The Four Integrative CRPs: Policies Institutions and Markets

Agriculture for Nutrition and HealthWater, Land and Ecosystems

Climate Change for Agricultural and Food Systems

A portfolio approach – opportunities for greater integration and cooperation

Strategic Foresight

“More with Less”

Technologies

Copenhagen

Consensus

• Benefit/cost ratios for nutrition investments in Copenhagen Consensus report

• Nutrition: 1:30 Ag R&D 1:16 Market information 1:8.5

• More with less technologies book: Over 28,000 downloads in 1st year

• Informed Science Agenda for Agriculture in Africa

• Contributed to priority-setting of other CRPs (via partnerships with other centers)

Foresight modelling Agritech

Toolbox

We are prepared to do more

Country Strategy & CAADP support

SHOOTING DOWN BAD POLICIES

Nigeria:

• Rice tariff lowered from

110% to 60%

• increased productivity and

processing investments

Bangladesh: influenced action on onion imports to cut

price volatility

SUPPORTING AGRIC

TRANSFORMATION

CAADP support• Increase in average agric. investments from 4-6%

• More countries commit 10%

of total budget to agric.

• Agric. growth: 2% (2011) to 4% (2014) Africa wide

INFORMING COUNTRY PLANS

Ethiopia• Commodity Exchange: value traded for 2014 =

$1.4 billion

• Greater investments in smallholder transformation

EthiopiaNigeria Bangladesh CAADP support

Reshaping global and national agenda

toward nutrition

Global: Elevating nutrition in global agenda-setting

• Lancet series; Global Nutrition Report

National: Reshaping agricultural strategies for better nutrition outcomes

• Transforming nutrition, e.g. Ethiopia and India

Program: Integrating nutrition into agricultural programming

Transforming

nutritionNutrition Evidence

Social protection and value chains

Ethiopia Productive Safety

Net Program (PSNP)

Value chains

Bangladesh:

• All modalities improve food security

• Cash + nutrition education improves child nutrition

~2 times more than cash + food

Informing development of SDG 12 targets

• Reducing post-harvest losses yields returns of $14:1

Ethiopia: Cancelation of

250,000 tons of fertilizer imports saved ~$200 million

Cash, Food, or Vouchers?

Transfers + asset building & others increases food security by

1.5 months

Informed next phase of PSNP($5 billion Program)

• new emphasis on nutrition

Gender

Women’s Empowerment in

Agriculture Index (WEIA)Closing the Gender Gap Sex-disaggregated

analysis

Promoting gender integration into development programming

• Gates, FAO etc. update data on women in agriculture

Contributed to expanding evidence base e.g. FAO SOFA on

closing gender gap

• Set standards for collecting sex-disaggregated data

• Strengthened capacities for CGIAR researchers and

partners to collect and analyze data

WEIA adopted for

monitoring Feed the

Future programs in 19

countries

WEAI evaluation led to increased USAID funding for

gender work in Bangladesh

Water accounting for large basins

Multi-institutional initiative of IWMI, UNESCO-IHE and FAO

Based on remote sensing and global hydrological models to better understand state of water resources, issues and challenges/opportunities for better water management

Allows users to understand impacts of different interventions – critical for understanding trade-offs

Smart solar pumping – water, food and energy

• India on cusp of solar boom moving 80 gigawatts in next 5 years

• Energy subsidies of $6 billion annually driven groundwater depletion.

• Feed in tariff to grid provides incentive for better water management

• Solar power as cash crop with a guaranteed market at attractive price.

Addressing the energy crisis in India

Managing floodplains for livelihoods in Bangladesh

• Seasonal floodplains in Bangladesh provide a diverse range of livelihood and ecosystem services (30% of Bangladesh fish come from the floodplains)

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• Building/strengthening community based organizations to increase fish production using ecosystem based approaches.

• Led to increases in catches and important livelihood benefits to landless farmers.

Laser Land Levelling

Getting forecasts to farmers so they plan for the weather

Changing the global dialogue