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The Feed the Future Initiative & Research Strategy
Tracy Powell, USAID Bureau for Food Security
Africa RISING Annual Learning Event
ILRI, Addis Ababa, 24-26 September 2013
Feed the Future Initiative
• Presidential initiative which aims to catalyze broad-based economic
growth while reducing hunger, poverty, and undernutrition.
• Whole-of-government approach led by USAID
• Concentrates efforts on 19 Feed the Future focus countries
• Emphasizes an integrated approach to agricultural
development, strategic coordination between diverse partners and
stakeholders, and accountability through robust M&E.
• Led to development of the Food Security Innovation Center, which
implements the Feed the Future Research Strategy.
• Advancing the productivity frontier
• Transforming key production systems
• Improving nutrition and food safety
Three research themes:
• Indo-gangetic plains in South Asia
• Sudano-sahelien systems in West Africa
• Maize and livestock mixed systems in
East and Southern Africa
• Ethiopian highlands
Anchored by key geographies:
Overarching Goal: Sustainable Intensification
Research Strategy
Feed the Future Food Security Innovation Center
• Leads USAID’s implementation of FTF Research Strategy in seven priority
research areas
o Program for Research on Climate Resilient Cereals
o Program for Research on Legume Productivity
o Program for Advanced Approaches to Combat Pests and Disease
o Program for Research on Safe and Nutritious Foods
o Program for Sustainable Intensification
o Program for Policy and Markets Research and Support
o Program for Human and Institutional Capacity Development
Feed the Future Food Security Innovation Center
• Encourages a multi-disciplinary approach, better linkages among
related projects, cross-project learning and management
efficiencies
• Engages U.S. universities, international research centers, private
sector, local agricultural research and educational institutions, think
tanks
Program for Sustainable
Intensification
Challenge: FundamentallyTransform Key Production Systems
• In Africa, 65% of agricultural land suffers from physical and chemical
degradation
• African cereal and milk yields are less than half the global average
Solutions:
• Integrate research outputs, policy and nutrition in production systems
• Focus multiple interventions within targeted geographic areas
• Diversify major production systems with improved crops and animals
• Evaluate and disseminate improved soil and water management practices
Example Projects:
• Africa RISING
• Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia
• Sustainable Agriculture and NRM Innovation Lab
• Integrated Pest Management Innovation Lab
• Small-Scale Irrigation Innovation Lab
Please See our Feed the Future Website
Thank You!
www.feedthefuture.gov
Challenge: Increase cereal yields and adaption to climate change
for improved feed and fodder production
• Cereals account for approximately two-thirds of all human energy intake
• An estimated 1.2 billion poor people depend on wheat
Solutions:
• Invest in development and dissemination of improved cereals
• Take advantage of emerging biotech and genomic tools
• Partner with private R&D companies and US universities
• Leverage BMGF investments
• Improve fodder quality for dual purpose use
Example Projects:
• Rice, wheat, maize, dryland cereal CRPs
• WSU Improved Wheat for Heat Tolerance
and Climate Resilience
• UC Davis Abiotic Stress Tolerant Millet
Program for Research on
Climate Resilient Cereals
Program for Research
on Legume Productivity
Challenge: Increase productivity and availability of legumes
• Abiotic stresses decrease legume yields by up to 40%
• Pests and diseases can decrease yields by up to 35%
• The grain legume value chain directly benefits women, especially in Africa
Solutions:
• Elevate legumes as major investment area under the research strategy
• Tackle yield, climate resilience and biotic stresses for staple legumes
• Utilize private sector knowledge and skill in
transgenic and emerging genomic tools
Example Projects:
• Grain Legumes Innovation Lab
• Peanut & Mycotoxins Innovation Lab
• AATF Bt Cowpea
• CGIAR Grain Legumes CRP
Challenge: Protect animals and tropical staples from major pests
and diseases
• Plant diseases on major food crops cause up to 40% of pre-harvest losses
• Over 90% of the world’s wheat acreage is susceptible to wheat stem rusts
• Over 1.6 billion families depend on livestock for their income and nutrition
Solutions:
• Leverage US science and leadership in advanced genomic/biotech tools
• Utilize transgenic tools for critical plant diseases
• Build public sector capacity to use biotech tools
Example Projects:
• Virus Resistant Cassava for Africa
• East Coast Fever vaccine development (USDA)
• Venganza—Wheat Stem Rust & Mycotoxins
• Late blight resistant potato
• New disease resistant livestock program
Program for Advanced Approaches
to Combat Pests and Diseases
Program for Research on
Safe and Nutritious Foods
Challenge: Sustainably increase production and consumption of
highly nutritious foods and diversify diets
• Fruits, vegetables and animal source foods provide critical micronutrients
for child development
• One third of children under five in low income countries are stunted
• Half of all children and pregnant women are anemic
Solutions:
• Nutrition research on behavior, food utilization and household dynamics
• Research on production/consumption biofortified and nutrient-rich crops
• Develop options to strengthen post harvest handling and food safety
• Invest in horticulture, animal sourced food value chains
Example Projects:
• Meat, Milk & Fish and Nutrition CRPs
• Horticulture, Livestock, AquaFish & Nutrition
Innovation Labs
• WorldVegetable Center
Program for Policy and Markets
Research and Support
Challenge: Create supportive agricultural policy environments
• Help countries embrace predictable, inclusive, evidence-based and
transparent policy formulation and implementation
Solutions:
• Work with host-country governments and multilateral institutions to
improve enabling policy environments
• Address land and natural resource governance and resilience
policy, nutrition policy constraints.
• Improve function of and access to markets
Example Projects:
• Feed the Future Policy Plan
• Assets and Market Access Innovation Lab
• Program for Biosafety Systems
• New Alliance partnerships
Program for Human and
Institutional Capacity Development
Challenge: Professional and organizational capacities are
inadequate to address agricultural challenges and opportunities
• Public agricultural institutions are weak
• Private sector needs skilled employees
• Experienced faculty and managers are retiring
• Women hold few management positions
Solutions:
• Strengthen human and institutional capital base
• Support best practice development
• Support women in agricultural research
• Develop human skills through fellowships and long-term degree training
Example Projects:
• InnovATE – Agricultural Training & Education
• African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD)
• Borlaug Higher Education for Agricultural Research and Development

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The feed the future initiative and research strategy

  • 1. The Feed the Future Initiative & Research Strategy Tracy Powell, USAID Bureau for Food Security Africa RISING Annual Learning Event ILRI, Addis Ababa, 24-26 September 2013
  • 2. Feed the Future Initiative • Presidential initiative which aims to catalyze broad-based economic growth while reducing hunger, poverty, and undernutrition. • Whole-of-government approach led by USAID • Concentrates efforts on 19 Feed the Future focus countries • Emphasizes an integrated approach to agricultural development, strategic coordination between diverse partners and stakeholders, and accountability through robust M&E. • Led to development of the Food Security Innovation Center, which implements the Feed the Future Research Strategy.
  • 3. • Advancing the productivity frontier • Transforming key production systems • Improving nutrition and food safety Three research themes: • Indo-gangetic plains in South Asia • Sudano-sahelien systems in West Africa • Maize and livestock mixed systems in East and Southern Africa • Ethiopian highlands Anchored by key geographies: Overarching Goal: Sustainable Intensification Research Strategy
  • 4. Feed the Future Food Security Innovation Center • Leads USAID’s implementation of FTF Research Strategy in seven priority research areas o Program for Research on Climate Resilient Cereals o Program for Research on Legume Productivity o Program for Advanced Approaches to Combat Pests and Disease o Program for Research on Safe and Nutritious Foods o Program for Sustainable Intensification o Program for Policy and Markets Research and Support o Program for Human and Institutional Capacity Development
  • 5. Feed the Future Food Security Innovation Center • Encourages a multi-disciplinary approach, better linkages among related projects, cross-project learning and management efficiencies • Engages U.S. universities, international research centers, private sector, local agricultural research and educational institutions, think tanks
  • 6. Program for Sustainable Intensification Challenge: FundamentallyTransform Key Production Systems • In Africa, 65% of agricultural land suffers from physical and chemical degradation • African cereal and milk yields are less than half the global average Solutions: • Integrate research outputs, policy and nutrition in production systems • Focus multiple interventions within targeted geographic areas • Diversify major production systems with improved crops and animals • Evaluate and disseminate improved soil and water management practices Example Projects: • Africa RISING • Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia • Sustainable Agriculture and NRM Innovation Lab • Integrated Pest Management Innovation Lab • Small-Scale Irrigation Innovation Lab
  • 7. Please See our Feed the Future Website Thank You! www.feedthefuture.gov
  • 8. Challenge: Increase cereal yields and adaption to climate change for improved feed and fodder production • Cereals account for approximately two-thirds of all human energy intake • An estimated 1.2 billion poor people depend on wheat Solutions: • Invest in development and dissemination of improved cereals • Take advantage of emerging biotech and genomic tools • Partner with private R&D companies and US universities • Leverage BMGF investments • Improve fodder quality for dual purpose use Example Projects: • Rice, wheat, maize, dryland cereal CRPs • WSU Improved Wheat for Heat Tolerance and Climate Resilience • UC Davis Abiotic Stress Tolerant Millet Program for Research on Climate Resilient Cereals
  • 9. Program for Research on Legume Productivity Challenge: Increase productivity and availability of legumes • Abiotic stresses decrease legume yields by up to 40% • Pests and diseases can decrease yields by up to 35% • The grain legume value chain directly benefits women, especially in Africa Solutions: • Elevate legumes as major investment area under the research strategy • Tackle yield, climate resilience and biotic stresses for staple legumes • Utilize private sector knowledge and skill in transgenic and emerging genomic tools Example Projects: • Grain Legumes Innovation Lab • Peanut & Mycotoxins Innovation Lab • AATF Bt Cowpea • CGIAR Grain Legumes CRP
  • 10. Challenge: Protect animals and tropical staples from major pests and diseases • Plant diseases on major food crops cause up to 40% of pre-harvest losses • Over 90% of the world’s wheat acreage is susceptible to wheat stem rusts • Over 1.6 billion families depend on livestock for their income and nutrition Solutions: • Leverage US science and leadership in advanced genomic/biotech tools • Utilize transgenic tools for critical plant diseases • Build public sector capacity to use biotech tools Example Projects: • Virus Resistant Cassava for Africa • East Coast Fever vaccine development (USDA) • Venganza—Wheat Stem Rust & Mycotoxins • Late blight resistant potato • New disease resistant livestock program Program for Advanced Approaches to Combat Pests and Diseases
  • 11. Program for Research on Safe and Nutritious Foods Challenge: Sustainably increase production and consumption of highly nutritious foods and diversify diets • Fruits, vegetables and animal source foods provide critical micronutrients for child development • One third of children under five in low income countries are stunted • Half of all children and pregnant women are anemic Solutions: • Nutrition research on behavior, food utilization and household dynamics • Research on production/consumption biofortified and nutrient-rich crops • Develop options to strengthen post harvest handling and food safety • Invest in horticulture, animal sourced food value chains Example Projects: • Meat, Milk & Fish and Nutrition CRPs • Horticulture, Livestock, AquaFish & Nutrition Innovation Labs • WorldVegetable Center
  • 12. Program for Policy and Markets Research and Support Challenge: Create supportive agricultural policy environments • Help countries embrace predictable, inclusive, evidence-based and transparent policy formulation and implementation Solutions: • Work with host-country governments and multilateral institutions to improve enabling policy environments • Address land and natural resource governance and resilience policy, nutrition policy constraints. • Improve function of and access to markets Example Projects: • Feed the Future Policy Plan • Assets and Market Access Innovation Lab • Program for Biosafety Systems • New Alliance partnerships
  • 13. Program for Human and Institutional Capacity Development Challenge: Professional and organizational capacities are inadequate to address agricultural challenges and opportunities • Public agricultural institutions are weak • Private sector needs skilled employees • Experienced faculty and managers are retiring • Women hold few management positions Solutions: • Strengthen human and institutional capital base • Support best practice development • Support women in agricultural research • Develop human skills through fellowships and long-term degree training Example Projects: • InnovATE – Agricultural Training & Education • African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) • Borlaug Higher Education for Agricultural Research and Development