CGIAR Systemwide Livestock Programme: Achievements and prospects in a changing CGIAR
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CGIAR Systemwide Livestock Programme:Achievements and prospects in a changing CGIAR
Presentation by Bruno Gerard to the ILRI Board of Trustees, 12 April 2010
What is the Systemwide Livestock Programme (SLP)?
• One of the 15 CGIAR Systemwide and Ecoregional programmes (SWEPs) to favor collective action between CGIAR centers
• First SWEP created in 1992 (ASB)
• SLP created in 1995
Systemwide Programs Started Conveying Center
Alternative to Slash and Burn (ASB) 1992 World Agroforerstry
Systemwide Genetic Resources Research Program (SGRP) 1994 Bioversity
Systemwide Livestock program (SLP) 1995 ILRI
Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi) 1996 IFPRI
Systemwide Program-Integrated Pest management (SP-IPM) 1996 IITA
Global Mountains Program (GMP) 1997 CIP
Participatory Research and Gender Analysis program (PRGA) 1997 CIAT
Urban Harvest, Initiative on Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture (UH) 1999 CIP
Systemwide Initiative on HIV/AIDS and Agriculture (SWIHA) 2000 Africa Rice Center
Systemwide Initiative on Water Management (SWIM-2) 2001 IWMI
Systemwide Initiative on Malaria in Agriculture (SIMA) 2001 IWMI
Ecoregional Programmes Started Conveying CenterConsortium for the Sustainable Development of the Andean Ecoregion CONDESAN 1993 CIP
Consortium for Sustainable Development of the Inland Valley Agroecosystem in Sub-Saharan Africa (IVC) 1993 Africa Rice Center
African Highland Initivative 1995 World Agroforerstry
Rice-wheat Consortium for the Indo-Gangetic Plains (RWC) 1995 CIMMYT
Desert Margins Program (DMP) 1997 ICRISAT
Collaborative Program for Sustainable Agricultural development in Central Asia and the Caucasus (CAC) 1998 ICARDA
Consortium of 12 CGIAR centers
Systemwide Livestock Programme‘raison d'être’
Building and strengthening links between the crop-, agroforestry-, natural resource-, policy- and livestock-oriented CGIAR centres and programmes, their partners and other stakeholders, to develop integrated and coherent strategic and applied research on livestock feed development and related natural resource management and policies.
Systemwide Livestock Programme• Decrease the number of crop–livestock farmers living below the
poverty line• Improve fodder yield and nutritive quality of the world’s major
food–feed crops• Improve and sustain the production of food–feed crops through
better use of soil nutrients and water• Encourage research with benefits that can be transferred across
regions• Identify policy and institutional measures that enable uptake of
food–feed crops and related natural resource management innovations• Build partners’ capacity to scale out the results of research so as
to achieve widespread impact
SLP governanceILRI’s Board of Trustees has overall responsibility for the SLP
Livestock Programme Group (LPG)• Serve as an advisory body and clearing house for research proposals
• Determine the SLP’s priority research areas
• Evaluate, approve and allocate available resources to SLP projects
• Agree on which centres or other partners are best placed to lead in priority research thrusts, and allocate responsibility for convening consortia to support such lead institutions
• Ensure the global coherence of SLP research investments and their efficient use
• Promote awareness of the importance of crop–livestock systems research
Livestock Programme Group (LPG)Senior management representative from each centre
Clare Narrod (IFPRI)Steven Franzel (WAC/ICRAF)
Dennis Friesen (CIMMYT)Said Silim (ICRISAT)
Asamoah Larbi (ICARDA)Michael Peters (CIAT)Charles Crissman (CIP)
John McDermott – Chair (ILRI)Shirley Tarawali (ILRI)
Deborah A. Bossio (IWMI)Paula Bramel (IITA)
Jagadish Timsina (IRRI)Marie-Noelle Ndjiondjop (WARDA)
Bruno Gerard - Secretariat (SLP/ILRI)
First set of research projects funded through the Programme was initiated in 1998, and since more than 60 SLP projects and seed grants were completed
Funding mechanismsSeed grants:Support researchers and their partners during the crucial initial planning and consultation phases needed to develop larger project proposals (USD 40-60,000)
Fully funded projects: (USD 160,000 – 1,2000,000, average size circa USD 300,000)
Donors: SDC, World Bank, IDRC, DANIDA, DfID, BMZ, IFAD
• In difficult environments several SPs have to be addressed by an integrated systems approach where crop-livestock interface with particular emphasis on livestock feed and related resource management and policy issues continue to be important.
• SLP provides simple and flexible coordination where individual Centers lead and implement individual research projects with at least one other CGIAR Center partner. Thus, SLP serves as a platform for networking and coordination and as a platform for Centers to develop research projects that require expertise from a number of Centers.
• SC supports SLP as a coordinating program of importance for the implementation of the SPs.
From ‘An Assessment of Current Systemwide and Ecoregional Programs’ SC Secretariat, February 7, 2008
SLP current research focusall the eggs in the same basket!
TOPIC
Ranking summary
Total weight/ Grade
Competitive (No. of persons)
Commissioned (No.
of persons)
1.1Optimizing livelihood and environmental benefits from crop residues in smallholder crop-livestock systems in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia: regional case studies and their strategic lessons 71 6 4
2.1Targeting interventions to benefit vulnerable groups in intensifying smallholder crop-livestock systems 62 4 5
2.2Alleviating poverty in intensifying smallholder crop-livestock systems: methods for setting R&D priorities 48 1 8
3.2Enhancing soil nutrient and water management for the sustainable intensification and diversification of smallholder crop-livestock systems in extensive areas 46 5 1
4.1Assessing energy options from renewable sources for poor households in crop-livestock systems 41 8 1
5.1Overcoming barriers to market access for smallholder crop-livestock systems in extensive areas 38 6 2
3.1Institutional options for improving soil health in smallholder crop-livestock systems 25 5 2
Ranking by LPG of Proposed Research Topics for SLP 2008 Funding
SLP Commissioned Studies Drivers of Change and Feed,Food, Fuels in crop livestocks Systems (2007-2009)
SLP Strategic Workshop, Addis-Ababa, April 2008-> Priority setting by LPG for SLP call
Call for 4 regional case studies on CR in mixed systems in West, East, Southern Africa and South Asia (July 2008)
Concept notes were reviewed and short listed (October-November 2008)
Harmonization workshop (April 2009)
Inception of Regional Case Studies (January 2010)
End of projects + Global Synthesis (2012)
Research Questions
What determines the decisions about crop residue use (current crop management, agro-ecology, markets/institutions, resource endowments, dynamics,…)?
What is the impact of those decisions on livelihoods and system sustainability?
What are the technological, institutional and policy options that would enhance livelihood and environmental benefits?
Research Approach
Combination of village and household surveys and ex-ante tradeoff modelling.
Households surveyed in the four regions using stratified sampling, based on intensification level and market access.
Village group survey to capture: i. Drivers and market access;ii. Communal feed resources;iii. Systems evolution in term of feeding strategies and
soil productivity.
Thematic household survey to capture:iv. Decision making for the allocation of crop residues;v. Identification of soil fertility management practices
and feeding strategies;vi. Retrospective questions to understand farm
evolution/trajectories. Collection (primary and secondary data) of key bio-physical parameters (minimum data set) to address sustainability issues.
Contrast and trend analysis at household, village, system scales and identification of potential solutions (tradeoff analysis) under a range of scenarios.
Knowledge sharing
Recent efforts to build collaboration
- Wageningen University- University of Kassel- University of Hohenheim- FAO - CORAF/WECARD- SANREM CRSP
Resource mobilization
- Not focused on core funding for SLP at this time
- Involvement in proposal development and idea notes: - ACIAR for Zimbabwe with CIMMYT and ICRISAT- CPWF for Volta Basin - Possible BMZ proposal for 2011 submission in
WCA (land use change implications on sustainability and livelihoods, nutrient cycling)
SLP in the new CGIAR Death or reincarnation?
• SWEPs will not exist in the new CG
• Focus on delivering for on-going projects over the next two years
• Knowledge, achievements, past - current collective actions and good partnerships can be instrumental in contributing to drafting the CGIAR research agenda especially for MP1 and MP5 (strong link with PLE)