2011 icraf science week - overview
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Monday
1) Welcome? 2) who-is-who? 3) why-are-we-here? 4) what-to-expect-this week?
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Who joined ICRAF when
Bjorn was DG?
Who joined ICRAF when
Pedro was DG?
Who joined ICRAF when
Dennis was DG?
Who will join ICRAF while Tony
is DG?
The Terminalia in ‘ICRAF
House’ was the first sign that
2011 is a year of change…
Maybe the tree was too old
Maybe the tree was neglected
Not all change is bad, we save
on cleaning service costs
Tree planting is a nice symbolic act, but we ran out of
space
Objectives for Science Week 2011, World Agroforestry Centre1. Be a global networked science organization for at least 1 week per
year: explore new links, new ideas, bonding, new impact pathways2. Welcome close partners and show them the kitchen & how we cook3. Get new ideas on big-picture science4. Share our work, get critical feedback in peer groups5. Manage the input/output ratio: winning proposals and manuscripts
accepted after peer review6. Methods&disciplines: update yourself, know cutting edge in your field7. Better understand the GRP/CRP framing of research approaches,
partnerships & impact pathways8. Get ready for 3600 M&E: clarify and test assumptions of theory of
change (ex ante impact model) while producing agreed outputs, helping output/outcome processes and ex-post impact studies
9. Organizational housekeeping10. Celebrate DG transition
ICRAF’s website shows we have a few challen-ges with our ‘manage-ment team’….
How can you tell the differences How can you tell the differences between (fe)male?between (fe)male?
- Female has a Female has a cub under its cub under its
paw; male has paw; male has a ball; a ball; (Read: (Read: female takes female takes
care of the next care of the next generations generations
while male has while male has fun playing fun playing
soccer)soccer)
REALU architecture is explored in
Indonesia, Viet Nam, Peru and Cameroon
(clockwise from upper left)
Deforestation is often measured in ‘football fields per hour’; is football compatible with
avoided deforestation?
For example, “Amazon destruction has accelerated to record levels, according to figures released by the Brazilian government. The annual rate has reached 26,130 square km, the second highest ever - an area equivalent to about six football fields a minute are destroyed.
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/amazon-destruction
But what if the world wants to play football, can it be done without deforestation?
Keeping trees (or at least palms…) in football fields does not reduce the fun, and
may help reduce C emissions
- Female has a Female has a cub under its cub under its
paw; male has paw; male has a ball; a ball; (Read: (Read: female takes female takes
care of the next care of the next generations generations
while male has while male has fun playing fun playing
soccer)soccer)
- Female is Female is always always positioned in positioned in the right the right side; side; (Read: (Read: female is female is always right )always right )
Imaginary Orchards Imaginary Orchards by Lin Wenjia (8 Fuzhou)UNEP Chinese Children’s Environmental Education
Programme Itinerant Painting Exhibition
Can Ramni Can Ramni help to turn help to turn
this to this to reality?reality?
1) Domestication, utilization and conservation of superior agroforestry germplasm.
2) Maximizing on-farm productivity of trees and agroforestry systems.
3) Improving tree product marketing and extension for smallholders.
4) Reducing land health risks and targeting agroforestry interventions to enhance land productivity and food availability.
5) Improving the ability of farmers, ecosystems, and governments to cope with climate change.
6) Developing policies and incentives for multi- functional landscapes with trees that provide environmental services.
CRP3 Commodities
CRP1.1 DryAES
CRP1.2 WetAES
CRP1.3 Aquatic
CRP2 Instit.ns
CRP4 Health
CRP5 Water&
land
CRP7 C.Change
CRP6 Forest-Tree-
AF
Trees as commodity
Humid forests & their margins
Dry forests & their margins
Mangroves
Watershed forest & trees
Forests, trees & climate
mitigadaptation
Fruits trees & medicinals
Forest institutions, markets for forest & AF products
In 2011 ICRAF
entered a ‘CRP-
world’, in the refor-
med CGIAR.
This differs from busi-ness-as-usual, but
can be accomo-
dated in our structure....
1. Tree domestication
2. Farm: AgFo systems
3. Market & extension
4. Land health
5. Climate change
6. Landscape
governance
7. ASB-partnership
CRP6.1, 6.2
CRP6.1,
CRP6.1, 6.5
CRP6.3
CRP6.3, 6.5
CRP6.3, 6.4
CRP6.4
CCAFS
CCAFS
CRP5
CRP2
CRP4
CRP1.1, 1.2
CRP2CRP5
GRP of ICRAF CRP roles ICRAF
Meadow 1996 2006 Fallow XP 2011 Vineyard
Land cover change….
3101 Fremont Drive, Sonoma, California, United States
10% TREE cover in agricultural lands…
Enough to qualify as forest?
Two centres separated by an ..uncommon forest
…definition
Two countries separated by a common language
Rational integration Rational integration with a human face?with a human face?
Is it fusion?Is it fusion?
Did it reachDid it reach‘‘critical mass’?critical mass’?
……and explode?and explode?
Recursion or evolution?Recursion or evolution?
The whole is more The whole is more than the sum of the than the sum of the
parts?parts?
But But can it walk?can it walk?
Beauty of collaboration?Beauty of collaboration?
Active science, with effective
support functions
Scientists come at the end of ‘divide and rule’
BOTCEO
CRP/Centres
deliverables
CRP mana-gement
CRP Teams of scien-tists across centres
Dir. Admn
New ICRAF Organogramfrom August 2011
Administa-tion & go-vernance
Variable Research Grant and
CRPs
GRP & CRP leaders
Scientists
Regional Coordinators
DDG, Research
DDG,Partnership & Impact
DDG, Corpo-rate Services
BOT
DG
CRPDirec-tor
CRPDirec-tor
CRPDirec-tor
CRPDirec-torResearch
and Impact Support
agroforesters/ farmers, R&D partners, AF-
academia
ISA
Direct investor relationsHost country relationsExternal audit
deliverables
CRP mana-gement
CRP Teams of scien-tists across centres
Dir. Admn
New ICRAF Organogramfrom August 2011
Administa-tion & go-vernance
Variable Research Grant and
CRPs GRP & CRP leaders
Scientists
Regional Coordinators
DDG, Research
DDG,Partnership & Impact
DDG, Corpo-rate Services
BOT
DG
CRPDirec-tor
CRPDirec-tor
CRPDirec-tor
CRPDirec-tor
Research and Impact
Support
agroforesters/ farmers, R&D partners, AF-
academiaISA
Direct investor relations Host country relationsExternal audit
deliverables
CRP mana-gement
CRP Teams of scien-tists across centres
Dir. Admn
New ICRAF Organogramfrom August 2011
Administa-tion & go-vernance
Direct investor relations Host country relationsExternal audit
Variable Research Grant and
CRPs
Geoinformatics
GRP & CRP leaders
Scientists
ASB Global Coordinator
Research Methods
OperationsSecurity
TravelHRU
Contracts&GrantsFinance
ProcurementRegional Corporate
Services
Regional Coordinators
Training Unit
Impact Office
Protocol
DDG, Research
DDG,Partnership & Impact
DDG, Corpo-rate Services
BOT
Chief Scientist
Internal Audit
BOT secre-
tary
Communications
Information Techology Unit
Resource Mobilization
Agroforestry Policy Initiative
DG
CRPDirec-tor
CRPDirec-tor
CRPDirec-tor
CRPDirec-tor
Research and Impact
Support
agroforesters/ farmers, R&D partners, AF-
academiaISA
deliverables
CRP Teams of scien-tists across centres
Dir. Admn
New ICRAF Organogramfrom August 2011
Administa-tion & go-vernance
Variable Research Grant and
CRPs GRP & CRP leaders
Scientists
Regional Coordinators
DDG, Research
DDG,Partnership & Impact
DDG, Corpo-rate Services
BOT
DG
CRPDirec-tor
CRPDirec-tor
CRPDirec-tor
CRPDirec-tor
Research and Impact
Support
agroforesters/ farmers, R&D partners, AF-
academiaISA
External audit
Geoinformatics
GRP & CRP leadersASB Global Coordinator
Research Methods
Training Unit
Impact Office
Chief Scientist
Communications
Agroforestry Policy Initiative
Information Techology Unit
Resource Mobilization
Contracts&Grants
deliverables
New ICRAF Organogramfrom August 2011
Administa-tion & go-vernance
Scientists
Regional Coordinators
DDG, Research
DDG,Partnership & Impact
DDG, Corpo-rate Services
BOT
DG
CRPDirec-tor
CRPDirec-tor
CRPDirec-tor
CRPDirec-tor
Direct investor relationsExternal audit
Dir. Admn
Administa-tion & go-vernance
DDG, Research
DDG,Partnership & Impact
DDG, Corpo-rate Services
BOT
Internal Audit
Information Techology Unit
Resource Mobilization DG
GRP & CRP leaders
OperationsSecurity
TravelHRU
Contracts&GrantsFinance
ProcurementRegional Corporate
Services
Protocol
1. Know the neighbours on the table where you sit
2. Identify where you are in the dia-gram of theway our centre is supposed to function
3. Know at least one person in any box connected to your own,
4. Know some/most/all other ele-ments on the diagram for new-comers/average staff /old-timers
Monday
1) Welcome?2) who-is-who? 3) why-are-we-here? 4) what-to-expect-this week?
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deliverables
Scientists
GRP & CRP leaders
Specific context of agroforestry challenges and opportunities across Africa, Asia and Latin America
Regional Coordinators
Communications Agroforesters/ farmers, R&D partners, AF-academia
Eastern AfricaLatin AmericaSouth AsiaSouthern AfricaSoutheast AsiaWest & Central Africa
INRM tool tested : proof of Asia-Africa link
The world’s most sophisticated INRM tools that were earlier described from Asia, have been tested in Africa. IPG’s, doubted by the CGIAR Science Council, exist in Integrated Natural Resource Management !
and International Public Goods (IPG’s)
deliverables
Scientists
Regional Coordinators
GRP & CRP leaders
1. Trees2. Farms
3. Markets4. Land
5. Climate change
6. Landscape governance
Communications
Agroforesters/ farmers, R&D partners, AF-
academia
One picture tells more than a 1000 words
Especially, if it is a live example
Let us take a moment to celebrate how far we have come in advancing our mission. And let us redouble our efforts to making our science really count, with solutions that make a difference for tens of millions of the smallest-sale, poorest farmers in the world.
Tuesday
Forest Tree Genomics: Genome Sequencing,
Marker-Based Breeding and
Landscape Genomics
Chair:Ramni
Prof. Dr. David Neale, University of California at Davis,
Department of Plant Sciences
Communication planning linked to science quality
• Communication needs a target audience, appropriate media, and messages that ring a bell, make sense, raise interest
• Science quality requi-res evidence and refe-rence to emerging ge-neric theory; it may be ‘politically incorrect’, not what our key au-diences want to hear…
•Our science and development efforts depend on investors/ development agencies who have clear goals and numerical targets as performance criteria
GRP & CRP
leadersRegional
Coordinators
Agroforesters/ farmers, R&D partners, AF-academia
Communi-cations
Deliver-ables
1. Trees2. Farms
3. Markets4. Land
5. Climate change
6. Landscape governance
Scientists
Evidence &Legitimacy
Relevance: transforming
lives and landscapes
6 parallel sessions will prioriti- ze topics for communication, planning & research priorities: A.Which surprising results do we have that are ready to be communicated to wider audiences? B. What appears to be emerging ‘good practice’ that we stimulate others to try out? C. What are the hottest unresolved questions?
Communications
Resource Mobilization
Restricted projects, agroforesters/farmers, R&D partners, AF-academia
Contracts&Grants
Outputs that will be read & cited
Proposals that will be
funded
Scientists
deliverablesGRP & CRP leaders
Scientists
Regional Coordinators
DDG, Corpo-rate Services
Research and Impact
Support
agroforesters/ farmers, R&D partners, AF-
academia
Geoinformatics
GRP & CRP leadersASB Global Coordinator
Research Methods
Training Unit
Impact Office
Chief Scientist
Communications
Agroforestry Policy Initiative
Wednesday
Fairly efficient or efficiently fair:
success factors and constraints of payment
and reward schemes for environmental
services in Asia
Chair:Ujjwal
Discussant: Delia
Beria Leimona
PhD exam Wageningen
3/10/2011
Thursday
Hidden Capital: harnes-sing belowground biodiversity for sustainable agroecosystems
ISA
Edmundo Barrios & Peter Mortimer
Chair & facilitator:Fergus and Jianchu
deliverables
CRP Teams of scien-tists across centres
GRP & CRP leaders
Scientists
Regional Coordinators
agroforesters/ farmers, R&D partners, AF-
academia
Geoinformatics
GRP & CRP leadersASB Global Coordinator
Research Methods
Training Unit
Impact Office
Work-plans
Friday
Reflections on the way forward by some special people in our Science Week
CRP by Ecoregion,Sentinel landsca-pes & benchmarks: how to move for-ward?
ALTHOUGH Dennis was born as DG and will stay just that
Glasses?White beard?
Sept 2001: Dennis&Vilma watch the farewell to Pedro&CherylTen years from
now, how would I feel?
Evidence of impact?
Logistical announcements:• Your assistant in finding your
way, working space etc• Busses leave…• Drinking water• Coffee/tea• Lunches• IT assistance• YAMMER• ….