The document summarizes an agenda for a CIAT Asia Team Planning Meeting from 19-21 February 2014. It includes discussions on socioeconomic trends in Asia such as population distribution, poverty rates, and GDP of various countries. Specific topics on the agenda are poverty rates and distributions in regions/countries of Asia in 2010, Human Development Index rankings, undernourishment trends, and drivers of change in Asia such as economic growth, population growth, foreign investment, land acquisitions, and infrastructure development. The agenda also includes a timeline of past and current CIAT projects in Asia from 1977-2015 related to crops like cassava, livestock, natural resource management, and climate change across various countries in the region.

1. CIAT Asia Team Planning Meeting
19-21 February 2014
Socio-economic and
Agro-development
trends and drivers

2. Population distribution
Countries by: Population 1st, 2nd, 4th … 10th, 12th, 13th, 20th (Ch, In, Id, Jp, Ph, Vn, Th)
Economy 2nd, 3rd … 10th, 15th, 16th … (Ch, Jp, In, Kp, Id)

3. Poverty: rates, distribution, inequity
• Almost half the world (over three billion people)
live on less than $2.50 a day
• At least 80% of humanity lives on less than $10 a
day

4. Poverty: rates, distribution, inequity
• Almost half the world (over three billion people)
live on less than $2.50 a day
• At least 80% of humanity lives on less than $10 a
day

5. Poverty: rates, distribution, inequity
2010 Poverty Rates
Population
Poor (<$1.25PPP/day)
Region
Total
(%)
(millions)
(millions)
South Asia
31.0
506.8
1,633.2
Sub-Saharan Africa
48.5
413.7
853.6
East Asia and Pacific
12.5
250.9
2,010.4
Latin America & Caribbean
5.5
32.3
583.9
Middle East & North Africa
2.4
8.0
331.3
Europe and Central Asia
0.7
3.2
477.1
20.6
1215.0
5,889.4
Total

6. 2010 Poverty Rates
India*
India--Rural
India--Urban
China*
China--Rural
China--Urban
Bangladesh
Indonesia*
Indonesia--Rural
Indonesia--Urban
Pakistan
Philippines
Vietnam
Nepal
Cambodia
Lao PDR
Sri Lanka
Timor-Leste
Thailand
Bhutan
Mean
PPP$/mth
60.39
54.96
73.01
147.61
91.14
216.91
51.67
83.33
75.36
90.21
73.39
103.65
91.27
68.06
86.55
71.17
117.66
57.4
220.34
137.82
Population
Poor (<$1.25PPP/day)
%
millions
32.67
400.1
34.28
293.4
28.93
106.6
11.62
155.5
20.57
151.7
0.64
3.8
43.25
64.3
18.06
43.3
17.75
19.7
18.33
23.6
13.47
23.4
18.42
17.2
13.96
12.1
24.82
7.4
14.72
2.1
26.04
1.6
4.11
0.9
34.70
0.4
0.38
0.3
4.42
0.0
Total
millions
1,224.62
856.01
368.61
1,338.30
737.4
600.9
148.69
239.87
111.06
128.81
173.59
93.26
86.94
29.96
14.14
6.2
20.86
1.12
69.12
0.73

7. HDI

8. HDI

9. HDI

10. Undernourishment trends

11. Drivers of change
• Asian Tigers (SEA) and Dragons (Ch/In)
• FDI –Forestry, Mining, Hydropower, Agriculture, Industry …
• Employment opportunities
- hit by the Asian Financial Crisis (1997)
- hit by the GFC (2007-8)
• Population growth – slowing in places
• Land grabs – local / regional / global
• Access / Roads / Transport
- GMS major roads
- Feeder roads and local infrastructure

12. 2011
Population
Growth
Rates
in Asia
Countries
Japan:
Korea, South:
Hong Kong:
China:
Korea, North:
Thailand:
Singapore:
Sri Lanka:
Indonesia:
Vietnam:
Burma:
World (Weighted average)
Bhutan:
India:
Bangladesh:
Pakistan:
Malaysia:
Nepal:
Laos:
Cambodia:
Brunei:
Philippines:
East Timor:
2011
-0.28%
0.23%
0.45%
0.49%
0.54%
0.57%
0.82%
0.93%
1.07%
1.08%
1.08%
1.10%
1.20%
1.34%
1.57%
1.57%
1.58%
1.60%
1.68%
1.70%
1.71%
1.90%
1.98%

13. GMS
Road
System
2015

15. Countries
Donor
Institutions
1977-79
1980-82
1983-1991
1
9
9
19923
1994
1995
1996
1997 1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
Cassava/Cassava systems
Cassava support
Core
Cassava breeding
Th
Core/Japan
CIAT
Cassava cropping in Asia
Th, Vn, Ch, Id
Nippon
CIAT
Cassava cropping in Asia
Th, Vn, Ch
Nippon
CIAT
On-farm Use
La, Kh
Nippon
CIAT
On-farm Use
La, Kh, Vn, Mm
Nippon
CIAT
On-farm Use
Kh
Nippon
CIAT
Seeds of Life
Et
ACIAR
CG centers
Cassava Indonesia & Timor
Id, Tp
ACIAR
CIAT
Waxy cassava in Thailand
Th
Th
CIAT
PRDU
LA, Vn, Ch
IFAD
CIAT / CIP
4FGF
La, Kh, Vn
IFAD
CIAT / CIP
IBC
La, Kh, Vn
UFAD/SNV
CIAT/SNV
RTB
Vn, Kh, La
IFAD
ICRISAT / CIAT
Biofuels
Vn, Ch, Co, In, Ph, Ma
IFAD
ICRISAT / CIAT
Pests & Diseases
Th, Vn, Ch, Kh, La, …
EC/IFAD
CIAT
FSP
La, Ph, Vn, Id, Th, Ch
AusAID
CIAT
FSP
La, Ph, Vn, Id, Th, Ch
AusAID
CIAT
FLSP
La
AusAID
CIAT
FSP II
Ph, Vn, Id, Ch, La, Th
ADB
CIAT
LLSP
La, Ph, Vn, Kh, Id, Ch, Th
ADB
CIAT
PPTA
La
ADB
CIAT
CBSLSLP
La
ADB
CIAT
Fodder systems
Et, Vn, Sy
IFAD
ILRI / CIAT / ICARDA
Legumes for pigs
La
ACIAR
CIAT
Cattle in Cambodia
Kh
ACIAR
UNE / CIAT
Cattle in Cambodia II
Kh
ACIAR
UNE / CIAT
Rice & cattle NE Thailand
Th
ACIAR
World Vision / CIAT
Restricted core support
Region
ACIAR
CIAT
Rainfed Southern Laos
La
ACIAR
CSU-UQ-NSWDI-IRRI-CIAT
Pig production & health SPSP
La
ACIAR
CSIRO / CIAT
CLVLP
Kh, La, Vn
IFAD
CIAT
Animal Health Project
La
ACIAR
CSIRO
Extension in Agriculture Project I
La
ACIAR
CSU (CIAT)
Extension in Agriculture Project I
La
ACIAR
CSU (CIAT)
SADU Laos and Vietnam
Vn, La
SDC
CIAT
SADU Laos II
La
SDC
CIAT
SADU Laos III
La
SDC
CIAT
SADU Vietnam
Vn
SDC
CIAT
Fruit marketing N Vn
Vn
ACIAR
CIAT
LFM in the uplands if Vietnam
Vn
Cordaid?
CIAT
JIRCAS
La
JIRCAS
JIRCAS-CIAT
JSA
La
JMAFF
JIRCAS-CIAT
STOAUS
La
Austria
CIAT-BOKU
CC & Land Use
La
GTZ
CIAT
CC & Economic Impact
Th
GTZ
CIAT
PSROI
La, Vn
CC & LUC in GMS
GMS (Ch, La, Mm, Th, Kh, Vn)
CCAFS
CIAT
La
IDRC
CIAT/PRGA
Forages & Livestock
Linking Farmers to Markets
Climate Change & Land Use
CIAT
PRGA
P NRM
CIAT Asia Projects
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015