Interest Group Meeting on High Value Fruits Research

[Congruent with CGIAR System Priority 3A]

Nairobi, 6 June 2007

Objectives:  

1. Share key on-going research activities to identify knowledge gaps and research issues that are amenable to, and urgently require, collaborative research projects.

2. Prioritize researchable issues needing to be addressed to create viable fruit industries in developing countries (the goal to achieve the high-value crop vision).

- input into CP pre-proposal development

3. Set up a mechanism(s) (interest group, network, website, etc.) to organize and manage fruit research

-- e-discussions, research and policy workshops, conferences and forums, and other forms of knowledge exchange to promote fruit research.

4. Organize to pursue funding opportunities from various sources for joint research for development activities.

Expected Outputs

• Improved understanding of what key partners are currently doing and comparative advantages identified.

• Priority research areas amenable to joint research activities identified.

• Teams established to develop proposals for funding from donors.

• Idea notes for priority projects drafted.

• Partner building mechanism(s) set up to organize and manage collaborative activities (interest group, network, website, etc.?).

Agenda

8:30 Welcome by Tom Lumpkin8:45 Background and meeting purpose by Barry Shapiro9:00-9:15 Relevant CGIAR System Priorities, especially 3A by Dyno Keatinge  9:15-9:30 Fruit results from the Global Horticultural Assessment (Patrick Brown)

9:30-12:00 Brainstorming session in plenary starting with sharing of "one" relevant research activity by each institutional partner (10 min each) focusing on its:

                         - a major research gap to be filled                         - the relevance to CGIAR System Priorities                         - the critical need for new collaborative research                          - the potential for funding and funding strategy 10:45-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:00 Brainstorm sharing continues in plenary

12:00- 1:00 Lunch together 1:00 - 2:30 Plenary prioritization of researchable issues into 5 top collaborative research

projects and formation of project teams 2:30 - 3:00 Coffee Break3:00 - 5:00 Project team drafting of idea notes for funding proposals5:00 - 6:00 Sharing of idea notes in plenary6:00 - 6:30 The way forward -- network organization, follow up (milestones, deadlines, etc) in

plenary

Priority Research Themes (internal planning framework)

• Systems Improvement and Diversification -- ICPM, water and nutrient management, environmental sustainability.

• Post-harvest technologies – losses, creating value addition, (processing, product development, food technology).

• Marketing and Policy – trade, linking poor farmers to markets, IPR, quality standards.

• Biodiversity conservation and improvement – characterization, collection, selection/breeding, biotech.

• Nutrition and health – enhancing diets, food safety (mycotoxins), nutritional quality

Noted consistency with Horticulture Comprehensive Assessment, CG Science Priority 3A, and draft 3A Framework

Cross-cutting issues for research priorities

• Focus on poor – ensuring they benefit from opportunities, poverty reduction (equity).

• Ensuring Market – demand driven, strategy (niche, geographic focus, mix of indigenous and exotics, value addition), conducive policy environment.

• Impact – scaling out/up strategy, short run (outputs) and long run (outcomes and impacts).

• Gender

• Knowledge sharing and capacity building – stakeholders (also entrepreneurs), institutions.

• Funding opportunities and strategy

Need for a fruit-specific interest group?

Uniqueness of fruit (versus vegetable) research issues

• Perennial nature of most fruits.

• Breeding opportunities and challenges (conservation of germplasm, propagation), as well as transfer of improved material.

• Risk management – investment/return period, land tenure, climate change.

• ICPM challenges – unique diseases/insects, care of trees.

• Making sure the poor benefit –phytosanitary requirements, processing capacity and scale of investment and operations.

Way forward – mechanisms to promote partnership

Mechanism(s) (community of practice, network, consortium)

Outcome – Community of Practice

• Objective – promote/share/facilitate knowledge sharing and partnership in fruit research.

• Convened by Global Horticulture Initiative (GlobHort).

• Mechanism – virtual sharing via partner list server, linking of partner websites, etc.

• Outcome-oriented research theme and funding proposal development – convening institutions to be chosen after CP pre-proposal meeting.

Output achievement

• Improved understanding of what key partners are currently doing.

• Priority research areas amenable to joint research activities identified (internal planning framework)

• Started to fill in impact pathways analysis framework (impacts, outcomes, outputs and activities) for internal planning and external marketing).

• Idea notes for research projects to be drafted later depending on outcomes of CP pre-proposal meeting.

• Research teams to be established to develop funding proposals later depending on outcomes of CP pre-proposal meeting.

• Partnership promotion mechanism – Community of Practice.

Center investment in SP3A – What, Where and with Whom in the CGIAR1

Center Budget Type Environment CGIAR Contribution

CIAT 981,000 Tropical fruit, vegetables, biofuels, aromatic plants

Tropical Latin America and generic horticultural whitefly environments

IPGRI, SW-IPM

CIMMYT 203,000 Special trait maize, vegetables

Global Harvest Plus, RWC

CIP 1,623,000 Potato Horticultural systems in S. and S.E. Asia, LAC and highland SSA, Andes

AHI, RWC, Urban Harvest

ICARDA 1,043,000 Fruit, nuts, vegetables, oil, medicinal, spice crops and protected agriculture

Temperate dry areas of CWANA and LAC

Water and Food CP, AVRDC

ICRAF 2,202,000 Tropical tree fruit crops

Global CIFOR, IITA, ICRISAT, ASB

ICRISAT 3,197,000 Fruit, pulses, vegetables, biofuels, cosmetic and medicinal crops

Semi-arid tropics of S. Asia and SSA

AVRDC, ICRAF, DMP, IWMI

1. All centers are collaborating with multiple NARES and ARI Partners in addition to the CGIAR, SWEPs and affiliated centers.

Center investment in SP3A – What, Where and with Whom in the CGIAR [Contd..]

Center Budget Type Environment CGIAR Contribution

IFPRI 1,527,000 Generic Global Alliance

IITA 1,510,000 Tropical tree fruit crops, vegetables

SSA Humid & sub-humid tropics

AVRDC, ICIPE CP SSA

IPGRI 1,493,000 Tropical and temperate fruit and nuts, coconuts, cosmetics, vegetables

Global ICWG-GR, IITA

IWMI 1,083,000 Fruit and vegetables Global (Urban/peri-urban and waste water, West Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia

CIP (Urban Harvest), ICARDA, AVRDC, ILRI, CPWF and SWIM-2

WARDA 260,000 Vegetables SSA Wet lowlands IVC, AVRDC, IITA

SSA CP 346,000 Fruit and Vegetables, Fruit tree crops

SSA: All three PLS

- Kano-Katsina-Maradi- Zimbabwe-Mozambique

Malawi, and - Lake Kivu region

Alliance

1. All centers are collaborating with multiple NARES and ARI Partners in addition to theCGIAR, SWEPs and affiliated centres.

Center Key Types Key Environments Research Areas

IFPRI Generic Global Policy

IITA Musa, Cacoa, Coconut Humid and sub-humid SSA Crop improvement and marketing

IPGRI Musa, Coconut, Prunus Africana, African Leafy Vegetables, indigenous and underutilized crops

Global Biodiversity categorization, use and conservation; dietary diversity and nutrition

IWMI Generic fruit and vegetables

Urban/peri-urban and waste water sites

Policy and environments

WARDA Generic fruit and vegetables

Low lying, water rich environments in SSA

Crop systems diversification and marketing

SSA CP Generic fruit and vegetables

SSA Pilot learning Sites:-Kano-Katsina-Maradi-Zimbabwe-Mozambique- Malawi, and-Lake Kivu region

Crop systems diversification and marketing

Key Center Specialization in Crops, Environments and Disciplines (Contd..)

Center investment in SP 3A, --- Sources of major funds

Center Budget Funding Source

CIAT 981,000 Colombia, Rockefeller Foundation, Austria, BMZ, Belgium

CIMMYT 203,000 Canada, Germany, Nippon Foundation, Harvest Plus

CIP 1,623,000 Core, IFAD, Belgium, Canada, Australia, USAID

ICARDA 1,043,000 AFESD, IFAD, USAID, GCC

ICRAF 2,202,000 USAID, Sweden, Belgium, CFC

ICRISAT 3,197,000 UNEP, USAID, DFID, India, Finland, and Canada

IFPRI 1,527,000 ACIAR, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Canada, Denmark, EC, Ford Foundation, Germany

IITA 1,510,000 Austria, EU, GIG, Japan, Netherlands, Switzerland, USAID

IPGRI 1,493,000 UNEP, Switzerland, Netherlands, Japan, IFAD

IWMI 1,083,000 BMZ, EU, Denmark, Netherlands, Switzerland

WARDA 260,000 EU, USA, AfDB, Japan

SSA CP 346,000 FARA