Addis Research on sustainable intensification in the CGIAR research programs
Sustainable intensification of crop-livestock systems to improve food security and farm income diversification in the Ethiopian highlands Project Design Workshop 30 January - 2 February 2012, Addis Ababa Ethiopia
Presentation: Research on sustainable intensification (by Iain Wright)
This workshop provides an opportunity for a broad group of important stakeholders to both learn about the project plans and to share their views on expectations from and opportunities for synergies with the project (days 1 and 2) and for the core project team to finalize the project details (days 3 and 4).
The CGIAR is changing and this has implications for this particular project.
- SI introduction: Does this mean more production per acre?
Elements: inputs to tech, social infrastructures, farmer knowledge and capacity, engagement with private sector, gender issues and access to micro-finance, availability of credit, ensuring public sector support for agriculture.
- The new CGIAR: to reduce poverty and hunger through 4 high-level outcomes: reducing rural poverty, improving food security, improving nutrition and health, sustainable management of natural resources.
- To achieve these outcomes the new CGIAR programme has 15 CGIAR research programmes (CRPs) of which 4-5 are very relevant for this programme too:
Integrated systems in dry areas (CRP 1.1). Four strategic research themes (SRTs): a) innovation systems, policy and partners b) reduced vulnerability, c) sustainable intensification, d) targeting, characterisation and impact via future scenarios etc.). Integrated systems in humid areas (CRP 1.2): Three SRTs: analysis of situation, Research for Development (R4D) triangle (systems productivity, markets integration, NRM), R4D scaling. More milk, meat and fish by and for the poor (CRP 3.7): increased access to ASF can be achieved at scale by carefully strengthening value chains across inputs/services, production, processing, marketing and consumers. Relation here is the value chain on small holder small ruminants in Ethiopia. Water-land ecosystems (CRP 5): improvements in governments and management, effective interventions to end land degradation, tradeoffs between intensification and NRM. Focuses on river basins including Nile basin.