Presented by Patrick Dugan at the International Fund for Agricultural Development headquarters in Rome, July 2013.

1. Aquatic Agricultural
Systems
IFAD 12 July 2013

2. AAS
• Rationale
• Approach
• Innovation
• IFAD & AAS

3. AAS
Rationale

4. Aquatic Agricultural Systems
Systems and livelihoods – not commodities

5. Integrated Agricultural Systems

6. Rural poverty
Number of rural poor (millions) (<US$1.25 per day)

7. Moving beyond the Green Revolution
• “… there are serious and growing threats to the productivity
and resilience of the Green Revolution lands. Equitability
has also been low. The larger landowners have reaped most
of the benefits, while the poor and landless have missed
out.” (Conway 2012)

8. CGIAR - STRATEGY AND
RESULTS FRAMEWORK
• “Agricultural production
system research should
increase and
progressively become
the focal point for the
integration of
commodity and natural
resources research.”
(CGIAR SRF 2011)

9. AAS
Southern
Polder
Zone
WHEAT;
GRiSP
CPWF - WLE
CCAFS
A4NH
PIM
CGIAR
Alignment
L&F
Haor basin

10. AAS Approach

11. Rural poverty and AAS
Ca. 80m people
dependent on AAS
66% living in
poverty
Source: Bené & Teoh, in prep.

12. MekongMekong The Coral Triangle
GBM*GBM*
ZambeziZambezi
Population living on <$1.25/day,
per grid cell (resolution : 9 km at
the equator)
NigerNiger
Lakes
Victoria
-Kyoga
Lakes
Victoria
-Kyoga
Source of poverty map: CGIAR SRF
Domain Analysis Spatial Team (2009)
*GBM: Ganges-Brahmaputra-
Megna delta
(where learning from Coral
Triangle will be scaled out)
South Pacific Community
African Inland
Asia mega deltas
• High numbers of poor and/or
High % of total population dependent on AAS
• High vulnerability to change (climate/sea level/water)
• Potential to scale out
Geographical Focus
African Coastal
System Area (km²) People <US$1.25/day
Africa – freshwater 800,000 70m 43m
Africa – coastal 300,000 12m 7m
Asian Deltas 50,000 100m 40m

13. Intermediate Development Outcomes
Income
Productivity
Control of
assets
Capacity to
innovate
Greater
resilience
Capacity to
adapt
Policies
Minimized
effects
Carbon
sequestratio
n
Material
Outcomes
Instrumental
Outcomes
Environmental
Outcomes
Access to
food
Nutrition

14. Innovating for
impact
“… there are serious and growing threats to
the productivity and resilience of the Green
Revolution lands. Equitability has also been
low. The larger landowners have reaped
most of the benefits, while the poor and
landless have missed out.” (Conway 2012)

15. “The definition of insanity
is doing the same thing
over and over again and
expecting different results”
Albert Einstein

16. Areas of innovation
• RinD
• Gender
• Nutrition
• ME&IA
• Scaling
• Partnerships
• Capacity dep’t

17. Nutrition sensitive AAS landscapes
• Vegetable (orange flesh sweet potato (OFSP)) on
pond dykes and in homestead gardens
• Promotion of nutrient-rich fish consumption and
increased dietary diversity

18. The RinD Approach: Programmatic Theory of Change

19. Countries and hubs
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Bangladesh Cambodia Myanmar As-Pac (x?) ???
Solomons Philippines Africa (x2) Africa (x?) ???
Zambia

20. Integrated themes:
Gender
Health & Nutrition
Learning/Sharing/Communication
Engagement & Empowerment
Effective Partnerships
High potential
NRM value chains
Fish
Aquatic Plants
Farm productivity &
diversification
Diversified farming
systems
Dietary diversification
Baseline studies
Ecosystem services
Agrobiodiversity
Agric. Knowledge + info
systems
Governance
High potential agric.
value chains
Cattle
Rice
HUB strategic initiatives
Flood risk management
Gender transformative
approach
Awareness +
communication in schools
Canal management
Program
operations
Governance
Management
Communications
Capacity building for
implementation
Community
level
initiatives
Barotse Hub,
Zambia

21. AAS – Partners and pathways to scale
• National and local Governments
• NARS
• NGOs (national and international)
• Other research partners
• Private sector
• Local Government
• NARS
• Community Organizations + NGOs
• Other research partners
• Private sector

22. IFAD + AAS
Mutual learning
• Nutrition sensitive
production technology
• Nutrition sensitive
landscapes
• Gender
• M&EIA
Scaling out and up

23. Thank You