highlights of the dapa program 2010-2011

Highlights of DAPA Program 2010Annual Program Review 2011

Nairobi, Kenya, 10 May 2011

Our visionWe strongly believe in the power of information

for making better decisions about agricultural and natural resource investments, from the

farm- to the global- level.

Numbers. Maps. Graphs. Insights.

Better public and private policies through engagement

Our modus operandi

Thematically diverse, united by spatial, economic and institutional analysis

Converting data to information to policy and decision insights

Demand-driven by other CIAT programs and partners needs (principally in Latin America)

Eco-efficiency as a guiding principle

Our objectives and some selected highlights

• To maximize the impact and returns on investment of agricultural research and development through ex ante and ex post impact assessment

• To contribute to improved management of critical ecosystem services through pro-poor payment schemes for water and carbon in Latin America

• To fully understand the likely impacts of climate change on agricultural systems, livelihoods and critical ecosystem services, and identify best-bet adaptation strategies from local to global level

• To ensure that public and private sector policies provide the opportunity for smallholder farmers to profit from emerging market opportunities

Involvement in CRPs

• 60% in CCAFS (Peter Laderach is CIAT’s contact point)

• 20% in CRP5: Land and water (Marcela Quintero)

• 20% in CRP2: income and policy (Mark Lundy - linking farmers to markets)

Policy Briefs in CIAT• Policy briefs now being published by CIAT• Two published, 3 in press, 2 more under-development• Only one part of an engagement strategy

Impact Targeting and Assessment• Continued analysis of impact of rice in LAC

• Studies on impacts of CIAT’s bean work in East Africa ongoing (environmental benefits and broader scale poverty impact)

• Major cassava study ongoing in SE Asia

• We continue to strengthen impact assessment, but we need your help: interest in collaborating, data, stories, budget into projects

• Two new economists working on agricultural trends in LAC and climate change policy (joint IFPRI positions)

• Site Specific Agriculture in fruits in Colombia delivering first impacts with 1000s of farmers now enrolled in the program

Agricultura específica por sitio compartiendo experiencias (AESCE) aplicada a la producción de frutales en Colombia

Secretarias técnicas de las cadenas productivas (mango, aguacate, cítricos, plátano)

www.frutisitio.orgwww.ciat.cgiar.org

Con la participación de :

Climate and landscape

Soil and relief

Agronomic management

• Productivity and Quality• Ideal environmental conditions

• Appropriate practices• Varietal adaptation

It’s all about the agronomy!

Principle 1 Principle 2 Principle 3

What you don’t measure you can’t manage

Collective knowledge is more powerful than individual knowledge

Technology boosts learning

The Principles of SSAFE

26 Talleres a la fecha

Farmer workshops

GPS

RASTA

Participatory GIS and soil analysis

Cítricos

Google Earth: Facilita visualización

Varietal adaptation maps

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Aguacate con datos de producción

What factors drive production?

Aguacate con Disimilaridad – Apoyo a grupos intercambiando experiencias

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Menos distantes y más similares

Más distantes y más similares - OPORTUNIDAD

Connecting farmer knowledge

Climate Change• Theme Leadership of the CCAFS Challenge Program

during 2010

• Supported CIAT’s Lead Centre status for the CCAFS CRP, and Andy J leading Theme 1

• Grounding Climate Change: Major activities in three countries (Colombia, Jamaica and Guatemala) on whole supply chain adaptation (with Oxfam)

• Detailed impact studies for Central America, Andes, Latin America and globe published

• Policy Briefs on climate change implications for agriculture in Colombia, and on coffee for Mesoamerica

Downscaled climate data

framework

Definition and Importance of a Supply Chain

Characterization and Objectives of a SC

Crop Exposure to Changing Climate

Structures and Dynamics within the SC

Capacity to adapt to Hazard

Sensitivity to GCC Impacts

Chain Inclusive Adaptation StrategiesChain Inclusive Adaptation StrategiesUnderstand

BEHAVIORAL

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Assess VULNERABILITY

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Behavior and Mindset

Mediation of Behavior

Different Types of People

Karnal (India)• Rainy season from June to September

Tool for assessing risk of rainfall events which are potential triggers for bean root rot outbreaks (Farrow et al, 2011, Exp. Ag.)

Ecosystem Services

• Water, carbon, biodiversity

• Development of national methods for calculating opportunity costs for REDD+ developed and included in World Bank training manuals

• Finalization of the Amazon Spatial Policy Targeting tool online

• Terra-I deforestation monitoring tool now influencing policy and being used by major players across the continent

• Broad range of projects in hydrological ecosystem services

Resultados Terra-i

Tasa de Deforestacion

151,754 Ha/año

Terra-i Results

Deforestation Rate

3,062,064 Ha/año

Colombian savannahs: the next front?

Hydrological ongoing projects• CPWF Project AN2: “Assessing and anticipating the

consequences of Benefit Sharing Mechanisms (BSM) aimed at conserving Ecosystem Services provision in the Andes

• CIAT-CAR agreement: For evaluating ex ante and ex post impacts of conservation agriculture practices on farm-firm economics, farmer wellbeing, ecosystem services

• CIAT- Patrimonio Natural: For identifying the ES providing units to be prioritize in Payment for Ecosystem Services schemes in the CORPOGUAVIO’s jurisdiction

• CIAT –TNC: Hydrological analysis for the design of a PES scheme in Valle del Cauca with sugarcane industry

• CIAT – CORTOLIMA: Hydrological analysis • CIAT-CVS-CORPOICA: Promoting Sustainable Land

Management: A Clean Development Mechanism Project in the Caribbean Savanna of Colombia

Main achivements (2010-2011)

• Quantification of ES in watersheds and the identification of their correspondent priority service-providing units, in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru

• Economic valuation of the benefits derived from ES by downstream ES users in Ecuador and Peru

• Support in designing BSMs• Validation of a CDM carbon sequestration project

Linking Farmers to Markets

Willing buyers (private sector

policies)

Capable farmers (skills, capacity &

organization)

New business models for sustained trading relationships

Learning alliances public

sector

Learning alliances with

NGOs

Action research & incidence

Linking Farmers to Markets• Synthesis of PROGRESO methodology for agro-enterprise development

post conflict published in policy brief (in press)– Now being used by USAID in Plan Colombia (US$350m over next 5 years)

• Major new projects established in 2010 with: – IFAD project focused on analysis and redesign of IFAD LAC approach to market linkage

for the poor, and assisting IFAD programs to incorporate novel approaches to market-based solutions to poverty (US$100m+ investments)

– Ford Foundation: effectiveness of public policy interventions in supply chains as a motor of poverty reduction in Colombia.

• New model of research in development designed with CRS in Ecuador and Colombia for use across Latin America

• Impact of value chain fairness study tremendous through GMCR• Continued engagement with private sector policy through Sustainable

Food Lab

Talk about impact through policy engagement

• US$43k study in 2007 for GMCR

• Resulted in:– US$3.5m development

investment from private sector

– 120,000 families benefitting

– Feature film “The Thin Months”

Challenges

• The nature of our work relies on short, intense projects (difficult for budget planning)

• Program leadership –DAPA Program Officer being recruited now

• Africa: big demands, no money• Asia: moderate demands, no money, handled

from HQ