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.

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OUR VISION: AGRICULTURAL BIODIVERSITY NOURISHES PEOPLE AND SUSTAINS THE PLANET

Challenge: Increase Productivity

Rising global food demand requires increased agricultural productivity and reduced food losses

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

Challenge: Adapt to Climate Change Up to 40% of the world will develop novel climates, often with

new pest and disease complexes

Challenge: Reduce Vulnerability

Up to 30% of arable land is marginal and fragile land

Desertification and drought affect 1.5 billion people

Challenge: Expand Options

Increasing crop yields and stress tolerance requires genetic diversity

Intensification of agricultural systems has led to a substantial reduction of biodiversity

Biodiversity Offers SolutionsConvention on Biodiversity

International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture

Commission on Plant Genetic Resources

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

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.

Our Theory of Change

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

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

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

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

Focus: People and Global Public GoodsPeople Farm households Rural communities and

landscapes Urban consumers Women and children

Global Public Goods International treaties and

conventions Banana, Coconut

Genebanks

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

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

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

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

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

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

www.bioversityinternational.org