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Introduction to the CGIAR- Dryland Agriculture & Livelihood

System Research Program in South Asia

Amare Haileslassie /Platform/Jodhpur/14/06/13)

Photo : Amare Haileslassie ICRISAT/ILRI

Outline

What is new?

Dryland System Research: A new approach

Global and regional focus areas

>3 billion ha; 41% of land surface, 2.5 billion peopleLGP: <90; 90_180 days

Major systems are:—Mixed rain fed —Mixed dryland and Irrigated areas—Pastoral, Agro-pastoral

Global importance

Global and regional focus areas

Regional CGIAR_PROGRAM focus areas

Global and regional focus areas

CGIAR_PROGRAM focus areas in South Asia

Challenges and opportunities

Structure of agricultural systems in vulnerable areas

Feed

Food , services, +

Grasslands

HouseholdsLivestock

Crop land

External inputs

Feed

Manure Food

, +

Challenges and opportunities

Biomass demand supply relations

Challenges and opportunities

Change in demand side and its consequences

Challenges and opportunities

The supply side is constrained by resources scarcity

Examples of trend in number of operational land holding ( Jodhpur, Barmer)

Challenges and opportunities

Yield instability as indicated by CV

Examples of trend in yield ( Jodhpur)

Challenges and opportunities

Nutrient and water mining

Water and nutrient stock mining are major environmental problems;

Micro nutrient become issues of concern;

The impact in mixed crop livestock system is beyond grain yield;This may feedback to the enabling resources and limits options for intensification.

Challenges and opportunities

Good news!

Huge yield gap in many parts [milk and grain (e.g. ICRISAT work)]

Drylands are mainly under mixed crop livestock: future major supply of grain and livestock products

How can we reap these sustainably and where should our focus ?

Impacts, outcome, outputs and activities

Dryland System Program want to impact on food security and sustainable agro-ecosystems

1) More resilient livelihoods for vulnerable households in marginal areas.

2) More stable and higher per capita income for intensifiable households.

3) Women and children in vulnerable households have year round access to greater quantity and diversity of food sources.

4) More sustainable and equitable management of land and water resources in pastoral, agro-pastoral and agricultural areas.

5) Better functioning markets underpinning intensification of rural livelihoods.

6) More integrated, effective and connected service delivery institutions underpinning resilience and system intensification.

7) Policy reform removing constraints and creating incentives for rural households

Impacts, outcome, outputs and activities

Examples of from IDO-2

Impacts, outcome, outputs and activities

Examples of from IDO-4

Impacts, outcome, outputs and activities

Examples of from IDO-7

Impacts, outcome, outputs and activities

How we want to do it?

Initial matrix of intensification and

resilience options and the context in which

they work

Influence development projects so that sufficient

intensification options are offered

Participatory monitoring and evaluation of

systems for performances of options

Interpretation of performances to refine matrixes of option and

characterization

Characterize variation in context

across scale

Simple to use tools to match options to sites

and circumstances across scale of domain

Thanks for your attention