Selection of benchmark areas & action sites
1. Reducing vulnerability (SRT2 type)2. Sustainable intensification (SRT3 type)
Circles/ovals indicate roughly the 5 Target Regions.
CRP-DS Goal & Partners
• Goal: to identify and develop resilient, diversified and more productive combinations of crop, livestock, rangeland, aquatic and agroforestry systems that increase productivity, reduce hunger and malnutrition, and improve quality of life for the rural poor.
• ICARDA (Lead Center) and 8 CG Centers– ICRISAT– Bioversity International– CIAT– CIP– ICRAF– ILRI– IWMI– Sub-Saharan Africa Challenge Program (SSA CP)
CRP-DS focuses 4 research areas
• SRT1: Approaches to strengthening innovation systems, building stakeholder innovation capacity, and linking knowledge to policy action.
• SRT2: Reducing vulnerability and managing risk, leading to resilient dryland agro-ecosystems with less vulnerable and improved livelihoods of rural communities.
• SRT3: Sustainable intensification for more productive, profitable, and diversified dryland agriculture with well-established linkages to markets.
• SRT4: Measuring impact and cross-regional synthesis.
CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Agricultural Production Systems – Launch Meeting, Amman 21-23 May 2013
Title CRP-DS in NA&WA
High potential areas: Intensification
Low potential areas: Improving resilience
(SRT2)
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What we want to achieve in NA&WA Flagship through the CRP-DS?
• to reduce vulnerability to system shocks and climate change in dry resource poor areas with poor institutions and poor market connectedness,
• to sustainably intensify production in less marginal areas which tend to have better institutional support and access to markets
The goal is ‘sustainable intensification’ and investment for long-term food security
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Major Agricultural Livelihood Systems in NA&WA
ALS Major constraints Sites
Agropastoral
Systems
Overgrazing, feed imbalances, land degradation, water scarcity, climate variability, conflicts over resources, youth unemployment
Tafilah-Salamya, Beni Khedache-Sidi Bouzid,Karkheh River Basin
Intensive rainfed
Systems
Land degradation, nutrient deficiencies, water scarcity, climate variability, youth unemploymeent
Meknes-Saies, Karkheh River Basin
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ALS Major constraints Sites
Tree-based
Systems
Fast degradation of natural resources, overgrazing, land degradation, climate variability, youth unemployment
Tafilah-Salamya, Beni Khedache-Sidi Bouzid, Meknes-Saies
Irrigated Crop
Systems
Land constrained by groundwater depletion, salinization, heat stress, youth unemployment
Nile Delta
Major Agricultural Livelihood Systems in NA&WA
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Collaboration frameworks and partnerships working mechanisms
• ICARDA is nearly the only center intervening in NA&WA flagship, other centers will join!!!
• ICARDA developed over decades a strong partnership with NARES over NA & WA region
• Partners:– Local partners: NARES, Universities, farmers’
organizations, NGOs, development agencies, Private sector, Decision makers
– Regional & International agencies: ARI (CIRAD), ACIAR, FAO, IFAD, AFESD, EU, GTZ, UNDP, etc.
CRP-DS revised IDOs
SLOs
IDO1Resilience
IDO2Wealth & Wellbeing
IDO3Food
accessIDO4NRM
IDO5Gender
empowmt
IDO6Capacity to
innovate
More resilient livelihoods for vulnerable HH in
marginal areas
More sustainable & higher income & well-being for
sustainable HH
Women & children have access to
greater quantity & diversity of food
More sustainable & equitable mgt of
land, water, energy & biodiversity
Women & youth have better access to and
control over resources & market and more equitable share of income & food ..
Increased & sustainable capacity to innovate allowing
to seize new opportunities ..
Reduced rural poverty; Improved food security; Better nutrition and health; Sustainable management of
natural resources.
4 Phases
Discovery Proof of concept Pilot Scaling up
New concept of product or
process
Testing of proof of
concept in real world/ controlled conditions (n=1000)
Multi-location release/trials
for smallholder’
benefit(n=100,000)
Release for scaling up & adoption in
different locations
(n=1,000 000)
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Phases 2014 (with little variation between ALSs)
Discovery Proof of concept Pilot
Policies on natural resources
Water harvesting & soil conservation
Water & land productivity in irrigated & rainfed system
System vulnerability Managing rangelandsConservation agriculture
Bio-economic farm models In situ agro-biodiversity
Livestock productivity
Innovation platforms & scenarios
Seed systems & dissemination
Cereal & legume systems adaptation
High-value chain clustersCereal & legume system IPM-
Post- harvest & market accessGender in Drylands
Aggregation for smallholder
Managing salinity
Consortium
Lead Center Board
Independent Steering Committee (ISC) * ISAC
CRP-DS Director +Program Management Office (PMO)
Research Management Committee (RMC)
Flagship Programs – FPsInterdisciplinary Research
Teams -IRTAction sites
Lead Center (LC): ICARDAISC: CGIAR Center DG’s, rotating Members: NARS leaders, ARI leaders, development partners. LC-DG + CRP Director as ex officio members NB: *merged with ISAC: Independent thematic experts.ITF: External Senior researchersRMC: CRP Director, CGIAR Center Coordinators (CC), FP Coordinators FC).PMO: CRP Director, + 6 for Manager, Finance, Gender, Communication, Capacity Development, and Administration.IRT: FC, Action Site Coordinators (ASC), Center Focal Points (CFP), NARS, NGOs, CSOs, thematic experts.
Lead Center DG
Fund Council
Independent Task Force (ITF)
CPA (Consortium Performance Agreement)
PIA (Program Implementation Agreement)
Governance & Management of CRP-DS 2014-2015
Interdisciplinary Research Team CRP-DS North Africa and West Asia (Draft)
Ali Nefzaoui Chair – NA&WA Flagship Project Coordinator
Rachid Mrabet Member, MoroccoSami Sabry Member, EgyptVeronique Alary Member, CIRADHatem Belhouchette Member, IAMMMariana Yazbek Member, ICARDAMohamed Ouessar Member, TunisiaDebra Turner Member, ICARDAMounir Louhaichi Member, ICARDAFeras Ziadat Member, ICARDAMourad Rekik Member, ICARDAHichem Ben Salem Member, ICARDAMohammed Karrou Member, ICARDA
Title Béni Khédache-Sidi Bouzid SitePrecipitation & PET
100-150
250-300
1650
1350
80-237mm/year (CV:38 to 59 %)
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Collaboration frameworks and partnerships working mechanisms
• For each site a NARES-ICARDA team is established involving both research centers and universities
• A MOA of agreement signed between ICARDA and NARES
• ICARDA regional/country office in charge of the budget management
• For each site an ICARDA focal point and NARES focal point have been nominated
• For each activity a leader from ICARDA and a leader from NARES is nominated
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Achievements
• Joint research teams established for the five sites in NA&WA region with a total number of 50 scientists from ICARDA and more than 100 scientists from NARS. Planned activities are being implemented at the five sites.
• 20 technologies/practices are under research in 4 ALSs (agropastoral, intensive rainfed, irrigated, tree based) over a total area of 38000 ha and where 5260 farmers are collaborating with the program.
• 25 to 40 % of these technologies/practices have an explicit target of women farmers and this ratio will be increasing in the future.
BKSB site/ Research team (Draft)IRA INRAT INRGREFMohamed OuessarMongi Ben ZayedAmal HachaniMongi SghaierMondher FetouiMohamed AbdeladhimRiadh BechirKamel NagazFethia MokhAbderrahmane SghaierTouhami KhorchaniMohamed NeffatiFarah Ben SalemMohamed TarhouniMohamed Hamadi
Sonia BedhiafSalah Benyoussef Abidi Sourour Zoghlami Aziza Annabi Mohamed Cheikh Mhamed HatemMohamed GharbiDaly Hamed Meriem oueslati Dhraief zied Jadlaoui mohamed
Taoufik Hermassi, Hacib AmamiSihem Jebari, Safouen MouelhiWalid ben Khlifa, Ines MankaiHamadi Habaieb, Mohamed Slimani, Issam Anatar Mohamed HACHICHA, Monia TRAD, Saloua REJEB, Sonia SABBAHI, Hacib AMAMI, Hichem HAJLAOUI, Meriem DAHMOUNI, Yassine MARZOUKI, Boubaker HOUMANE,