FAO CGIAR collaboration - Karin Nichterlein

Subdirección de Investigación y Extensión Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Research and Extension Unit

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FAO CGIAR collaboration

ISPC Meeting, 15 Sep 2015

Karin Nichterlein, Research and Extension Unit (DDNR)

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Research and Extension Unit Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Content

Contribution to governance and system support

MoU and its implementation

Assessment of collaboration by FAO collaborators

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Contribution to governance and system support










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Governance and system support

Active member of the CGIAR Fund Council

(FC) and of FC Governance Committee

Hosting system offices: ISPC Secretariat (6 yrs

1/3 of budget) & IEA office (free from PSC)

Hosting GFAR Secretariat

Contributions to the organization of GCARD

Board member of Bioversity (DDG-N)

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Collaboration with CGIAR at

system/strategic level Inputs to preparation CGIAR founding and policy

documents, research programmes and new SRF

40th CGIAR Anniv. Event at FAO, 2011 & FAO ICARDA

side event at the 31th NERC, 2012

MoU FAO – CGIAR Consortium, Feb. 2013

152 Council Session: briefing on CGIAR Reform, 2015

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Internal FAO/CGIAR network

To guide FAO/CGIAR relations

All FAO Technical Divisions and Regional

Offices represented

FAO Focal Points (FPs) in technical

departments

FP in LEG, TC, OSP

Supports FAO’s governing role of CGIAR and

coalition with the CGIAR

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MoU and its implementation










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Implementation of MoU

Meeting on FAO - CGIAR MoU follow-up, Rome, 2 July

2013 with 3 areas for strategic collaboration agreed

1. Gender equity in food, agriculture and rural

development

2. Upscaling - Enhanced mechanisms to support

knowledge and technology transfer at country

level

3. Metrics for impact assessment, M&E, and

contribution to SDGs

Results: 1 continued, 2 recent developments, 3 limited

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Current collaboration

FAO/FI and WorldFish

Aquaculture: Fish for FNS (SO2 global/BGI)

Strategic programme developed & discussed

Joint proposals developed & shared with potential donors

EU Project on Aquaculture (SO2 global/BGI)

Information on contribution of fish to FSN gathered from 11 countries & policy

advice to EU

LDCF Project for Bangladesh (SO2/BGI Bangladesh)

Project Identification Fiche approved, project development ongoing

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FAO/FO with CIFOR, ICRAF, CIAT, CRP-FTA,

CRP-WLE and IFPRI

Global Landscapes Forum (SO2, SO5)

2014 Conference, Lima, Peru

2015 Conference, Paris, France

Collaborative Partnership on Forests (SO2)

Chaired by FAO

Collaborative Partnership on Sustainable Wildlife

Management (SO2)

Joint proposal being developed with CIFOR and CIRAD

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FAO/FO with Bioversity, ICRAF, CRP-FTA

State of World’s Forest Genetic Resources and related

studies

Implementation of the GPA Forest GR (SO2)

Regional workshops and side events 2014, 2015

Forest and Landscape Restoration Mechanism (SO2,

SO5)


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FAO/AG/RAF and AfricaRice/IRRI

Develop Africa wide rice programme (SO2 RI2)

Joint project initiation and launching workshops in 2013/2014

2015 Conference, Paris, France

Study on impact evaluation of eco-agri-food system on

human health/well-being: rice production (SO2)

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FAO/AGP & Bioversity

Enhance link between conservation and use of crop

wild relatives (CWR) in 3 SADC countries (SO2)

Needs assessment completed, toolkit under development

2 regional workshops, CWR registry under development

FAO AGP and ICRISAT, ICARDA, CIAT

Develop strategies & enhance effective uptake of

Community Seed Production (CSP)

Guidance distributed for project design and implementation

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FAO/AGE with CIAT, IITA, IWMI, ILRI

Cassava breeding (RI SO1 in RLC)

Improve soil carbon sequestration (CSA)

CD on WUE assessments and rice productivity

(CSA)

Support to GPA on AnGR & sustainable livestock

production (SO1, SO2)

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Current collaboration FAO/AGA with ILRI & CCAFS

Animal Feeds and Feeding (SO2, MAW RUE)

Sound data sharing through FAO’s Feed Resource Database (under

discussion)

Development of ILRI’s feed related tools (completed)

Joint project initiation and launching workshops in 2013/2014

Livestock Systems info & modelling (SO2, MAW RUE)

Developing a global info system on livestock

Global mapping of livestock distribution & production systems being

updated and upgraded, to be released Dec15

Developing a manure management system

Collaborative Partnership on Forests (SO2)

Chaired by FAO

Collaborative Partnership on Sustainable Wildlife

Management (SO2)


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FAO/NRL with CRP WLE/IWMI

More effective and sustainable investments in water for

poverty reduction (SO2 & SO3, MWA ERU)

Country needs assessments ongoing, design and upscale innovative

AgWM solutions and business models 2016-17)

Improving capacities in AgWM & investment planning

AQUASTAT database & water quality (SO2, SO5, SO6,

WSI)

WLE support to FAO Aquastat wastewater database

Joint work on Global Resource Recovery and Reuse Atlas

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FAO with CRP WLE/IWMI

Water Accounting Plus and Water Productivity Mapping (SO2, WSI

and MAW)

Database development and water productivity mapping AQUASTAT

database & water quality

Assessing costs & benefits from wastewater irrigation of forest

plantations in North Africa (SO2 and WSI)

Cuba: FAO CD agrobiodiv for ecosystem resilience, WLE (SO2)

Gender and water collaboration: FAO/WLE for CFS, irrigation

gender performance indicators etc (SO2)

Others in the pipeline…..

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FAO/NRC & ESA with CCAFS/ICRAF and CIAT

Support MICCA pilots in East Africa & provide scientific

evidence of climate benefits of locally rel. ag. practices

(SO2 MAW-CSA)

Organizing 7 intern. Workshop on CC topics (SO2)

Creation of global database on field practices impact on CSA

pillars for supporting CSA policy (SO1 MAW-CSA)

Appraisal of GHG impact of USAID’s agricultural projects in 3

countries

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FAO/DDNR with IFPRI and ISPC

Strengthening agricultural innovation systems (SO2)

IFPRI/ASTI contributing to 2014 State of Food and Agriculture

(SOFA) on “Agricultural Innovation in Family Farming” (SO2)

Intern. FAO/ASTI/IMPRESA workshop on “Better Monitoring of

Investments in Agricultural Research in Europe”, 2015 (SO2)

Agricultural research impact assessment: ISPC advise on

impact assessment methodology for six case studies of the

IMPRESA project (EC FP7)

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FAO/ESN with IFPRI (SO1, SO2)

Study on scaling up nutrition through agriculture in East

Africa

Food consumption data collation and dissemination & food

based nutrition indicators through FAO/WHO web platform

Regular collaboration on nutrition sensitive agriculture

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Assessment of collaboration by FAO collaborators










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Value addition to FAO mandate?

Brings in science

to build evidence

base to support

policy making for n

FS under CC

Benchmarking,

monitoring &

reporting on

water metrics,

etc

Scaling-up

AgWM

solutions for

smallholders in

Africa

Working with

leading

CGIAR center

on aquatic

research

CGIAR R&D

work in FO

directly relevant

for FAO

As knowledge

provider,

research

experience

Data, methodologies,

access to field

experience,

modelling

capacity

Value addition to FAO mandate?

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Increased visibility of FAO’s

mandate?

YES.

Recognition as

international

source of

knowledge &

expertise

YES. Benefitting

from CGIAR

center outreach

and visibility

expertise

YES. Made

FAO databases

widely known.

Increased

visibility in

international

fora.

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Challenges observed?

Data quantity

and quality,

resource limits

Admin.

challenges in

one case

Delayed fund

receipt from

CRP due to

financial

compliance

issues

Finance, time

& efforts

required

Delayed

submission of

deliverables

and quality of

outputs

Incorporation of

CGIAR research

results in

development

work

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To be

continued/renewed/advanced?

YES. CGIAR

compatible to

FAO’s work.

YES, and possibly

to be enhanced

YES, but developing

projects with particip.

work plans required YES, but for

arrangements of

future collaboration

to be considered a

fair distribution of

costs

Win-win situation!

FAO as uptake

partner for CG. 2nd call

chance to formulate

CRPs that address

needs of FAO work.

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Thank you

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