This document summarizes the strategic partnership between CGIAR, AAS, and Africa to address challenges of rural poverty, food insecurity, nutrition, and natural resource management. It outlines how CGIAR has reformed from 15 independent centers to a single consortium focused on 7 CRPs (CGIAR Research Programs) corresponding to the SLOs (System Level Objectives). One of these CRPs is the Aquatic Agricultural Systems program, which works in key geographies like the Mekong Delta and Africa to improve food security, nutrition, incomes and resilience for the 100 million people dependent on AAS globally, 66% of whom live in poverty. The document concludes by discussing partnerships between CGIAR, AAS and Africa

1. CGIAR, AAS and Africa
Lusaka, 14 May 2013

2. A strategic partnership dedicated to advancing science to
address the central development challenges of our time:
• Reducing rural poverty
• Improving food security
• Improving nutrition and health
• Sustainably managing natural resources
15 International Agricultural Research Centers, working in
close collaboration with hundreds of partners worldwide.

3. Old New
15 Independent Centers 1 Consortium
Diffuse CGIAR priorities Focus on 15 CGIAR
Research Programs (CRPs)
Donor funding of Centers Donor funding of CRPs
Recognition of impact Focus on impact
Weak partnerships Effective partnerships
CGIAR Reform

4. System Level
Objectives
• Reduced rural
poverty
• Improved food
security
• Improved nutrition
and health
• Sustainably managed
natural resources

5. SLOs CRPs – primary focus
Reduced rural poverty Agricultural Systems: (Drylands;
Humid Tropics; AAS) (1s)
Improved food security Commodities (Wheat; Maize; Rice;
Roots Tubers and Bananas; Dryland
cereals; Grain legumes; Livestock &
Fish) (3s)
Improved nutrition and health Nutrition and Health (4)
Sustainably managed natural
resources
Water Land and Ecosystems (5)
Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (6)
Policies, Institutions and Markets (2); Climate Change (7)
Strategy & Results Framework

6. SLOs CRPs – primary focus
Reduced rural poverty Agricultural Systems: (Drylands;
Humid Tropics; AAS) (1s)
Improved food security Commodities (Wheat; Maize; Rice;
Roots Tubers and Bananas; Dryland
cereals; Grain legumes; Livestock &
Fish) (3s)
Improved nutrition and health Nutrition and Health (4)
Sustainably managed natural
resources
Water Land and Ecosystems (5)
Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (6)
Policies, Institutions and Markets (2); Climate Change (7)
Strategy & Results Framework

7. Aquatic Agricultural
Systems

8. Aquatic Agricultural Systems
NOT ABOUT FISH!
only

9. Rural povertyMillionsofruralpeople
South Asia
SSA

10. Rural poverty and AAS
Ca. 100m people
dependent on AAS
66% living in
poverty

11. Intermediate Development Outcomes
Direct
• Food Security – better access
• Nutrition & Health – increased consumption
• Income – increased benefit from value chains
Enabling
• Productivity – food systems
• Gender – empowerment and equity
• Capacity to Innovate – improved capacity
• Resilience - adaptive capacity (people + systems)
• Policies – enabling environment/ institutions
• Environment – minimize adverse effects

12. IDO example: Rural poverty
“Increased and more equitable income earned by low
income value chain actors in aquatic agricultural
systems, with increased share captured by women”
Specific AAS targets (within 12 years):
•50% increase in income from AAS value chains in 500,000
poor households in the Polder Zone of Bangladesh, with 40%
of that income earned by women
•60% increase in income from AAS value chains in 50,000
poor households in the Barotse floodplain of Zambia, with
40% of that income earned by women

13. AAS Approach
IDOs

14. MekongMekong The Coral Triangle
GBM*GBM*
ZambeziZambezi
Population living on <$1.25/day,
per grid cell (resolution : 9 km at
the equator)
NigerNiger
Lakes
Victoria
-Kyoga
Lakes
Victoria
-Kyoga
Source of poverty map: CGIAR SRF
Domain Analysis Spatial Team (2009)
*GBM: Ganges-Brahmaputra-
Megna delta
(where learning from Coral
Triangle will be scaled out)
South Pacific Community
African Inland
Asia mega deltas
• High numbers of poor and/or
High % of total population dependent on AAS
• High vulnerability to change (climate/sea level/water)
• Potential to scale out
Geographical Focus
African Coastal

15. Countries and hubs
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Bangladesh Cambodia Myanmar As-Pac (x1) ???
Solomons Philippines Africa (x2) Africa (x3) ???
Zambia

16. CGIAR, AAS and Africa
• Dublin Process – CAADP-CGIAR partnership
• Increasing the AAS contribution in Africa
• Pursue through partnership
• Lusaka meeting – launch of this process
• Provide guidance to program focus

17. Thank You