The document summarizes a research program on improving agricultural productivity and livelihoods in dryland areas. The program aims to develop core competencies in production systems research by integrating commodity, natural resource management, and policy research. It will test inter-center collaboration and focus on improving productivity and livelihoods in a sustainable manner.
Day 1 Session 2 TRIPS WASDS Presentation by Bill Payne - This presentation gives an overview of the CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Agricultural Systems, setting out the conceptual research framework, CGIAR Intermediate Development Outcomes (IDOs), and cross-cutting themes
This document outlines plans for a global research partnership to improve agricultural productivity and livelihoods in dryland areas. It discusses seven proposed intermediate development outcomes (IDOs) focused on increasing resilience, income, food security, and sustainable natural resource management. Activities are clustered under the IDOs and use a standardized logframe template with specifics on sites, outputs, outcomes, deliverables, leaders, partnerships, and timelines. The plans aim to meet expectations by setting better impact targets and following budget principles.
The document discusses the Dryland Systems Program which aims to improve agricultural productivity and incomes in dry areas through a global research partnership. It outlines the program's strategic and results framework, including developing core competencies in production systems research to test inter-center collaboration and integrate research across commodities, natural resources, and policy to improve sustainability and livelihoods. The meeting in Amman, Jordan will discuss the program's strategic and results framework further.
This document outlines plans for a global research partnership to improve agricultural productivity and livelihoods in dryland areas. It discusses establishing integrated production systems through strategic innovation platforms, commodity clusters, and other initiatives across multiple countries. The goal is to achieve more resilient livelihoods and sustainable management of natural resources through outputs like improved risk management options and tools developed by the national agricultural research systems. Key outcomes include more stable incomes, food security, and equitable land/water management. The plan clusters activities under seven intermediate development outcomes and uses a logframe approach to specify deliverables, timelines, locations, leaders, and partnerships for achieving the goals.
The document summarizes the work of the East and Southern Africa Flagship program. It highlights areas of resilience and intensification research, including developing enabling policies and resilience-enhancing mechanisms. It discusses main research questions, tools/methods used, scale of operation, partnerships, and achievements including establishing innovation platforms, testing technologies, and capacity building. Challenges include understanding complex systems, adopting technologies at scale, and improving center coordination. Areas for improvement include adopting a systems approach, early stakeholder engagement, involvement of policymakers, and improved planning and funding coordination between centers.
Using agroecology to measure sustainability in agriculture TAPE – the Tool fo...Francois Stepman
Presentation by Anne Mottet - FAO Livestock Development Officer, Animal Production and Health Division - "Using agroecology to measure sustainability in agriculture TAPE – the Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation"
02/07 WEBINAR: The effects of agroecology. Why are metrics needed?
James Stevenson and Paul Viek
Policy Seminar
Managing natural resources for sustainable production systems: A research agenda at the crossroads
Co-organized by CGIAR Independent Science and Partnership Council (ISPC); IFPRI; and CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions and Markets
Feb 28, 2018 - 12:15 pm to 01:45 pm EST
This document provides information on various projects and activities related to climate-smart agriculture. It discusses the development of climate-smart agricultural practices for smallholder farmers in South Asia under Flagship Project 1.1. It describes the framework for targeting adoption of these practices and mechanisms for verifying their impacts. It also discusses recommendations, incentives and institutions for scaling up climate-smart practices under Flagship Project 1.2. The document outlines research sites and approaches, and provides examples of research results on topics like crop yields, water use, and costs under different scenarios. It discusses linkages between these activities and other projects and initiatives, as well as opportunities for convergence. It also notes efforts to mainstream gender and describes high-level policymaker visits
Day 1 Session 2 TRIPS WASDS Presentation by Bill Payne - This presentation gives an overview of the CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Agricultural Systems, setting out the conceptual research framework, CGIAR Intermediate Development Outcomes (IDOs), and cross-cutting themes
This document outlines plans for a global research partnership to improve agricultural productivity and livelihoods in dryland areas. It discusses seven proposed intermediate development outcomes (IDOs) focused on increasing resilience, income, food security, and sustainable natural resource management. Activities are clustered under the IDOs and use a standardized logframe template with specifics on sites, outputs, outcomes, deliverables, leaders, partnerships, and timelines. The plans aim to meet expectations by setting better impact targets and following budget principles.
The document discusses the Dryland Systems Program which aims to improve agricultural productivity and incomes in dry areas through a global research partnership. It outlines the program's strategic and results framework, including developing core competencies in production systems research to test inter-center collaboration and integrate research across commodities, natural resources, and policy to improve sustainability and livelihoods. The meeting in Amman, Jordan will discuss the program's strategic and results framework further.
This document outlines plans for a global research partnership to improve agricultural productivity and livelihoods in dryland areas. It discusses establishing integrated production systems through strategic innovation platforms, commodity clusters, and other initiatives across multiple countries. The goal is to achieve more resilient livelihoods and sustainable management of natural resources through outputs like improved risk management options and tools developed by the national agricultural research systems. Key outcomes include more stable incomes, food security, and equitable land/water management. The plan clusters activities under seven intermediate development outcomes and uses a logframe approach to specify deliverables, timelines, locations, leaders, and partnerships for achieving the goals.
The document summarizes the work of the East and Southern Africa Flagship program. It highlights areas of resilience and intensification research, including developing enabling policies and resilience-enhancing mechanisms. It discusses main research questions, tools/methods used, scale of operation, partnerships, and achievements including establishing innovation platforms, testing technologies, and capacity building. Challenges include understanding complex systems, adopting technologies at scale, and improving center coordination. Areas for improvement include adopting a systems approach, early stakeholder engagement, involvement of policymakers, and improved planning and funding coordination between centers.
Using agroecology to measure sustainability in agriculture TAPE – the Tool fo...Francois Stepman
Presentation by Anne Mottet - FAO Livestock Development Officer, Animal Production and Health Division - "Using agroecology to measure sustainability in agriculture TAPE – the Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation"
02/07 WEBINAR: The effects of agroecology. Why are metrics needed?
James Stevenson and Paul Viek
Policy Seminar
Managing natural resources for sustainable production systems: A research agenda at the crossroads
Co-organized by CGIAR Independent Science and Partnership Council (ISPC); IFPRI; and CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions and Markets
Feb 28, 2018 - 12:15 pm to 01:45 pm EST
This document provides information on various projects and activities related to climate-smart agriculture. It discusses the development of climate-smart agricultural practices for smallholder farmers in South Asia under Flagship Project 1.1. It describes the framework for targeting adoption of these practices and mechanisms for verifying their impacts. It also discusses recommendations, incentives and institutions for scaling up climate-smart practices under Flagship Project 1.2. The document outlines research sites and approaches, and provides examples of research results on topics like crop yields, water use, and costs under different scenarios. It discusses linkages between these activities and other projects and initiatives, as well as opportunities for convergence. It also notes efforts to mainstream gender and describes high-level policymaker visits
This document summarizes the key points from a presentation on assessing the impact of natural resource management (NRM) research. It discusses CGIAR's NRM research agenda, past impact assessments of NRM innovations, gaps in the evidence base, and insights on ways to strengthen impact assessment going forward. The presentation calls for rethinking the focus on technology adoption and instead documenting how NRM research changes discourses and understanding. It emphasizes the need for new impact assessment methods that can evaluate outcomes at farm and landscape scales and account for non-linear impacts over time.
Sara J. Scherr
Policy Seminar
Managing natural resources for sustainable production systems: A research agenda at the crossroads
Co-organized by CGIAR Independent Science and Partnership Council (ISPC); IFPRI; and CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions and Markets
Feb 28, 2018 - 12:15 pm to 01:45 pm EST
Development of holistic metrics of agricultural and food system performanceFrancois Stepman
Presentation by Fergus Sinclair - Chief Scientist CIFOR-ICRAF, Center for International Forest Research - World Agroforestry, Co-convener of the TPP, the Transformative Partnership Platform on Agroecology - "Development of holistic metrics of agricultural and food system performance"
James Hansen, leader of the of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security's Climate Risk Management theme, presented experiences in providing climate information services to farmers at an International Fund for Agricultural Development East and Southern Africa regional Knowledge Management and Capacity Building Forum, 16-18 October 2013 in Nairobi, Kenya.
http://ifad-un.blogspot.com/2013/10/linking-knowledge-to-action-across-east_17.html
ccafs.cgiar.org/themes/climate-risk-management
Patti Kristjanson, leader of the CGIAR Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security theme on Linking Knowledge with Action, presented CCAFS' Intermediate Development Outcome on gender at an International Fund for Agricultural Development East and Southern Africa regional Knowledge Management and Capacity Building Forum, 16-18 October 2013 in Nairobi, Kenya.
Summary of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) work on Linking Knowledge with Action. This research theme aims to identify ways to catalyze action from knowledge about long-term adaptation, climate risk management and low emissions agriculture so that we can achieve this global vision as quickly as possible.
The document summarizes research using participatory scenarios to link climate change projections and socioeconomic pathways with policy development across six global regions. Regional scenarios were developed through stakeholder engagement and modeling to explore climate and development futures. The scenarios were then used to inform and test the robustness of agricultural and food security policies in countries like Honduras, Bangladesh, Tanzania, Burkina Faso, and Ghana. Case studies showed that a scenario-guided approach helped strengthen policies by focusing on uncertainties and generating new ideas.
1. The document discusses climate-smart villages (CSVs), which aim to integrate technologies, practices, and services to address adoption barriers and farmer needs regarding climate change adaptation and mitigation.
2. It seeks to define a common vision for CSVs, reflect on lessons learned, identify opportunities for harmonizing methodologies, and respond to external evaluation recommendations for CSV projects.
3. The approach taken with CSVs uses a participatory method to understand adoption barriers, examines technologies within a broader ecosystem of approaches, and builds evidence for scaling up solutions while leveraging climate finance and services.
Presentation from Dr Caitlin Corner-Dolloff (CIAT) about decision-support framework for targeting investment towards climate-smart agriculture, presented on July 8 at the Our Common Future Under Climate Change science conference in Paris.
Linking adaptation and mitigation to achieve climate compatible development i...CIFOR-ICRAF
Presented at the COP21 side event 'Forests, landscapes, climate & sustainable development – The evidence we need for the future we want' by Houria Djourdi on 3 December 2015.
This document discusses the challenges of climate change for global food security and the role of climate-smart agriculture. It summarizes the following key points:
1. Climate change is already causing crop yield losses in some areas and extreme weather events are expected to intensify in the future, threatening global food security.
2. Climate-smart agriculture promotes technologies, practices, and policies that help communities adapt to climate change, reduce greenhouse gases, and ensure future food security.
3. The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security is working with partners in various regions to research, promote, and implement climate-smart agriculture through activities like developing climate information services, insurance products, and policies to support resilient
Taking Forward the Implementation of the Agriculture Priority Actions in NCCAP (2013–2017) Kenyan Experience
A presentation from CCAFS East Africa Regional Program.
Mehmood Hassan and Patti Kristjanson of ICRAF and CCAFS respectively presented a paper titled "CGIAR reform and approaches to climate smart innovations that ensure farmer needs are incorporated & addressed in
research" at the ITAACC Final International Workshop, (ICIPE) Nairobi May 8-9, 2014.
GCARD2: Briefing paper land, water forests & landscape GCARD Conferences
The adaptation and adoption of conservation agriculture (CA)-based crop management through innovative techniques like reduced soil movement, adequate surface retention of crop residues and economically viable and diversified crop rotations are the way forward to address the emerging challenges mentioned above. This could help in ensuring sustainable food security and offer several environmental benefits in sustainable way. This is relatively a new strategy to deal with food security and environmental degradation in unfavourable agriculture system.
Visit the conference site for more information: http://www.egfar.org/gcard-2012
Partnerships for Scaling Climate Smart Agriculture in Africa and AsiaCIAT
This document discusses linking experiences with climate-smart agriculture (CSA) between Latin America, Africa, and Asia. It provides an overview of CSA and the Partnerships for Scaling CSA (P4S) project, which aims to develop frameworks for CSA planning and implementation through its CSA-Plan methodology. CSA-Plan is a multi-step guide for scaling up CSA through stakeholder engagement, capacity building, investment portfolios, programming design, monitoring and evaluation, and knowledge sharing. The document outlines tools developed under CSA-Plan, including for vulnerability and impact assessments, prioritizing practices, developing country programs, and indicators for monitoring CSA outcomes. It emphasizes the importance of partnerships across different organizations
Africa’s response to large - scale land acquisitions Listening to different ...SIANI
1) The document discusses Africa's response to large-scale land acquisitions for agriculture and biofuels investments from voices within Africa.
2) It provides perspectives from Tanzania and Mozambique on the impacts of Chinese investments and illegal logging on forests and local communities.
3) There are concerns that lack of enforcement allows illegal activities to undermine legal businesses and tax revenue, while large-scale land deals fail to realize benefits for local populations.
This was a presentation done at a working session meeting by the African Group of Negotiators (AGN), United National Economic Commission for Africa/African Climate Policy Centre (UNECA/ACPC), Africa Development Bank (AfDB), The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and AfricaInteract with support from International Development Research Centre (IDRC) for the agriculture and gender negotiators and experts to prepare the AGN submission to the upcoming 44th session of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) scheduled to take place from 16 to 26 May 2016 in Bonn, Germany.
This document summarizes the key points from a presentation on assessing the impact of natural resource management (NRM) research. It discusses CGIAR's NRM research agenda, past impact assessments of NRM innovations, gaps in the evidence base, and insights on ways to strengthen impact assessment going forward. The presentation calls for rethinking the focus on technology adoption and instead documenting how NRM research changes discourses and understanding. It emphasizes the need for new impact assessment methods that can evaluate outcomes at farm and landscape scales and account for non-linear impacts over time.
Sara J. Scherr
Policy Seminar
Managing natural resources for sustainable production systems: A research agenda at the crossroads
Co-organized by CGIAR Independent Science and Partnership Council (ISPC); IFPRI; and CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions and Markets
Feb 28, 2018 - 12:15 pm to 01:45 pm EST
Development of holistic metrics of agricultural and food system performanceFrancois Stepman
Presentation by Fergus Sinclair - Chief Scientist CIFOR-ICRAF, Center for International Forest Research - World Agroforestry, Co-convener of the TPP, the Transformative Partnership Platform on Agroecology - "Development of holistic metrics of agricultural and food system performance"
James Hansen, leader of the of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security's Climate Risk Management theme, presented experiences in providing climate information services to farmers at an International Fund for Agricultural Development East and Southern Africa regional Knowledge Management and Capacity Building Forum, 16-18 October 2013 in Nairobi, Kenya.
http://ifad-un.blogspot.com/2013/10/linking-knowledge-to-action-across-east_17.html
ccafs.cgiar.org/themes/climate-risk-management
Patti Kristjanson, leader of the CGIAR Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security theme on Linking Knowledge with Action, presented CCAFS' Intermediate Development Outcome on gender at an International Fund for Agricultural Development East and Southern Africa regional Knowledge Management and Capacity Building Forum, 16-18 October 2013 in Nairobi, Kenya.
Summary of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) work on Linking Knowledge with Action. This research theme aims to identify ways to catalyze action from knowledge about long-term adaptation, climate risk management and low emissions agriculture so that we can achieve this global vision as quickly as possible.
The document summarizes research using participatory scenarios to link climate change projections and socioeconomic pathways with policy development across six global regions. Regional scenarios were developed through stakeholder engagement and modeling to explore climate and development futures. The scenarios were then used to inform and test the robustness of agricultural and food security policies in countries like Honduras, Bangladesh, Tanzania, Burkina Faso, and Ghana. Case studies showed that a scenario-guided approach helped strengthen policies by focusing on uncertainties and generating new ideas.
1. The document discusses climate-smart villages (CSVs), which aim to integrate technologies, practices, and services to address adoption barriers and farmer needs regarding climate change adaptation and mitigation.
2. It seeks to define a common vision for CSVs, reflect on lessons learned, identify opportunities for harmonizing methodologies, and respond to external evaluation recommendations for CSV projects.
3. The approach taken with CSVs uses a participatory method to understand adoption barriers, examines technologies within a broader ecosystem of approaches, and builds evidence for scaling up solutions while leveraging climate finance and services.
Presentation from Dr Caitlin Corner-Dolloff (CIAT) about decision-support framework for targeting investment towards climate-smart agriculture, presented on July 8 at the Our Common Future Under Climate Change science conference in Paris.
Linking adaptation and mitigation to achieve climate compatible development i...CIFOR-ICRAF
Presented at the COP21 side event 'Forests, landscapes, climate & sustainable development – The evidence we need for the future we want' by Houria Djourdi on 3 December 2015.
This document discusses the challenges of climate change for global food security and the role of climate-smart agriculture. It summarizes the following key points:
1. Climate change is already causing crop yield losses in some areas and extreme weather events are expected to intensify in the future, threatening global food security.
2. Climate-smart agriculture promotes technologies, practices, and policies that help communities adapt to climate change, reduce greenhouse gases, and ensure future food security.
3. The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security is working with partners in various regions to research, promote, and implement climate-smart agriculture through activities like developing climate information services, insurance products, and policies to support resilient
Taking Forward the Implementation of the Agriculture Priority Actions in NCCAP (2013–2017) Kenyan Experience
A presentation from CCAFS East Africa Regional Program.
Mehmood Hassan and Patti Kristjanson of ICRAF and CCAFS respectively presented a paper titled "CGIAR reform and approaches to climate smart innovations that ensure farmer needs are incorporated & addressed in
research" at the ITAACC Final International Workshop, (ICIPE) Nairobi May 8-9, 2014.
GCARD2: Briefing paper land, water forests & landscape GCARD Conferences
The adaptation and adoption of conservation agriculture (CA)-based crop management through innovative techniques like reduced soil movement, adequate surface retention of crop residues and economically viable and diversified crop rotations are the way forward to address the emerging challenges mentioned above. This could help in ensuring sustainable food security and offer several environmental benefits in sustainable way. This is relatively a new strategy to deal with food security and environmental degradation in unfavourable agriculture system.
Visit the conference site for more information: http://www.egfar.org/gcard-2012
Partnerships for Scaling Climate Smart Agriculture in Africa and AsiaCIAT
This document discusses linking experiences with climate-smart agriculture (CSA) between Latin America, Africa, and Asia. It provides an overview of CSA and the Partnerships for Scaling CSA (P4S) project, which aims to develop frameworks for CSA planning and implementation through its CSA-Plan methodology. CSA-Plan is a multi-step guide for scaling up CSA through stakeholder engagement, capacity building, investment portfolios, programming design, monitoring and evaluation, and knowledge sharing. The document outlines tools developed under CSA-Plan, including for vulnerability and impact assessments, prioritizing practices, developing country programs, and indicators for monitoring CSA outcomes. It emphasizes the importance of partnerships across different organizations
Africa’s response to large - scale land acquisitions Listening to different ...SIANI
1) The document discusses Africa's response to large-scale land acquisitions for agriculture and biofuels investments from voices within Africa.
2) It provides perspectives from Tanzania and Mozambique on the impacts of Chinese investments and illegal logging on forests and local communities.
3) There are concerns that lack of enforcement allows illegal activities to undermine legal businesses and tax revenue, while large-scale land deals fail to realize benefits for local populations.
This was a presentation done at a working session meeting by the African Group of Negotiators (AGN), United National Economic Commission for Africa/African Climate Policy Centre (UNECA/ACPC), Africa Development Bank (AfDB), The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and AfricaInteract with support from International Development Research Centre (IDRC) for the agriculture and gender negotiators and experts to prepare the AGN submission to the upcoming 44th session of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) scheduled to take place from 16 to 26 May 2016 in Bonn, Germany.
The Ganges Basin Development Challenge aims to increase resilience of agricultural and aquaculture systems in the coastal zone of the Ganges Delta through 5 projects: 1) developing cropping system suitability maps, 2) improving more productive, resilient and diversified cropping systems, 3) understanding polder water governance, 4) understanding water resources through data and models, and 5) coordination, liaison and communication. The coastal zone faces challenges of too much water during monsoons, lack of fresh water in dry seasons, and increasing salinity. Traditional systems involve low-yielding rice production and long fallows, leaving potential for improved systems.
Building Smallholder Farmer Resilience to Climate Change in Africa: Building ...SIANI
There is a renewed interest in the role of agriculture at the climate change negotiations, as evidenced by a number of interesting side-events during COP 16 in Cancun. The reason is simple: Agriculture and related activities account for a third of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, most of which can be mitigated, an opportunity that policy makers simply cannot afford to miss. What’s more, some of the techniques that sequester carbon have the added advantage of building the water-retention capacity and nutrient content of soils, hence contributing to a triple-win situation where mitigation, adaptation and yield increases are all addressed.
In response to this, SIANI and Sida arranged a one-day workshop on the theme From Source to Sink: How to make Agriculture part of the Solution to Climate Change while contributing to Poverty Alleviation? The main purpose of the workshop was to link the multiple potentials of agriculture to other development goals such as over-all poverty alleviation and food security, with particular reference to the needs of smallholder farmers who make up 70% of the world’s poorest people.
This document describes the Agroecology Plus Six (AE+6) project, which aims to strengthen the resilience of small-scale farmers in the drylands of the Sahel region of Africa. The project will work in Senegal, Mali, and Burkina Faso to promote agroecological practices and strengthen the capacities of communities and local institutions. It takes an integrated approach focusing on agroecology, gender equity, nutrition, and disaster risk reduction. The project seeks to benefit 15,000 people through improving farming systems, empowering women, enhancing nutrition, and building local governance capacities. It will conduct action research to identify effective methods for scaling agroecology, empowering women farmers, and achieving synergies across
3. Mekong ARRC Climate change impact and adaptation study for lower Mekong basinLittle Daisy
The Mekong Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change project is a 5-year, $9.4 million project covering 4 Mekong countries that aims to increase communities' adaptation capacity and resilience to climate change impacts. It will use climate change science to identify vulnerable crops, fisheries, and ecosystems; work with communities on climate planning and adaptation strategies; and collect data to assess approaches and disseminate results and best practices. The project has identified 9 hot spot provinces expected to be most threatened by climate change impacts and will strengthen capacity in focal areas like climate risk understanding, adaptive response identification and implementation, and adaptive monitoring and adjustment.
The document outlines different types of agriculture practiced in Tennessee, USA, Bhutan, and other locations. It describes subsistence agriculture, slash and burn agriculture, extensive dry-land agriculture, wet rice agriculture, commercial agriculture including specialized, Mediterranean, and plantation agriculture like cocoa, rubber, banana, and sugarcane plantations.
Dry farming is cultivation in areas with annual rainfall less than 750 mm that requires moisture conservation practices. Around 70% of rural Indians live in dry farming areas and depend on crop success or failure. Currently, dryland crops produce as much food from 3 ha as irrigated crops do from 1 ha. New strategies must make dryland ecosystems more productive and sustainable. Dryland agriculture has a long history dating back to ancient civilizations, but organized dryland farming began around 1850, starting in the USA and India. Over time, various research centers and programs were established to develop techniques and packages for successful dryland cultivation tailored to different regions.
Importance of Dry Land Agriculture Management in India.Arunesh Kumar
This document discusses dry land agriculture in India. It defines dry land agriculture as farming in areas receiving less than 750mm of rainfall annually, and notes that 60% of India's cultivated land falls under dry land agriculture. The document outlines the types of dry land farming based on rainfall amounts, characteristics of dry farming in India, importance of dry land agriculture for food production and rural livelihoods, challenges faced, and approaches to management including engineering, physiological and genetic methods. Effective management of dry land agriculture is critical for India's food security and reducing land degradation, according to the conclusion.
A report from the CRP1.1 launch meeting in Amman, Jordan outlines the products of the inception phase, namely the groundwork for baseline characterization of each region and the products of the workshops that were set up to establish research priorities. The common ground between the regions consisted of 21 shared constraints, 20 shared outputs, 16 shared hypothesis and 20 shared outcomes.
Criteria for Intermediate Development Outcomes (IDOs) were also established during the inception phase. Criteria are meant to be: informed by and have buy in from key stakeholders, integrated across CRPs, fully aligned with CG system level IDOs, completed by Sept 30, 2013, and composed of three 3-year cycles.
Seven impacts from established IDOs were established and cross-cutting themes and program level tools instituted. Definite impact goals were also specified with 10-20% increases in productivity for systems targeted for vulnerability reduction and 20-30% increases in productivity have been slated for systems which can be sustainably intensified. A 20% adoption rate within action sites was also established during the inception phase as a major area of focus for the Dryland Systems CRP.
The document outlines plans for a CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Agricultural Production Systems. It discusses four system-level outcomes around reducing poverty, improving food security, nutrition, and sustainable management of natural resources. It also discusses seven intermediate development outcomes focused on more resilient livelihoods, stable incomes, access to food, sustainable land and water management, functioning markets, service delivery institutions, and policy reform. The document includes funding amounts and timelines for activities aligned with these outcomes across different regions and countries.
Dr. William Payne delivered a presentation on the highlights of the CRO on Dryland Systems at the Launch meeting in Amman in mid-May.
The Dry Areas of the world represent fragile ecosystems, which is to say areas with physical water scarcity, rapid natural resource degradation, groundwater depletion and drought. The prominent features of these, “dryland systems” are that they cover 41% of the earths surface, are home to 2.5 billion people – and the majority of the world’s poor, they have a youth skewed age distribution and 93% of the malnourished people in the world live in them. Consequently, the Dryland Systems CRP will target the poor and highly vulnerable populations of dry areas in developing countries and the agricultural systems on which they depend.
System level outcomes to be addressed by the CG system through CRP1.1 include reduced rural poverty, improved food security, better nutrition and health and the sustainable management of natural resources. Specific outputs have been set for each of the strategic research themes.
Target area selection criteria for SRT2 and SRT3 were chosen during the inception phase. They include the length of the growing period, distribution of poverty, malnutrition, aridity index, environmental risk, land degradation, market access and population density. The CRP will operate at multiple scales and in multiple disciplines from the microbial level to the watershed with 5 crosscutting themes; youth, gender, biodiversity, nutrition and capacity building.
Partnership is a crucial part of he conceptual framework, it is critical to outscaling and impact, it sets research priorities and action sites and partners are an explicit part of overall governance.
Dr. William Payne delivered a presentation on the highlights of the CRO on Dryland Systems at the Launch meeting in Amman in mid-May.
The Dry Areas of the world represent fragile ecosystems, which is to say areas with physical water scarcity, rapid natural resource degradation, groundwater depletion and drought. The prominent features of these, “dryland systems” are that they cover 41% of the earths surface, are home to 2.5 billion people – and the majority of the world’s poor, they have a youth skewed age distribution and 93% of the malnourished people in the world live in them. Consequently, the Dryland Systems CRP will target the poor and highly vulnerable populations of dry areas in developing countries and the agricultural systems on which they depend.
System level outcomes to be addressed by the CG system through CRP1.1 include reduced rural poverty, improved food security, better nutrition and health and the sustainable management of natural resources. Specific outputs have been set for each of the strategic research themes.
Target area selection criteria for SRT2 and SRT3 were chosen during the inception phase. They include the length of the growing period, distribution of poverty, malnutrition, aridity index, environmental risk, land degradation, market access and population density. The CRP will operate at multiple scales and in multiple disciplines from the microbial level to the watershed with 5 crosscutting themes; youth, gender, biodiversity, nutrition and capacity building.
Partnership is a crucial part of he conceptual framework, it is critical to outscaling and impact, it sets research priorities and action sites and partners are an explicit part of overall governance.
CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Systems, Value for MoneyCGIAR
CGIAR's Dryland Systems program aims to improve food security and livelihoods for people living in dryland areas over the next 10 years. The program focuses on developing more resilient and productive agricultural systems through research on crops, livestock, and natural resource management. It aims to directly benefit over 8 million people in research sites and millions more as innovations are adopted more widely. The theory of change outlines how improving agricultural innovation, markets, resource management, and other elements can boost household well-being and incomes while managing resources sustainably. Key strategies include developing options to improve resilience for vulnerable households and intensification for others, as well as better access to food, assets, and opportunities for women and youth.
DryArc Interface: R4D framework for collaboration between CGIAR and FAO on Dr...Francois Stepman
DryArc Interface
Chandrashekhar Biradar
Head of Geoinformatics and RDM Unit
Research Theme Leader- GeoAgro and Digital Augmentation
FAO e-Agriculture Webinar, June 15, 2020
This document summarizes a meeting of the CRP Dryland Systems program between ICARDA and Jordanian partners. It discusses:
1) The strategic goals and research themes of CRP Dryland Systems in improving livelihoods in marginal and productive dryland areas.
2) The program's research approach, which views impact pathways as iterative learning cycles rather than linear sequences.
3) Key activities including clustering research, mapping existing projects, and improving integration across regions and CRPs.
4) Next steps such as refining impact pathways and indicators, harmonizing approaches, and prioritizing integrated interdisciplinary work.
This document summarizes a meeting between ICARDA and NCARE to discuss the CRP Dryland Systems program. It outlines the program objectives of improving livelihoods in marginal and intensifiable dryland areas. It evaluates the first phase and identifies challenges like lack of integration. It discusses the major agricultural livelihood systems in North Africa and West Asia and challenges they face. It introduces the interdisciplinary research team and their roles. It also includes questions from ISAC about achieving integrated systems approaches across sites and regions through innovative science.
Day 1_Session 3_TRIPS_WASDS_Antoine Kalinganire - This presentation outlines the main outcomes of the CRP Dryland Systems inception phase in the West African Sahel and Dry Savannas target region.
Harmonization of the Dryland Systems CRP across regions to foster a global scale research program through common themes, methodologies and research tools was touched upon at the Launch meeting in Amman in May, 2013 by Dr. William Payne of ICARDA. Dr. Payne outlined the dangers of uncoordinated research as less scientific and a missed opportunity for truly impactful systems work.
Common SRT1 outcomes included:
• Improved access to and adoption of appropriate technology and technical advice by smallholder farmers
• Higher levels of empowerment for youth and women in community decision making
• Stronger institutions to serve the rural poor and greater government awareness about system and livelihood interdependencies
• Broad stakeholder participation in the research and development cycle through innovation platforms
Common SRT2/3 outcomes included:
• Higher plant and livestock productivity and profitability
• Improved rural employment
• Greater biomass availability for animal and cropping systems
• Better access to markets and financial services by farmers
• High value product markets made accessible to farmers
• More effective buffering and system resilience
• Increased food security and nutrition
• Higher levels of biodiversity and lower levels of land degradation
• Farmers manage natural resources more sustainably
• Improved postharvest and processing technology communicated and value added options increased
Common SRT 4 outcomes included:
• A widely agreed upon framework to define and measure vulnerability for the purpose of informing policy and programming
• Tradeoff analysis to establish the optimal mix of land use and cropping systems
• Dryland Systems CRP to inform other CRPs
• Improved options for mixed production systems are communicated to smallholders
• Better understanding of systems characteristics, opportunities and constraints
• Effective communication of CRP findings to all stakeholders
Crosscutting Themes and Programmatic Tools include:
• Monitoring and evaluation of impact pathways
• Gender
• Youth
• Capacity Development
• Modelling
• Communication, information management and knowledge sharing
• Geoinformatics
• Research Support Systems
A research methods support system for CRP Dryland Systems is being set up through the Statistical Services Centre at University of Reading.
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develop an integrated and coherent climate-smart
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• Takes into account transformative agricultural
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1. The global research partnership to improve agricultural productivity and income in the world's dry areas
Dryland Systems
Integrated Production Systems for Improving Food Security and
Livelihoods in Dry Areas
2. The SRF (CGIAR 2011) advocates three
additional areas of core competency
to accomplish impact on the four
strategic
One is Development of core
competency in the area of production
systems
This will test the ability of the system
to undertake inter-center research.
Systems research will integrate
commodity, natural resource
management and policy research to
improve productivity and livelihoods
in a sustainable manner at the
national and regional level
STRATEGIC AND RESULTS FRAMEWORK
3. CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Agricultural Production Systems – Launch Meeting, Amman 21-23 May 2013
Title Drylands Systems
• Dryland Systems targets the poor and highly
vulnerable populations of dry areas and the
agricultural systems on which they depend
• Dryland Systems was developed from SRF Thematic
Area 1, “Integrated Agricultural Systems for the Poor
and Vulnerable.”
• Such systems are characterized by major constraints,
such as drought or other agroclimatic challenges, poor
infrastructure and underdeveloped markets, or weak
institutions and governance.
4. CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Agricultural Production Systems – Launch Meeting, Amman 21-23 May 2013
TitleProminant Features of Drylands
5. CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Agricultural Production Systems – Launch Meeting, Amman 21-23 May 2013
Title CGIAR System Level Outcomes
• Reduced rural poverty;
• Improved food security;
• Better nutrition and health; and
• Sustainable management of
natural resources.
6. CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Agricultural Production Systems – Launch Meeting, Amman 21-23 May 2013
TitleConceptual Research Framework
SRT2: Reducing
vulnerability and managing
risk
SRT3: Sustainable
intensification for more
productive, profitable and
diversified dryland
agriculture with well-
established linkages to
marketst
7. CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Agricultural Production Systems – Launch Meeting, Amman 21-23 May 2013
Title Cross-Cutting Themes
• Gender
• Youth
• Biodiversity
• Capacity building
8. Partnership in Dryland Systems
• Part of conceptual
framework Consultative
selection of Action Sites
• Groundwork in 5
regions to characterize
Target Areas
• Prioritize research in
Regional Inception
Workshops
• Partnership in
governance
• Need to outscale
9.
10. CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Agricultural Production Systems – Launch Meeting, Amman 21-23 May 2013
Title Inception Phase
• Groundwork for baseline
characterization
• Workshops to set
Research Priorities
Common Ground
1) 21 Constraints
2) 20 Outputs
3) 16 Hypotheses
4) 20 Outcomes
11. Title
THEORY of CHANGE
Key elements of the agricultural system interact to improve
human welfare and management of natural resources
12. TitleIntermediate Development Outcomes
The first 4 target direct impact on wellbeing and sustaining natural
resource base:
1. More resilient livelihoods for vulnerable households in marginal areas.
2. More stable and higher per capita income for intensifiable households.
3. Women and children in vulnerable households have year round access
to greater quantity and diversity of food sources.
4. More sustainable and equitable management of land and water
resources in pastoral and agropastoral.
The rest relate to requirements for the first 4 to be realized:
5. Better functioning markets underpinning intensification of rural
livelihoods.
6. More integrated, effective and connected service delivery institutions
underpinning resilience and system intensification.
7. Policy reform removing constraints and creating incentives for rural
households to engage in more sustainable practices that improve
resilience and intensify production.
13. Abbreviated Label
Rural
Poverty
Food
Security
Nutri-
tion
Health
Sustain-
able
NRM
Gender Youth
Bio-
diversity
Capacity
Building
RESILIENCE
INTENSIFICATION
Women and children in
vulnerable households have
year round access to greater
quantity and diversity of
NUTRITION for
Vulnerable
More sustainable and
equitable management of
land and water resources in
pastoral and agropastoral.
Sustainable NRM
Management
Better functioning markets
underpinning intensification
of rural livelihoods.
Markets
integrated, effective and
connected service delivery
institutions underpinning
resilience and system
Delivery Institutions
Policy reform removing
constraints and creating
incentives for rural
households to engage in
Policy
System Level OutoutsIDO Cross-Cutting Themes
More resilient livelihoods
for vulnerable households
in marginal areas.
More stable and higher
per capita income for
intensifiable households.
15. Impacts from IDOs
1. More resilient livelihoods for vulnerable households in marginal areas.
2. More stable and higher per capita income for intensifiable households
(those above an asset threshold that makes intensification a viable
option).
3. Women and children in vulnerable households have year round access to
greater quantity and diversity of food sources
4. More sustainable and equitable management of land and water
resources in pastoral and agropastoral areas
5. Better functioning markets underpinning intensification of rural
livelihoods
6. More integrated, effective and connected service delivery institutions
underpinning resilience and system intensification
7. Policy reform removing constraints and incentivising rural households to
engage in more sustainable practices that intensify and improve
resilience and intensify production
16. Impact
More resilient livelihoods for vulnerable
households in marginal areas
Outputs
• Improved resilience options (components, interactions and their management;
explicit consideration of buffer functions, managing trade-offs between production
and risk; nested scale risk mitigation, including incentives to adopt them)
• Tools, methods, processes and capacity of NARES to create and customise
improved resilience options to local circumstances across scaling domains
Outcome
NARES use tools, methods and processes to
generate and customise improved resilience
options for targeted groups of vulnerable
households
Indicators
Use of outputs: number and size of
organisations using them and their areal
and population domains; proportion of
sector in targeted areas this represents
Customised options: number of options
and number of hh targeted
Resilience index: contextualised
multiscale assessment of resilience
building strategies at household
and community levels (see
Marschke, and Berkes. 2006)
17. Impact
More stable and higher per capita income for
intensifiable households
Outputs
• Improved intensification options (components, interactions and their
management; information on investment costs, returns and risk; risk mitigation)
• Tools, methods, processes and capacity of NARES1 to create and customise
improved intensification options to local circumstances across scaling domains
Outcome
NARES1 use tools, methods and processes to
generate and customise improved intensification
options for targeted groups of intesifiable
households
Indicators
Increase: i)absolute increase, ii)%
increase, iii) % of hh above poverty
threshold
Stability: iv)variance in per capita annual
income (nine year rolling); v)trend in iii
Use of outputs: number and size of
organisations using them and their areal
and population domains; proportion of
sector in targeted areas this represents
Customised options: number of options
and number of hh targeted
18. Impact
Women and children in vulnerable households
have year round access to greater quantity and
diversity of food sources
Outputs
• Diagnosis and identification of constraints and opportunities of local food systems
leading to improved year round access to food and diversified diets
• Systematic research on interventions to address identified constraints and
opportunities, leading to a matrix of tested interventions and delivery strategies
associated with the contexts in which they work
Outcome
NARES and health sector organisations work
together and adopt diagnostic and systematic
research approaches to promoting and
developing interventions to improve vulnerable
women and children’s access to, and control of,
more and more diverse food sources,
throughout the year
Indicators
Dietary diversity: i)time concentration
index of number of food groups and
individual foods consumed by women
and children in sample hh ii)proportion
of women and children above threshold
dietary diversity in target communities.
Integration: network strength amongst
agricultural and health workers and
organisations
Adoption: number and size of
organisations, their areal and population
domains; proportion of sector in
targeted areas this represents
Interventions: number of interventions
and number of hh they target
19. Impact
More sustainable and equitable management
of land and water resources in pastoral and
agropastoral areas
Outputs
• Technologies, tools, methods, processes and approaches developed and tested for
evidence-based ecosystem management
• Focus on negotiation support (amongst stakeholders) and governance models
Outcome
Multiple stakeholders (gender, age) in pastoral /
agropastoral areas , use evidence-based
ecosystem management, at community level in
the governance of common and privately
managed land and water resources
Indicators
Area: i)ha and proportion of target area
under governance arrangements
meeting equity standards set a priori
People: ii)gender-disaggregated number
of people and proportion of target
population encompassed by land area in
i)
Use of outputs: number and size of
communities adopting evidence based
governance models developed by DS
Effect: trends in NVDI over time for areas
under and outside new governance
models
20. Impact
Better functioning markets underpin
intensification of rural livelihoods
Outputs
– Modes of operation to lower transaction costs through development of
assembly points and market hubs
– More innovative partnership models involving entrepreneurs, marketing
commissions, traders and warrantage (inventory credit systems)
– Improved market information systems
Outcome
Farmers and pastoralists (especially women)
have better access to more diverse, efficient
and equitable markets
Indicators
Efficiency: trend in average transaction
cost for key marketed products
Equity: proportion of product value
accruing to rural households
Access: Gender disaggregated numbers
of people and proportions of target
population with access to better
functioning markets
21. Impact
More integrated, effective and connected
service delivery institutions underpinning
system intensification and resilience
Outputs
– Improved and innovative extension methods better targeted to message and
context and tools to assist in selection of appropriate methods
– Improved models for interaction amongst service providers to enable
integration of service provision amongst sectors
– Innovative public-private partnership models for service delivery
Outcome
Service providers adopt innovations to improve
their effectiveness, integration and reach
Indicators
Reach: gender disaggregated numbers
and proportions of people and rural
households accessing services
Uptake: Number and proportion of
service provider using models and
methods developed by Dryland Systems
22. Impact
Removal of constraints and incentives lead to
rural households engaging in more sustainable
practices that increase resilience and intensify
production
Outputs
– Analysis of policy and institutional barriers to adoption of sustainable
intensification options
– Ex-ante analysis and other quantified impact of effectiveness of policy
alternatives
– Policy briefs providing evidence targeting key fora for policy change
Outcome
Policy makers reform and institutions
implement policies that remove constraints to,
and improve incentives for, rational
management of natural resources
Indicators
Effect: numbers and proportions (within
target areas) of rural households
adopting more sustainable practices
Policy: documented change in policies
and the number and proportions of
people and area potentially affected
Implementation: assessment of policy
implementation
23. The global research partnership to improve agricultural productivity and income in the world's dry areas
Regions: «Flagships» and Partners
24. West Africa & Dry Savannas
Regional:
FARA,
CORAF CILSS
Burkina Faso:
INERA
Ghana: SARI,
CSIR
Mali: IER
Niger: INRAN
Nigeria: ARC
SRT2: the KKM (Kano-Katsina-Maradi) action transect
SRT3: the WBS (Wa-Bobo-Sikasso) action transect
25. South Asia
• Rajasthan (SRT2)
• Chakwal, Pakistan as
satellite site, mainly
SRT2
• Bijapur, Karnataka,
India , SRT3 (black
soils).
• Anantapur & Kurnool,
Andhra Pradesh
SRT2/3 (red soils)
• Maharashtra/
Karnataka Pradesh,
satellite SRT3
Regional: Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions
Bangladesh: BARI
India: ICAR, CRIDA, CAZRI, FES, NRAA, Watershed Organization Trust
Pakistan: BARI, CSO, PARC, SSD
26. Central Asia and Caucasus
SRT2: Aral Sea Basin and Rasht Valley
SRT3: Fergana Valley
Central Asia and Caucasus:
Regional Fora
Kazakhstan: South-
Western Scientific
Production Center of
Agriculture
Tajikistan: TAAS
Turkmenistan: National
Farmers’ Association, NAS
Uzbekistan: Kashkadarya
Research Institute
27. North Africa and West Asia
• SRT2: Jordan/Syria;
• SRT2: Satellite: Béni Khedache-Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia
• SRT3: Mekness region of Morocco; Egypt Nile delta
• SRT3 Satellites: Karkheh River Basin, Iran
Regional: Association
of Agriculture Research
Institutions in the Near
East & North Africa.
Egypt: ARC
Jordan: NCARE
Morocco: INRA
Syria: GCSAR, Agha
Khan Foundation
Tunisia: IRA
28. East & Southern Africa
SRT2: Northeastern Kenya and Southeastern Ethiopia
SRT3: Chinyanja Triangle (central and southern Malawi, eastern
province of Zambia, and the Tete Province of Mozambique
East and Southern Africa:
Regional: Association for
Strengthening Agricultural
Research in Eastern and
Central Africa
Ethiopia: EIAR
Kenya: KARI
South Africa: CSIR, Univ. of
Ft Hare, WRC
Sudan: ARC
Zambia: University of
Zambia
29. The global research partnership to improve agricultural productivity and income in the world's dry areas
Cross-cutting Themes and
Program-level Tools
• Gender
• Youth
• Biodiversity
• Capacity
building
• Modeling
• Geoinformatics
• Research
Support
Systems
30. Gender And Youth Matter
• Land tenure
• Access to financial tools
• Employment
• Decision-making
• Natural resource access
(trees, fields)
• Food preparation and
processing
• Household nutrition
• Varietal assessment
• Use of disposable income
• Landed and Landless labor
32. Research Support Network
SSC
@Reading
IASRI
ICARDA
IRLI
ICRAF
Research
support in
countries
ICRISAT
Universities
A network of research support
teams that share resources and
communicate to make the
support available to scientists
more effective and efficient.
Initially this includes CGIAR
research support teams and
statisticians, but is expected to
grow to include institutions and
units that work in-country so as to
help the development of local
capacity for research support
The Statistical Services Centre
(SSC) at the University of Reading
will play a coordination role and
will foster the establishment of
the network
33. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
2016-2018 7500 4500 4500 3600 3600 3300 3000 30000
2019-2021 8250 4950 4950 3960 3960 3630 3300 33000
2022-2024 9075 5445 5445 4356 4356 3993 3630 36300
Total 24825 14895 14895 11916 11916 10923 9930 99300
Notional 9 years Budget for Dryland Systems (x $1,000) by IDOs
Year
IDOs
Total
Notional 9 years Budget for Dryland Systems (x $1,000) by Regions
Regions Total
WA E &SA NAWA SA CA
2016-2018 7200 7200 6000 6000 3600 30000
2019-2021 7920 7920 6600 6600 3960 33000
2022-2024 8712 8712 7260 7260 4356 36300
Total 23832 23832 19860 19860 11916 99300
Year
Notional Budgets
By Period, IDO, and Region
35. The global research partnership to improve agricultural productivity and income in the world's dry areas
Recapitulation of Impact
Pathways
Impact goals, outcomes, outputs,
and indicators
36. GOAL (IMPACT):
PURPOSE (OUTCOMES):
Customised options: number of options and number of
hh targeted
OUTPUTS:
1.Improved resilience options (components,
interactions and their management; explicit
consideration of buffer functions, managing trade-
offs between production and risk; nested scale risk
mitigation, including incentives to adopt them)
2.Tools, methods, processes and capacity of NARES
to create and customise improved resilience options
to local circumstances across scaling domains
Resilience index: contextualised multiscale assessment
of resilience building strategies at household and
community levels.
Use of outputs: number and size of organisations using
them and their areal and population domains; proportion
of sector in targeted areas this represents
More resilient livelihoods for vulnerable
households in marginal areas
NARES use tools, methods and processes to generate
and customise improved resilience options for
targeted groups of vulnerable households
Narrative Summary Objectively Verifiable Indicators
37. GOAL (IMPACT):
Stability: iv)variance in per capita annual income
(nine year rolling); v)trend in iii
PURPOSE (OUTCOMES):
Customised options: number of options and
number of hh targeted
OUTPUTS:
1. Improved intensification options
(components, interactions and their
management; information on investment
costs, returns and risk; risk mitigation
2. Tools, methods, processes and capacity of
NARES1 to create and customise improved
intensification options to local circumstances
across scaling domains
3.Action research focused on scaling domains
rather than pilot sites
Narrative Summary Objectively Verifiable Indicators
Increase: i)absolute increase, ii)% increase, iii) %
of hh above poverty
More stable and higher per capita income for
intensifiable households.
Use of outputs: number and size of organisations
using them and their areal and populationNARES1 use tools, methods and processes to
generate and customise improved
intensification options for targeted groups of
38. GOAL (IMPACT):
PURPOSE (OUTCOMES):
Integration: network strength
amongst agricultural and health
workers and organisationsAdoption: number and size of
organisations, their areal and
population domains; proportion of
Interventions: number of
interventions and number of hh
they target
OUTPUTS:
1.Diagnosis of constraints and
opportunities of local food
systems leading to identification
of constraints and opportunities to
improve year round access to
food
2.Systematic research on
interventions to address identified
constraints and opportunities,
leading to a matrix of tested
interventions and delivery
strategies associated with the
contexts in which they work
NARES and health sector
organisations work together and
adopt diagnostic and systematic
research approaches to promoting
and developing interventions to
improve vulnerable women and
children’s access to, and control
of, more and more diverse food
Dietary diversity: i)time
concentration index of number of
food groups and individual foods
consumed by women and children
in sample hh ii)proportion of
women and children above
Women and children in
vulnerable households have year
round access to greater quantity
and diversity of food sources
Narrative Summary Objectively Verifiable Indicators
Means of
Verification
39. GOAL (IMPACT):
PURPOSE (OUTCOMES):
Use of outputs: number and size
of communities adopting
evidence based governance
models developed by DS
Effect: trends in NVDI over time
for areas under and outside new
governance models
OUTPUTS:
1.Technologies, tools, methods,
processes and approaches
developed and tested for
evidence based ecosystem
management
2.Focus on negotiation support
(amongst stakeholders) and
goverance models
3
Narrative Summary Objectively Verifiable Indicators
Means of
Verification
Area: i)ha and proportion of
target area under governanceMore sustainable and equitable
management of land and water
resources in pastoral and
Multiple stakeholders in pastoral
/ agropastoral areas, use
evidence based ecosystem
management, at community
level in the governance of
common and privately managed
land and water resources
40. GOAL (IMPACT):
Efficiency: trend in
average transaction cost
for key marketed
products
Equity: proportion of
product value accruing to
rural households
PURPOSE (OUTCOMES):
Farmers and pastoralists
(especially women) have better
access to more diverse, efficient
and equitable markets
OUTPUTS:
1.Modes of operation to lower
transaction costs through
development of assembly points
and market hubs
2.More innovative partnership
models involving entrepreneurs,
marketing commissions, traders
and warrantage (inventory credit
systems)
3.Improved market information systems
Better functioning markets
underpin intensification of rural
livelihoods
Access: Gender
disaggregated numbers
of people and
proportions of target
population with access to
Narrative Summary
Objectively Verifiable
Indicators
Means of
Verification
41. GOAL (IMPACT):
PURPOSE (OUTCOMES):
Uptake: Number and
proportion of service
provider using models
and methods
developed by Dryland
Systems
OUTPUTS:
1.Improved and innovative
extension methods better
targeted to message and context
2. Improved models for
interaction amongst service
3. Innovative public-private
partnership models for service
delivery
4
ACTIVITIES: Milestones
Reach: gender
disaggregated
numbers and
proportions of people
and rural households
Service providers adopt
innovations to improve their
effectiveness, integration and
reach
More integrated, effective and
connected service delivery
institutions underpinning system
intensification and resilience
Narrative Summary
Objectively Verifiable
Indicators
Means of
Verification
Assumptions and
Risks
42. GOAL (IMPACT):
PURPOSE (OUTCOMES):
Implementation: assessment of
policy implementation
OUTPUTS:
1.Analysis of policy and
institutional barriers to adoption
of sustainable intensification
options
2.Quantified impact of
effectiveness of policy
alternatives
3.Policy briefs providing
evidence targeting key fora for
policy change
Narrative Summary Objectively Verifiable Indicators
Means of
Verification
Removal of constraints and
incentives lead to rural
households engaging in more
sustainable practices that
Policy: documented change in
policies and the number andPolicy makers reform and
institutions implement policies
that remove constraints to, and
Effect: numbers and proportions
(within target areas) of rural
households adopting more
sustainable practices