Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Small-Scale Irrigation

Cooperative Agreement

USAID - DiscussionApril 2, 2014

Introduction and Scope

• Progress on FtF ILSSI Coop Agreement

• Opportunities to scale up and out ILSSI

• Potential Linkages with other FtF Innovation Labs

• Addressing the broader USAID portfolio

Progress • Approval of Workplan and Budget

• Desk Top paper - survey on small scale irrigation technologies

• Stakeholder workshop for Ethiopia

• Engagement with Africa Rising and LIVES

• Second partner planning meeting

• Bilateral meeting IDSS - IFPRI

Candidate Innovations• Low cost water lifting devices• Watershed management• Water recharge• In-situ water harvesting• Irrigated fodder• Drip irrigation (possibly)

Next Steps• Further stakeholder engagements

• Meetings in Ghana and Tanzania

• Closure on technology innovations

• External advisory committee

• Pilot study on application of IDSS

• Training workshop on IDSS

• Linkages with other FtF labs – Africa Rising

• Annual meeting

• Plans for year two

Integrated Decision Support System

Scale up and Scale Out: Biophysical and Economic Impacts

• Link IFPRI Economic Models with IDSS– SPAM (Spatial Production Allocation Model)– DREAM (Dynamic Research Evaluation for Management)– EMM (Economy-wide Multimarket Model)

• Biophysical Scales:– Field -> Farm->Watershed->River Basin->Country->Continent – APEX-> APEX-> SWAT -> SWAT -> SWAT -> SWAT

• Economic Scales:– Farm -> Village/Kebele -> Region -> Country – FARMSIM-> FARMSIM -> DREAM/EMM -> DREAM/EMM

SWAT

Crop MixChange

Optimized

APEXPHYGROW

NUTBAL

EMM or DREAM

FARMSIM

SPAM

GIS Ex AnteAnalysis

Village – Family – GenderEconomics & Nutritional

Impacts

Price Changes

Crop Yield Distribution

IDSS – IFPRI Integration

Technology & Location Identified

Scale Up

Regional/National

Farm/Village/Household

Potential Linkages with other FtF Innovation Labs

• Comprehensive IDSS/IFPRI models • Global natural resource and economic

databases• Crops, livestock, soil and water resources, land

use and climate change, technologies, environmental and economic impacts

• Scalable from farm scale to continental scale

• Buy-in possibilities for extending FtF ILSSI

• Initial engagement with other innovation labs

Potential Linkages with other FtF Innovation Labs

• Quantify impacts of climate change and climate-resilient germplasm and farming technologies on production, soil and water resources, and farm to regional economics (6 Innovation Labs)

• Quantify impacts of technologies developed by collaborative research on crops and livestock (6 Innovation Labs)

• Others?

Addressing the broader USAID portfolio

• IDSS developed over years for USAID, USDA, EPA with substantial input from USAID, WB, CGIAR, and national programs

• Applied to design, implement, operate mixed farming and water management systems

• Accurately and cost-effectively predicts production, economic, human nutrition, and environmental impacts of interventions

• Field, farm, watershed, national, and continental scales

Examples of ILSSI/IDSS Capabilities

• APEX and SWAT: Dr. Raghavan Srinivasan

– Small-scale water capture and irrigation of high-value crops in Ethiopia

– Application to kebele and river basins in Ethiopia– Large-scale applications in Eastern Europe, Asia,

and Africa

• FARMSIM: Dr. James Richardson

– Farm- to village-scale economics for decision makers -> regional and national projections