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Steve Staal, ILRI

Livestock Week

IFAD, 4-6 May 2010

� Consortium Board and CEO to oversee all CGIAR center research� First meeting in Nairobi, March 2010� CEO to be recruited� Consortium HQ either Addis Ababa, Delhi, Montpellier, Nairobi or Rome

� Strategic Results Framework to set priorities � Megaprograms for delivery

� Currently 7, may expand to 15� Initial CN’s being submitted this week� To be reviewed externally and by Consortium Board end May� Those agreed go to full Proposal development

� Multi-donor fund managed by a Fund Council� Performance contracts

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� MP1: Integrated agriculture systems for the poor and vulnerable (potential fast tracked)

� Integrated agriculture for dryland systems

� Integrated agriculture for tropical humid systems

� Integrated coastal/aquatic systems

� MP2: Policies, institutions, and markets for enabling agricultural incomes for the poor

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� MP3: Sustainable staple food productivity increase for global food security (probably multiple MPs, some potential fast tracked)

� Rice

� Maize

� Wheat

� Cluster: Pulses and legumes

� Cluster: Roots and tubers, bananas and plantains

� Cluster: Sorghum, millet and barley

� Cluster: Livestock and fish

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� MP4: Agriculture, nutrition and health

� MP5: Water scarcity and land degradation

� MP6: Forests and Trees

� MP7: Climate Change (potential fast tracked)

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� Systems with the deepest endemic poverty and with the most vulnerable people

� ≤200 mm rainfall- Saharan and part of Sahelian zones in Africa

� Systems with the greatest potential to impact on poor in the short to medium term

� 300 to 600 mm, Sahelian countries in West Africa

� Systems most vulnerable/at risk to degradation and climate variability

� 500 to 900 mm - North Soudanian, Sub Sahelian climate (West Africa)

� Types of intervention testing and research� Information (weather, prices) and tools (eg index based livestock

insurance) to manage weather and other risks� Participatory approaches to land use planning and conflict management� Payment for environmental services schemes� Ag, livestock and NRM technologies and practices validated, adapted and

assessed in system context � Institutional innovations around increasing market access

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� Intensification strategies, crops, feeds, nutrient cycling, environmental management (an important component here relates to trade offs in biomass use)

� Feeding strategies in value chain context� Combining feed and breed with risk mitigating animal health and insurance options

� Optimising crop and livestock husbandry, crop residue use� Balanced feed options with positive environmental impacts (including number of animals)

� Manure management options

� Longer term institutional and environmental sustainability including issues related to policies to provide enabling environment, incentives and regulations

� Land policy/regulations� Incentives/regulations relating to environmental issues

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� Policies and investments that enable poverty-reducing agricultural growth� modeling for strategic foresight and future scenarios� international trade, macro and non-agricultural policies � production, natural resources and technology policies, and policy process

� Value chains� input and output markets, incentives� testing interventions and capacity building� chain analysis methods, analysis of demand drivers

� Enabling institutions and governance for the poor� governance in input/service supply� collective action

� Livestock research elements� Livestock-specific features of modeling

� (asset accumulation, natural resource interactions, non-market products and cost items)

� Animal health issues in market, policy� Crop-livestock interaction and resource use pressures� Demand-led development interventions in the value chain� Data and sampling issues specific to livestock

� Targeting and outcome assessment� Mapping of priority livestock and fish , targeting strategies for specific technology, strategy and policy interventions based on system analysis

� Needs and constraints assessment and prioritization for the Program, including gender analyses

� Analysis of child nutrition impacts in livestock/fish production systems, and strategies to increase availability of these high nutrient products to rural children.

� Outcome and communications strategies across Program activities

� Impact assessments of to guide research (re) design

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� Characterization, conservation, and selective breeding� Better understanding of the genetic attributes of various livestock breeds and the systems under which they can be are raised

� Mapping of genotypes for conservation� Develop bio-banking protocols and systems, including phenotypic descriptions of biobanked material from indigenous livestock andfish populations.

� Improved delivery of genetics� Adapt enhanced reproductive technologies and strategies to multiply and deliver appropriate livestock genotypes

� Exploring applications from new science� Development of new tools to allow integration of sequence data with rich phenotypic data including systems analysis.

� Reproductive tools to discover and to exploit discoveries in functional genomics to improve livestock productivity under various production systems

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� Producing more and better quality forage and feed resources:� Including crop residue fodder traits (quantity and quality) in multidimensional crop improvement to exploit genetic variation and by further targeted genetic enhancement towards dual-purpose traits using conventional and marker assisted crop breeding.

� Improved dual purpose varieties of food – feed crops, and improved pastures and forage options

� Making better use of available feeds: � Harnessing spin-off technologies from 2nd generation bio fuel technologies to improved basal diets

� Strategic/smart supplementation strategies, byproduct based rations with under-exploited local ingredients

� Improving provision of forages and feeds through markets, and sustainable forage and fodder crop seed/germplasm systems

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� Vaccines and diagnostics for orphan viral, bacterial and protozoan diseases for which there are few or no other providers (with focus on endemic diseases threatening productivity, survival and market access)

� Thermostabilization of current vaccines� Identification of vaccine antigens and proof-of-

concept vaccine trials for priority diseases� Development of molecular fingerprinting tools for

pathogen detection and surveillance� Disease risk assessment and disease modeling� Strategies for delivery of improved health

interventions to producers

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� Development strategies for pro-poor value chains for livestock and fish products � Systems for sustainable production and delivery of appropriate livestock and fish genetics with private & public partners

� Systems for improved disease surveillance and control, both within production systems and along product supply chains, focused on endemic diseases

� Strategies for technology integration and innovation- feeds, health and genetics for sustained productivity increases

� Testing adapted organisational mechanims (hubs, innovation platforms, SME’s, PPPs) to facilitate the access to knowledge, information and technology, and increase value , including post-harvest.

� Livestock and fish product and post harvest process development, including food safety and certification systems

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� Agriculture for improved food security, diet quality, and nutrition.� Develop, test, approaches to

� maximize the impact of agriculture on improving the availability, access to consumption of nutritious and diverse foods – focus on women and young children;

� to increase global awareness and knowledge of the importance of nutritious foods and high-quality diets

� Biofortication

� Managing the multiple burdens of agriculture- associated disease (mostly zoonotics)� Measure the human health burden (DALYs), and other burdens of AADs including

equity; economic cost of lost human and animal productivity; trade; market access; ecosystem services;

� Develop and scientifically evaluate better ways of managing priority AADs. � Integrated ways of studying and tackling zoonotic and other diseases, based on

Ecohealth and One World, One Health approaches� Scenario and other futures analysis to understand disease trajectories, risk analysis

for better managing food and water borne disease and occupational hazards; ,and identify mitigation options

� Value chain analysis to upgrade the ability of value chains to deliver safe products � Evidence for the development of more effective surveillance and response systems

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� Delivering greater water and land productivity in rainfed and irrigated systems

� Enhancing and safeguarding land and water access for the poor especially women

� Improving land and soil health and water quality to reverse widespread soil nutrient depletion and degradation of ecosystem services

� Enhancing ecosystem services and building resilience to maintain vital ecosystems

� Livestock research elements� Improved land and water management to support pastoral livestock systems

� Improved water use efficiency of livestock production in crop-livestock systems

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� Adaptation to Decadal Climate Change

� Adaptation Pathways for Current Climate Risk

� Poverty Alleviation through Mitigation

� Diagnosis and Vulnerability Assessment for Making Strategic Choices

� Livestock research elements� Improved management of C-L systems to enhance adaptation

� Understanding role of livestock in CC

� In situ conservation of livestock genetics needed for adaptation

� Increased productivity of livestock for mitigation

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� Bulk of livestock research likely to be contained within MP3 Livestock and Fish� Opportunities for new synergy

� Productivity plus tools for uptake and impact

� Better focus?

� MP4 Ag for Health & Nutrition however contains significant animal health and food safety research, growing area of demand

� Livestock research component within Systems, Policy/Markets, Water/Soil and Climate Change

� New levels of interaction are apparent already

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