climate change and capacity strengthening area

Eco-Efficient Agriculture for the Poor

Elcio Guimarães

Climate Change & Capacity Strengthening Area

Annual Program Review 2011Nairobi, Kenya 10 May 2011


Content

• Climate Change and Policy

• Capacity Strengthening & Knowledge Management

• PRGA

• Tropical Fruits

• Challenges


Climate Change and Policy (1/8)

• Climate Change

o Supported CIAT’s lead centre status for the CCAFSo Theme Leadership of the CCAFS


• Climate Change (CC)

o Grounding CC - major activities in Colombia, Jamaica and Guatemala on supply chain adaptation (with Oxfam)

o Policy Briefs on CC implications for agriculture in Colombia and on coffee for Mesoamerica



• Ecosystem Services (ES)

o Development of national methods for calculating opportunity costs for REDD+ developed and included in WB training manuals

o Finalization of the Amazon Spatial Policy Targeting tool online




o Quantification of ES in watersheds and the identification of their correspondent priority service-providing unit (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru)



Contingent valuation

Urban water users

Travel cost

Tourists

Marginal costs and benefits

Hydropower company


o Economic valuation of the benefits derived from ES by downstream ES users as an input for a BSM negotiation in Peru

Production function

Agriculture



• Linking Farmers to Markets (LFM)o Synthesis of PROGRESO methodology for agro-

enterprise development post conflict - Policy briefo Major new projects established in 2010

IFAD (LFM LAC strategy) Ford Foundation (public policy analysis)



• Impact targeting and assessmento Continued analysis of impact of rice in LACo Studies on impacts of CIAT’s bean work in

East Africa ongoingo Major forage study ongoing in SE Asia



• Impact targeting and assessmento Site Specific Agriculture in fruits in Colombia

delivering first impacts with 1000s of farmerso Two new economists working on agricultural

trends in LAC and climate change policy (joint IFPRI positions)



Content



• PRGA

• Tropical Fruits

• Challenges


Research Design

ResearchImplementation

Monitoring and Evaluation

Knowledge Sharing with Stakeholders

Training

Documentation

Communication

Participatory strategic planning

Collaborative tools and methods;

participatory research

Theories of change,Innovation histories,

surveys

Social Media, workshops, conferences

Courses, field daysMulti-media training materials

Text, photo, video, interviews

Conferences, press releases,

policy briefs

Capacity Strengthening & Knowledge Management (1/9)



• Regional Capacity Strengthening Platformo IP meetingo Seed platform


Printed Material• Annual Report 2010 - published (1st among CGIAR centers)

• CIAT Briefs – Expandingo Project Initiativeso Strategy in Actiono Donor Briefs

• CIAT Briefs - Existing series

o 18 - CIAT Briefso 12 - Program Syntheseso 2- Policy Briefs



Other publications

• Cassava in the Third Millennium

• 9 – Laboratory guides

• Eco-Efficient Rice Production – Tome II (awaiting funding)

• Financial Statements 2010



• High visibility eventso CIAT Agricultural Forumo Biodiversity, Biotrade, and Sustainable Developmento World Food Day and World Rural Women's Day

• Exhibitso AgroExpo: bi-annual agricultural fair in Bogotao ExpoCiencia: annual science fair in Bogota



• Events in the regions o CIAT Annual Program Review in Kenya (9-11 May)

Joint planning and execution (press release, media event on first-day morning session)

o International CIALCA conference in Rwanda (24-27 Oct) Joint preparation of press release; promotion; social

media coverage; and, social reporting during the event



• New corporate websites (En-Oct 2010; Sp-Mar 2011)

• Social mediao Blogs

English: > 1,400 visits, 93 countries (Mar-Apr 2011) Spanish: > 1,700 visits, 40 countries (Mar-Apr 2011)

o Picture sharing Flickr : > 250,000 views (since May 2009) CIAT pictures used in many print and digital

publications – all with visible credit to CIAT



• Videos o Blip.tv: > 8,500 views (since May 2009)o YouTube: high number of views

(stats difficult to retrieve)

• Poster & presentation sharingo Slideshare: > 200 posters; > 180 presentation

(user stats retrieval is time consuming)

• Micro messagingo Twitter: > 990 tweets, 729 followers, 58 listed



Content



• PRGA

• Tropical Fruits

• Challenges


PRGA

• Participatory Plant Breeding and Gender with PABRA in Kenya and Tanzania “Differentiating among female and male bean variety preferences in a range of dynamic scenarios (low/high stress; market-driven/subsistence)”

• ICARDA PPB Program - “Genetic Resources and Farmers’ Knowledge to Adapt Crops to Climate Changes”

• Program Final Report (in prep.) and conceptualization of PPB and Gender work conducted over almost 14 years


• Supporting CIAT Programs in LAC - Development of new gender-sensitive research proposals and criteria that include gender analysis:o Fruits of success: women, sustainability and peach palmo Meeting the Challenges of Food Insecurity and CC in

Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago - action on PVS and adaptation of cassava

o New “Gender & Breeding Initiative” for CIAT crops

PRGA


• Global Gender Research o “Demand Analysis” study on Gender-Responsive

Participatory Research (GRPR) needs at the CGIAR level with 12 Centers

o Determined strength and gaps in the implementation of GRPR

PRGA


Content



• PRGA

• Tropical Fruits

• Challenges


Tropical Fruits

• Event to socialize the strategy (IICA, Corpoica, UNAL, FHIA, ICA, Casa Luker, Productora de Jugos, CRS, Biotec, Embrapa, Bioversity International) – Outputs:o Four concept noteso Tropical Fruit Strategy consolidated

• 2011 research proposals - 4.6 million (earned US$250,000 – more results in August)


• Currently there is a visiting scientist from USAID working with the program

• A national research agenda for Colombia was agreed with Corpoica and will be discussed with the fruit chain shortly

Tropical Fruits


Content



• PRGA

• Tropical Fruits

• Challenges


Challenges

• How to have a CIAT agenda complementary to CRPs

• Fund raising opportunities, but with partners and responding to full cost recovery

• Keep the critical mass in all programs

climate change and capacity strengthening area

Education