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Eco-Efficient Agriculture for the Poor
Rod Lefroy
CIAT Asia StrategyCIAT Board Meeting #63
Nairobi, Kenya12 May 2011
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Functional Structure of CIAT Asia
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Current Activities in Asia
Activities / Projects
• Cassava
• Forages
• Linking Farmers to Markets (LFM)
• Land Use & Climate Change
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Current Status
Personnel /Offices
• Laos: Regional Office with 4 IRS & 10 NRS
Thailand: 1 IRS & 1.5 NRS
Vietnam: 1 NRS
Cambodia: 1 NRS
China: No staff at present
Funds
• Approx. US$2 million/yr mostly in special projects
• Main donors: ACIAR, IFAD, The Nippon Foundation, SDC
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Developments in 2011/12
Vietnam:
• VAAS has assigned one staff to the CIAT office in VAAS
• Relocate one IRS to CIAT office in VAAS
• Initiate regular short and long term visits/placements to VAAS institutes and exchanges to CIAT Cali
• Focus on VAAS and its institutions, but with links to the universities, to other parts of MARD, and to other ministries (MONRE, MOST, etc.)
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Vietnam Academy of Agricultural Sciences• Institute of Agricultural Science for Southern
Vietnam
• Food Crops Research Institute
• Plant Protection Research Institute
• Soils and Fertilizers Research Institute
• Northern Mountainous Agriculture and Forestry Science Institute
• The Western highlands Agro-forestry Science & technical Institute
• Agricultural Genetics Institute
• Plant Resources Center
• Fruit and Vegetable Research Institute
• Maize Research Institute
• Cuu Long Delta Rice Research Institute
• Agricultural Science Institute of Northern Central Vietnam
• Agricultural Science Institute for Southern Coastal Central of Vietnam
• Institute for Agricultural Environment
• Southern Horticultural Research Institute
• Center for technology Development and Agricultural Extension
• Vietnam Sericulture Research Centre
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Developments in Vietnam• Expand current collaboration with the Vietnam Cassava
Network to develop a broad Cassava Research Center to focus on breeding, biotech, agronomy, pests and diseases, processing, and market linkages
• A national focus but with regional relevance and linkages:o Links to strong partners in China and Thailando Impacts in other countries (Cambodia, Laos, Burma ….)
• Continued and expanded focus on livestock development
• Expand work on NRM, Eco-efficiency, and Climate Change
• Continue LFM / Market Linkages for scaling up and target on marginalized poor and ethnic minorities
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Funding:
• Focus of €1 million project requested for cassava pests and diseases from EU, through IFAD
• Likely funding from the Japanese government for cassava biotech
• Proposal for medium term developments in cassava R&D in Vietnam and beyond to AusAID/ACIAR, to ADB, or others
Developments in Vietnam
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Developments in 2011/12
China:
• CATAS likely to assign one staff to the CIAT office in CATAS Haikou
• Initiate regular short and long term visits/placements to CATAS and other Chinese institutes and exchanges to CIAT Cali
• Focus on CATAS, but with vital links to GSCRI, GAAS, YAAS, and others
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Developments in China
• Collaboration on Cassava breeding and general R&D, with stronger links to CIAT Cali and to the region, especially to enhanced R&D in Vietnam and to other potential suppliers
• Forage germplasm evaluation and breeding, and forage utilization. Starting with a forage breeding and utilization course and exchanges between CATAS and CIAT
• Sustainable and eco-efficient cropping and farming systems. Initially on soybean/cassava intercropping, but expanding to other systems, and to broader land management and climate change issues
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Funding:
• The National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) has indicated they want to fund collaboration between CIAT and China (primarily CATAS) in five research projects each of 5-year and RMB3 million
• NSFC proposes a meeting in Cali in August, followed by another in Nov/Dec in Guangxi to decide on the areas of collaboration. The meetings would include NSFC, CATAS, and CIAT
• Other proposals to be developed
Developments in China
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Other Developments in 2011/12• CIP-IFAD Root and Tuber Crops Research & Development
Programme for Food Security in Asia-Pacific Region
• Livestock development in the Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam Development Triangle submitted to IFAD following the successful forages and livestock project in Vietnam
• Possible joint project with SNV to IFAD on utilizing cassava R&D in market linkages to processors
• Land management issues in rainfed agriculture Current part in IWMI scoping study on rainfed agriculture in the GMS that should lead to a new project
• Proposal on Climate Change Adaptation-Mitigation Prioritization in parts of the Mekong Basin
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Consortium
1.2 Integrated systems for the humid tropics
2. Enabling Agricultural Income for the Poor
3.4 Roots & tubers
3.7 Livestock & fish
5. Water Scarcity and Land Degradation
7. Agriculture and Climate Change
Proposed involvement in CRPs