RTB and GCP meeting

Graham Thiele GCP Meeting

Rayong October 10th 2014

A COLLABORATION OF:

+ a wide spectrum of research-for-development stakeholders & partners

Banana Plantain

Cassava Potato Sweetpotato Yam Other R&T

200 million farmers depend on RTB crops Buffering role in food systems

Our Crops

• Enhance scale

• Greater capacity • Exploit synergies: genuine “win-wins” eg similarities in

challenges for breeding, seed systems and postharvest management

To do together what we cannot do separately

Program “value added”

“Lead” product and cluster

iPhone

Vast library apps

Packaging & design concept

Advertising

Data bases user

information

Delivery cluster: Combating vit A deficiency with orange sweetpotato

Improve diet quality 15

million+ VAD households

Strategic Objective Impact

pathway

Outcomes

Candidate OFSP

varieties

Gender responsive

vine multiplicati

on

Demand creation

Advocacy strategy

Delivery framework

Sustain intensificati

on

Client orientation - feedback

GCP: big lessons for CRPs!

• Focus on products – product delivery manager

• Valuing products - $, other metrics?

• Targeted communication – getting product into use: • Perception, attitude and behaviour

• Putting products into market place based on willingness

to pay – IBP/BMS

• Sequencing of competitive and program funding

• Sunsetting and legacy

GCP- legacy for RTB

PPK

•People

•Products

•Knowledge

GCP- legacy for RTB

People • NARS and CGIAR centers collaboration • Cassava: NARS proactive role

• Communities of practice:

• IBP around tools • RTB other initiatives

• Linking with ISTRC and GCP21

GCP- legacy for RTB

Products • Cassava GCP reference set – 100 accessions

not captured

• Drought prone trials mapping populations

• Pyramiding resistance to CMD commenced

• Unpublished QTLs?

GCP- legacy for RTB

Knowledge

• MARS recurrent selection scheme – in progress

GCP and RTB: next steps

• RTB support IBP across crops/centers: 2nd Call

• IBP link Cassavabase, Sweetpotatobase (GBS) • Concept note cassava group (Chiedoezie Egesi

– NRCRI and NARS colleagues)

• Sustaining and growing CoP

• Finalizing products

• Breeding populations – repository • Unique value proposition and cost