Wayne Powell

ISPC Meeting

September 15th 2014

The expectations of Science & Research has changed dramatically

Genome Editing & Synthetic biology & integrative approaches.

Insertion or deletion (indel) mutations

• Double strand break (DSB)

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RIGHT TALEN

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Error free repairIntroduction of exogenousDNA sequence(NO footprint)

Systems approach for BIG DATA

Publication Impact to Inform Future Strategies

• Analysis current landscape of CGIAR in terms of publication output both in quantity and quality.

• Comparative Analysis and World Benchmarking.

• Analysis of CGIAR Research Programs

– Output

– Impact

– Research Collaboration

– Research Excellence

Elsevier Research Output and Collaboration Study 2014

Research outputs are a traditional measure of research intensity: 7,929 Ag & Biological Sciences

2,378 Environmental Sciences 1,358 Social sciences

Benchmarking of CGIAR Publication Outputs

Citations per article.

Field weighted citations

Publication output across the 15 Centres

Environmental Sciences and FWCI

Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers-Responsibilty

Current CGIAR portfolio

• Maize

• Wheat

• Rice

• Roots, Tubers & Bananas

• Dryland Cereals

• Grain Legumes

• Livestock and Fish

• Humid Tropics• Aquatic Agricultural Systems• Dryland Systems

• Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)• Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA)• Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)

• Managing & Sustaining Crop Collections

• Policies, Institutions & Market

• Agriculture for Nutrition & Health

CRP spending from inception to the end 2013 (see Portfolio Report)

W1/2 W3/Bil Total W1/2 W3/Bil Total W1/2 W3/Bil Total

Dryland Systems January 2012 70,333 62,392 132,725 11,711 23,536 35,247 20,814 45,153 65,967 Humidtropics July 2012 69,192 75,225 144,418 11,819 14,053 25,872 18,989 28,896 47,885 AAS July 2011 32,273 27,147 59,420 12,810 13,647 26,457 22,904 29,289 52,193 PIM January 2012 140,830 124,403 265,233 27,023 65,851 92,874 42,327 128,537 170,864 WHEAT January 2012 40,966 186,583 227,549 11,737 20,756 32,493 23,229 50,044 73,273 MAIZE July 2011 44,700 193,116 237,816 13,055 42,874 55,929 29,299 129,540 158,839 GRiSP July 2011 382,690 210,700 593,390 34,500 56,712 91,212 104,221 183,229 287,450 RTB January 2012 135,600 47,500 183,100 29,370 39,629 68,999 51,677 71,891 123,568 Grain Legumes July 2012 61,631 77,504 139,135 19,717 27,870 47,587 27,184 44,707 71,891 Dryland Cereals July 2012 26,834 57,494 84,328 7,835 8,359 16,194 11,050 12,575 23,625 L&F January 2012 35,183 84,525 119,708 11,385 13,040 24,425 19,103 22,338 41,441 A4NH January 2012 93,631 97,769 191,400 26,079 43,951 70,030 35,250 95,768 131,018 WLE January 2012 163,781 82,472 246,253 23,773 34,701 58,474 46,132 67,815 113,947 FTA July 2011 90,282 142,635 232,917 27,208 52,039 79,247 67,682 113,601 181,283 CCAFS July 2011 323,900 68,600 392,500 42,022 24,288 66,310 120,076 65,948 186,024

TOTAL 1,711,826 1,538,065 3,249,892 310,044 481,306 791,350 639,937 1,089,331 1,729,268

Spent during 2013 TOTAL spent since start to end 2013Start DateCRP Name Initially Approved Budget

CRP spending by category

W1/2 W3/Bil Total W1/2 W3/Bil Total W1/2 W3/Bil Total

Dryland Systems 70,333 62,392 132,725 11,711 23,536 35,247 20,814 45,153 65,967 Humidtropics 69,192 75,225 144,418 11,819 14,053 25,872 18,989 28,896 47,885 AAS 32,273 27,147 59,420 12,810 13,647 26,457 22,904 29,289 52,193 SYSTEMS 171,798 164,764 336,563 36,340 51,236 87,576 62,707 103,338 166,045

WHEAT 40,966 186,583 227,549 11,737 20,756 32,493 23,229 50,044 73,273 MAIZE 44,700 193,116 237,816 13,055 42,874 55,929 29,299 129,540 158,839 GRiSP 382,690 210,700 593,390 34,500 56,712 91,212 104,221 183,229 287,450 RTB 135,600 47,500 183,100 29,370 39,629 68,999 51,677 71,891 123,568 Grain Legumes 61,631 77,504 139,135 19,717 27,870 47,587 27,184 44,707 71,891 Dryland Cereals 26,834 57,494 84,328 7,835 8,359 16,194 11,050 12,575 23,625 L&F 35,183 84,525 119,708 11,385 13,040 24,425 19,103 22,338 41,441 COMMODITY 727,604 857,422 1,585,026 127,599 209,240 336,839 265,763 514,324 780,087

A4NH 93,631 97,769 191,400 26,079 43,951 70,030 35,250 95,768 131,018 WLE 163,781 82,472 246,253 23,773 34,701 58,474 46,132 67,815 113,947 FTA 90,282 142,635 232,917 27,208 52,039 79,247 67,682 113,601 181,283 CCAFS 323,900 68,600 392,500 42,022 24,288 66,310 120,076 65,948 186,024 PIM 140,830 124,403 265,233 27,023 65,851 92,874 42,327 128,537 170,864 NRM & GLOBAL 812,424 515,879 1,328,303 146,105 220,830 366,935 311,467 471,669 783,136

TOTAL spent since start to end 2013CRP Name Initially Approved Budget Spent during 2013

CRP total spent since start to 2013

Collaboration Network Crop Science $ 61.2m

University Spend co-occurrence plot and strategic fit

Strategic Fit and Priorities

Key drivers for future CGIAR portfolio

• Excellent and high impact research is resource demanding requiring strategic allocation of resources to create critical mass, research concentration and absorbative capacity.

• Identify synergistic CRPs that are aligned to high level strategic goals(SLOs)

• Ensure that all CRPs have strong intellectual leadership and Institutional commitment.

• Urgently address research tractable questions that includes work with known and predictable applications as well as innovation that accommodates serendipity and responds to emerging questions and needs.

• Each CRP to produce a research and business plan that describes how W1 & W2 funding will be allocated to address significant objectives with global reach. In addition how bilateral funding (and others) will be used to achieve ‘uplift objectives’.

• Incentivise the development of shared facilities e.g. SI and global HTP genotyping platforms for global public goods.

Traditional view of current CGIAR portfolio

• Maize

• Wheat

• Rice

• Roots, Tubers & Bananas

• Dryland Cereals

• Grain Legumes

• Livestock and Fish

• Humid Tropics• Aquatic Agricultural Systems• Dryland Systems

• Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)• Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA)• Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE)

• Managing & Sustaining Crop Collections

• Policies, Institutions & Market

• Agriculture for Nutrition & Health

A prosperous, food secure and environmentally sustainable world

Reduced poverty Improved nutrition and health

Improved natural resource management and

ecosystems services

systems)

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environment

livelihood(coping(cap

dependent(on(

capture(by(

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par8cipa8on

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on(resource(base

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rces

Improved((water( policy(and( management(of( basi

n(level

Improved(input( efficiency(and(

safety

Increased( adop8on(of( nutri8on(bestD

prac8ces

Improved(trade(and(SPS(policies

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smallholdersReduced(

produc8on(risk(

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Reduced tropical deforestation

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sh(and(burn

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Reversed land degradation

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ed.

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marine ecosystem

services

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and sustainable use of water

Increased(onD farm(water( produc8vity

Improved( management(of( water(in( agricultural

( systems

Protected human health

with best agricultural

practices

Increased(water(quality

Reduc8on(of( human(diseases( risks(associated(

with(changing( agricultural( syste

ms

Improved food Safet;y

Reduced( biological( con

taminant

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aminant

Increased dietary quality, adequacy and

diversity

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8fied(crops(

Increased( availability(and( accessibility(of( high(quality( foods

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Increased agriculture profitability

Diversified( enterprise( opportuni8es

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market access

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Research/Science Strategy: principles

• Focus around grand challenges to foster inter-disciplinary/integrative approaches.

• Strategic focus on selected areas..• Innovation fund & scientific risk taking

• Reinforce the scientific excellence and relevance agenda • Balanced portfolio supported by modern systems and processes to ensure

impact of research.• Strong and Contemporary Partnership model.• Clarity on the business/finance model, increase attractiveness of W1 & W2

funding.• Expectations: criteria for assessment of new CRPs & measurement &

acknowledgement of success.• Capacity & infrastructure

• Big data informatics• Next generation of researchers

– Leadership & management capacity and commitment– Research environment– Incentivisation for shared facilities

Summary

• Publication output and impact for both Centres and CRPs.– Scientific Excellence

• Portfolio review and extension proposals– Sci2 analysis of funding in relation to SLOs and IDOs

• CGIAR SRF– Second call for CRPs

• Mid Term Review of CGIAR reform– Bolder ambitious programs– Innovation– Partnerships

• Private sector

– Governance

Sydney Brenner

“Which type of science to fund is simple:

all science is problem driven and should be

judged by the importance of the problem and the quality of the solutions

provided.”

Measurement of success !!

Strategy: principles

• Technology revolution• Growing and Changing markets and the bio-economy.• R&D investment trends and role of the private sector• Big data and informatics• Capacity and capability

– Infrastructure investment– New generation of researchers.

Key changes: sequencing and genomics

Genome revolution: sequenced genomes

The biosphere – nature’s solutions

Reducing Food Waste

Data Science in Agriculture

CRPs total spent since start to 2013

Critical Mass & Centres of Excellence