CRP Dryland SystemsOverview

Selection of benchmark areas & action sites

1. Reducing vulnerability (SRT2 type)2. Sustainable intensification (SRT3 type)

Circles/ovals indicate roughly the 5 Target Regions.

CRP-DS Goal & Partners

• Goal: to identify and develop resilient, diversified and more productive combinations of crop, livestock, rangeland, aquatic and agroforestry systems that increase productivity, reduce hunger and malnutrition, and improve quality of life for the rural poor.

• ICARDA (Lead Center) and 8 CG Centers– ICRISAT– Bioversity International– CIAT– CIP– ICRAF– ILRI– IWMI– Sub-Saharan Africa Challenge Program (SSA CP)

CRP-DS focuses 4 research areas

• SRT1: Approaches to strengthening innovation systems, building stakeholder innovation capacity, and linking knowledge to policy action.

• SRT2: Reducing vulnerability and managing risk, leading to resilient dryland agro-ecosystems with less vulnerable and improved livelihoods of rural communities.

• SRT3: Sustainable intensification for more productive, profitable, and diversified dryland agriculture with well-established linkages to markets.

• SRT4: Measuring impact and cross-regional synthesis.

CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Agricultural Production Systems – Launch Meeting, Amman 21-23 May 2013

Title CRP-DS in NA&WA

High potential areas: Intensification

Low potential areas: Improving resilience

(SRT2)

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What we want to achieve in NA&WA Flagship through the CRP-DS?

• to reduce vulnerability to system shocks and climate change in dry resource poor areas with poor institutions and poor market connectedness,

• to sustainably intensify production in less marginal areas which tend to have better institutional support and access to markets

The goal is ‘sustainable intensification’ and investment for long-term food security

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Major Agricultural Livelihood Systems in NA&WA

ALS Major constraints Sites

Agropastoral

Systems

Overgrazing, feed imbalances, land degradation, water scarcity, climate variability, conflicts over resources, youth unemployment

Tafilah-Salamya, Beni Khedache-Sidi Bouzid,Karkheh River Basin

Intensive rainfed

Systems

Land degradation, nutrient deficiencies, water scarcity, climate variability, youth unemploymeent

Meknes-Saies, Karkheh River Basin

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ALS Major constraints Sites

Tree-based

Systems

Fast degradation of natural resources, overgrazing, land degradation, climate variability, youth unemployment

Tafilah-Salamya, Beni Khedache-Sidi Bouzid, Meknes-Saies

Irrigated Crop

Systems

Land constrained by groundwater depletion, salinization, heat stress, youth unemployment

Nile Delta

Major Agricultural Livelihood Systems in NA&WA

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Collaboration frameworks and partnerships working mechanisms

• ICARDA is nearly the only center intervening in NA&WA flagship, other centers will join!!!

• ICARDA developed over decades a strong partnership with NARES over NA & WA region

• Partners:– Local partners: NARES, Universities, farmers’

organizations, NGOs, development agencies, Private sector, Decision makers

– Regional & International agencies: ARI (CIRAD), ACIAR, FAO, IFAD, AFESD, EU, GTZ, UNDP, etc.

CRP-DS revised IDOs

SLOs

IDO1Resilience

IDO2Wealth & Wellbeing

IDO3Food

accessIDO4NRM

IDO5Gender

empowmt

IDO6Capacity to

innovate

More resilient livelihoods for vulnerable HH in

marginal areas

More sustainable & higher income & well-being for

sustainable HH

Women & children have access to

greater quantity & diversity of food

More sustainable & equitable mgt of

land, water, energy & biodiversity

Women & youth have better access to and

control over resources & market and more equitable share of income & food ..

Increased & sustainable capacity to innovate allowing

to seize new opportunities ..

Reduced rural poverty; Improved food security; Better nutrition and health; Sustainable management of

natural resources.

4 Phases

Discovery Proof of concept Pilot Scaling up

New concept of product or

process

Testing of proof of

concept in real world/ controlled conditions (n=1000)

Multi-location release/trials

for smallholder’

benefit(n=100,000)

Release for scaling up & adoption in

different locations

(n=1,000 000)

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Phases 2014 (with little variation between ALSs)

Discovery Proof of concept Pilot

Policies on natural resources

Water harvesting & soil conservation

Water & land productivity in irrigated & rainfed system

System vulnerability Managing rangelandsConservation agriculture

Bio-economic farm models In situ agro-biodiversity

Livestock productivity

Innovation platforms & scenarios

Seed systems & dissemination

Cereal & legume systems adaptation

High-value chain clustersCereal & legume system IPM-

Post- harvest & market accessGender in Drylands

Aggregation for smallholder

Managing salinity

Consortium

Lead Center Board

Independent Steering Committee (ISC) * ISAC

CRP-DS Director +Program Management Office (PMO)

Research Management Committee (RMC)

Flagship Programs – FPsInterdisciplinary Research

Teams -IRTAction sites

Lead Center (LC): ICARDAISC: CGIAR Center DG’s, rotating Members: NARS leaders, ARI leaders, development partners. LC-DG + CRP Director as ex officio members NB: *merged with ISAC: Independent thematic experts.ITF: External Senior researchersRMC: CRP Director, CGIAR Center Coordinators (CC), FP Coordinators FC).PMO: CRP Director, + 6 for Manager, Finance, Gender, Communication, Capacity Development, and Administration.IRT: FC, Action Site Coordinators (ASC), Center Focal Points (CFP), NARS, NGOs, CSOs, thematic experts.

Lead Center DG

Fund Council

Independent Task Force (ITF)

CPA (Consortium Performance Agreement)

PIA (Program Implementation Agreement)

Governance & Management of CRP-DS 2014-2015

Interdisciplinary Research Team CRP-DS North Africa and West Asia (Draft)

Ali Nefzaoui Chair – NA&WA Flagship Project Coordinator

Rachid Mrabet Member, MoroccoSami Sabry Member, EgyptVeronique Alary Member, CIRADHatem Belhouchette Member, IAMMMariana Yazbek Member, ICARDAMohamed Ouessar Member, TunisiaDebra Turner Member, ICARDAMounir Louhaichi Member, ICARDAFeras Ziadat Member, ICARDAMourad Rekik Member, ICARDAHichem Ben Salem Member, ICARDAMohammed Karrou Member, ICARDA

Title Béni Khédache-Sidi Bouzid Site

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Title Béni Khédache-Sidi Bouzid SitePrecipitation & PET

100-150

250-300

1650

1350

80-237mm/year (CV:38 to 59 %)

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Collaboration frameworks and partnerships working mechanisms

• For each site a NARES-ICARDA team is established involving both research centers and universities

• A MOA of agreement signed between ICARDA and NARES

• ICARDA regional/country office in charge of the budget management

• For each site an ICARDA focal point and NARES focal point have been nominated

• For each activity a leader from ICARDA and a leader from NARES is nominated

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Achievements

• Joint research teams established for the five sites in NA&WA region with a total number of 50 scientists from ICARDA and more than 100 scientists from NARS. Planned activities are being implemented at the five sites.

• 20 technologies/practices are under research in 4 ALSs (agropastoral, intensive rainfed, irrigated, tree based) over a total area of 38000 ha and where 5260 farmers are collaborating with the program.

• 25 to 40 % of these technologies/practices have an explicit target of women farmers and this ratio will be increasing in the future.

BKSB site/ Research team (Draft)IRA INRAT INRGREFMohamed OuessarMongi Ben ZayedAmal HachaniMongi SghaierMondher FetouiMohamed AbdeladhimRiadh BechirKamel NagazFethia MokhAbderrahmane SghaierTouhami KhorchaniMohamed NeffatiFarah Ben SalemMohamed TarhouniMohamed Hamadi

Sonia BedhiafSalah Benyoussef Abidi Sourour Zoghlami Aziza Annabi Mohamed Cheikh Mhamed HatemMohamed GharbiDaly Hamed Meriem oueslati Dhraief zied Jadlaoui mohamed

Taoufik Hermassi, Hacib AmamiSihem Jebari, Safouen MouelhiWalid ben Khlifa, Ines MankaiHamadi Habaieb, Mohamed Slimani, Issam Anatar Mohamed HACHICHA, Monia TRAD, Saloua REJEB, Sonia SABBAHI, Hacib AMAMI, Hichem HAJLAOUI, Meriem DAHMOUNI, Yassine MARZOUKI, Boubaker HOUMANE,