The document summarizes the work of the CGIAR, a global agricultural research partnership consisting of 15 international centers. It discusses several of CGIAR's major research programs and initiatives including the Global Rice Science Partnership (GRiSP) and Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) program. It also provides an overview of CIAT's contributions to these programs through its research on beans, cassava, and climate change adaptation in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

1. Strengthening a Joint Global Research for
Development Agenda
Ruben G. Echeverría, Director General
April 2012
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3. CGIAR Consortium:
15 Member Research Centers
The CGIAR is a strategic
partnership consisting of a
consortium of 15 international
research centers supported by a
multi-donor fund
The CGIAR conducts research to
reduce poverty, strengthen food
security, improve human health
and nutrition, and enhance
natural resource management in
developing countries

4. CGIAR Core Assets
• A group of 64 member countries and organizations
addressing global development challenges through
international agricultural research
• A critical mass of scientists with multidisciplinary
knowledge of key agroecosystems
• An extensive global research infrastructure, including
research stations representing many agro-ecosystems
• Global and regional research networks with strong
links to national agricultural research and innovation
systems
• Global collections of genetic resources held in trust for
the world

5. CGIAR Research Program Portfolio
Title Lead Center
Water, land, and ecosystems IWMI
Climate change, agriculture, and food security CIAT
GRiSP - A global rice science partnership IRRI
Grain legumes ICRISAT
Roots, tubers, and bananas CIP
Policies, institutions, and markets IFPRI
Agriculture for improved nutrition and health IFPRI
Integrated systems for the humid tropics IITA
Meat, milk, and fish ILRI
Forests, trees, and agroforestry CIFOR
Integrated production systems in dry areas ICARDA
Wheat CIMMYT
Maize CIMMYT
Dryland cereals ICRISAT
Aquatic agricultural systems WorldFish

6. Global Rice Science Partnership (GRiSP)
• Nearly 900 partners
• Objectives: break yield ceilings using
genomics, breed drought and flood-
tolerant varieties, and find innovative ways
to get new varieties to farmers and make
the rice sector more efficient and
equitable
• Expected outcomes: by 2020 income gains
of US$11 billion annually should lift
72 million people out of poverty and
enable 40 million people to reach food
security

7. Climate Change, Agriculture, and
Food Security (CCAFS)
• More than 400 partners, including climate
change research community
• Objective: Overcome threats to food security
by identifying pro-poor technologies and
policies for mitigation and adaptation
• Expected outcomes: by 2020, reduce
poverty by 10%, lower number of
malnourished rural people by 25% in
targeted regions, and reduce greenhouse gas
emissions by equivalent to 1,000 million tons
of CO2

8. CCAFS: Research Themes
• Adaptation to progressive Climate Change
• Managing climate risk
• Pro-poor Climate Change mitigation
• Integration for decision making

9. CIAT, A Key Partner in Several
CGIAR Global Programs
• CIAT is involved in several global
programs and leads CCAFS- Climate
Change, Agriculture and Food Security
• CIAT participates in CRP 4-Nutrition and
Health, through HarvestPlus
• Major activities ongoing in Africa related
to biofortification and its delivery with
strong CIAT’s Cassava and Bean research
programs engagement
• Outcomes:
o First trial packets of bean seeds
distributed in 2012 by collaborating
NGOs and government agencies of
Rwanda and DR of Congo
o Government Health Ministry of
Rwanda and DR of Congo support
efforts to disseminate high-iron
beans

10. 40 Years of Bean Research in CIAT
Disease & Pest Management
Drought Tolerance
Low Phosphorus Tolerance
Genetic Resources Research
DNA Marker Technology
Nutritional Quality
’75 ’80 ’85 ’90 ’95 ’00 ’05 ’10 ’15
High priority Medium priority Reduced priority

11. The Pan-Africa Bean
Research Alliance
• Created in 1996; now includes
28 African countries
• PABRA´s main objective is to
enhance the food
security, income, and health of
small-scale farmers through bean
research
• The major beneficiaries of PABRA´s
work are rural women, who are
primarily responsible for the crop´s
production and postharvest

12. CIAT - Leveraging Global Research for
Agricultural and Rural Development
• Member of the CGIAR Consortium, founded in 1967 near
Cali, Colombia
• A global staff that includes 200 scientists working in Africa,
Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean
• Mission: to reduce hunger and poverty, and improve human
health in the tropics through research aimed at increasing the
eco-efficiency of agriculture
• Eco-efficient agriculture, that is, more productive, profitable,
competitive, sustainable, resilient, and equitable
2012: Join us to celebrate our 45th anniversary!

13. CIAT’s Active Presence in
Three Key Regions
Since 1960s, currently Since 1990s, currently
Since 1980s, currently
focusing in Central with activities in China,
with activities in 28
America, Colombia, and Vietnam, Laos,
African countries
Amazon region Cambodia, and Thailand

14. Research-for-Development Initiatives 2012
Rice Adaptation to
Climate Change
Bean
Tropical Soils
Cassava FUNDACIAT
AGRONATURA
Science Park
Tropical Policy Analysis
(Linking Farmers to
Forages Markets, Gender Analysis)
Genetic Resources & Capacity Strengthening &
Biotechnology Knowledge Management

15. Examples of Impacts
• Over 5.3 million rural households in sub-
Saharan Africa have adopted modern bean
varieties over the last 17 years, generating
benefits worth nearly US$200 million
• Adoption of improved cassava varieties in
Thailand and Vietnam has nearly reached
90%, creating benefits worth almost $12
billion over the last 20 years
• Improved forages now cover an area
estimated at 25.4 million hectares in tropical
America, generating huge benefits through
improved livestock production – estimated at
$1 billion in Colombia, for example
• Nearly 60% of Latin America’s rice area is
planted to improved rice, with benefits valued
at $860 million from 1967 to 1995 alone

16. UF & CIAT:
Potential Themes for Collaboration
• Climate Change &
Natural Resource
Management
• Crop Modeling , Ag
MIP, inc. genetic and
economic data
• Policy analysis
(Gender) & capacity
building

17. Opportunity for Collaboration
New research to assess the effects of
climate change in the agricultural sector
UF key contact: Prof. Jim Jones
• Assess future global food
security utilizing improved
models in LAC
• Enhance adaptation capacity
in developing and developed
countries
CIAT Focal point: Julián Ramírez

18. Opportunity for Collaboration
Modelling Crop-livestock Systems
Development and validation of
new forage germplasm adapted
to different soil conditions typical
of the Orinoquia region in
Colombia (including well-drained
and poorly drained soils)
CIAT Focal point: Michael Peters

19. Current Collaboration
Beans
• Gene Based modelling of common
bean (Professor: Eduardo Vallejo)
Objective: to characterize
physiological response of a population
of 180 lines from a cross of two
common beans, Calima x Jamapa,
and to perform analysis on
physiological processes
• José Clavijo, Research Assistant
in the Department of Agronomy at
University of Florida, visited CIAT and
received training in genetic modelling
of beans
CIAT contacts: S. Beebe and I. Rao

20. Current Collaboration
Gender
• Jennifer Twyman (UF), will start in June 1st as part of CIAT’s gender
analysis research initiative
 Work closely with the CCAFS theme Adaptation to Progressive
Climate Change
 Investigate social inequalities and gender differences in time
and labor allocation, adaptive learning, risk management and
innovation on farms and in value chains affected by
environmental stress
• Carmen Diana Deere will coach and continue to help identify UF
students to gain international research experience by conducting
gender analysis and gender research with CIAT in LAC, Africa and Asia

21. Opportunity for Collaboration
Reducing gender inequities caused by
climate change
Objectives Expected results
•Analyze gender differences • Identification of
in adaptation, using opportunities for women’s
selected market chains economic empowerment
important for women’s
• More gender-sensitive
economic empowerment
indicators developed
•Develop indicators for
• Evidence on gender
monitoring adaptation
differences in adaptation
over time and drudgery in
to climate change in
market chains
national adaptation plans
•Conduct policy dialog to leads to inclusion of rural
influence national women’s economic
adaptation plans empowerment

22. Opportunity for Collaboration
Equal opportunities for rural indigenous
women in adapting Latin America’s agriculture
to climate change
Objective
Develop and test adaptation strategies
that enhance biophysical, economic,
social, and cultural resilience as well as
the sustainability of indigenous
communities, benefitting women and
men equally
Expected results
• Adaptation strategies designed and tested for at least six different types of
indigenous farming systems in Amazonia, Central America, and the Andean region
• Recommended innovations that blend indigenous with scientific knowledge for
climate change adaptation

23. Opportunities for Collaboration in SE Asia
• Pest and disease management (cassava)
•Soils and sustainable land management
related to cassava production, forages and
livestock, and/or digital mapping and
information systems
• Improvements in cassava agronomy
• Cassava crop modeling
• Spatial analysis and climate
change, especially related to crop suitability
• Biotechnology and breeding, especially
for cassava
CIAT Focal point: Rod Lefroy

24. Opportunity for Collaboration
Tropical Fruits
Research themes such as
plant breeding and
phytosanitary management
in LAC
CIAT Focal point: Alonso Gonzalez

25. Promoting innovation for
development

26. Latin America: A Food Basket
for the World?
• Vast, underutilized areas suitable for agriculture
• Abundant supplies of water and other natural resources
• Highly diverse agro-ecologies and climates

27. CIAT: Science for Impact
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