Research design, innovation and theory of change: CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas. Graham Thiele, Director

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1 design, innovation and theory of change: CGIAR Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas Graham Thiele, Director

2 Excellence Program Objectives RTB is working globally to harness the untapped potential of those crops to improve food security, nutrition, income, climate change resilience and gender equity of smallholders Banana Plantain Cassava Potato Sweetpotato Yam Other R&T

3 Excellence Program structure: lagship Projects (P) DISCOVERY P1 P2 P1: P2: Enhanced Productive Enhanced genetic Productive varieties & genetic resources Multi-cropvarieties quality seed& resources quality DI1.1 Breeding CoP CC2.1 Access to quality seeds/varieties DI1.2 Next generation seed breeding DI1.3 Game changing traits DI1.4 Genetic diversity DELIVERY P3 Resilient Resilient crops Glue! crops P3: CC3.1 (Pest/disease management P4 Nutritious Nutritious food & added food value & added CC4.1 Post-harvest innovation value P4: BA2.2 User preferred banana cultivars/hybrids CC3.2 Crop production systems CA4.2 Cassava processing CA4.3 Biofortified cassava CA2.3 Added value cassava varieties BA3.3 Banana fungal & bacterial wilts (oc/bxw) SW4.4 Nutritious sweetpotato PO2.4 Seed potato for BA3.4 Banana viral Outcome Support Outcome Orientation Africa diseases (BBTD) Single scaling, partnerships, gender responsive foresight/horizon PO2.5 Potato varieties for CA3.5 Cassava biological crop/problem scanning Asia constraints, Asia/Americas SW2.6 User preferred CA3.6 Cassava biological sweetpotato varieties threats, Africa Livelihoods YA2.7 Quality seed yamfor tradeoffs intensification P 5:gender Improved livelihoods at scale transformative CC5.1 oresight and impact assessment P5 Improved livelihoods at resilience, scale nutrition and income CC5.2 Sustainable intensification and diversification for improved CC5.3 Gender-equitable development and youth employment CC5.4 Scaling RTB agri-food system innovations

4 design: where is glue? RTB crops share: Genetic complexity (> grains) Vegetative propagation, similar seed systems Perishability, bulkiness and post harvest/value chain options Excellence

5 design: seed systems Yield loss viruses and seed system major shared constraint Knowledge gap on actual losses and degeneration Common framework: banana, cassava, potato, sweetpotato, yam Excellence

6 Excellence design: seed systems Early and late infections have same effect on yield loss A B C D roguing Late-season Early-season roguing Late infections have no effect on yield loss

7 Excellence design: seed systems armer CONPAPA Agro-shops MAGAP Internet Other farmer Neighbor (white) Husband NGO 1 INIAP Dealers NGO2 SH2 M AD DEA SH3 PRA CON I NI NEI VI T CHA MIR M AG BAS NG1 BEL HUE ECU SEE SAN HUS SH1 NG2 NET 6

8 Excellence Innovation 1) Identify ready to scale INNOVATIONS 2) Assess their CAPACITY O GENERATING IMPACTS 3) Strengthen SCALING PARTNERSHIPS 4) Learn and adapt effective SCALING STRATEGIES 7

9 Excellence Theory of change: flagship varieties/seed

10 Excellence Theory of change: measurement Total number of beneficiaries (2022)1 20,000,000 people (50% women) increased income 30,000 small and medium enterprises operating more profitably in seed and processing sectors 8,000,000 farm households increased yield through adoption of improved varieties and sustainable management practices 10,000,000 people (50% women) improved their diet quality (measured by dietary diversity score) 800,000 ha of farm land with soil carbon and nutrients content improved 1,700,000 ha of current RTB production area converted to sustainable cropping systems Primary target countries Africa: Burundi, Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uga da, Za bia Americas: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Haiti, Peru Asia: Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Thailand, The Philippines, Vietnam

11 Excellence CRP Program Impact 1. Single planning & reporting framework around theory of change 2. A hieved true olla oration around glue 3. Teamed up approach in responding to opportunities and threats 4. Critical mass for new initiatives eg scaling readiness 5. Joint research outputs (publications) and outcomes 6. Enhanced impact in longer run

12 Excellence RTB and China CIP-China Center for Asia-Pacific Campus Yanqing, north of Beijing Next step: long history collaboration CIP and CAAS Laboratory building capacity 150+ scientists, meeting and teaching building, and state-of-the-art greenhouses. GAU: Water stress memory CAU: Molecular control of root development in sweet potato CAAS: Molecular markers for traits of potato tuber quality Chongqing: Novel methods of usarium wilt control in potato

13 Excellence RTB and China Anti-infection mechanism to usarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense usarium wilt (TR4) Tropical Race4 from wild banana Pahang (NSC ). Elucidating mechanisms of banana-usarium interactions via small RNA regulation and molecular design for wilt-resistant breeding (CATAS-Bioversity Joint project; NSC ) In 2013 the direct economic losses reached 750 million Yuan in China, 250 million Yuan losses at Yunnan..

14 Thank you Change this picture for an RTB picture Xiè xiè dà jiā de ɡuān zhù