Rainfed Strategic Research Portfolio of CGIAR Research Program Water, Land and Ecosystems Our vision: farmers and pastoralists thrive in highly productive rainfed areas, supported by vibrant ecosystems Our purpose: To harness diversity and variability in rainfed landscapes to improve lives Diversity in human interest, livelihood systems and ecosystems Variability in space and time in rainfall, soils, markets, species, production systems, global change Major challenges Livelihood success and options constrained by soil and land degradation, water scarcity and biodiversity loss

Key concepts Fields, farms, households, farming systems Landscapes Nations, Basins, Global Landscapes Sustainable Intensification – landscape function Institutions – Interactions amongst livelihood strategies, negotiated by rules and regulations Ecosystem Services – Provisioning, regulating supporting and their variability Resilience – Adaptive Capacity – Option space for transformations

Next Steps White Paper - implementation document – Draft end June Study landscapes – process and prioritization defined – Draft end June with White Paper Activity plans – all to submit, later rationalize under new set of outcomes? Ecosystem framework for CRP 5 and Rainfed July? Paper series – important narratives and issues – write shop in Sep/Oct Science workshop – (join trade-off & modeling methods workshop of CRP 1.1, 1.2 and 7 in last quarter 2012?)

SLO’s Food Security Poverty Nutrition Sustain NR HARNESSING DIVERSTIY AND VARIABILITY STUDY LANDSCAPES in global contexts Tools Information Knowledge Identifying winners and losers REVELANCE OF OUTPUTS More equitable access to resources Improved landscape function Externalities build into institutions Knowledge and information used in negotiations Collective action implemented at larger scales Donors, Governments and Others Invest Multiple entry points for improved NRM are exploited Increased Awareness of landscape opportunities and ES by range of stakeholders 1-3 years 3 to 5 years 5 to 10 years 10+ years AWARENESS IS SUFFICIENT NEW OPPORTUNITIES IN LANDSCAPES EXIST

NOTES on Outcomes Targets – SCOPE and depth of target well presented in proposal – SPECIFIC TARGETS must include ecosystem metrics and not just numbers of the poor, and have to be based on priority setting, and what about the issue of costs of doing nothing? Awareness INCLUDES by demonstrating short term impact, likely through existing work on increasing productivity Assumptions must be MITIGATED through research design