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Food Security Innovation: Research
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3 Major Research Programs
IntegratedCross-Cutting Programs
Program anchoring research in key farmingsystems
Program for Safe and Nutritious Foods
Program for PolicyResearch and Support
Program for Human and Institutional Capacity Building
We have to intensify agriculture, but sustainably
• The challenge is to achieve sustainable transformation via smallholder farmers
• Existing and future technologies are essential
• Context for technology scale-up is crucial
• Integration of multiple technologies is needed
• Single crops, low diversity
• Extended periods of unprotected soil
• Poor water management
Low intensity cropping systems
• Extend the growing season
• Integrate perennial crops
• Integrate legumes for nitrogen
Infiltration
Uptake
Drainage
Intercropping with a legume
Nutrient recycling
• Integrate livestock & aquaculture
• Appropriately scaled mechanization
Integrating more complex practices
Infiltration
Uptake
Drainage
Climate change: adaptation & mitigation
• Better water management• Greater diversification to
reduce risk • Improved input efficiency -
fewer GHG emissions
• Greater soil carbon and nitrogen levels offset GHG
• Reduced land conversion
Evaporation
Uptake
Drainage
Improved nutritional quality through biofortification of cereals/legumes (including as fodder)
Tolerance to higher temperaturesImproved photosynthetic efficiency (on the longer horizon)
Maintain productivity with less water, including tolerance to moderate droughtMore efficient usage of soil nitrogen(both organic and synthetic)Tolerant of more saline soils & brackish water (including removing salt from soils)
Reduce tillage through biotech-enabled weed management
Innovations in plant breeding
Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia
Transforming production systems in Africa through Sustainable Intensification
• Maize-legume-livestock systems in East and Southern Africa
• Crop livestock systems in Ethiopian Highlands
• Cereal based farming systems in West Africa
Africa RISING
africa-rising.net
www.feedthefuture.gov