A presentation by Ms Ann Tutwiler, Director General, Bioversity International on ‘Bioversity International’s sharpened strategy’ on 28 May 2014.

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.

2. STRATEGIC PLAN, 2014-2024

3. BioversityInternationalY.Wachira
OUR VISION: AGRICULTURAL
BIODIVERSITY NOURISHES PEOPLE
AND SUSTAINS THE PLANET

4. Challenge: Increase Productivity
Rising global food demand requires increased agricultural
productivity and reduced food losses

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.

12. Our Theory of Change

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

24. www.bioversityinternational.org