CGIAR Integrated Systems Approach to Research on Sustainable Intensification

1. CGIAR Integrated Systems Approach to Research on Sustainable Intensification R. Asiedu, I. Hoeschle-Zeledon, and E. Koper IITA Sustainable Intensification of Cereal-based Farming Systems in the Sudano-Sahelian Zone of West Africa: Project Design Workshop, Tamale, Ghana, 9-12 January 2012

2. Vision and system level outcomes Vision: • To reduce poverty and hunger, improve human health and nutrition, and enhance ecosystem resilience through high-quality international agricultural research, partnership and leadership Outcomes: • reducing rural poverty • improving food security • improving nutrition and health • sustainable management of natural resources

3. CGIAR Research Programs (CRPs) • The ongoing change process will in the near future see the operations of the CGIAR implemented through a number Research Programs (CRPs). • These are aimed to better coordinate R4D efforts, enhance efficiencies, and encourage cooperation and collaboration with a focus on effective partnerships to achieve more development impacts.

4. CGIAR System on-going Reforms Food security, Poverty, Natural Resources, Under-nutrition • Impact by 2025 • Increase yield 60% • Sustain annual growth 0.5 % • Reduce poverty 15 %

5. CGIAR Research Programs

6. Cereals Forests & Trees CRP 6 Climate Change CRP 7 Water & Land CRP 5 Policies & Markets CRP 2 Nutrition & Health CRP 4 CRP 3: Commodities Roots, Tubers, & Bananas Livestock & Fish Grain legumes Assessment of new crop varieties/breeds and best management/husbandry technologies CRP 1.1 Dryland systems Production systems CRP 1.2 Humidtropics Domain Markets NRM integrity CRP 1.3 Aquatic systems carbon dynamics policy support value addition forest margins Integrated Soil Fertility Management

8. Humidtropics R4D Impact Model

9. CRP 1.1 TargetSystems • Areas/systems with the deepest endemic poverty and most vulnerable populations often associated with severe natural resource degradation and extreme environmental variability. • Systems with the greatest potential for impact on poverty in the short to medium term

10. CRP 1.1 Strategic Research Themes • SRT 1: Approaches and models for strengthening innovation systems, building stakeholder innovation capacity, and linking knowledge to policy action • SRT 2: Reducing vulnerability and managing risk, leading to resilient dryland agro-ecosystems with less vulnerable and improved livelihoods of rural communities • SRT 3: Sustainable intensification for more productive, profitable and diversified dryland agriculture with well-established linkages to markets • SRT 4: Measuring impact and cross-regional synthesis

11. SRT1. Better functioning innovation systems 1.2 Partners 1.1 Innovation models 1.3 Policy SRT3. Sustainable intensification SRT2. Reduced vulnerability & risk 2.1 Design 3.1 Design 2.2 Scaling out 3.2 Scaling out 2.3 Trade-offs 3.3 Trade-offs 4.1 Future scenarios 4.3 Measuring impact 4.2 Characterization and prioritization SRT4. Targeting, characterization & impact Overview of CRP1.1 Strategic Research Themes (SRTs) & their Outputs

12. CRP 1.1 Benchmark Areas focusing on reducing vulnerability (SRT2 type) or on sustainable intensification (SRT3 type). Circles/ovals indicate the 5 target regions

13. Action Site Transects and Satellite Sites in the West African Sahel and dry savannas

14. Impact zones and IITA hubs Production system platforms Collaborative platforms • USAID Feed the future • AGRA & BMGF • Millennium villages • Regional priorities • FARA learning sites

15. Integration of IITA research with CRPs Biotechnology & Genetic Improvement CRP 3.4 D2 Plant Production & Health CRP 3.5, CRP 3.2 D5 Social Sciences & Commercialization CRP 2, CRP 4 D4 NRM CRP 5, CRP 1.2, CRP 7 D3