Repositioning IITA for Impact in Africa by Nteranya Sanginga

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IITA the leading research partner in Africa

Repositioning IITA for Impact in Africa”

Humitropics Conference

March 3-6, 2015, IITA, Ibadan


Raise over 11 million Africans out of poverty Redirect 7. 5 million ha of degraded lands to

sustainable use

Vision of success


R4D model: Focus on R IITA comparative advantage

Impact at farm levels

Quality of research

Innovative partnerships

Effective internal organization

Refreshed IITA’s Strategic Direction


Impact Zones and Emerging Partnerships

Production system platforms Collaborative platforms

USAID Feed the future/ACIAR/EU

AGRA & BMGF& AfDB ASARECA/CORAF/

CARDESA FARA learning sites CRPs joint work


Regional hubsWest Africa – Ibadan

Central Africa – KinshasaEast Africa – Dar es Salaam

Southern Africa – Lusaka

113 scientists 15 countries 18 locations

Where we are: our hubs


Project sitesApril 2014

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140 projects

$135M total budget

1300 employees

230 IRStists


Dr. Charity Mutegi work on Aflatoxins


IITA in Dar, Tanzania built in 14 months

Eastern Africa Hub: Plant health issues


Central Africa: NRM and REDD+

IITA KALAMBO in DR CONGO


Southern Africa, Lusaka: system diversification


HQ & West Africa Hub

IITA BIP

Western Africa, Ibadan: Systems integration


IITA – Abuja in 2011

IITA – Abuja in 2014

Rebuilding infrastructure


cassava soybean yamcowpea maize banana


Nr CRP Lead by

1.1 Integrated production systems in dry areas ICARDA

1.2 Integrated systems for the humid tropics IITA

1.3 Aquatic agricultural systems WorldFish

2 Policies, institutions and markets (PIM) IFPRI

3.1 Wheat CIMMYT

3.2 Maize CIMMYT

3.3 GRiSP - A global rice science partnership IRRI

3.4 Roots, tubers and bananas (RTB) CIP

3.5 Grain legumes ICRISAT

3.6 Dryland cereals ICRISAT

3.7 Meat, milk and fish ILRI

4 Agriculture for nutrition and health (A4NH) IFPRI

5 Water, land and ecosystems (WLE) IWMI

6 Forests, trees and agroforestry CIFOR

7 Climate change, agriculture, food security (CCAFS) CIAT

+ Genebanks

CGIAR Research Program Portfolio


IITA Lead HumidTropics


Reaching the millions?

Best bet technologies

Partnership and Capacity Development

Research Delivery Capacitybuilding

Scaling up, out, down? Missing links?


Planned special initiatives

The West Africa Regional Genomics and Biotechnology

Platform

A Center for climate change and plant health

The Pan African Platform for Soil Research

The Youth Agribusiness Development Initiative

The Business Incubation Platform


Youth stampeding in Abuja

• A full stadium for 5000 jobs in immigration


Multi-disciplinary team• (History, Computer Science, Quantity Surveying)

Gender Balance

The IYA-Model


Lessons learned

Mindset Change of youth about agriculture

connect IYA to excellent source of technology and knowledge

counseling activities to motivate youth

AYI can be formalized as a pillar of IITA BIP


#YADI Conference

Youths Policy MakersGovernment Officials Private Sector NGOs

Enable youth by AfDB/IITA


Mentorship and now cutting cross theme in CGIAR SRF


IITA Business Incubation Platform

TRADITIONAL R4D’S LIMITED ACCESS TO MARKETIITA Target

Farmers

IITA BIP R&D MARKET ACCESS ACCELERATOR

Food Companies

Global Traders

IITA BIP: Accelerating the Impact of IITA’s R4D

IITA Target Consumers

GoSeed

NoduMax

IITA Research

Limited positive impact

IITA Target Farmers

IITA Research Agri Start-ups

UN World Food Program

New Markets For Farmers

Export Markets

Export Markets

Consumers

Major positive impact

IITA R&D Breakthr

ough

IMPACT IMPACT

IITA BIP

Aflasafe

IITA R&D Breakthr

ough


Year Projected Income in Nov 2011

IncomeAchieved

Revised

2011 47 472012 50 742013 56

962014 63 101 1282015 69 120 1352016 75 2017 81 2018 88 2019 94 2020 100 200

IITA growth target by 2020


2011 CGIAR Reforms

Food security, Poverty, Natural Resources, Under-nutrition


Issues based vs Agroecosystems

Sustainable system intensification Climate change Important entry point

Explain Humitropics in simple term My mother, politician, primary school Donors e.g. BMGF etc…….

Position Humidtropics for 2nd call CRPs Refer to the 4 IITA pillars

Simplifying and explaining Humitropics


“It is time for the Humitropics‘’ - The Journey has just started

Thank you!

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