Design of Participatory Crop Improvement Programs

and Future Climates

Jacob van EttenBioversity International (CGIAR)

@jacobvanetten

Climate change

Origin of agriculture

My talk

Crop breeding and climate change

Some trends

Frameworks

Stability

Mega-environments

Specific adaptation

Annicchiarico et al.

Environmental analysis lacking

The model

Current state of the art

Cutting through the complexity

The wrong approach

Scenarios

Livelihoods

Citizen science

Environmental characterization

Example results

In summary

Models + experiments + observations

Abiotic stress integrated vulnerability analysis

Characterizing selection environments

Stakeholder deliberation, farmer participation

Working backwards – where do we want to be?