cgiar platform on agriculture and health
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Geneva June 25, 2007TRANSCRIPT
CGIAR Platform on Agriculture and
Health
Joachim von Braun
Director General
International Food Policy Research Institute
Geneva
June 25, 2007
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Overview
1. What is our platform?
2. Conceptual framework
3. Main issues
4. Priority-setting
5. The way forward
Joachim von Braun, IFPRI, June 2007
1. What is our Platform ?
• Late 2004, CGIAR working group on agriculture
and health was formed
• April 2006, Platform on Agriculture and Health
Research was endorsed by the CGIAR Alliance
Executive (the 15 centers) and welcomed by
the Science Council of CGIAR
• We focus on agriculture – health linkages that
are relevant for the poor
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CGIAR - A Strategic Alliance
• Created in 1971
• 64 public and private members
- Including 25 developing and 22 industrialized countries
• 4 Cosponsors (World Bank, FAO, IFAD, UNDP)
• 15 CGIAR Centers
• Key products –Knowledge, technology, policy, services
• Partners in academia, civil society, private sector, and national ag. research institutions (North and South)
• 8,500 scientists and staff
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The Global CGIAR
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What is our platform? Not just parallel
extraction and burning of existing knowledge
Not this
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What is our platform? creating new
knowledge…
…by bringing the research communities of
agriculture and health to more productive harmony
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…and who and how?
• Agriculture and health researchers
• Development partners / investors
Operational aspects of the platform
[virtual, lean, open, network mode;
research implementation through existing
mechanisms]
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Conceptual framework
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3. Main issues
Distinguishing between “big issues” and
“main issues” for the platform
“Big issues” of agriculture and health
• Producing the needed food and
providing access to it
• Agriculture, urbanization and health
• Sustainability of food and water
systems and health
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Land use, productivity and health
the next “green revolutions”
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Urbanization, food system, and health
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Agriculture, energy, consumption, climate change
and the health environment
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“Main issues” of
agriculture and health research
Some preliminary priorities:
Nutrition, Diet, and Health
Food Supply Chains and Food Safety
Water Management and Water-Borne Diseases
Animal diseases, Avian Flu and Livelihoods
HIV/AIDS (and …) and Nutrition and Agriculture
Suggestion: Focus on “main issues” while
keeping the “big issues” in the background
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4. Priority-setting ?
Determine priorities by exploring opportunities
and synergies between …:
Low-cost, high-
quality foods
Diet and nutrition
Food safetyValue chain
management of food
safety
Water-associated
diseases
Irrigation, water
quality
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Priority-setting (cont.)
Agriculture and
livelihoodHIV/AIDS
Avian flu Animal health
Occupational health,
child labor (livestock
disease, crop
disease, pesticides)
Labor, agriculture
productivity, poverty-
reduction through
agriculture growth
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5. Way forward from this meeting
Help to set priorities [for the CGIAR and
for the global agriculture – health
research community (criteria)]
Help to coordinate research on
agriculture and health [with a focus on
the linkages between the two sectors]
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…Way forward
Desired products of the platform:
- Proposals for research
- Team formations
- Funding strategies developed
- Monitoring of progress in agriculture
and health research