Eco-Efficient Agriculture for the Poor Rod Lefroy CIAT Asia Strategy CIAT Board Meeting #63 Nairobi, Kenya 12 May 2011

Eco-Efficient Agriculture for the Poor Functional Structure of CIAT Asia

Eco-Efficient Agriculture for the Poor Current Activities in Asia Activities / Projects Cassava Forages Linking Farmers to Markets (LFM) Land Use & Climate Change

Eco-Efficient Agriculture for the Poor Current Status Personnel /Offices Laos: Regional Office with 4 IRS & 10 NRS Thailand: 1 IRS & 1.5 NRS Vietnam:1 NRS Cambodia:1 NRS China:No staff at present Funds Approx. US$2 million/yr mostly in special projects Main donors: ACIAR, IFAD, The Nippon Foundation, SDC

Eco-Efficient Agriculture for the Poor Developments in 2011/12 Vietnam: VAAS has assigned one staff to the CIAT office in VAAS Relocate one IRS to CIAT office in VAAS Initiate regular short and long term visits/placements to VAAS institutes and exchanges to CIAT Cali Focus on VAAS and its institutions, but with links to the universities, to other parts of MARD, and to other ministries (MONRE, MOST, etc.)

Eco-Efficient Agriculture for the Poor Vietnam Academy of Agricultural Sciences Institute of Agricultural Science for Southern Vietnam Food Crops Research Institute Plant Protection Research Institute Soils and Fertilizers Research Institute Northern Mountainous Agriculture and Forestry Science Institute The Western highlands Agro-forestry Science & technical Institute Agricultural Genetics Institute Plant Resources Center Fruit and Vegetable Research Institute Maize Research Institute Cuu Long Delta Rice Research Institute Agricultural Science Institute of Northern Central Vietnam Agricultural Science Institute for Southern Coastal Central of Vietnam Institute for Agricultural Environment Southern Horticultural Research Institute Center for technology Development and Agricultural Extension Vietnam Sericulture Research Centre

Eco-Efficient Agriculture for the Poor Developments in Vietnam Expand current collaboration with the Vietnam Cassava Network to develop a broad Cassava Research Center to focus on breeding, biotech, agronomy, pests and diseases, processing, and market linkages A national focus but with regional relevance and linkages: o Links to strong partners in China and Thailand o Impacts in other countries (Cambodia, Laos, Burma ….) Continued and expanded focus on livestock development Expand work on NRM, Eco-efficiency, and Climate Change Continue LFM / Market Linkages for scaling up and target on marginalized poor and ethnic minorities

Eco-Efficient Agriculture for the Poor Funding: Focus of €1 million project requested for cassava pests and diseases from EU, through IFAD Likely funding from the Japanese government for cassava biotech Proposal for medium term developments in cassava R&D in Vietnam and beyond to AusAID/ACIAR, to ADB, or others Developments in Vietnam

Eco-Efficient Agriculture for the Poor Developments in 2011/12 China: CATAS likely to assign one staff to the CIAT office in CATAS Haikou Initiate regular short and long term visits/placements to CATAS and other Chinese institutes and exchanges to CIAT Cali Focus on CATAS, but with vital links to GSCRI, GAAS, YAAS, and others

Eco-Efficient Agriculture for the Poor Developments in China Collaboration on Cassava breeding and general R&D, with stronger links to CIAT Cali and to the region, especially to enhanced R&D in Vietnam and to other potential suppliers Forage germplasm evaluation and breeding, and forage utilization. Starting with a forage breeding and utilization course and exchanges between CATAS and CIAT Sustainable and eco-efficient cropping and farming systems. Initially on soybean/cassava intercropping, but expanding to other systems, and to broader land management and climate change issues

Eco-Efficient Agriculture for the Poor Funding: The National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) has indicated they want to fund collaboration between CIAT and China (primarily CATAS) in five research projects each of 5-year and RMB3 million NSFC proposes a meeting in Cali in August, followed by another in Nov/Dec in Guangxi to decide on the areas of collaboration. The meetings would include NSFC, CATAS, and CIAT Other proposals to be developed Developments in China

Eco-Efficient Agriculture for the Poor Other Developments in 2011/12 CIP-IFAD Root and Tuber Crops Research & Development Programme for Food Security in Asia-Pacific Region Livestock development in the Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam Development Triangle submitted to IFAD following the successful forages and livestock project in Vietnam Possible joint project with SNV to IFAD on utilizing cassava R&D in market linkages to processors Land management issues in rainfed agriculture Current part in IWMI scoping study on rainfed agriculture in the GMS that should lead to a new project Proposal on Climate Change Adaptation-Mitigation Prioritization in parts of the Mekong Basin

Eco-Efficient Agriculture for the Poor Consortium 1.2 Integrated systems for the humid tropics 2. Enabling Agricultural Income for the Poor Income for the Poor 3.4 Roots & tubers 3.7 Livestock & fish 5. Water Scarcity and Land Degradation 7. Agriculture and Climate Change Proposed involvement in CRPs