CAADP-CGIAR AgKnowledge:An agricultural development investment

knowledge platform for Africa

Preliminary Report on a Prototype Study,Dublin Steering Committee Meeting

IFPRI, Washington DC12th July, 2012

AgKnowledge Team(so far…)

Luz Marina Alvare, Nienke Beintema, Maria Comanescu, Zhe Guo, Joseph Karugia (ReSAKSS/ECA), Zahia Khan, Soonho Kim, Maction Komwa (GMU), Jawoo Koo,

Stella Massawe (ReSAKSS/ECA), Nilam Prasan, Michael Rahija, Todd Slind (SpatialDev), Ria Tenorio, Indira Yerramareddy, Stanley Wood

with inputs and collaboration from

Godfrey Bahigwa (IGAD), Sam Benin, Polly Eriksen (ILRI), Adam Kennedy, Athur Mabiso, Valerie Rhoe (CRP4), Pascale Sabbagh (CRP2 and Yield Gap Database),

Heather Wylie

• What are national priorities for ag. technology and innovation investments for country X?

• What is the aggregate pattern of national R&D demand across Africa?

• What is the pattern of CGIAR investments (and SROs and

NAROs) in Africa? (supply)• How well do National and CGIAR investment plans

align? Can we identify R&D areas that are over- or under-represented relative to national needs?

• Is there a rationale for non-alignment? What is an optimal degree of alignment? (e.g. different time frames)

Driving Questions

• Can we provide on-line “alignment” services for – Donors or R&D providers to scan innovation demands in order to better target

or market their R&D investments, products and services, and identify critical investment gaps

– National development planners to find relevant R&D programs, projects and institutions (within and) beyond their borders

• What opportunities exist to improve coordination among development actors?

e.g., national planning and implementation agencies, R&D and extension institutions, and donors?

• How can technology/innovation/knowledge providers beyond Africa engage? (e.g. ACIAR, with Australian know-how, private sector)

Driving Questions

• What supplementary data/information/knowledge can be brought to bear in order to;– Better characterize investment opportunities– Validate the relevance/impact potential of planned

investments– Improve the identification of coordination opportunities– Inform the more detailed design of specific

implementation programs– Identify a range of services and service providers who can

contribute to effective coordination, delivery, implementation, and on-going support of investments

Driving Questions

Dublin Road Map: Activity 2

Mapping and Aligning African Agriculture Research Needs and Investments Concept note to be finalized by Feb 18 for SC approval by

end February (coordinated by IFPRI) Formation of Working Group to plan prototyping activity Agree Africa-wide Agroecosystem/FS framework, and select

priority system(s) for a prototype study Compare documented research needs in selected system(s)

to documented research investments of relevance to those systems (“Mapping” of research demands to supply)

“Mapping” pilot study review meeting (May 2012) Alignment Meeting with donor community, African country

and regional partners, and research community (TBD)

* Slide taken from Dublin Steering Committee Meeting, Accra, Feb 2012

May 2012: USAID Funded “Horn of Africa” Prototype ($90K) - IFPRI HarvestChoice Team

Stocktaking and Mapping Exercise (from proposal)

CAADP:National

InvestmentPlans (NIPs)

CAADP:National

InvestmentPlans (NIPs)

CAADP:Investment

Plans (IPs, Tech. Reviews), Sector

Plans, etc

CAADP:National

InvestmentPlans (NIPs)

CAADP:National

InvestmentPlans (NIPs)

ResearchInvestmentsCGIAR (CRPs),SROs, NARS

Regional Spatially-Explicit

Framework

TECHNOLOGY/INNOVATION REQUIREMENTS*

Countries/Sub-Regions/Value Chains/Themes

R&DACTIVITIES*

Agroecosystems/Sub-regions/

Valus chains/Themes

Characterization and Diagnosis According to sub-region, agroecosystem, and country dimensions, e.g., demographic,

agricultural potential, productivity, market access, poverty, natural resource use patterns and trends (HarvestChoice, CSI), national agriculture sector and donor investments

(ReSAKSS and various project mapping tools), and R&D capacities (ASTI)

R&DGaps?

Coordination & Investment Options

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8

9

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AdoptAgroecosystem/

Spatial Framework

Adopt Consistent Technology/

Innovation/ R&D Descriptors

Technical Working Group1

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Principles & Learning

• Not a single-shot assessment, but a live, accessible platform that can be kept current and expanded to meet evolving/different needs

• Minimize development of new components, focus on integration and interoperability of existing databases and analytical functionality

• Location-agnostic platform that can be taken on by appointed institution(s) (e.g. federated implementation)

• Growing realization of the high relevance but vast scope of assembling, organizing and synthesizing relevant supporting knowledge.

• Greatest challenges in finding and organizing knowledge around the relevant innovation opportunities we already have (e.g. the anecdotal “on-the-shelf” technologies)

ID1: Name, #, Description

ID2: Name, #, Description

ID3: Name, #, Description

Activity: #, Description

ID Level#: Outputs, Outcomes, Impacts, Targets

ID Level#: Partners

CAADP | CGIAR Source Reference, Time Period, Currency Units

ID Level#: Investment Cost

AEZ/Production System

Region/Country

Commodity/Value Chain

Country | CRP

Pillars | SLOs

Dictionaries

Terms to be harmonized (FAO, CABI)

CAADP Documents: Ethiopia (PIF), Review, CPP Kenya (MTIP)*, Review, CPPUganda (ASDS), Review, CPPIGAD (Godfrey)Tanzania (G8)Ghana (G8)

CRP Documents: 1.1 Drylands2 Policies, Institutions, Markets3.1 Wheat3.2 Maize3.6 Dryland Cereals3.7 Livestock and Fish4 Nutrition and Health5 Water, Land & Ecosystems7/CCAFS Climate Change

Harmonized Ag. Dev. Investment Database Structure

Standard tags, & Themes

CAADP-CGIAR Activity Prototype Database

CAADP-CGIAR: AgKnowledge

Program DBCAADP-CGIAR

Project DB & Tools (PMT)

WB, UN, CG, AfDB etc, Projects

ReSAKSS/ECA

Project DB

FAO-AGROVOCkeywords

StandardTHEMES

HarvestChoiceCELL5M

AdditionalSpatial Layers(SSA & HoA)

Knowledge(Suitability/Productivity)

FS x CountryTables

IFPRI CAADP Analysis Results

Technology & Species Suitability Maps & Tables (Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda)

Productivity Assessment Projections (crop & technology specific) (SSA)

Other,eg, CPP

CAADPDocs

CRPDocs

Entry/Edit

MATCH/ALIGNQuery/

Filter/BrowseTabulate

caadp.bounceme.net

MAPPRSelect & Display

Layers as Context

Project Category ->

THEME

Spatialdev/HC servers

Indexing(IFPRI/KM)

ETL, VI Processing

Menus with Table & Map

(pngs for demo)

HarvestChoice serversMAPPRTabulate by FS & Admin Domains?

FS x Country:SPAM, Livestock, PeopleYield Gaps, VoP, Productivity?

Matching/Aligning Taxonomy

• Matching set: Which set of CAADP plans and CRPs are to be “matched”?

• Matching dimensions: What specific themes, agroecosystems, countries/regions, commodities and partners to be matched?

• Matching attributes: Number of activities, investment amounts, priorities (shares of activities, share of costs), partners

• Use of Agroecosystems as a core dimension of coordination and investment alignment

• Need for harmonized vocabulary and tags

Harmonizing by AgroecosystemsCAADP: Kenya

CRP 1.1 Drylands

Issues• The technical design aspects of the CAADP-CGIAR alignment databases are now

fairly complete and stable, and can be extended from programs to projects

• Major effort, but well established process, to add tags/keywords, synonyms, hierarchies as well as standardized themes (AGROVOC & ontologies) in order to significantly improve the retrieval, matching and summarizing efficiency and potency

• Initially standardized on Farming Systems as the harmonized expression of Agroecosystems (AES)

• Very significant differences among the various CAADP and CRP documents in the specificity/granularity of investment information, on the terminologies/ vocabularies used, and on the articulation of target commodities, geographies and partners (but these issues can be reduced going forward by providing programme/project description templates and standardized themes/tags/AES support)

Issues• Remaining major issues;

– Backlog of investment data to be entered, cleaned and tagged– Construct/elicit improved information about targeting (e.g. AES, value

chains), costing, outputs and impacts– Assemble, codify, and ingest “knowledge” related data sources (inclduing

generation of syntheses/findings as a knowledge type)– Harmonize “back-end” databases, coding and logic, for more efficient and

seamless integration from the user perspective

• Requires a wide-range of specialist skills; programming, indexing, ontology, web design, infrastructure, GIS, content management, thematic analytical capacity. Major investment – but potentially very high rewards (e.g. potential linkage to actors, service providers), reduced transactions costs, basis for dialogues on coordination, spillovers, and improved investment efficiency.

What we plan to deliver in September?• A functioning integrated web platform loaded with CAADP data for 5

countries (Eth, Ken, Uga, Tan, Gha) and 9 CRPs. With full indexing and standarized theming.

• Integrated query and reporting options for, e.g.,– Tabulation of thematic, commodity, and AES investments across countries by

CAADP pillar (CAADP)– Tabulation of thematic, commodity, country and AES investments in R&D

across countries and regions– Matching of CAADP and R&D investments by AES, theme, commodity,

regions/countries and partners.• A set of tabulated, mapped CAADP-CGIAR investment matrices (by

country, theme, AES, commodity and, if possible, by partners) • At least three HoA examples of linkages between investment matrices

and extended knowledge/evidence bases (e.g. current and potential productivity levels, agricultural growth and poverty reduction potential of proposed investments), with associated interpretations of alignment between investment priorities and available knowledge/evidence

What we plan to deliver in September?• Draft awareness materials on AgKnowledge scope and purpose to be

finalized for GCARD• Documentation of the accomplishments of the case study and challenges

and opportunities in “full” SSA implementation• Proposal for specific features/examples that could be completed/available

for October GCARD meeting• Implementation plan for extension across countries and for national R&D

entities. Budget under different implementation scenarios

AgKnowledgeCAADP-CGIAR AgKnowledge

Exploring & aligning agricultural innovation investments for AfricaA “Proof of Concept” Prototype

CAADP/CRPDatabase

ProjectMappingDB/Tools

KnowledgeDatabase/

Bibliography

CAADP AgKnowledgeInnovation Needs Innovation Pipeline Knowledge ServicesMatch/AlignAllCAADP PlansCAADP Technical ReviewsCountry Program PlansNational Sector Strategies

AllCGIAR CRPsSROsNARS/NAROSPrivate Sector

Evaluation ProductsCase studiesFindingsLiterature/Biblio

Search by….CountryCAADP PillarTheme(sub-theme)Value ChainAEZ/Farming systemConstraint

PMT

ActorsAnalysis/TabulationTechnology mapsCommodity mapsInvestment maps

HC Spatial

ASTI disag.

SuitabilityMapping

HC Yield Models

Yield Gap DB

DonorInvestments

Action:Action Type InvestmentTags (user defined)StatusStart DateEnd DateDescriptionMultimedia content (photos, slideshows, videos, etc.)Action PartnersAction ContactsAction Locations (points, multi-points, polygons, districts)

Project: Project TitleProject Nickname OrganizationApproach (type of investment)Project Phase Full Time Equivalents (# project Staff)Duration in monthsStart dateEnd dateGrant AmountProject BudgetPeople AffectedDescriptionImpact (what projected outcomes will achieve)Project PartnersProject Contacts

Contacts: First NameLast NameE-mail AddressWebsiteDirect TelephoneMobile TelephoneAddressCityStatePostal CodeCountry

http://prototypetestsite.com

CAADP-CGIAR AgKnowledgeExploring & aligning agricultural innovation investments for Africa

A “Proof of Concept” Prototype

Spatial Distribution of Agricultural Interventions in the

COMESA regionInternal Presentation

May 28th, 2011

Source: Joseph Karugia and Stella Massawe (ReSAKSS/ECA)

ReSAKSS’ investment database• Approximately 450 national and regional interventions (2005

reference year)

• Not an exhaustive but a detailed list of agricultural interventions taking place in the region

• Captures projects, programmes focus on pillars CAADP Pillars 1-3 for now

• Research interventions (Pillar 4) not main focus – not to repeat what is done by the CGIAR, ASARECA, ASTI, who will

provide links to these

• Documentation of private sector initiatives (recent addition & ongoing)