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Eco-Efficient Agriculture for the Poor
Robin Buruchara
CIAT Africa StrategyCIAT Board Meeting #63
Nairobi, Kenya12 May 2011
Eco-Efficient Agriculture for the Poor
Outline
• Introduction
• Current Strategy
• Adjustments or a New Strategy?
• Way Forward
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Current CIAT Africa Vision and Strategy
• Developed three years ago
• Planning processo CIAT Africa staff (2007/08)o PABRA Partners (2008)
• Input to current CIAT Strategy
• Adjustments to certain elements
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• 60 stakeholders
o NARSo SROso NGOso Private sectoro Farmer organizationso Health and nutritiono CIATo East, west and south Africa
PABRA Stakeholder Workshop (2008)
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• Took stock of recent changes and trends
• SWOT Analysis and context for CIAT/Partner research
• What CIAT could offer, niche and collaborative advantage in Africa?
• Identified key strategic areas where CIAT/Partners could engage
• Defined
o What to achieve?
o How to get there?
o How to organize ourselves?
Process
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• Demand and opportunity driven
• Integration across CIAT
• Targeting (impact target)
• Partnerships (traditional and new)
• CIATs comparative advantage
• Adding value
Guiding Principle
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Trends and changes in the external environment
• Institutional environment, international donor environment
• Ecological environment
• Socio-economic and political environment
• Overall implication for CIAT
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Millennium Development
Goals
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger and halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion
of people whose income is less
than US$1 a day
AU/NEPAD
Growth in GDP of 6% pa by 2015
4% growth rate in agricultural productivity
FARA / ASARECA /FANR /CORAF
Commitment to indicators linked to the MDG for poverty and
NEPAD’s goal for economic growth
Is increased economic growth and improved
livelihoods while enhancing the quality of
the environment
CIAT
Contribute to reducing hunger and
poverty in the tropics through
collaborative research that
improves agricultural
productivity and natural resource
management
Alignment of goals to address Africa’s Problems under different Initiatives
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• Germplasm (Beans, Cassava, Forages)
• Capacity in soils (TSBF-CIAT)
• Partnerships (approaches, types and numbers)
• Socio Science /ERI Approaches (PR, PPB and Agro-enterprise)
• Wider Impact Approach (for wider technology reach)
• Approaches to respond to some acute stresses
• HQ drawn competencies (Biotechnology, GIS, Climate change, Physiology)
CIAT’s Comparative Advantage
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• Contribution towards addressing the complex problems (poverty, productivity, impact on climate variation)
• Add value and addresses both regional goals & system priorities
• Define and exploit CIAT’s global and regional comparative advantages
• A partnership based on value addition, synergy and achieving common and our strategic goals (research and development)
The CIAT Africa strategy aims to respond to African needs through research where CIAT and its partners have a comparative advantage
CIAT Africa Strategy
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• Reduce and prevent impact of environmental stress (Resilient systems)
• Building soil assets for small farmer productivity and environmental services
• Pro-poor market development
• Nutrition security and health of vulnerable communities
• Reaching the hard to reach faster and more efficiently
• Capacity building and knowledge management for policy and advocacy
Thrust/Themes to Focus on
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• Gender mainstreaming strategies
• HIV/AIDs mainstreaming
• Strategic alliances and partnerships
• Program monitoring and evaluation
Cross Cutting Issues
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• What to achieveo Outputs / Outcomes:
Main components of the thrust Other actors working in the area Key strategies for implementing the thrust Efficient internal organization to deliver Capacities and profiles required
For Each Thrust Analysis for:
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• Identify synergy within Africa, HQ, other regions and centers (IPGs)
• Capacity and staff profiles required
• Partnerships (within and without)
• Joint proposal development
• Inter-disciplinarity
• Resource mobilization
How to organize ourselves as CIAT Africa
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Adjustments or a New Strategy ?
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CGIAR System Level Outcomes Global CIAT CIAT Africa / PABRA
Improving food security Boost agricultural productivity to provide poor with inexpensive and nutritious food
Improving nutrition and health of vulnerable communities
Reducing under -nutrition
Reducing rural povertyMake agriculture more competitive, offering the poor new opportunities to increase income
Pro-poor market development
Sustainable management of natural resources
Achieve agricultural growth that is sustainable and less harmful to the environment
• Building soil assets for small farmer enhancement of productivity, environmental services
• Enhancing system resilience to environmental stresses
Catalyzing partnerships and Capacity Building
Building capacity and knowledge management for policy and advocacy
√ Reaching the hard to reach faster and more efficiently
√ Mainstreaming Gender
Alignment of major outcomes / objectives of the CGIAR, global CIAT and CIAT-Africa
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Guiding Principles
• Africa’s challenges
• Changing context of African Agriculture
• CGIAR Reform Process
• Implementation research through CRPs (CIAT is in 7)
• CIATs Strategic Directions and Objectives (2010 – 2020)o Mission, Objectives, Pillars
• Africa (Regions) Platform for integration through partnerships
• Three years since elaborating the current strategy
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Adjustments
• In third year of strategy
• Alignments with CIAT Strategy, CG Reform, etc
• Business Plans
• New Areas / Increased Emphasis:o Climate Changeo Environment
o Gender o IAR4D
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Implementation Objectives
• Support development of new collaborative research and development activities and strengthen existing ones
• Foster and promote integration of CIAT research areas activities and efforts through collaborative research and development
• Catalyze partnerships of actors with NARS and enhance capacities
• Facilitate and promote optimal, efficient and complementary use of resources among CIAT teams and partners
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• What to achieveo Outputs / Outcomes:
Main components of the program Internal efficiency to deliver Partnership organization to deliver Resources required (including human)
Implementation Strategy – Program Level
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Implementation Strategy
• Programmatic approach
o E.g. PABRA, SSACP
• Integration of Corporate Services
• Share office/costs internally and other centers)
• Locations
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Issues Beans Cassava Forages Rice Contributors
Resilience systems
Soil assets for productivity and services
Nutrition and health
Pro-poor market development
Reaching End User
Institutional strengthening and knowledge management
AB
SOILS
LAC
Integration Across CIAT Research Areas - Africa
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Uganda (Kampala)Kawanda Agricultural
Research Station
Rwanda (Kigali)ISAR
Malawi (Lilongwe)Chitedze Agricultural
Research Station
Zimbabwe (Harare)
Tanzania (Arusha) Selian Agricultural Research Institute
Kenya ICRAFSadore(Mali)
Kinshasa(DRC)
Maputo(Mozambique)
MASENO
Bukavu(eastern DRC)
CORAFASARECA
FANR/SADC
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• Challengeso Resources o Realignments
o New capacities
• Opportunitieso New funding initiativeso CRPs o New partnership and alliances
Challenges /Opportunities
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• Adjustment
o Ongoing
• Revision of strategy
o When?
Way Forward