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Steve Staal, ILRIInter-Agency Donor Group Meeting and

2010 Livestock WeekIFAD, 4-6 May 2010

Consortium Board and CEO to oversee all CGIAR center research First meeting in Nairobi, March 2010 CEO to be recruited Consortium HQ either Addis Ababa, Delhi, Montpellier,

Nairobi or Rome Strategic Results Framework to set priorities Megaprograms for delivery

Currently 7, may expand to 15 Initial CN’s being submitted this week To be reviewed externally and by Consortium Board

end May Those agreed go to full Proposal development

Multi-donor fund managed by a Fund Council Performance contracts

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MP1: Integrated agriculture systems for the poor and vulnerable (potential fast tracked) Integrated agriculture for dryland systems Integrated agriculture for tropical humid

systems Integrated coastal/aquatic systems

 MP2: Policies, institutions, and markets for enabling agricultural incomes for the poor 

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MP3: Sustainable staple food productivity increase for global food security (probably multiple MPs, some potential fast tracked) Rice Maize Wheat Cluster: Pulses and legumes Cluster: Roots and tubers, bananas and plantains Cluster: Sorghum, millet and barley Cluster: Livestock and fish

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MP4: Agriculture, nutrition and health MP5: Water scarcity and land degradation MP6: Forests and Trees MP7: Climate Change (potential fast

tracked)

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Systems with the deepest endemic poverty and with the most vulnerable people

≤200 mm rainfall- Saharan and part of Sahelian zones in Africa Systems with the greatest potential to impact on poor in

the short to medium term 300 to 600 mm, Sahelian countries in West Africa

Systems most vulnerable/at risk to degradation and climate variability

500 to 900 mm - North Soudanian, Sub Sahelian climate (West Africa) Types of intervention testing and research

Information (weather, prices) and tools (eg index based livestock insurance) to manage weather and other risks

Participatory approaches to land use planning and conflict management

Payment for environmental services schemes Ag, livestock and NRM technologies and practices validated,

adapted and assessed in system context Institutional innovations around increasing market access

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Intensification strategies, crops, feeds, nutrient cycling, environmental management (an important component here relates to trade offs in biomass use)

Feeding strategies in value chain context Combining feed and breed with risk mitigating animal

health and insurance options Optimising crop and livestock husbandry, crop residue use Balanced feed options with positive environmental impacts

(including number of animals) Manure management options

Longer term institutional and environmental sustainability including issues related to policies to provide enabling environment, incentives and regulations

Land policy/regulations Incentives/regulations relating to environmental issues 7

Policies and investments that enable poverty-reducing agricultural growth modeling for strategic foresight and future scenarios international trade, macro and non-agricultural policies production, natural resources and technology policies, and policy

process Value chains

input and output markets, incentives testing interventions and capacity building chain analysis methods, analysis of demand drivers

Enabling institutions and governance for the poor governance in input/service supply collective action

Livestock research elements Livestock-specific features of modeling

(asset accumulation, natural resource interactions, non-market products and cost items)

Animal health issues in market, policy Crop-livestock interaction and resource use pressures Demand-led development interventions in the value chain Data and sampling issues specific to livestock

Targeting and outcome assessment Mapping of priority livestock and fish , targeting

strategies for specific technology, strategy and policy interventions based on system analysis

Needs and constraints assessment and prioritization for the Program, including gender analyses

Analysis of child nutrition impacts in livestock/fish production systems, and strategies to increase availability of these high nutrient products to rural children.

Outcome and communications strategies across Program activities

Impact assessments of to guide research (re) design9

Characterization, conservation, and selective breeding Better understanding of the genetic attributes of various

livestock breeds and the systems under which they can be are raised

Mapping of genotypes for conservation Develop bio-banking protocols and systems, including

phenotypic descriptions of biobanked material from indigenous livestock and fish populations.

Improved delivery of genetics Adapt enhanced reproductive technologies and strategies

to multiply and deliver appropriate livestock genotypes Exploring applications from new science

Development of new tools to allow integration of sequence data with rich phenotypic data including systems analysis.

Reproductive tools to discover and to exploit discoveries in functional genomics to improve livestock productivity under various production systems

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Producing more and better quality forage and feed resources: Including crop residue fodder traits (quantity and

quality) in multidimensional crop improvement to exploit genetic variation and by further targeted genetic enhancement towards dual-purpose traits using conventional and marker assisted crop breeding.

Improved dual purpose varieties of food – feed crops, and improved pastures and forage options

Making better use of available feeds: Harnessing spin-off technologies from 2nd generation

bio fuel technologies to improved basal diets Strategic/smart supplementation strategies, byproduct

based rations with under-exploited local ingredients Improving provision of forages and feeds through

markets, and sustainable forage and fodder crop seed/germplasm systems

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Vaccines and diagnostics for orphan viral, bacterial and protozoan diseases for which there are few or no other providers (with focus on endemic diseases threatening productivity, survival and market access)

Thermostabilization of current vaccines Identification of vaccine antigens and proof-

of-concept vaccine trials for priority diseases Development of molecular fingerprinting

tools for pathogen detection and surveillance Disease risk assessment and disease

modeling Strategies for delivery of improved health

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Development strategies for pro-poor value chains for livestock and fish products Systems for sustainable production and delivery of

appropriate livestock and fish genetics with private & public partners

Systems for improved disease surveillance and control, both within production systems and along product supply chains, focused on endemic diseases

Strategies for technology integration and innovation- feeds, health and genetics for sustained productivity increases

Testing adapted organisational mechanims (hubs, innovation platforms, SME’s, PPPs) to facilitate the access to knowledge, information and technology, and increase value , including post-harvest.

Livestock and fish product and post harvest process development, including food safety and certification systems

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Agriculture for improved food security, diet quality, and nutrition. Develop, test, approaches to

maximize the impact of agriculture on improving the availability, access to consumption of nutritious and diverse foods – focus on women and young children;

to increase global awareness and knowledge of the importance of nutritious foods and high-quality diets

Biofortication Managing the multiple burdens of agriculture- associated disease (mostly

zoonotics) Measure the human health burden (DALYs), and other burdens of AADs

including equity; economic cost of lost human and animal productivity; trade; market access; ecosystem services;

Develop and scientifically evaluate better ways of managing priority AADs.

Integrated ways of studying and tackling zoonotic and other diseases, based on Ecohealth and One World, One Health approaches

Scenario and other futures analysis to understand disease trajectories, risk analysis for better managing food and water borne disease and occupational hazards; ,and identify mitigation options

Value chain analysis to upgrade the ability of value chains to deliver safe products

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Delivering greater water and land productivity in rainfed and irrigated systems

Enhancing and safeguarding land and water access for the poor especially women

Improving land and soil health and water quality to reverse widespread soil nutrient depletion and degradation of ecosystem services

Enhancing ecosystem services and building resilience to maintain vital ecosystems

Livestock research elements Improved land and water management to support

pastoral  livestock systems Improved water use efficiency of livestock

production in crop-livestock systems

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Adaptation to Decadal Climate Change Adaptation Pathways for Current Climate

Risk Poverty Alleviation through Mitigation Diagnosis and Vulnerability Assessment

for Making Strategic Choices Livestock research elements

Improved management of C-L systems to enhance adaptation

Understanding role of livestock in CC In situ conservation of livestock genetics needed

for adaptation Increased productivity of livestock for mitigation

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Bulk of livestock research likely to be contained within MP3 Livestock and Fish Opportunities for new synergy Productivity plus tools for uptake and impact Better focus?

MP4 Ag for Health & Nutrition however contains significant animal health and food safety research, growing area of demand

Livestock research component within Systems, Policy/Markets, Water/Soil and Climate Change

New levels of interaction are apparent already

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