1. Presenter Ann Tutwiler
Topic Bioversity International Strategic Plan 2014-2024
Date 28 May 2014
Venue Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
Acknowledgements:
Ann Tutwiler(2014), Bioversity International Strategic Plan 2014-2024, ACIAR
Seminar Series presentation, 28 May 2014, Canberra, Australia.
5. Challenge: Reduce Double Burden of Malnutrition
30 million overweight children live in developing countries
Number of overweight adults in developing countries tripled
between 1980 and 2010
Malnourished children lose 10% of lifelong earnings
6. Challenge: Adapt to Climate Change
Up to 40% of the world will develop novel climates, often with
new pest and disease complexes
7. Challenge: Reduce Vulnerability
Up to 30% of arable land is marginal and fragile land
Desertification and drought affect 1.5 billion people
8. Challenge: Expand Options
Increasing crop yields and stress tolerance requires genetic
diversity
Intensification of agricultural systems has led to a substantial
reduction of biodiversity
9. Biodiversity Offers Solutions
Convention on Biodiversity
International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and
Agriculture
Commission on Plant Genetic Resources
10. OUR MISSION:
TO DELIVER SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE, MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND POLICY
OPTIONS TO USE AND SAFEGUARD AGRICULTURAL BIODIVERSITY TO
ATTAIN SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY
11. Our Strategic Objectives
Strategic Objective 1: Low-income consumers have expanded
access to and use of affordable, nutritious diets.
Strategic Objective 2: Rural communities have increased the
productivity, ecosystem services and resilience of farming systems,
forests and landscapes.
Strategic Objective 3: Farm households and rural communities have
increased access to a diversity of quality seeds and other planting
materials
Strategic Objective 4: Policymakers, scientists and rural communities
have safeguarded, assessed and are monitoring priority agricultural
biodiversity.
13. Strategic Objective One: Consume
Strategic Sub-Components
Farm households and rural communities manage nutrition
sensitive landscapes
Agrifood sectors mainstream nutrition sensitive value chains
Households improve dietary quality through a whole of diet
approach
Bioversity International will
Investigate how agricultural biodiversity within food production
systems and the access to nutritionally-rich food sources
contribute to dietary diversity
Identify effective and equitable policies to close nutritional gaps
and improve the quality of diets through diversity
For example: climate change and nutritional resilience
14. Strategic Objective Two: Produce
Strategic Sub-components
Farm households use agricultural biodiversity to sustainably
intensify their systems, reduce enterprise risk and increase
profitability
Rural communities benefit from managing diversity in forests
Rural communities integrate agricultural biodiversity into
landscape management practices for enhanced ecosystem
services
Bioversity International will
Explore how the use of agricultural biodiversity within broader
landscapes to improve rural livelihoods, productivity, resilience,
and deliver ecosystem services.
For example: restoration of degraded lands
15. Strategic Objective Three: Plant
Strategic Sub-components:
Farm households and rural communities use a diversity of planting
materials to enhance productivity, nutrition and adaptation
Formal and informal seed systems deliver high quality, diverse
planting materials required by farm households and rural
communities
Bioversity International will
Work with stakeholders to develop ‘smart seed systems’ that are
responsive to biotic and abiotic stresses to improve productivity,
resilience, dietary diversity and quality
Develop policy options in support of high quality, diversified seed
systems
For example: banana disease management
16. Strategic Objective Four: Safeguard
Strategic Sub-components
Global treaties and conventions use a shared mechanism for
monitoring agricultural biodiversity status and trends
National policymakers adopt mechanisms for safeguarding
agricultural biodiversity and knowledge
Farm households, rural communities, scientists, breeders and
policymakers have information on priority traits
Bioversity International will
Develop systems for providing farm households and rural
communities, scientists, breeders and policymakers with
information on priority traits.
Promote global actions for monitoring and safeguarding priority
agricultural biodiversity to increase current and future options for
improved productivity and nutrition.
For example: Coconut Genebank; Timber Tracking
17. Focus: People and Global Public Goods
People
Farm households
Rural communities and
landscapes
Urban consumers
Women and children
Global Public Goods
International treaties and
conventions
Banana, Coconut
Genebanks
18. Focus: Markets
Value Chains: nutrition and
resilience
Commercial and pre-
commercial systems: rural
and urban markets
Marginal and remote regions,
local production and
consumption
Poor and vulnerable
communities: nutrition-
oriented interventions and
social policies
19. Geography
Limited number of low-income
countries or ecosystems in Asia-
Pacific, Mekong, India sub-continent,
East/Central/West Africa, Central
American, Andes
Criteria will include:
high levels of agricultural
biodiversity;
high vulnerability to climate
change;
high levels of malnutrition.
long-standing Bioversity
partnerships and CRP engagement
Emerging partner countries, e.g Brazil
20. Crops and Trees
Cropping systems and forests
Neglected and underutilised
species,
Nutritionally and economically
useful trees, and
Vegetatively-propagated crops
Generate income
Enhance resilience and adaptive
capacity of production systems
Improve dietary quality
Secure future options
21. CGIAR Research Programs
Humidtropics; Drylands; Aquatic
Agricultural Systems
Policy, Institutions and Markets
Roots, Tubers and Bananas
Agriculture for Nutrition and Health
Climate Change, Agriculture and
Food Security
Water, Land and Ecosystems
Forests, Trees and Agroforestry
22. Partners
National research systems
Advanced research institutes
Development organisations
and international bodies
Local, national and global
agri-food value chain actors
Timber concessionaries
Conservation organisations
23. Why Bioversity International?
Biodiversity integrates multiple scientific disciplines to provide an
agricultural biodiversity lens on the adaptation of food systems to
climate change, rural transformation, provision of environmental
services, nutrition and dietary transformation
Biodiversity boasts expertise in value chains, nutrition, landscape
ecology, environmental services, information management,
bioinformatics and genomics
Biodiversity combines multidisciplinary team of agronomists,
population geneticists, plant breeders, entomologists, economics,
anthropologists, law and policy
Bioversity brings strong partnerships with NARs, farmers
organizations and NGOs