The CRP"S and GRP's demystified

2. CRP1.1 CRP1.2 CRP1.3
DryAES WetAES CoastAES
CRP3
CRP4 CRP5
Commo‐
Health Water
dities
CRP2 CRP6 CRP7
Instit.ns ForTree C.Change

3. GRP+CRP‐GRP‐CRP+GRP+CRP‐GRP‐
CRP= NoChange?
Meine van Noordwijk, 6/9/10
CRP‐X met GRP‐Y in the line
“Who are you?,
Your name sounds mine
But you’re packaged a bit new?”
“CRP is your title you say,
I think after the R should come A.
With the algebra I learned at school,
The numbers are mixed up, or am I a fool?”

4. 2=1, as our GRP2 integrates trees on farm,
CRP1.1 does so where dryness is the key
CRP1.2 the same, for high humidity
and CRP1.3 if it’s close to the sea
But none do it cold, all like it warm
3=2, as our GRP3 links farms to a market value chain,
Which is close, with all respect,
to the way CRP2, yes 1 less again,
studies how institutions, markets & farmers connect

5. If you think you found a system here,
I tell you, logic doesn’t get you near,
‘cause 4 = 3 simply isn’t true,
Of old, CG was rice+maize+tubers+goats+fish+
+beans&don’t forget wheat
but under CRP3 this work, isn’t it neat?,
commodities will all become branded brand new
0.1 = 4: CRP4 brings focus on human health,
But no, the medicinal trees of GRP1 are no good,
Because they contribute to human wealth
Its CRP6 where they fit, CRP4 is about food

6. 4 = 5, as CRP5 knows water and soil might end,
And GRP4 is our sentinel for the health of land,
Better use all we have well, it won’t expand
1+6=6, as GRP6 & 1 link landscape to gene,
It’s about integration and scale,and so it has been
CRP6 will see both the forest and the tree,
ah, almost forgot it is actually about agroforestry
5=7; in GRP5 the climate changes fast
In CRP7 too, how long will this last?

7. Transforming lives&landscapes, our tagline states
GRP/CRP/Megaprograms/ThemeAreas, it’s all
in the loop
A few things will stay as they’ve ever been,
One day we may see how nicely it all relates,
For now its transformational acronym soup,
But grass on farms with trees looks more green

8. Do we need more focus?
or is the world changing too fast?