11-14 February 2019. Jodhpur, India. The 13th International Conference on Dryland Development, with the theme "Converting Dryland Areas from Grey into Green", is organized by IDDC (International Dryland Development Commission) and the Arid Zone Research Association of India (AZRAI) and hosted by the ICAR-Central Arid Zone Research Institute (CAZRI).
11 February 2019. Presentation by: A. Abousabaa, C. Biradar, S. Kumar, V. Nangia, A. Sarker and J. Wery
Big Data and Digital Augmentation for Accelerating Agroecological Intensifica...ICARDA
12 February 2019. Jodhpur, India. The 13th International Conference on Dryland Development,
Presentation at the session on Big Data in Dryland Agriculture.
Innovations for economically and ecologically viable solutions
Biradar C, Ghosh S, Singh, R., Sarker A, Low,
F., Kumar S, AlShama K, Attasi L, Amri A,
Nangia V, Saharawat Y, Chandra P, Gumma
M, Behera M, Sahoo R, Rathod A, Winston,
W, Gaur A, Koo J, Ravan R, Aly, A and Werry J
Improving Agricultural Water Productivity in the Indira Gandhi Nahar Pariyoja...ICARDA
11-14 February 2019. Jodhpur, India. The 13th International Conference on Dryland Development,
Presentation at the session of 12 February: TU - ICARDA Satellite Symposium : Crop Improvement for Sustainable Production.
Improving Agricultural Water Productivity in the Indira Gandhi Nahar Pariyojana (IGNP). A joint project between ICARDA and CAZRI
Vinay Nangia, N.D. Yadava, M.L. Soni and V.S. Rathore
Durum wheat ideotype for the drylands of tomorrowICARDA
11-14 February 2019. Jodhpur, India. The 13th International Conference on Dryland Development
Presentation of Michael Baum for Filippo M Bassi Director Biodiversity & Crop Improvement Program
Presentation at "Food Security in a World of Growing Natural Resource Scarcity" event hosted by IFPRI at Newseum on February 12, 2014. Speakers: Mark Rosegrant, Jawoo Koo, Nicola Cenacchi, Claudia Ringler, Ricky Robertson, Myles Fisher, Cindy Cox, Karen Garrett, Nicostrato Perez, and Pascale Sabbagh.
Field crops breeding for resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses: achieveme...ICARDA
11-14 February 2019. Jodhpur, India. The 13th International Conference on Dryland Development
Presentation of Michael Baum, Director Biodiversity & Crop Improvement Program Jodhpur, India
Science-based approaches for efficient conservation and use of genetic resourcesICARDA
The document summarizes the work of the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) which focuses on science-based approaches for efficient conservation and use of genetic resources to address issues like increasing population, land degradation, water scarcity, loss of agrobiodiversity, and climate change. It provides examples of ICARDA's work on crop improvement, developing FIGS (Focused Identification of Germplasm Strategy) subsets to identify genetic resources with specific traits, transferring useful traits from wild relatives to crops, and developing new synthetic wheat varieties to introduce novel genetic diversity.
Big Data and Digital Augmentation for Accelerating Agroecological Intensifica...ICARDA
12 February 2019. Jodhpur, India. The 13th International Conference on Dryland Development,
Presentation at the session on Big Data in Dryland Agriculture.
Innovations for economically and ecologically viable solutions
Biradar C, Ghosh S, Singh, R., Sarker A, Low,
F., Kumar S, AlShama K, Attasi L, Amri A,
Nangia V, Saharawat Y, Chandra P, Gumma
M, Behera M, Sahoo R, Rathod A, Winston,
W, Gaur A, Koo J, Ravan R, Aly, A and Werry J
Improving Agricultural Water Productivity in the Indira Gandhi Nahar Pariyoja...ICARDA
11-14 February 2019. Jodhpur, India. The 13th International Conference on Dryland Development,
Presentation at the session of 12 February: TU - ICARDA Satellite Symposium : Crop Improvement for Sustainable Production.
Improving Agricultural Water Productivity in the Indira Gandhi Nahar Pariyojana (IGNP). A joint project between ICARDA and CAZRI
Vinay Nangia, N.D. Yadava, M.L. Soni and V.S. Rathore
Durum wheat ideotype for the drylands of tomorrowICARDA
11-14 February 2019. Jodhpur, India. The 13th International Conference on Dryland Development
Presentation of Michael Baum for Filippo M Bassi Director Biodiversity & Crop Improvement Program
Presentation at "Food Security in a World of Growing Natural Resource Scarcity" event hosted by IFPRI at Newseum on February 12, 2014. Speakers: Mark Rosegrant, Jawoo Koo, Nicola Cenacchi, Claudia Ringler, Ricky Robertson, Myles Fisher, Cindy Cox, Karen Garrett, Nicostrato Perez, and Pascale Sabbagh.
Field crops breeding for resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses: achieveme...ICARDA
11-14 February 2019. Jodhpur, India. The 13th International Conference on Dryland Development
Presentation of Michael Baum, Director Biodiversity & Crop Improvement Program Jodhpur, India
Science-based approaches for efficient conservation and use of genetic resourcesICARDA
The document summarizes the work of the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) which focuses on science-based approaches for efficient conservation and use of genetic resources to address issues like increasing population, land degradation, water scarcity, loss of agrobiodiversity, and climate change. It provides examples of ICARDA's work on crop improvement, developing FIGS (Focused Identification of Germplasm Strategy) subsets to identify genetic resources with specific traits, transferring useful traits from wild relatives to crops, and developing new synthetic wheat varieties to introduce novel genetic diversity.
Cereals and pulses sustainable agri food systems under climate changeICARDA
Parallel oral thematic sessions II Cereals and pulses sustainable agri food systems under climate change (ICARDA session)
Organiser: Charles Kleinerman, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
Contact: C.kleinermann(at)cgiar.org
Date: Thursday, 19.09.2019, 14:00 – 15:30 h
Main purpose of the Parallel oral thematic session:
Presentations in this session will show how current research conducted by ICARDA and its partners in the CWANA region can support a transition towards nutrition-sensitive and climate smart cereal-based agri-food systems under irrigated and rainfed conditions. We will show in particular how plant breeding, agronomy, livestock feeding and systems analysis can be combined to support this diversification and sustainable intensification of cereal-based agri-food systems.
20 September 2019. Nairobi, Kenya. World Agroforestry (ICRAF). The meeting on the future of agriculture in Somalia, was attended by donors EU, USAID, JICA, UN agency FAO, and CG centres CIFOR, ICRAF, CIAT, CIP, CIMMYT, ICRISAT, IITA, ILRI and IRRI with ICARDA and IFPRI interested and on remote.
Utilizing the reject brine from desalination for implementing integrated agri...ICARDA
14-15 November 2019. Madrid. International Symposium on the use of Non-Conventional Waters to achieve Food Security
DESALINATION - “Advancing desalination: reducing energy consumption and environmental footprint”
Presentation by Ms Dionysia Lyra, International Centre on Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA), United Arab Emirates
Geo-Big Data and Digital Augmentation for Sustainable AgroecosystemsICARDA
16-17 March 2019. Cairo, Egypt. 5th General Assembly of the Arab Water Council .
Presentation by Dr. Chandrashekhar Biradar, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA).
The IFPRI-Egypt Seminar Series is part of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded project called “Evaluating Impact and Building Capacity” (EIBC) that is implemented by IFPRI. The seminar supports USAID’s Agribusiness for Rural Development and Increasing Incomes (ARDII) project’s objectives.
The document discusses the System of Rice Intensification (SRI), an agricultural method that indicates a path toward post-modern agriculture. SRI was developed in Madagascar in the 1980s and aims to produce more rice with less water and other inputs through changes in plant, soil, and water management rather than external inputs. The document summarizes evidence that SRI leads to higher yields, less water use, lower costs, and greater resilience compared to conventional rice production methods. SRI practices have now spread to over 38 countries across Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
Presentation by Mike McGahuey (Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resources Management Advisor, USAID) and Jerry Glover (Senior Sustainable Agricultural Systems Advisor, USAID) at the May 15, 2013 event "Natural Resource Management and Food Security for a Growing Population". For more information visit: http://www.wri.org/event/2013/05/natural-resource-management-and-food-security-growing-population
This document summarizes a presentation on strengthening smallholder farmer resilience to climate change through agroecology. It discusses how modern technologies have not favored sustainability and have negatively impacted soil, biodiversity, and ecosystems. Agroecology is presented as a sustainable alternative that can improve food security, income, soil fertility, food quality and safety, and resilience to climate change. The presentation recommends reforms to support agroecology through policies, sector incentives, and building farmer capacity.
1) Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) aims to increase agricultural productivity and incomes while adapting to and mitigating climate change impacts. However, CSA implementation has focused more on mitigation through carbon sequestration, which is more suitable for large-scale farms in wealthy countries.
2) Many recommended CSA practices are not widely adopted, even in developed countries like the US. Industrial agriculture contributes significantly to greenhouse gas emissions and soil degradation through monocultures and overuse of chemical inputs.
3) Agroecology is a more effective framework than CSA for smallholder farmers in Africa, as it rebuilds soil fertility and resilience through diversified practices like intercropping and composting,
8 May 2019. ICARDA Workshop on Novel Research Dimensions in Modeling Climate Change Impacts in Agriculture.
Introducing ICARDA and the DryArc Initiative, by Jacques Wery ICARDA Deputy Director General - Research
This document discusses climate-smart agriculture (CSA). CSA aims to sustainably increase productivity and income, strengthen resilience to climate change, and reduce agriculture's contribution to climate change. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) supports CSA through approaches like the landscape approach, which deals with large-scale processes in an integrated manner. The document also discusses farming systems and practices that can help achieve CSA's goals, such as conservation agriculture, agroforestry, and integrated food-energy systems. Finally, the role of institutions in enabling policies, disseminating information, addressing data gaps, and supporting financing is discussed.
The document summarizes the work of the Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility Institute of CIAT (TSBF) on Integrated Soil Fertility Management (ISFM). It discusses TSBF's goals, definition of ISFM, impact zones, activities, progress against outputs in different crop systems, collaboration with CRPs, statistics on funding and challenges, and future plans. The overall aim is to improve livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa through sustainable agricultural production systems based on ISFM principles.
Highlights on 2019 research outputs and outcomesICARDA
18-20/11/2019. ICARDA Board of Trustees. The Program Committee of the first day was open to all staff. It included:
Highlights of recent research breakthroughs and strategic questions presented by Strategic Research Priorities (CRPs) and Cross Cutting Themes (CCTs).
Speaker: Norman Uphoff
Title: Agroecological Opportunities with the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) and the System of Crop Intensification (SCI)
Date: June 25, 2021
Venue: online, presented in the International Webinar Series on Agroecology and Community Series
This document discusses recent developments in teff production in Ethiopia. It begins by explaining the economic and dietary importance of teff as Ethiopia's most important cereal crop, which is a staple food for over 50 million people. It then outlines some of the main production constraints of teff such as low yields due to lodging, labor-intensive practices, and lack of government investment. The document proposes several innovative approaches to address these constraints, such as reduced planting density, mechanization, irrigation, fertilization, and conventional and non-conventional breeding. It concludes by highlighting some promising new tools and technologies being tested, and calls for further work and funding to realize teff's unexploited potential.
" Resource use efficiency in crops: “Green super rice” to increase water and ...ExternalEvents
" Resource use efficiency in crops: “Green super rice” to
increase water and nitrogen use efficiency of rice" presentation by Sibin Yu, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
Title: Development of integrated rice-azolla-duck-fish farming systems with SRI methods for rice production in the Mekong River region, Vietnam
Presenter: Nghia Nguyen Soil Biology Laboratory, Department of Soil Science, College of Agriculture & Applied Biology, Cantho University, Cantho City, Vietnam
Venue: Cornell University
Date: July 1, 2015
Presented by: Norman Uphoff, CIIFAD, Cornell University, USA
Presented at: 12th European Rice Millers Convention. Venice
Presented on: September 18, 2009
Big Data for Building Inclusive Agriculture in Dry Areas ICARDA
25 to 30 August. The World Water Week in Stockholm is an annual focal point for the globe’s water issues. Organized by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), and supported by the United Nations water programs.
Wednesday 28 August
“Big data for all”, can it help improve agricultural productivity?
Cereals and pulses sustainable agri food systems under climate changeICARDA
Parallel oral thematic sessions II Cereals and pulses sustainable agri food systems under climate change (ICARDA session)
Organiser: Charles Kleinerman, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
Contact: C.kleinermann(at)cgiar.org
Date: Thursday, 19.09.2019, 14:00 – 15:30 h
Main purpose of the Parallel oral thematic session:
Presentations in this session will show how current research conducted by ICARDA and its partners in the CWANA region can support a transition towards nutrition-sensitive and climate smart cereal-based agri-food systems under irrigated and rainfed conditions. We will show in particular how plant breeding, agronomy, livestock feeding and systems analysis can be combined to support this diversification and sustainable intensification of cereal-based agri-food systems.
20 September 2019. Nairobi, Kenya. World Agroforestry (ICRAF). The meeting on the future of agriculture in Somalia, was attended by donors EU, USAID, JICA, UN agency FAO, and CG centres CIFOR, ICRAF, CIAT, CIP, CIMMYT, ICRISAT, IITA, ILRI and IRRI with ICARDA and IFPRI interested and on remote.
Utilizing the reject brine from desalination for implementing integrated agri...ICARDA
14-15 November 2019. Madrid. International Symposium on the use of Non-Conventional Waters to achieve Food Security
DESALINATION - “Advancing desalination: reducing energy consumption and environmental footprint”
Presentation by Ms Dionysia Lyra, International Centre on Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA), United Arab Emirates
Geo-Big Data and Digital Augmentation for Sustainable AgroecosystemsICARDA
16-17 March 2019. Cairo, Egypt. 5th General Assembly of the Arab Water Council .
Presentation by Dr. Chandrashekhar Biradar, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA).
The IFPRI-Egypt Seminar Series is part of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded project called “Evaluating Impact and Building Capacity” (EIBC) that is implemented by IFPRI. The seminar supports USAID’s Agribusiness for Rural Development and Increasing Incomes (ARDII) project’s objectives.
The document discusses the System of Rice Intensification (SRI), an agricultural method that indicates a path toward post-modern agriculture. SRI was developed in Madagascar in the 1980s and aims to produce more rice with less water and other inputs through changes in plant, soil, and water management rather than external inputs. The document summarizes evidence that SRI leads to higher yields, less water use, lower costs, and greater resilience compared to conventional rice production methods. SRI practices have now spread to over 38 countries across Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
Presentation by Mike McGahuey (Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resources Management Advisor, USAID) and Jerry Glover (Senior Sustainable Agricultural Systems Advisor, USAID) at the May 15, 2013 event "Natural Resource Management and Food Security for a Growing Population". For more information visit: http://www.wri.org/event/2013/05/natural-resource-management-and-food-security-growing-population
This document summarizes a presentation on strengthening smallholder farmer resilience to climate change through agroecology. It discusses how modern technologies have not favored sustainability and have negatively impacted soil, biodiversity, and ecosystems. Agroecology is presented as a sustainable alternative that can improve food security, income, soil fertility, food quality and safety, and resilience to climate change. The presentation recommends reforms to support agroecology through policies, sector incentives, and building farmer capacity.
1) Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) aims to increase agricultural productivity and incomes while adapting to and mitigating climate change impacts. However, CSA implementation has focused more on mitigation through carbon sequestration, which is more suitable for large-scale farms in wealthy countries.
2) Many recommended CSA practices are not widely adopted, even in developed countries like the US. Industrial agriculture contributes significantly to greenhouse gas emissions and soil degradation through monocultures and overuse of chemical inputs.
3) Agroecology is a more effective framework than CSA for smallholder farmers in Africa, as it rebuilds soil fertility and resilience through diversified practices like intercropping and composting,
8 May 2019. ICARDA Workshop on Novel Research Dimensions in Modeling Climate Change Impacts in Agriculture.
Introducing ICARDA and the DryArc Initiative, by Jacques Wery ICARDA Deputy Director General - Research
This document discusses climate-smart agriculture (CSA). CSA aims to sustainably increase productivity and income, strengthen resilience to climate change, and reduce agriculture's contribution to climate change. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) supports CSA through approaches like the landscape approach, which deals with large-scale processes in an integrated manner. The document also discusses farming systems and practices that can help achieve CSA's goals, such as conservation agriculture, agroforestry, and integrated food-energy systems. Finally, the role of institutions in enabling policies, disseminating information, addressing data gaps, and supporting financing is discussed.
The document summarizes the work of the Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility Institute of CIAT (TSBF) on Integrated Soil Fertility Management (ISFM). It discusses TSBF's goals, definition of ISFM, impact zones, activities, progress against outputs in different crop systems, collaboration with CRPs, statistics on funding and challenges, and future plans. The overall aim is to improve livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa through sustainable agricultural production systems based on ISFM principles.
Highlights on 2019 research outputs and outcomesICARDA
18-20/11/2019. ICARDA Board of Trustees. The Program Committee of the first day was open to all staff. It included:
Highlights of recent research breakthroughs and strategic questions presented by Strategic Research Priorities (CRPs) and Cross Cutting Themes (CCTs).
Speaker: Norman Uphoff
Title: Agroecological Opportunities with the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) and the System of Crop Intensification (SCI)
Date: June 25, 2021
Venue: online, presented in the International Webinar Series on Agroecology and Community Series
This document discusses recent developments in teff production in Ethiopia. It begins by explaining the economic and dietary importance of teff as Ethiopia's most important cereal crop, which is a staple food for over 50 million people. It then outlines some of the main production constraints of teff such as low yields due to lodging, labor-intensive practices, and lack of government investment. The document proposes several innovative approaches to address these constraints, such as reduced planting density, mechanization, irrigation, fertilization, and conventional and non-conventional breeding. It concludes by highlighting some promising new tools and technologies being tested, and calls for further work and funding to realize teff's unexploited potential.
" Resource use efficiency in crops: “Green super rice” to increase water and ...ExternalEvents
" Resource use efficiency in crops: “Green super rice” to
increase water and nitrogen use efficiency of rice" presentation by Sibin Yu, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
Title: Development of integrated rice-azolla-duck-fish farming systems with SRI methods for rice production in the Mekong River region, Vietnam
Presenter: Nghia Nguyen Soil Biology Laboratory, Department of Soil Science, College of Agriculture & Applied Biology, Cantho University, Cantho City, Vietnam
Venue: Cornell University
Date: July 1, 2015
Presented by: Norman Uphoff, CIIFAD, Cornell University, USA
Presented at: 12th European Rice Millers Convention. Venice
Presented on: September 18, 2009
Big Data for Building Inclusive Agriculture in Dry Areas ICARDA
25 to 30 August. The World Water Week in Stockholm is an annual focal point for the globe’s water issues. Organized by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), and supported by the United Nations water programs.
Wednesday 28 August
“Big data for all”, can it help improve agricultural productivity?
Humanity faces major challenges from interconnected global issues like climate change. Forests can play a key role in mitigating these issues through carbon absorption, food and water security, and other benefits. Technology like AI can help through applications like carbon offset tracking, environmental monitoring, and predictive modeling to support sustainable development and resource management. An example model was described that uses diverse data sources and blended models to inform decisions around issues like development planning, ecological impacts, and species resilience.
National mission for sustainable agricultureNiharika Pande
The document outlines a proposed National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture in India. The mission would focus on developing strategies to make Indian agriculture more resilient to climate change by creating new crop varieties that can withstand various weather conditions. It would also focus on four key areas: dryland agriculture, risk management, access to information, and promoting the use of biotechnology. The overall goals are to improve productivity, especially of rainfed agriculture, and ensure food security for India's large population in the face of a changing climate.
DRM Webinar III: Benefits of farm-level disaster risk reduction practices in ...FAO
Over the past decade, economic damages resulting from natural hazards have amounted to USD 1.5 trillion caused by geophysical hazards such as earthquakes, tsunamis and landslides, as well as hydro-meteorological hazards, including storms, floods, droughts and wild fires. Climate-related disasters, in particular, are increasing worldwide and expected to intensify with climate change. They disproportionately affect food insecure, poor people – over 75 percent of whom derive their livelihoods from agriculture. Agricultural livelihoods can only be protected from multiple hazards if adequate disaster risk reduction and management efforts are strengthened within and across sectors, anchored in the context-specific needs of local livelihoods systems.
This series of three webinars on Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRR/M) in agriculture is organized to:
1. Discuss the new opportunities and pressing challenges in reducing and managing disaster risk in agriculture;
2. Learn and share experiences about disaster risk reduction and management good practices based on concrete examples from the field; discuss how to create evidence and conditions for upscaling of good practices; and
3. Exchange experiences and knowledge with partners around resilience to natural hazards and climate-related disasters.
This webinar covered:
• measuring the benefits of farm-level disaster risk reduction practices in agriculture – approaches, methods and findings from FAO’s preliminary study;
• a case study from Uganda on how the agricultural practices for disaster risk reduction were implemented and monitored at farm level; and
• perspective from the Philippines on the challenges and opportunities to upscale the agriculture good practices for disaster risk reduction at national level.
Presentation by Claudia Ringler, Hartwig Kremer and Cheikh Mbow at the UNEA Science Policy Interface, May 19-20
Presentation focuses on the concept of the water, food and energy nexus and its importance within the development context. It also provides a number of cases highlighting nexus issues.
Bridging the gaps between agricultural research and AR for development Brusse...Alain Vidal
Presentation made upon invitation of European ARCH and AKIS groups (EC plus Member States) to introduce a 2-day workshop on "Best strategies for intercontinental research and innovation partnerships - towards greater impact on global challenges". Brussels, 26-27 May 2014
Big Data and Digital Augmentation for Sustainable AgroecosystemsICARDA
This document discusses how big data and digital augmentation can be used for sustainable agroecosystems. It notes that international centers like ICARDA are using earth observation data, machine learning, and other techniques to monitor agricultural systems, target interventions, and support building resilient, diversified systems. The goal is to move towards more economically viable and ecologically sustainable food production that provides more nutrition per acre of land.
Launch of the Southeast Asia office of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security http://ccafs.cgiar.org
7 May 2013, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Presentation by Bruce Campbell, CCAFS Program Director
Bridging the gaps: Challenges and Opportunities CGIAR
Bridging the gaps between AR and ARD Challenges and Opportunities- presented by Alain Vidal, Senior Advisor, Capacity Development and Partnerships, CGIAR Consortium at the AKIS-ARCH Workshop, Brussels, 26-27 May 2014
The document discusses climate resilience projects in several countries. It provides the following key points:
1. The SEARCH project works in 5 countries to develop frameworks for climate resilience planning at the local level. It establishes national, sub-national, and community platforms to identify vulnerabilities and adaptation strategies.
2. Case studies of the project in Jordan and Morocco show communities face increasing temperatures, less rainfall, and more extreme weather. Pilot projects assess impacts and develop initial adaptation plans focusing on agriculture, water, and the environment.
3. The project aims to link adaptation, low emissions development, and economic benefits through participatory approaches. Success is shown through increased water efficiency, use of renewable energy, and reduced carbon
Agriculture in developing countries must undergo a significant transformation in order to meet the related challenges of achieving food security and responding to climate change. Projections based on population growth and food consumption patterns indicate that agricultural production will need to increase by at least 70 percent to meet demands by 2050. Most estimates also indicate that climate change is likely to reduce agricultural productivity, production stability and incomes in some areas that already have high levels of food insecurity. Developing climate-smart agriculture is thus crucial to achieving future food security and climate change goals. This seminar describe an approach to deal with the above issue viz. Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) and also examines some of the key technical, institutional, policy and financial responses required to achieve this transformation. Building on cases from the field, the seminar try to outlines a range of practices, approaches and tools aimed at increase the resilience and productivity of agricultural product systems, while also reducing and removing emissions. A part of the seminar elaborates institutional and policy options available to promote the transition to climate-smart agriculture at the smallholder level. Finally, the paper considers current gaps and makes innovative suggestion regarding the combined use of different sources, financing mechanism and delivery systems.
‘DryArc Initiative: Systemic innovation to achieve the SDGs under water scarc...ICARDA
Cairo Water Week 2019
Cairo 20th-24th October 2019
Plenary Session 1: “Achieving the SDGs under Water Scarcity”
Sunday 20/10/19 (9:30-12:00)
The panelists of this session brought broad perspectives to respond to the many water-related linkages across all the SDGs.
Panelists
• Ms. Bianca Nijhof, Director of the Netherlands Water Partnership, board member of the Amsterdam International Water Week, The Netherlands
• H.E. Mr. Mohamed AbdEl Aty, Minister of water resources and irrigation, Egypt
• Eng. Yousef Al Aitan, Ministry of the Environment and water Resources, Jordan – ‘Sustainable Development Platform of Water & Sanitation in Jordan’
• Eng. Eweda Morshed, Chairman of the Department of Energy, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
• Dr. Felix Reinders, President of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID)
• Mr. Aly Abousabaa, Director General ICARDA, ‘DryArc Initiative: Systemic innovation to achieve the SDGs under water scarcity in the drylands’ (tbc)
• Mr. Manuel Sapiano, Chief Executive Officer at The Energy and Water Agency, Malta
THEME – 0 Targeted search for crop germplasm with climate change adaptive tra...ICARDA
This document summarizes an international workshop on applying mathematics, omics technologies, and modeling to discover crop germplasm with adaptive traits for climate change. The workshop brought together researchers, breeders, and stakeholders to discuss challenges of sustaining agriculture in drylands under climate change. Key topics included the impacts of climate change on drylands agriculture, modeling approaches to identify climate-resilient germplasm, and using phenomics and genomics to screen gene banks for traits like drought tolerance. The goal was to develop integrated strategies and targeted projects to discover crop varieties adapted to future conditions and improve food security.
Resource conservation, tools for screening climate smart practices and public...Prabhakar SVRK
Natural resources continue to play an important role in livelihood and wellbeing of millions. Over exploitation and degradation of natural resource base have led to declining factor productivity in rural areas and dwindling farm profits coupled with debilitating impact on human health. This necessitates promoting technologies that can help producing food keeping pace with the growing population while conserving natural resource base and be profitable. Achieving this conflicting target though appears to be challenging but is possible with the currently available technologies. This lecture will provide insights into a gamut of resource conserving technologies, the role of communities in promoting them and tools that can help in identifying suitable technologies for adoption. The lecture will heavily borrow sustainable agriculture cases from the Asia Pacific region.
Outline
• Natural resource dependency and rural development
o Trends in resource depletion and impact on food production
o Farm profitability trends and input use
o Trends in factor productivity
• Resource conserving technologies and climate smart agriculture
o What are they?
o Similarities and differences
o Costs and benefits of pursuing them
• Tools for identifying resource conserving and climate smart agriculture technologies
o Factor productivity
o Benefit cost ratios
o Marginal abatement costs
• Role of communities
o Communities as entry point
o Benefits of community participation
• Concluding thoughts
o How to scale up resource conservation?
What will it take to establish a climate smart agricultural world? Presentation on the problems, solutions and key challenges in Climate Smart Agriculture. Presentation made in the Wayamba Conference in Sri Lanka, August 2014.
ICRISAT Big ideas for partnership portfoliocropreg
1. Smallholder farmers in dryland regions rely mainly on rainfed agriculture for their livelihoods. Climate change is increasing the risks they face from more variable rainfall patterns.
2. The document proposes several "Big Ideas" to improve rural livelihoods and promote climate resilience in these regions. These include developing climate resilient communities, sustainably managing natural resources using proven models, and breeding new drought-tolerant varieties of dryland cereals and grain legumes.
3. One proven model discussed is the Bhoochetana program from India, which achieved major increases in crop yields and agricultural incomes through soil and water conservation practices, use of improved seeds and fertilizers, and farmer training.
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Can we measure female social entrepreneurship? ICARDA
1st Annual Conference of the Private Sector Development Research Network:Private Enterprise and Inclusion12-13 December 2019
Presentation by Anastasia Seferiadis, Sarah Cummings and Bénédicte Gastineau
Building Climate Smart FARMERSThe Indian PerspectiveICARDA
Presented by
DR. KIRIT N SHELAT, I.A.S. (Rtd)
National Council for Climate Change, Sustainable Development and Public Leadership (NCCSD)
AHMEDABAD - INDIA
The document discusses the concepts of Food, Energy, and Water (FEW) and their interlinkages. It describes the Solar Universities Network (SUN) which has 72 registered universities working towards sustainability goals. The network is establishing guidelines around campus water, energy, and plastics use to help universities become carbon neutral. It also presents various perspectives on FEW such as production for food versus fodder, large versus small systems, and using FEW for multiple purposes.
Just Add Water: Approaches to Smart Agricultural Water ManagementICARDA
1) The document discusses approaches to smart agricultural water management including using water more productively, increasing water availability through small reservoirs and managed aquifer recharge, and bringing innovations such as solar irrigation under smarter water management.
2) It notes that water is the first and worst hit resource by climate change and is vital, connecting sectors. The Global Commission on Adaptation report emphasizes helping small-scale producers manage risks and making agriculture climate smart.
3) Pilot projects on on-grid and off-grid solar solutions for irrigation can provide energy access, food security, and incomes while diversifying power grids and reducing costs for farmers.
The DryArc Initiative aims to develop innovative and resilient agri-food systems in dryland regions through a global partnership. It will pursue two pathways: 1) combining existing technologies into systemic innovations tailored to each context, and 2) accelerating the scaling up of impact-targeted innovations. Over four phases from 2019-2030, DryArc will co-design solutions with stakeholders, strengthen capacities, and establish an enabling environment through decision support, monitoring and evaluation, and attracting investment. The goal is to transform agri-food systems and support food/nutrition security and employment in dryland regions vulnerable to problems like land degradation, water scarcity, and climate change impacts.
SUSTAINABLE SILVOPASTORAL RESTORATION TO PROMOTE ECOSYSTEM SERVICES IN TUNISIAICARDA
25 - 29 November 2019. Antalya, Turkey. Near East Forestry and Range Commission (NEFRC) - 24th Session
Presentation by Dr. Mounir Louhaichi
Rangeland Ecology & Management
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas
M.Louhaichi@cigar.org
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Innovations built on traditional knowledge and modern technology for sustainable dryland agriculture
1. International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas
icarda.org cgiar.org
A CGIAR Research Center
Innovations built on traditional knowledge and modern
technology for sustainable dryland agriculture
A. Abousabaa, C. Biradar, S. Kumar, V. Nangia, A. Sarker and J. Wery
11 February 2019
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1. Overview
BY 2050 –
Population expected
to increase from 0.9
billion to 1.4 billion
people in CWANA
Young people constitute
20% of total population
in CWANA, and this
number will grow by at
least 7million by 2021
Increase in
population will cause
increased
pressure under
water, food and other
resources
Rainfall is expected
to decline
throughout North
Africa and West Asia
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• Adverse effects of climate
change are more pronounced in
the drylands
• Leads to vulnerable,
unsustainable and
unpredictable farming
• Variability and evolution of
climate, diet and demography
caused by changing edapho-
climatic factors
Climate change and increasing needs
30%
50%
70%
Food
Energy
Water
2019 2050
9BILLION
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India’s share of global
resources:
• Water: 4%
• Arable land: 2.5%
• Population: 17%
Food and water scarcity
Two key drivers: growing population and growing wealth
Uncertainty is the result of climate change
500
1000
1500
2000
2001 2010 2025 2050
Waterpercapitalitres/day
Year
Population (million) Water per capita m3/year
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2. Traditional knowledge-based agriculture
• Crop production
• Water conservation
• Soil health management
• Animal feeding
• Grain storage
• Value addition of plant and
animal products in
combination
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Nature-based farming
• Natural crossing and selection
of crops and varieties adapted
to local soil, climatic (drought,
heat, flood, storms), socio-
economic conditions and diet
patterns
• Focus on soil and biodiversity
based farming
Pre-modern agriculture
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Modernization of agriculture and
the green revolution
• Low productivity per unit of land
labor of traditional agriculture
• Limited number of crops and
varieties
• Field mechanization
• Use of synthetic input: fertilizers
- herbicides - pesticides)
• Water for irrigation versus
traditional
The need for modern agriculture
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Locality
• Using natural inputs (soil and
ecosystems, and natural
processes) to replace
synthetic inputs
• Solutions are site-specific and
ensure proper matching
Limits of traditional knowledge
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Partiality
• Information on farmer
practices is largely on
productivity and not on
environmental impacts
• Data about environmental
impacts (eg soil carbon) and
at scale (eg greenhouse gas
emissions) increasingly
important
Limits of traditional knowledge
Quantities of inputs used
Diversityofproductionandconsumption
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Temporality
• Trial and errors of farming
based on short-term impact on
food production
• More significant impact could
take longer to materialize
• Eg conservation agriculture
may reduce yield the first
years of implementation but
increase over longer period
Limits of traditional knowledge
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The limits of traditional knowledge are taken into
account by ICARDA and its partners. The approach can
be described along the four outcomes of our R4D
projects:
1. Improving technologies and crops
2. Capacity development of farmers
3. Systemic Design and Management of agro-ecosystems
4. Digital augmentation for precision decisions
3. The role of ICARDA and its R4D
partners
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Cactus
• Small holder farmers in
semi-arid
environments have
limited resources to
improve supply of
animal feeds
• Cactus pear (Opuntia
ficus-indica) is an ideal
candidate that can
grow in degraded land
with minimum inputs.
From old to new crops
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3.2 Smart farming requires a paradigm
shift
1. Diversity for resilience (rotations/intercropping; mix
farming…)
2. Nature-based solutions, technology and circularity for
ecosystems services (including water productivity and
trade-off management)
3. Smart knowledge (big-data, models, ICT) for adaptation to
• Variability (rainfall, soils, farms…)
• Changes (climate, markets, demography…)
• Capacity development of farmers
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Applications in this domain
are rapidly expanding,
allowing farmers and
advisors to access
knowledge on crops and
varieties, pests and disease,
input, markets and climate
using their smartphone
Smartphone app for technology
targeting and decision-making
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Sustainability is achieved through
proper combinations of
appropriate technologies – not
single technologies on their own
1. Water harvesting
2. Feed resources
3. Livestock management
4. Marab agriculture
5. Collective land governance
3.3 Systemic Design and Management of
agro-ecosystems
1 2
3
5
4
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3.4 Multi-scale knowledge of farming
system dynamics and climate variability
3 billion ha
International Agencies
3 million ha
Governments
300 k ha
Agro-Food industry
30 k ha
Advisors
1.3 ha
Farmers
• Information available
at different scale for
different stakeholders
• High-tech to provide
indicators … and field
data for credibility
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Example: Lentil intensification fallows
in India
Crop variety specific target areas
March December
• Inclusion of
lentil Improves
rice productivity
• Economize on N
use up to 40 kg
N/ha
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Participatory
approach
CRPs
CGIAR
Centers
Public Sector
NARS, ARIS,
Univ.
Private sector
Knowledge management
Data, RS, GIS layers, CC Scenarios
Framework and models for integrated modelling and
assessment of agrifood systems in the drylands
Multi-
criteria
assessment
Research
projects
Informing strategic
thinking
investment in R4D
Stakholder
capacity
building
Interface for the Drylands
4. Conclusion – the way forward
• Traditional knowledge to support innovations
• Sustainability and scaling with modern technologies
• Multi-scale and multicriteria scenario analysis to
support research and development investments in the
drylands
Main point: as climate change effects are felt more strongly throughout the dry arc region, there is an expectation that there will be a reduction in food, water, and other resources per capita in the region. This will have far-reaching effects of the sustainability of the current food systems in the region
Notes for this slide:
Numbers come from the “Dry Arc Big Numbers” document provided by Jacques
Explanation of map:
- Colours represent the amount of current rainfall in the global dry areas
Introduction
Climate change is a reality and its adverse effects are more pronounced in drylands, leading to vulnerable, unsustainable and unpredictable farming due to a range of changed edapho-climatic factors arising from variability and evolution of climate, diet and demography. Drylands, delineated into rainfed, irrigated, agro-pastoral and desert farming, cover more than one third of planet’s land and are home to more than one-third of the population. Without access to information and technology, farming in these lands can greatly suffer during dry seasons and face catastrophic losses during periodic droughts. Over the decades and centuries, the farming techniques have changed from traditional, where most of farm operations used to be done manually, to modern farming more productive in term of land and labour but more dependent on industrial and financial inputs. However, by 2050, we expect a population of 9 billion that will cause a "perfect storm" of food, energy and water shortages as demand for fresh water, food and energy will climb by 30%, 70% and 100%, respectively. Therefore, a paradigm shift is needed to produce more nutritious food from less land, water, and inputs without further pressure on the declining natural resources. ICARDA and its national and international partners aim to develop this new paradigm for the drylands with a smart combination of traditional knowledge and new technologies, using multicriteria and multiscale systems methodologies to build resilient and sustainable agroecosystems.
In Africa and Asia a lot of ancestral techniques and land races of dryland crops are still in use for crop production, water conservation, soil health management, animal feeding, grain storing and value addition of plant and animal products.
Example: farmers have a long history of experience on water harvesting, retention and use for feed and food production. This includes prevention of soil erosion on flat farms mounding the land into long furrows and traps water around the plants; furrows of bunds along contour lines or terraces to limit soil erosion and allow rainwater to infiltrate into the soil and terraces; soil cover with organic mulch to prevent evaporation; land fallowing to store moisture in the soil for the following crop. These all emanate from farmers’ experience, which transmitted from generation after generation.
Farmers in this era restored soil fertility through periodic addition of natural materials such as household wastes, composts and manures, and adopting practices such as crop rotation especially with N-fixing legumes and mixed cropping. Farmers replanted their own seeds and exchanged their seeds and animal breeds with others, thereby spreading new technologies far and wide while coincidentally preserving biodiversity in farmlands. Almost unaware of the scientific breakthroughs, debates and discussion over climate change and its impact on dryland production systems, the traditional agrarian practices of indigenous communities in Asia and Africa have evolved but integrated some resilience based on crop/livestock diversity and soil fertility. Along with low-cost technologies those traditional farmers grow variety of crops ranging from rice, millets, legumes, sorghum, leafy and other vegetables, medicinal plants, tubers throughout the year, thus ensuring their food and nutritional requirements. In many farming communities, as many as 80 different crops are grown for household needs. Farmers also practice mixed-cropping and inter-cropping to be resilient against total crop loss due to climatic variability, pests and diseases. For example intercropping and agroforestry are contributing to the conservation of prey-predators as a means of biological control (birds, spiders, flies) instead to using insecticides. Today some farmers of South Asia (most particularly indigenous and hilly areas) are going back to farming as they used to do before high-yielding crop varieties, hybrid seeds, synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.
Modernisation of agriculture during the green revolution took a different pathway and focused on a limited number of crops and varieties, field mechanization and the use of synthetic input (fertilisers, herbicides and pesticides) as well as water for irrigation. These cropping systems are now seriously contested in a One Health approach of nature and human health. However, this paradigm shift was also essential to increase total factor productivity in order to meet the rapidly increasing food demand and the globalisation of markets for most staple crops. This trend is likely to accelerate in the future and any new paradigm for ecological intensification of agriculture should keep it as a baseline component.
Locality: replacing synthetic input by soil and ecosystems natural processes makes any solution site-specific for a proper matching, for example of the nutrient crop requirements and soil organic matter mineralization, both processes being highly sensitive to climate (rainfall, temperature). Replacing “knowledge embedded” technologies like mineral fertilizers by ecosystem-based production of nutrients makes farming a more “knowledge intensive” and “site-specific” business. This is one of the today challenge for researchers, advisors, farmers, and policy makers. Capacity Development of stakeholders becomes key in this context.
Partiality: the use of traditional knowledge for the design of modern sustainable farming systems is facing a serious discrepancy between the data availability (mostly on production) and the need for multicriteria (biodiversity, water, energy, product quality and safety….) and multi-scale analysis (farm, supply chain, landscape…) required to design the agriculture of tomorrow. Similarly gender and youth consideration has not necessarily been taken into account in the traditional farming systems but cannot be ignored today.
NOTES FOR SPIDER GRAPH: shows that the conventional system-cereals and legumes-extensive farming systems (eg traditional) requires high inputs although yields lower productivity and consumption – this is indicative that consumers are the producers
Temporality: agro-ecological practices have been developed by farmers over long periods with a trial-error approach which can impair innovation in face of an uncertain climate and with the high risk aversion of smallholder farmers. In face of global changes (climate, economy) this approach has to be re-visited in order to address the design of farming systems on a short term (few years) and taking into account potential risks and impacts.
NOTES?
Example: Cactus pear (Oopuntia ficus-indica) can grow in degraded land with minimum inputs. Yield improvement must be done in a multicriteria analysis and combine with biophysical and economic water and fertilizers productivity in face of soil and climate variability. Can be done with crop models, calibrated and then applied for simulating scenarios of nitrogen and irrigation application using long term weather datasets.
Examples from ICARDA:
This is why ICARDA is also conducting a “system-based research” where the innovation is grounded in the smart management of interactions (Genotype x Environment x Management) between the components (soil, crops, livestock, trees, water) of the farming systems in specific agro-ecologies and socio-economic contexts.
For example, the integration of improved varieties of pulses in the existing crop-livestock systems can drive more efficiency, productivity and resilience in drylands of India, provided they are also properly integrated into added-value chain in the food system.
smallholder farmers in south Asia can increase the intensity and diversity of rice-fallow systems with specific varieties adapted to soil type, texture and residual moisture.
Improving sustainability and resilience of farming systems
Farming systems cannot rely on single technologies (eg “component research”) and their application in a wide range of agro-ecologies. ICARDA is also conducting “system-based research”.
Examples from ICARDA:
This is why ICARDA is also conducting a “system-based research” where the innovation is grounded in the smart management of interactions (Genotype x Environment x Management) between the components (soil, crops, livestock, trees, water) of the farming systems in specific agro-ecologies and socio-economic contexts.
For example, the integration of improved varieties of pulses in the existing crop-livestock systems can drive more efficiency, productivity and resilience in drylands of India, provided they are also properly integrated into added-value chain in the food system.
smallholder farmers in south Asia can increase the intensity and diversity of rice-fallow systems with specific varieties adapted to soil type, texture and residual moisture.
Multi-scale knowledge on climate variability (spatial and temporal) and crop responses (yield, water, soil carbon, pests-diseases)
4.4 Digitization of agroecosystems
Geotagging, agro-tagging, farm-typology and other types of digitization has become the most essential entry point for any sustainable developmental entities whether it is breeding site specific varieties, crop diversification and intensification
Ongoing efforts in big-data driven digital augmentation aim at quantifying functional production dynamics and drivers to target site-specific sustainable developmental interventions and scaling the ecological intensification such as intensification of pulses in rice fallows, adoption of conservation agriculture, bridging the yield gaps, geo-localization of the research and impact reporting (www.icarda.org).
NOTES: satellite remote sensing images quantify the crop fallows’ dynamic targeting intensification of pulses and oil seeds. This can also support rice varieties accommodating 2 or 3 crops in the sam fallow areas. This can support the decision-making behind where to include lentil during fallow season of rice sowing.
NOTES: ICARDA’s BigData and ICT-based GeoAgro based services can be used in research, policy, and other decision-making and service provision. Accessibility to many countries.
ICARDA and its national and international partners aim to develop this new paradigm for the drylands with a smart combination of traditional knowledge and new technologies, using multi-criteria and multiscale systems methodologies to build resilient and sustainable agroecosystems.
It is a fact that traditional knowledge and its application in dryland farming can have a great contribution to todays’ agriculture for resilience in the context of climate change and other socio-economic considerations. Many of them are still being nurtured by farming communities. However, the use of scientific breakthroughs and innovative agro-technologies (machineries, geo-informatics, biotechnology, nano-technology, methodologies and new knowledge, etc.) is needed to meet food, feed and fiber requirements of a growing population under climate change. This synergy among traditional practices and modern innovative technologies is one of the key pillar of ICARDA Research for Development strategy.