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CGIAR Research Centers

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17 Sustainable Development Goals with emphasis on sustainable and equitable food systems

Agri-Food Systems

Germplasm banks Pre Breeding Breeding Sustainable Intensification and Systems Value Chain and Markets Policies

Germplasm distribution

Improved food and nutrition security

Global wheat impact study 2014

• 24 - 65 million tons annual production

increase due to global wheat improvement 1994 - 2014

• 35% of this value can be ascribed to

CGIAR wheat improvement, US$ 2.1 - 5.7 billion, annually

• Annual investment in CGIAR wheat

breeding: US$ 30 million Current investments: accelerate climate change adaptation (2C = 0.6% p.a. lost); nutritional value; resistance to pandemic diseases Wheat provides 18% of all calories and 20% of all protein in the human diet

The CGIAR with partners can respond directly to shocks: Maize Lethal Necrosis, Africa

2011 First reports in Kenya, > 95% of all varieties affected 2014 MLN in 7 countries; 23% of Kenya’s maize production lost 2014 First resistant variety released How? Highly effective CGIAR – NARS – Private sector collaboration, rapid donor investments, precision phenotyping Current investments: diverse (not just a few) resistant varieties, scale out

Multiple wins for several SGDs and SLOs from Agri-Food Systems based approaches

Genetic gains to meet future demands: e.g. Rice

Traits & Genetic Diversity Policies & Partnerships Breeding Speed & Efficacy To Meet The Challenge

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Crop

Improvement

& seed Banana Plantain Cassava Potato Sweetpotato Yam Other R&T

• 400 million farmers depend on RTB crops
• Four are among the top 10 staples, potato 3rd most important
• Especially important sub-Saharan Africa: Ghana 48% calories 1450 kcalories

per capita per day

• Mostly women’s crops but gender barriers depress productivity
• Similar research challenges for seed, breeding and post harvest
• Buffering role in food systems:
• Critical role in rotations
• Getting through hungry periods
• Adding value through intensification
• Little traded in commodity markets, less vulnerable to price shocks

Roots Tubers and Bananas

Vitamin A Rich Orange-fleshed Sweetpotato Conclusive Evidence for Bio-fortified Crops

• Rich in pro-vitamin A -

50 g/day of OFSP meets

young child needs

• Nutrition education is

essential to incorporating OFSP into mother’s and young children’s diets

• To date, the livelihoods of 1.9

million households have been impacted in Mozambique, Ethiopia, Malawi, Uganda, Angola, Kenya and Rwanda

WHY LEGUMES?

CLIMATE-HARDY, MICRONUTRIENT-DENSE CEREALS

Revolving Seed Fund Boundary partners Lead farmers Broader community Built a large network of delivery partners capable of identifying and equipping lead farmers … … who rapidly mobilized others in their community to adopt new varieties, thereby motivating seed companies to produce, promote and distribute improved varieties

Science of Delivery and Adoption

Lead farmers are influential and trusted, and can take risk with testing new technologies Boundary partners with aligned goals

Participatory Variety Selection – asking the farm family what they want in a new variety

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Crop

Improvement

& seed

Five new varieties including ICGV-SM 03517 now called Wamusanga

Impact of Research Investment in Resilient Production Systems in Marginal Drylands Integrated Livestock/Rangeland/Crops Production System for Marginal Lands through the Dryland Systems & Livestock CRPs

• Improved livestock nutrition & forage and barley production
• Rangeland management
• Community livestock breeding work for Smallholders
• Unraveling genetic base for livestock heat tolerance
• Providing market access for women

Livestock and equitable livelihoods

Women in livestock raising, processing, trading – gender transformative approaches Inclusive dairy development: Target: 60 million smallholders in East Africa Increased economic value $260 million per annum Insuring the never-before insured against catastrophic drought in the Horn

Improved food and nutrition security for health Improved natural resource systems and ecosystem services Reduced poverty