and the white, yellow, golden ,red, silver , blue, pink, black and grey revolution are major areas of thrust by the govt. respectively for dairy, oil seed, horticulture, meat industry, egg industry, fisheries, onion, fuel, fertilizer and shrimps production will have to be integrated in a sustainable manner for preserving a healthy environment and enhancing ecosystem that means need to a step towards sustainability. The first agricultural revolution started with shifting cultivation. Then the Industrial revolution made to move agriculture beyond subsistence to generate the kinds of surpluses. And Green revolution has been the corner stone in India for agricultural achievement and transformation from begging bowl to self sufficient in food surplus.
Production of Organic Vegetable Seeds and Seedlings; by Australian Government
`
For more information, Please see websites below:
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Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children
http://scribd.com/doc/239851214
`
Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079
`
Free School Gardening Art Posters
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159`
`
Increase Food Production with Companion Planting in your School Garden
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159
`
Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success
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`
City Chickens for your Organic School Garden
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`
Simple Square Foot Gardening for Schools - Teacher Guide
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Presentation delivered by Dr. Tray Thomas (The Context Network, USA) at Borlaug Summit on Wheat for Food Security. March 25 - 28, 2014, Ciudad Obregon, Mexico.
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Keynote address to the International Conference on “ASEAN Sustainable Development on Research and Social Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)” held in Hatyai, Thailand, July 20- 21, 2023
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Hamdard' is a compound word derived from Persian, which combines the words 'hum' (used in the sense of 'companion') and 'dard' (meaning 'pain'). 'Hamdard' thus means 'a companion in pain' and 'sympathizer in suffering'.
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Hamdard Laboratories was founded in 1906 in Delhi by Hakeem Hafiz Abdul Majeed and Ansarullah Tabani, a Unani practitioner. The name Hamdard means "companion in suffering" in Urdu language.(itself borrowed from Persian) Hakim Hafiz Abdul Majeed was born in Pilibhit City UP, India in 1883 to Sheikh Rahim Bakhsh. He is said to have learnt the complete Quran Sharif by heart. He also studied the origin of Urdu and Persian languages. Subsequently, he acquired the highest degree in the unani system of medicine.
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Crawford Medal Oration, 2019 Lindsay Falvey
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Huge Successes + Need for More
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What is Food Security?
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Ex-USSR + New World: main food exporters
Western Europe: more than sufficient
Populous Asia: average sufficiency
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) + West Asia-North Africa (WANA):
low yield, high animal mortality, food importers Grain
Prod’n
price
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Fifty Successful Years
• famine averted
• >30% of the world hungry in 1960s; today around
15%.
• Population doubled; an extra 3 billion people fed
• aid + civil organizations + national governments
• policy, yields, vaccines, NRM, nutrition, etc
• Australians highly represented - as should continue
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Huge Success:
- 3 billion extra fed in 50 years
- reduced malnutrition
What Worked? Integrated R4D
Intensifying
staple food
production
Integrating
people and
the
environment
Expanding
the role of
markets
Diversifying
out of major
cereals
Reforming
economy-
wide policies
Improving
food quality
and human
nutrition
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Wheat Rust: 117 million hectares protected; >60 million households food secure
Asia 1965-85: income up 190%; food security for 1.8 billion
Improved Maize: now 75% of land under cereal cultivation
Cassava Mosaic Virus & Mealybug: yields up 40%; 29 million fed
Re-Greening the Sahel: > 5 million hectares transformed; 3 million additional people fed Successes
Argentina Pampas: 22 million hectares sustainable; world leader in soybean production
Indo-Gangetic Plain: 1.8 million hectares; income gains $340 per household
Bangladesh: 67% reduction in well costs; doubled rice production; 22 million more fed
China: Yield increases of 15-31%; 63% of rice is hybrids; 60 million more fed
Land-tenure reform in China 1978-84: grain up 34%; incomes by 137%
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Transforming Agriculture
The Green Revolution in Asia
1965–1985
• Challenge:
• Innovation:
• Impact:
Author: Peter B. R. Hazell
Asia facing enormous food deficits and threat of famine in
the 1950s
Breeding and dissemination of improved rice/wheat varieties,
investment in irrigation and roads, and supportive policies
Doubling of cereal yields and output, 1970-95; per capita
income increases by 190%; improved food security
for 1.8 billion people
IRRI
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2011
FAO declares
eradicated
Virus decoded;
2019 Pirbright
destroys stocks
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k disease killing 95% of the animals
ss Asia and Africa
o develop improved vaccine,
protect livestock-based livelihoods
ease has been eradicated since
ivestock keepers benefitted
PeterRoeder
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Nutrition
Poverty
Ecosystem
On 25 September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly formally adopted the universal,
integrated and transformative 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, along with a set of
17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169 associated targets
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IAR = ARI + NRI + CGIAR + CABI + WV + + +
(WB, RegDBs, BRICs, UN, Philanth’ts, NGOs, …)
ACIAR = Australia’s Globally Unique IAR Mechanism
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Crawford Fund for IAR
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Q. Why Did It Work?
A. Integration of Diverse Factors
Science and technology
Complementary investments
Private incentives
Cooperation and collaboration
Timing and planning
Experimentation and evolution
Community involvement
Leadership and dedication continuing
challenges
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It Worked
Integration of Diverse Factors
Science and technology
Complementary investments
Private incentives
Cooperation and collaboration
Timing and planning
Experimentation and evolution
Community involvement
Leadership and dedication
Yet: 1 billion malnourished
- Progress faltered: food price crisis
and global economic downturn
- Sub-Saharan Africa, malnutrition
doubled
- South Asia, 314 million remain
malnourished
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Figure1.Biofortifiedcrops bredbyCGIARCenters andpartners
SWEET POTATO
Vitamin A
CASSAVA
Vitamin A
MAIZE
Vitamin A
Zinc
BANANA/
PLANTAIN
Vitamin A
BEANS
Iron
PEARL MILLET
Iron
COWPEA
Iron
Zinc
IRISH POTATO
Iron
Zinc
SORGUM
Iron
Zinc
LENTIL
Iron
Zinc
WHEAT
Zinc
RICE
Zinc
Click on each crop picture to see the breeding program
isattheheartofthecontinuedeffort to
improveOFSPvarietiestomeet farmerand
ABF
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Connecting the Milk Grid
Smallholder dairy in India
1970–1996
• Challenge:
• Innovation:
• Impact:
Author: Kenda Cunningham
Dairy demand outpacing supply; smallholders unable to
access national dairy markets
Creation of a national milk grid and organization of dairy
cooperatives to improve production and marketing
India becomes a top global dairy producer; incomes double
for 9 million direct beneficiaries, 73% of whom are
landless farmers
NDDB
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Farming the Aquatic Chicken
Improved tilapia in the Philippines
1988–1997
• Challenge:
• Innovation:
• Impact:
Author: Sivan Yosef
Overuse and overexploitation of marine fish stocks
endangers fish supplies
Selective breeding and wide distribution of genetically
improved tilapia within the region
Production increases of 186%; lower prices for tilapia
benefitting 19-23 million consumers
WorldFish
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estock the CGIAR Global Challenges and the SDG
Provides food and nutritional security
BUT overconsumption is often associated with
obesity and non-communicable diseases
Powers economic development
BUT equitable development can be a challenge
Improves human health
BUT animal-human/emerging diseases
and unsafe foods need to be addressed
Enhances the environment
BUT pollution, land/water degradation,
GHG emissions and biodiversity losses
must be greatly reduced
Why Animal Research?
Nutrition: FAO - 20 g/person/day animal
protein (1½ eggs)
Income: Dr Jacob Mignouna, Togo
Mobility: move as local climate changes
Integration: Crop-Livestock Systems
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Conception to >1000 days animal-source food for:
vitamin A/retinol (absorbed at 20 times faster than plant beta-carotene); heme iron (absorbed
twice as readily as non-heme plant iron); vitamin B12 (from anaerobic bacteria found only in
animal-sourced foods), choline (for neurotransmission, memory, learning and gene expression).
“Global efforts to limit or reduce the consumption of
meat, milk and eggs over environmental concerns should
exclude pregnant and breastfeeding women and babies
under the age of two, especially in low-income settings
where other sources of protein and micronutrients are
not available or not customarily used.”
Grace, D. et al
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Current & Future Needs
• Health
• Climate Change
• Environment
• Migration
• Employment
• Production
• Sustainable Intensification: crops & livestock, recycling nutrients, emissions
• Genetic Modification: pests & diseases, climate adaptation, micronutrients
• Agricultural Education: integrated knowledge, applied research capacity
SSA & WANA:
all above + e.g. yield gap, livestock mortality & reproduction, policy SSA climate
The world’s food system is at the center of
humanity’s greatest challenges
Health
Climate & Environment
Migration
2016 saw the first increase in the number of chronically undernourished people – more than 800 million
people remain malnourished and two billion people suffer from micronutrient deficiencies.
Climate shocks put the most vulnerable at risk. Agriculture is the main driver of deforestation and land
degradation, and plays a major role in water pollution. 28% of the world's farmland produces food that
is never consumed.
Food insecurity affects stability. There is a strong link between drought, famine, food prices and conflict.
Youth unemployment in rural areas drives unplanned urbanization and political instability.
Jobs
There is tremendous potential for agriculture-led economic growth. 78% of the world’s poor rely on
agriculture for food and livelihoods. Women comprise 43% of the developing country workforce in
agriculture, but lack access to resources.
Production
Demand is outpacing supply and innovation. Yield increases of staple crops have flatlined, unable to
keep pace with a growing population and increasing demand.
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Next Gen:
- Int. Scholarships
- IAR Volunteering
- Int. Conferences
- IAR Mentors curiosity
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To summarize:
• Integrated & contextualized
• Malnourishment ???? Education Development
• Yields, pest & disease, zoonoses, AMR, safe foods, recycling, policy
• All within more rapid climate change
• Old/current generation experience ≠ NewGen
• Newgen: intercultural, integrationists = ???
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To summarize:
• Integrated & contextualized
• Malnourishment ???? Education Development
• Yields, pest & disease, zoonoses, AMR, safe foods, recycling, policy
• All within more rapid climate change
• Old/current generation experience ≠ NewGen
• Newgen: intercultural, integrationists = the world is in good hands
32. International Agricultural R&D
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= NextGen
Lindsay Falvey
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