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What are small ncRNAs?
micro RNA (miRNA)
short interfering RNA (siRNA)
Properties of small non-coding RNA:
Involved in silencing mRNA transcripts.
Called “small” because they are usually only about 21-24 nucleotides long.
Synthesized by first cutting up longer precursor sequences (like the 61nt one that Lee discovered).
Silence an mRNA by base pairing with some sequence on the mRNA.
Discovery of siRNA?
The first small RNA:
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Types of RNAi ( non coding RNA)
MiRNA
Length (23-25 nt)
Trans acting
Binds with target MRNA in mismatch
Translation inhibition
Si RNA
Length 21 nt.
Cis acting
Bind with target Mrna in perfect complementary sequence
Piwi-RNA
Length ; 25 to 36 nt.
Expressed in Germ Cells
Regulates trnasposomes activity
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THE RISC COMPLEX:
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Unwinding of double stranded Si RNA by ATP independent Helicase
Active component of RISC is Ago proteins( ENDONUCLEASE) which cleave target MRNA.
DICER: endonuclease (RNase Family III)
Argonaute: Central Component of the RNA-Induced Silencing Complex (RISC)
One strand of the dsRNA produced by Dicer is retained in the RISC complex in association with Argonaute
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MiRNA:
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Repositioning Agriculture Research for Development (AR4D) to deliver the SDGs
1. Repositioning AR to deliver the SDGs
ACIAR Brown paper bag lunch
Jeroen Dijkman (CGIAR) & Andy Hall (CSIRO)
11 December 2015
2. Context and main message
• Agricultural systems globally face highly diverse and increasingly complex
challenges.
• Innovation in technological, market, policy and institutional domains and
setting will be key to addressing these challenges.
• Agricultural research is a key ingredient, but how can this be best organized
and mobilized?
• Decades long search for ways of linking agricultural research to innovation
and impact. Receiving increasing attention in both the international sphere,
but also in the domestic arena.
3. Context and main message
• The SGDs add urgency to the need to make more effective use of
innovation and systemic change processes where partnerships will be a key
element
• Good practice in AR4D partnership; Dorai, Hall and Dijkman (2015)
• Review highlights the need to revisit:
- the role of research organizations in wider efforts to progress systemic change;
- the science agenda and particularly the need to develop a better understanding
of the ingredients and modalities of innovation processes that lead to impact.
4. 4 • Presentation title • Presenter name
Good practice in AR4D partnership
5. Context: Critical reframing of the CGIAR
- Linked SLO to the achievement of the post-2015 SDGs:
• Signals the need to embed work within the wider architecture of
partnership required to tackle the global scale challenges articulated in the
SDGs;
- Committed to AR4D:
• Signals transition from a role of planning and leading research to a role of
contributing to wider innovation processes where partnership modalities
are critical.
6. - CGIAR’s approach to partnerships will need to evolve:
• Coherent contribution to innovation process with the local to global
dimensions implied by the SDGs;
• Transition from its historical role in addressing defined agricultural
technology problems to engagement with strategic partnerships to address
systemic SDG problems.
- The review:
• Syntheses emerging patterns of good practice in MSPs;
• Discuss implications for CGIAR practice and positioning.
Context (continued)
7. Key features
Discrete
technical
challenges
Discrete
agricultural impact
challenges
Complex agricultural
impact challenges
Complex global
impact challenges
Partnership
mode
Mode 1
Research
consortia
Mode 2
Partnerships,
platforms and
alliances with the
private sector, NGOs
and farmers groups
create value for
farmers and
companies
Mode 3
Inter-linked farm-to-
policy multi-
stakeholder processes
and partnerships action
changes in food
systems that create
social and economic
value
Mode 4
Global architectures of
MSP platforms create
coherence between
global and local
agendas and
implementation
strategies and action
that brings about
systems adaptation
8. - MSPs practice in AR4D:
• Framed by concerns about making more effective use of agricultural
research in impact processes.
• Informed by historical views on how impact takes place: solving isolatable
technical problems and transferring results, farmer empowerment and
more latterly with innovation systems perspectives (IPs);
• Aspirations are towards strategic partnerships that contribute to the SDGs
and the systemic change impact pathways that these imply.
Key features (continued)
9. - Global MSPs for Development practice:
• Framed by concerns about the need for collective action to tackle complex
global development challenges;
• Practice is informed by a tradition of action rather than research. Many of
the global MSPs are virtual organizations of relatively recent origin –
variety of leads;
• Conceived as interventions with systemic change impact pathways or have
evolved into this position through trial and error;
• Seen as key intervention strategies to progress the SDGs.
Key features (continued)
10. • MSPs in both framings has a diversity of meanings, rationales and
operational forms;
• Evidence base of effectiveness of MSPs (and partnerships in general) in
achieving targets and goals is evolving;
• The lack of a robust and widely agreed upon framework for judging
effectiveness adds to this challenge;
• Contradictory assessments of the performance of the same MSPs by
different studies
• For example, GAIN and Roll Back Malaria by Bezanson and Isenman, 2012 vs Patscheke et al., 2014;
• What constitutes good practice NOT an exact science.
Similarities and Differences
11. • AR4D framing practice accounts are largely concerned with individual
innovation platforms;
• Local scale with a focus on the “nuts and bolts” of facilitating and
organising these individual platforms;
• Aspiration to engage in systemic change impact processes and
recognition of multi-scale platforms;
• Much of current MSP practice resembles mode 2 partnerships (mobilising
technology to create value for farmers and companies);
• Restricts the scale of impact of these approaches.
Similarities and Differences (continued)
12. • Global MSP practice emphasis is placed on what is needed to mobilise
collective action across multiple scales to address broadly conceived
development challenges;
• Less emphasis is given to the “nuts and bolts” of individual platform
practice;
• Clear vision of addressing challenges through systemic change;
• Unlike the AR4D practice, vision is not contested, no history to compete
with on how impact and scale can be achieved.
Similarities and Differences (continued)
13. • AR4D domain - establishing community level IPs;
• Disconnected from platforms and other groups at higher scales;
• Impacts are at local scales and often restricted to project cycle funding;
• Emphasis where impact needs to happen and this is a key operational interface;
• Without any link to higher-level groupings: Little scope for tackling overarching
policy and institutional constraints or aligning with longer-term (and wider-scale)
development goals and plans.
Platform architectures – AR4D
14. • Locally-embedded platforms that focus on immediate local issues (including local
policy dynamics), linked to a global platform that share information between different
regions.
• Support for immediate development issues combined with longer-term agenda setting
for global priorities.
• The subsidiarity principle avoids crowding out of capacity development of local and
intermediary scale actors by international agencies.
• MSPs are less like a multi-scale bureaucracy and more like a club or community of
practice. Governance structure with a strong focus on alignment of autonomous
activities, avoids agenda capture by vested interests.
Platform architectures – Global MSP
15. • Complexity and the need to address systemic change challenges the guiding
force in global development efforts;
• The framing of the SDGs gives both focus and urgency to the direction of
partnership practice;
• Three issues stand out that have relevance for the AR4D community:
• Strengthening and connecting to MSP platform architectures;
• Clarify roles within emerging architectures based on the principles of
comparative advantage and subsidiarity are key;
• Strengthen learning, strengthened capacity building: Engaging with
complexity means engaging with uncertainty. Development of appropriate
(and widely accepted) evaluative and analytical frameworks to help assess
partnership performance is key.
Towards MSP Good Practice
16. • Operating through either local or global MSP platforms is insufficient for
systemic change and impact at scale;
• Key element of global good practice is the creation (or at least
participation in) of nested platforms/ architectures that link local and
global agendas and that both address defined problems locally but also
address systemic change at appropriate scales;
• Partnering with broader developmentally framed architectures of MSPs of
the sort implied by the SDGs would have to emerge as a core practice.
Implications for the CGIAR
17. • How can the CGIAR best add value to the effectiveness of MSP architectures
for systemic change?
• Implications for the role of the CGIAR, but also issues for the scope of the
science agenda:
• If Global MSPs are the route to impact at scale, understanding the
underpinning processes, institutional arrangements and practices and
their impact effectiveness becomes key;
• Aligns with the partnership learning agenda of the SDGs;
• Impact of science vs. Science of impact
Implications for the CGIAR (continued)
18. Discrete
technical
challenges
Discrete agricultural
impact challenges
Complex agricultural impact
challenges
Complex global impact
challenges
Partnership mode Mode 1
Research
consortia
Mode 2
Partnerships, platforms
and alliances with the
private sector, NGO and
farmers groups creating
value for farmers and
companies
Mode 3
Inter-linked farm to policy
multi-stakeholder processes
and partnerships action
changes in food systems that
create social and economic
value
Mode 4
Global architectures of MSP
platforms create coherence
between global and local
agendas and implementation
strategies and action that brings
about systems adaptation
Scale of impact Dependent on
linkages to other
delivery,
innovation and
societal change
processes
Quick wins, but
restricted to scale of
project, mission or
commercial opportunity
Long term, but enduring
impacts at value chain or
national scales
Long term enduring impacts at
global scale
Science agenda - Science
discovery
- Building
scientific
capability
- Learning technology
delivery practice.
- Trouble shooting
application challenges
- Learning innovation practice.
- Identifying new research
priorities
- Communicating existing
knowledge and evidence.
- Reframing science enquiries
and practice
Role of the CGIAR - Leading science
discovery
research
- Leading technology
delivery practice
research
- Leading technical
capacity building
- Convening and
brokering delivery
partnerships
- Leading innovation practice
research
- Research service provider
and or trusted advisor
- Catalyst in innovation
capacity development
- Convener of community of
practice
- Trusted advisor
- Service provider.
- Agriculture domain expert and
stakeholder
19. - Impact at scale means systemic change:
• Good practice in the new reality of systemic change means that partnership
activity needs to be framed within wider change process;
• Link between MSPs at different scales: identifying existing architectures or
backbone structures and constructively contribute to these. Support, rather
than lead.
- The CGIAR will need to play different roles at different levels in global
MSPs
• Increasingly playing a service provider and trusted advisor role;
• MSPs to test and develop foundational science and practice - if effectively
linked to Global MSPs it become a critical element in knowledge application
and systemic change agendas.
Key Messages
20. - Establishing the scientific basis to link MSP practice with impact:
• Strong theoretical case for an impact pathway premised on the more
effective interplay between patterns of partnership, institutions and
policy;
• Need a framework to better understand this and an evidence base of
what works and how;
• The CGIAR has a core knowledge role (IPGs) in helping answer this
question. Contribution to impact should be grounded not only on
understanding how this process works, but also on developing and
adopting practices that enable it to do so;
• Issues pertinent to international and domestic innovation agendas
What next?
21. - CSIRO / ISPC strategic study to:
• Develop and apply an analytical framework to systematically investigate
different ways of using research and partnership to contribute to SDGs
• Systematic harvesting of the links among innovation practice and
development impact evidence globally
• Provide the analytical means to investigate and predict current and
future patterns of alliances, institutional arrangements and policies that
condition innovation in agriculture, including impact delivery from
agricultural research
What next?
22. • ADD BUSINESS UNIT/FLAGSHIP NAME
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