Partnerships

• IITA, CIAT, icipe, ILRI, CIP, AVRDC – The

World Vegetable Center, ICRAF-The

World Agroforestry Center, IWMI, and

Bioversity International

Strategic Objectives• The Humidtropics strategic objectives are:

– Accelerate household use of innovations and technologies derived from systems and component research activities.

– Improve the use of innovations and technologies that promote a balance between enhancing livelihoods and sustaining the biological and ecological integrity of natural resources.

– Increase economic and social returns to households from agricultural production systems within livelihoods frameworks.

– Enhance partner and policy support to livelihood frameworks.

– Increase and assess the value of the CRP for the poor and vulnerable.

Humidtropics systems framework

R4D Model

Action Areas

To realize tangible synergies between Centers and partners, Humidtropics opts for a common approach towards R4D in well-defined Action Areas across Tropical Africa, America, and Asia. This will allow comparison and learning, resulting in international public goods, but also local specific solutions.

Strategic: The selected Action Areas encompass all these development paths and a diversity of supportive systems and drivers of change.

Urgent needs: The Action Areas have relatively high population densities where intensification and rural transformation are urgently needed.

Representativeness: The Action Areas are characterized by a wide diversity of relevant farming systems, institutional environments, and policy frameworks. The targeted farming systems have a large scaling-out potential.

Furthering earlier investments: Interventions to be implemented in Humidtropics are based on existing expertise of the Centers and their partners.

Tropical Africa

Length of growing period (days) Farming systems

West-African Action Area

East andCentral African Action Area

Southern African

Action Area

Action Areas

Legend

Livestock density (TLU km-2)Travel time to markets (hours)

<= 60 days60-120 120-180180-270> 270

<= 2 hours2-44-8> 8

LegendLegend

<= 5 TLU km-2

5-1010-2020-40> 40

LegendLarge commercial & smallholderAgro-pastoral millet/sorghumPastoralCoastal artisanal fishingTree cropForest basedRice-tree basedHighland perennialHighland temperate mixedRoot cropCereal-root crop mixedMaize mixed

Tropical Asia

Tropical America

Inputs and outputs shared with other MPsMPs Inputs from other MPs Inputs to other MPs

MP1.1 Shared system approaches and

evaluation methods

Shared system approaches and evaluation

methods

MP1.2

MP2 Guidance about policies, institutions and

market issues applicable to humid

systems

Feedback about political, institutional and

market-related needs and about policy

implementation

MP3 Component technologies, general

knowledege about crop/livestock

constraints and management, models

Results of testing component technologies in

broader humid and sub-humid system

environments

MP4 Lessons and experiences to promote

health and nutritional aspects of

households in humid tropics

Feedback about health and nutrition related

needs in the humid and sub-humid tropics,

information about interfaces among agriculture

and health systems

MP5 Methods,technologies, approaches and

decision support tools for managing soil

and water in humid systems

Feedback about soil and water management

related needs, and feedback about the

performance of technologies and models in a

systems context, and trade-off analysis.

MP6 Knowledge, policy analysis and

technologies

Feedback about the role of trees in improving

livelihood frameworks in humid systems

MP7 Adaptation and mitigation strategies,

models and decision-support tools related

to climate change

Feedback about adaptation and mitigation

strategies, its role in system resilience, results

of modeling applied with a systems perspective.

Humidtropics

Research Questions Research outputs

What are the system opportunities and

constraints?

Base line information on system opportunities and

constraints

How do you assess changes at system level? Tools, methods, and indicators for measuring

changes at system level

How do you identify the best options for improved

components or combination of components that

contribute to diversification, productivity and long-

term ecological integrity?

Decision-support tools to identify best bets

(system components and combinations that

contribute to diversification, productivity, and long-

term ecological integrity)

What options are best suited to particular farm

household circumstances?

Best bets (system components and combinations

that contribute to diversification and improved

productivity) evaluated with participatory action

research, with particular focus on gender

How can access to production support services

be improved to facilitate access, scaling out and

up?

Production support services strengthened for

assessment, adoption, and scaling-up/out best

bets

HumidtropicsResearch Questions Research outputs

How will system interventions affect ecological

integrity of natural resource or socio-economic

conditions of households?

Models/methods to assess system interventions in

ecological and socio-economic term, including

gender and equity

How can long term ecological integrity of

natural resources at the community/landscape

level be maintained or improved with system

interventions?

Best bet system interventions that maintain or

improve long term ecological integrity natural

resources at the community/landscape level

How do we determine the best option for value

addition from productivity or other components

for the system?

Decision-support tools to identify best options

among value-added available

What are the best bets for value addition

strategies for farmers?

Best options of value-added strategies identified

through participatory action research with particular

focus on gender.

How do value adding strategies affect

households, their vulnerability, and the long

term ecological integrity of the natural

resources?

Value-added strategies assessed in terms of

household gender equity, livelihood framework

vulnerability, and long-term ecological integrity of

natural resources.

Humidtropics

Research Questions Research outputs

How can access to market support services be

strengthened to facilitate scaling up and out of value

adding strategies?

Market support services strengthened to

facilitate adoption and scaling-up and out of

value-added strategies

How can access to formal and informal financial and

capitol resources be enhanced equitably to improve

livelihood frameworks?

Assessment of the livelihood framework

access to formal and informal financial and

capitol resources in terms of equity and long

term effects

What is the current capacity for systems analysis and

improvement among different stakeholders?

Assessments of the learning competencies on

system analysis and improvement for different

stakeholder groups

What are effective approaches for capacity

development for systems analysis and improvement

for different stakeholder groups (farmer level,

development workers, and researchers)?

Tools and methods for capacity building in

effective system analysis and improvement

What are effective approaches for cross-stakeholder

learning for system analysis and improvement?

Effective cross-stakeholder learning

approaches

Humidtropics

Research Questions Research outputs

Do system-oriented capacity building approaches deliver

enhanced system productivity?

Effective system oriented capacity building

tools and methods

What (where, how) kinds of partnership arrangements

work at different scales that stimulate change?

Successful partnership models for range

of scales.

What is the smallest stakeholder unit that should be

considered as an innovation actor (farmer, farmer

collective, federation) in novel partnership arrangements

leading to system change?

Stakeholder unit as an innovation actor

identified for novel partnerships for system

change

How can partnership models at different scales be linked

to lead to system change?

Mechanisms for creating vertical linkages

for knowledge and product flow between

stakeholder groups at multiple scales

What are effective approaches for scaling out

knowledge-intensive management and systems

interventions?

Effective approaches to scaling out

knowledge-intensive

products/management strategies/systems

What are the most effective mechanisms for bringing

about changes in policy and practice leading to system

change?

Suite of strategies for influencing policy

and practice

Allocation of budget to partners

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0.15

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0.25

IITA ICRAF CIP CIAT Bioversity ICIPE ILRI IMWI AVRDC

Allocation of Budget to Regions

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40%

60%

80%

100%

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America

Asia

Africa

Humidtropics Governance and

Management