This document summarizes ongoing activities in 2013 by CGIAR consortium members. It outlines activities across four objectives: 1) developing more resilient livelihoods for vulnerable households, 2) increasing stable and higher income for intensifiable households, 3) sustainable management of land, water and genetic resources in pastoral systems, and 4) integrated and effective service delivery institutions. Key activities include characterizing livelihoods, identifying management options, piloting technologies, and strengthening innovation systems. Responsible partners include ICRISAT, ILRI, IWMI, BIOVERSITY, national agricultural universities, and NGOs. Milestones focus on surveys, assessments, demonstrations, modeling, and institutional mapping to achieve the objectives.

1. CGIAR consortium members summary of
ongoing activities (2013)
Haileslassie et al..
/work plan meeting/Kathmandu/27-28/08/13)
Photo : Amare Haileslassie ICRISAT/ILRI

2. IDOs: More resilient livelihoods for vulnerable households
in marginal areas
Activity title: Characterize livelihoods and ecosystems and synthesis lessons
Activities description: Characterize household (HH) livelihood assets, production systems
and vulnerability (quantitatively ) and HH livelihood and production strategies
Milestones and responsible CGIAR-consortium members and national partners
Prepare survey tool; undertake baseline survey and synthesize results indicating:
constraints, community’s perceptions, socioeconomic and natural resource base status
and potential solutions and share the same with stakeholders ( ICRISAT, ILRI, IWMI and
GRAVIS-2013);
Develop and validate of a typology of HHs for their level of vulnerability (IWMI; ICRISAT
and ILRI-2013);
Assess existing livestock management practices, trends and impacts on production
system functioning and livelihood ( ILRI, ICRISAT-2013);
Assess agro-biodiversity in action sites (BIOVERSITY, ICRISAT, CAZRI, GRAVIS-2013)

3. IDOs: More resilient livelihoods for vulnerable households
in marginal areas
Activity title: Identify combinations of biophysical, and management options for reducing
vulnerability and mitigating risk
Activities description: Assess technologies specific to crop, tree and livestock that are
suitable for different farm typologies and that can increase farmers/system resilience and
identify traditional coping/adaptation mechanisms to vulnerability:
Milestones and responsible CGIAR-consortium members and national partners
Identify existing agricultural technologies and their performances for the vulnerable
sites and identify entry points to improve agricultural production and discuses with
partners ( ICRISAT, ILRI, Private resource persons- 2013)
Experiment and demonstrate selected promising technologies( as entry point) that
enhances resilience( ICRISAT, GRAVIS 2013 and beyond)
Pilot weather based crop and livestock insurance model with insurance providers
( IWMI, ICRISAT-2013 and beyond)

4. IDOs: More resilient livelihoods for vulnerable households
in marginal areas
Activity title: Analyse, within target regions, of the trade-offs among options, and
knowledge-based systems for customizing options to sites and circumstances
Activities description: Analyse trade-offs, ex-ante impacts, for different technology
options for the upstream and downstream sites and people:
Milestones and responsible CGIAR-consortium members and national partners
Map and analyse plot and landscape scale land use/ land cover and compare across
temporal and spatial scale ( ICRISAT 2013) ;
Collect soil samples and analyse for major limiting factors (ICRISAT; CAZRI 2013 and
beyond);
Identify and document hot spots areas for biophysical intervention and these
biophysical spatial target areas linked to other livelihood assets (through PRA and
vulnerability assessment ( ICRISAT-2013)..

5. IDOs: More stable and higher per capita income for
intensifiable households
Activity titles: 1) Characterize livelihoods and ecosystems and synthesis lessons across
potentially intensifiable systems; 2) Asses technologies specific to crop, tree and livestock
that are suitable for different farm typologies and that can increase farmers/system per
capita income
Activities description: Characterize household (HH) livelihood assets, production systems
and vulnerability (quantitatively ) and HH livelihood and production strategies :
Milestones and responsible CGIAR-consortium members and national partners
All milestones and CGIAR_CONSORTIUM members are the same as in IDO1. What
changes is the national partners. ( UAS, ANGRAU, AF-Ecology Centre the same time
table) ;
Cross fertilize experiences and lessons from Bhoochetena and VDSA through for
example economic impact analysis and bio economic modelling ( ICRISAT, ILRI- 2013 and
beyond)

6. IDOs: More stable and higher per capita income for
intensifiable households
Activity titles: Analyse, within target regions, of the trade-offs among options, and
knowledge-based systems for customizing options to sites and circumstances
Activities description: Analyse trade-offs, ex-ante impacts, for different technology
options for the upstream and downstream sites and people :
Milestones and responsible CGIAR-consortium members and national partners
Cross fertilize experiences and lessons from Bhoochetena through for example economic
impact analysis( ICRISAT 2013)
Bioeconomic modelling using longer term available data from ICRISAT archive ( ICRISAT,
ILRI- 2013 and beyond)

7. IDOs: More sustainable and equitable management of
land, water and genetic resources in pastoral and agro
pastoral systems
Activity titles: Identify and pilot combinations of biophysical, and management options
for enhancing income and ecosystem services on CPR
Activities description: Piloting and demonstrating selected NRM options for their
performance in terms of enhancing production capacity and providing ecosystem services
in the representative systems:
Milestones and responsible CGIAR-consortium members and national partners
Pilot an improved common property resources management practices (protection,
planting, water harvesting and institutional arrangements) on 10-15 ha in each of the
action research Districts [Barmer, Jaisalmer and Jodhpur, ANANTAPUR and Kurnool;
(ICRISAT, ILRI, GRAVIS, AF Ecology Centre-2013 and beyond )]
Evaluate the costs and benefits of such integrated approaches on system sustainability
and resilience ( ICRISAT; GRAVIS-2013 and beyond)

8. IDOs: More sustainable and equitable management of
land, water and genetic resources in pastoral and agro
pastoral systems
Activity titles: Identify and pilot combinations of biophysical, and management options
for enhancing income and ecosystem services on CPR
Activities description: Piloting and demonstrating selected NRM options for their
performance in terms of enhancing production capacity and providing ecosystem services
in the representative systems:
Milestones and responsible CGIAR-consortium members and national partners
Pilot an improved common property resources management practices (protection,
planting, water harvesting and institutional arrangements) on 10-15 ha in each of the
action research Districts [Barmer, Jaisalmer and Jodhpur, ANANTAPUR and Kurnool;
(ICRISAT, ILRI, GRAVIS, AF Ecology Centre-2013 and beyond )]
Evaluate the costs and benefits of such integrated approaches on system sustainability
and resilience ( ICRISAT; GRAVIS-2013 and beyond)

9. IDOs: More integrated, effective and connected service delivery
institutions underpinning resilience and system intensification
Activity titles: Identify and implement models and approaches for strengthening
innovation and service delivery systems in drylands
Activities description: Characterize institutions, partnerships and their effectiveness in
terms of service delivery for system intensification, resilience and collective actions :
Milestones and responsible CGIAR-consortium members and national partners
Map actors/institutions involved and their roles and partnership for operationalizing
system approach for the target DS (ICRISAT, all other implementers 2013 and beyond )
;
Documenting mode of convergences and identifying drivers for achieving desired
impact through Bhoocetana initiatives ( ICRISAT- experiences from other semiarid
areas in Karnataka);
Operationalize and formalize innovation systems approach in DS and develop TOR
and summary report and communicate to the members for endorsement ( ICRISAT,
ILRI, IWMI, BIVERSITY, 2013 and beyond) .

10. IDOs: More integrated, effective and connected service delivery
institutions underpinning resilience and system intensification
Activity titles: Identify and implement models and approaches for strengthening
innovation and service delivery systems in drylands
Activities description: Characterize institutions, partnerships and their effectiveness in
terms of service delivery for system intensification, resilience and collective actions :
Milestones and responsible CGIAR-consortium members and national partners
Identifying role of social institutions, social capital and social networks in adaptation
processes & practices; mobilising and supporting building social capital ( ICRISAT lesson
from CGIAR_GoK 2013);
Understanding gender requirements and impacts of technological and other
interventions ( ICRISAT, 2013);
Understanding impacts of interventions on gender roles and relations in DS action
sites in Rajasthan (ICRISAT 2013)
Identifying the drivers of change in lives of women and livelihoods practices ( ICRISAT
2013)

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