The document discusses collaboration between the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the CGIAR. It provides examples of current collaborative projects between FAO and various CGIAR centers on topics like aquaculture, forests, rice production in Africa, crop wild relatives, livestock, water management, climate change, and nutrition. FAO contributions to CGIAR governance are also reviewed. FAO collaborators see benefits from CGIAR partnerships like increased scientific evidence, data sharing, and visibility for FAO's mandate. Challenges include administrative issues, delays in funding or deliverables, and ensuring research results are incorporated into development work. Continued collaboration is deemed beneficial.

1. Subdirección de Investigación y Extensión
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the
United Nations
Research and Extension Unit
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FAO CGIAR collaboration
ISPC Meeting, 15 Sep 2015
Karin Nichterlein,
Research and Extension Unit (DDNR)
www.fao.org/nr/research-extension-systems/res-home/

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Research and Extension Unit
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the
United Nations
Content
 Contribution to governance and
system support
 MoU and its implementation
 Assessment of collaboration by FAO
collaborators

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Research and Extension Unit
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the
United Nations
Contribution to governance and
system support
www.fao.org/nr/research-extension-systems/res-home/

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Research and Extension Unit
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the
United Nations
Governance and system support
 Active member of the CGIAR Fund Council
(FC) and of FC Governance Committee
 Hosting system offices: ISPC Secretariat (6 yrs
1/3 of budget) & IEA office (free from PSC)
 Hosting GFAR Secretariat
 Contributions to the organization of GCARD
 Board member of Bioversity (DDG-N)

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Research and Extension Unit
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the
United Nations
Collaboration with CGIAR at
system/strategic level
 Inputs to preparation CGIAR founding and policy
documents, research programmes and new SRF
 40th CGIAR Anniv. Event at FAO, 2011 & FAO ICARDA
side event at the 31th NERC, 2012
 MoU FAO – CGIAR Consortium, Feb. 2013
 152 Council Session: briefing on CGIAR Reform, 2015

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Research and Extension Unit
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the
United Nations
Internal FAO/CGIAR network
 To guide FAO/CGIAR relations
 All FAO Technical Divisions and Regional
Offices represented
 FAO Focal Points (FPs) in technical
departments
 FP in LEG, TC, OSP
Supports FAO’s governing role of CGIAR and
coalition with the CGIAR

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Research and Extension Unit
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the
United Nations
MoU and its implementation
www.fao.org/nr/research-extension-systems/res-home/

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Research and Extension Unit
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the
United Nations
Implementation of MoU
 Meeting on FAO - CGIAR MoU follow-up, Rome, 2 July
2013 with 3 areas for strategic collaboration agreed
1. Gender equity in food, agriculture and rural
development
2. Upscaling - Enhanced mechanisms to support
knowledge and technology transfer at country
level
3. Metrics for impact assessment, M&E, and
contribution to SDGs
Results: 1 continued, 2 recent developments, 3 limited

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Research and Extension Unit
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the
United Nations
Current collaboration
FAO/FI and WorldFish
Aquaculture: Fish for FNS (SO2 global/BGI)
 Strategic programme developed & discussed
 Joint proposals developed & shared with potential donors
EU Project on Aquaculture (SO2 global/BGI)
 Information on contribution of fish to FSN gathered from 11 countries & policy
advice to EU
LDCF Project for Bangladesh (SO2/BGI Bangladesh)
 Project Identification Fiche approved, project development ongoing

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Research and Extension Unit
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the
United Nations
Current collaboration
FAO/FO with CIFOR, ICRAF, CIAT, CRP-FTA,
CRP-WLE and IFPRI
Global Landscapes Forum (SO2, SO5)
 2014 Conference, Lima, Peru
 2015 Conference, Paris, France
Collaborative Partnership on Forests (SO2)
 Chaired by FAO
Collaborative Partnership on Sustainable Wildlife
Management (SO2)
 Joint proposal being developed with CIFOR and CIRAD

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Research and Extension Unit
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the
United Nations
Current collaboration
FAO/FO with Bioversity, ICRAF, CRP-FTA
State of World’s Forest Genetic Resources and related
studies
Implementation of the GPA Forest GR (SO2)
 Regional workshops and side events 2014, 2015
Forest and Landscape Restoration Mechanism (SO2,
SO5)
 Joint proposal being developed with CIFOR and CIRAD

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Research and Extension Unit
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the
United Nations
Current collaboration
FAO/AG/RAF and AfricaRice/IRRI
Develop Africa wide rice programme (SO2 RI2)
 Joint project initiation and launching workshops in 2013/2014
 2015 Conference, Paris, France
Study on impact evaluation of eco-agri-food system on
human health/well-being: rice production (SO2)

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Research and Extension Unit
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the
United Nations
Current collaboration
FAO/AGP & Bioversity
Enhance link between conservation and use of crop
wild relatives (CWR) in 3 SADC countries (SO2)
 Needs assessment completed, toolkit under development
 2 regional workshops, CWR registry under development
FAO AGP and ICRISAT, ICARDA, CIAT
Develop strategies & enhance effective uptake of
Community Seed Production (CSP)
 Guidance distributed for project design and implementation

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Research and Extension Unit
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the
United Nations
Current collaboration
FAO/AGE with CIAT, IITA, IWMI, ILRI
Cassava breeding (RI SO1 in RLC)
Improve soil carbon sequestration (CSA)
CD on WUE assessments and rice productivity
(CSA)
Support to GPA on AnGR & sustainable livestock
production (SO1, SO2)

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Research and Extension Unit
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the
United Nations
Current collaboration
FAO/AGA with ILRI & CCAFS
Animal Feeds and Feeding (SO2, MAW RUE)
 Sound data sharing through FAO’s Feed Resource Database (under
discussion)
 Development of ILRI’s feed related tools (completed)
 Joint project initiation and launching workshops in 2013/2014
Livestock Systems info & modelling (SO2, MAW RUE)
 Developing a global info system on livestock
 Global mapping of livestock distribution & production systems being
updated and upgraded, to be released Dec15
 Developing a manure management system

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Research and Extension Unit
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the
United Nations
Current collaboration
FAO/NRL with CRP WLE/IWMI
More effective and sustainable investments in water for
poverty reduction (SO2 & SO3, MWA ERU)
 Country needs assessments ongoing, design and upscale innovative
AgWM solutions and business models 2016-17)
 Improving capacities in AgWM & investment planning
AQUASTAT database & water quality (SO2, SO5, SO6,
WSI)
 WLE support to FAO Aquastat wastewater database
 Joint work on Global Resource Recovery and Reuse Atlas

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Research and Extension Unit
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the
United Nations
Current collaboration
FAO with CRP WLE/IWMI
Water Accounting Plus and Water Productivity Mapping (SO2, WSI
and MAW)
 Database development and water productivity mapping AQUASTAT
database & water quality
Assessing costs & benefits from wastewater irrigation of forest
plantations in North Africa (SO2 and WSI)
Cuba: FAO CD agrobiodiv for ecosystem resilience, WLE (SO2)
Gender and water collaboration: FAO/WLE for CFS, irrigation
gender performance indicators etc (SO2)
Others in the pipeline…..

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Research and Extension Unit
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the
United Nations
Current collaboration
FAO/NRC & ESA with CCAFS/ICRAF and CIAT
Support MICCA pilots in East Africa & provide scientific
evidence of climate benefits of locally rel. ag. practices
(SO2 MAW-CSA)
Organizing 7 intern. Workshop on CC topics (SO2)
Creation of global database on field practices impact on CSA
pillars for supporting CSA policy (SO1 MAW-CSA)
Appraisal of GHG impact of USAID’s agricultural projects in 3
countries

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Research and Extension Unit
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the
United Nations
Current collaboration
FAO/DDNR with IFPRI and ISPC
Strengthening agricultural innovation systems (SO2)
 IFPRI/ASTI contributing to 2014 State of Food and Agriculture
(SOFA) on “Agricultural Innovation in Family Farming” (SO2)
 Intern. FAO/ASTI/IMPRESA workshop on “Better Monitoring of
Investments in Agricultural Research in Europe”, 2015 (SO2)
 Agricultural research impact assessment: ISPC advise on
impact assessment methodology for six case studies of the
IMPRESA project (EC FP7)

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Research and Extension Unit
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the
United Nations
Current collaboration
FAO/ESN with IFPRI (SO1, SO2)
Study on scaling up nutrition through agriculture in East
Africa
Food consumption data collation and dissemination & food
based nutrition indicators through FAO/WHO web platform
Regular collaboration on nutrition sensitive agriculture

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Research and Extension Unit
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the
United Nations
Assessment of collaboration by
FAO collaborators
www.fao.org/nr/research-extension-systems/res-home/

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Research and Extension Unit
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the
United Nations
Value addition to FAO mandate?
Brings in science
to build evidence
base to support
policy making for n
FS under CC
Benchmarking,
monitoring &
reporting on
water metrics,
etc
Scaling-up
AgWM
solutions for
smallholders in
Africa
Working with
leading
CGIAR center
on aquatic
research
CGIAR R&D
work in FO
directly relevant
for FAO
As knowledge
provider,
research
experience
Data,
methodologies,
access to field
experience,
modelling
capacity
Value addition to FAO mandate?

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Research and Extension Unit
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the
United Nations
Increased visibility of FAO’s
mandate?
YES.
Recognition as
international
source of
knowledge &
expertise
YES. Benefitting
from CGIAR
center outreach
and visibility
expertise
YES. Made
FAO databases
widely known.
Increased
visibility in
international
fora.

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Research and Extension Unit
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the
United Nations
Challenges observed?
Data quantity
and quality,
resource limits
Admin.
challenges in
one case
Delayed fund
receipt from
CRP due to
financial
compliance
issues
Finance, time
& efforts
required
Delayed
submission of
deliverables
and quality of
outputs
Incorporation of
CGIAR research
results in
development
work

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Research and Extension Unit
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the
United Nations
To be
continued/renewed/advanced?
YES. CGIAR
compatible to
FAO’s work.
YES, and possibly
to be enhanced
YES, but developing
projects with particip.
work plans required
YES, but for
arrangements of
future collaboration
to be considered a
fair distribution of
costs
Win-win situation!
FAO as uptake
partner for CG. 2nd call
chance to formulate
CRPs that address
needs of FAO work.

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Research and Extension Unit
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the
United Nations
Thank you
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