CRP 3.4 Roots, Tubers and Bananas for Food Security and Income

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CRP 3.4 Roots, Tubers and Bananas for Food

Security and Income

Goal:

Sustainable productivity increases for global food security

by exploiting untapped potential of roots, tubers, and

bananas (RTB) to:

• Improve nutrition and food security

• Increase income generation

• Foster improved livelihoods for women, youth, children &

other vulnerable groups


Untapped potential:

• RTBs are grown by 500+ million farmers

• Major staples (among 10 most consumed crops)

• Excellent sources of energy and some key nutrients

• Locally produced and traded; complement cereals in robust

and diverse world food system

• Often the backbone of food & income security

• Frequently neglected by policy makers and R&D agencies

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Expected impacts:

120 million direct and indirect beneficiaries in the next five

years among small-scale RTB farmers, families, &

communities in some of the poorest regions of Asia, Africa,

Pacific, Latin America, & Caribbean

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The Crops:

• Banana and plantain

• Cassava

• Potato

• Sweetpotato

• Yam

• “Minor” roots and tubers

– Tropical (e.g. cocoyam)

– Andean roots and tubers

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Partners:

• CIP (lead)

• IITA

• CIAT

• Bioversity International

• Other research-for-development stakeholders

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Why a CRP for RTB?

• RTBs have similar breeding systems for trait improvement and some critical traits in common

• RTBs are clonally propagated leading to similarities in seed multiplication systems

• RTBs often play a similar role in food systems as starchy and perishable non-cereal crops

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Why a CRP for RTB?

• CRP RTB will create economies of scale and scope as scientists involved in the conservation and use of RTB:

– explore common research questions,

– share labs

– develop common tools and methods

– coordinate work at common sites, for example, by supporting seed systems with two or more RTB crops

– build capacity together

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Themes:

1. Conserving and accessing genetic resources

2. Accelerating the development and selection of varieties

with higher, more stable yield and added value

3. Managing priority pests and diseases

4. Making available low cost, high quality planting material

for farmers

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Themes:

5. Developing tools for more productive, ecologically robust

cropping systems

6. Promoting postharvest technologies, value chains, and

market opportunities

7. Enhancing impact through partnerships

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Theme 1. Conserving and accessing genetic resources

• PL 1. Ex‐situ and in‐situ conservation methodologies

optimized

• PL 2. Increased coverage of gene pools in global

genebanks

• PL 3. International collections of RTB phenotyped and

genotyped for important traits

• PL 4. International collections of RTB documented and

information freely accessible to users

• PL 5. Safe exchange of RTB genetic resources


Theme 2. Accelerating the development and selection of

varieties with higher, more stable yield and added

value

• PL 1. Breeding tools, strategies, and approaches

• PL 2. Trait capture and gene discovery

• PL 3. Population development and pre‐breeding

• PL 4. Variety development

• PL 5. Aligning research with farmers‟ and end‐users‟

priorities

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Theme 3. Managing priority pests and diseases

• PL 1. Detection, surveillance, and mapping

• PL 2. Ecology, biology, and epidemiology of pests and

diseases

• PL 3. Ecology and management of beneficial organisms

• PL 4. Specific management strategies

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Theme 4. Making available low‐cost, high‐quality

planting material for farmers

• PL 1. Policies, strategies, and decision support tools to

improve effectiveness of seed systems

• PL 2. Lower cost, more effective mass propagation

methods

• PL 3. Farmer‐based quality seed production and

management methods

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Theme 5. Developing tools for more productive,

ecologically robust cropping systems

• PL 1. Ecological and physiological understanding of RTB

crops and cropping systems

• PL 2. Increasing productivity in RTB cropping systems

through nutrient/water/light management practices

• PL 3. Integrated decision and management tools for RTB

crops

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Theme 6. Promoting postharvest technologies, value

chains, and market opportunities

• PL 1. Postharvest approaches to improve food security

• PL 2. Improving linkages to markets for environmentally

friendly income generation activities

• PL 3. Marketing strategies and policies to add value and

promote RTB consumption

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Theme 7. Enhancing impact through partnerships

• PL 1. Targeting and setting priorities

• PL 2. Building effective partnerships

• PL 3. Communication and knowledge sharing

• PL 4. Capacity strengthening

• PL 5. Outcome and impact assessment

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Fig. 1 Organization

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Steering Committee (SC):

• provide strategic oversight of the overall performance

• approve the strategic and annual plans and budget

allocations

• oversee annual performance of the PD

• arbitrate disputes as the last instance before these are

brought to the Consortium Board.

• Composition: DGs of the four CGIAR founding partners

of the CRP, a representative of the Lead Center Board

(LCB), possibly two independent members, and the PD

as an ex‐officio member. The DG of the lead center will

chair the SC.

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Management Committee (MC):

• The MC will be the key strategic and executive entity and

will be responsible for the establishment, execution, and

monitoring of the full CRP‐RTB research portfolio,

including the development of strategy, work plans and

business plans, and annual budgets.

• Composition: DDGs-Research of Bioversity, CIP, CIAT

and IITA, as well as the Program Director. A DDG-R may

delegate their representation to „ another high‐level

research officer‟ of their Center. The Program Director

(PD) will chair the MC

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Program Management Unit (PMU)

• The PD will be assisted by a small PMU, composed of a

group of staff fully dedicated to support the CRP‐RTB

management.

• The PMU will consist of one high‐level research officer

(RO), one contract and finance officer (C&FO), and a

communications officer (CO)

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Theme Leaders:

• Leadership of the seven themes will be distributed

among the four centers. Theme leaders will be elected

according to a set of criteria agreed by the MC and

approved by the SC. The MC will ensure an equitable

distribution of roles among the four centers based on

competencies and the level of investment in a particular

theme.

• IITA will lead one or more themes. The DG or DDG‐R4D

will propose one candidate for any theme for which we

believe we should play a theme leader role.

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Theme leaders, reporting to the MC, will:

• Identify and promote cross‐cutting synergistic research

activities for their theme.

• Ensure integration across themes.

• Facilitate preparation of annual or medium‐term research

plans, budgets, and annual reports for their theme in

coordination with focal points for the theme in the other

centers and the PMU.

• Contribute to midterm and final evaluations at three and

six years.

• Respond to other requests for support related to the

appropriate functioning of the CRP from the PD

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Theme Investments by Center (US $ millions)Research Theme Base Scenario

2011 - 2013

BI CIAT CIP IITA Total

T1 Genetic resources - conservation & access 4.7 3.1 1.9 9.9 19.6

T2 Varieties - high, stable yield & added value 1.4 4.6 28.1 13.8 47.9

T3 Managing priority pests and diseases 4.5 2.2 5.2 8.0 19.9

T4 High-quality planting materials 2.3 1.8 6.0 7.4 17.5

T5 Ecologically robust cropping systems 4.5 2.5 2.6 3.0 12.5

T6 Postharvest tech., value chains, markets 2.9 1.8 3.3 6.8 14.7

T7 Impact through partnerships 5.2 1.3 5.1 4.0 15.6

Sub total 25.4 17.3 52.2 52.8 147.7

Institutional overhead 5.1 3.0 9.1 10.5 27.7

Total before CRP Management Cost 30.5 20.3 61.3 63.3 175.4

CRP Management Cost (4%) 1.2 0.8 2.4 2.6 7.0

Total 31.7 21.1 63.7 65.9 182.4

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Theme Investments by Crop (US $ millions)Research Theme Base Scenario

2011 - 2013

Potato SWP Banana Cassava Yams

Other

RTB Total

T1 Genetic resources 0.3 0.2 7 8 2.6 1.5 19.6

T2 Varieties 12.3 14.3 4.6 11.4 3.6 1.7 47.9

T3 Pests and diseases 3.2 2 6.4 6 2.1 0.1 19.9

T4 Planting materials 3.5 2.5 4 5.4 1.9 0.1 17.5

T5 Cropping systems 1.3 1.2 5.2 3.8 0.8 0.1 12.5

T6 Postharvest tech. 1.9 0.5 4.5 5.1 1.8 1.1 14.7

T7 Impact 1.2 3.9 6.1 3.3 1.0 0.1 15.6

Sub total 23.7 24.7 37.9 43.0 13.8 4.6 147.7

Institutional overhead 4.1 4.3 7.7 8.0 2.7 0.8 27.7

Total before Mgt. Cost 27.8 29.0 45.6 51.0 16.5 5.4 175.4

CRP Management Cost 1.2 1.1 1.8 2.1 0.7 0.2 7.0

Total 29.0 30.1 47.4 53.1 17.2 5.6 182.4

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