Impact of Research Investment in Addressing the Challenges Facing Dry Areas

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1 Impact of Research Investment in Addressing the Challenges Facing Dry Areas IGNITE Session: Showing Impacts of CGIAR Investment World Bank, Washington DC, November 2 nd 2015 Solh Mahmoud Director General, ICARDA

2 ICARDA s contribution to CGIAR Development Targets ICARDA is involved in nine CRPs covering seven research themes Dryland Production Systems Policies and Markets Crop Commodities: Wheat, Grain Legumes Dryland Cereals Livestock (Sheep & Goats) Nutrition and Health Natural Resource Management Climate Change Genetic Resources 1

3 Impact of research investment in crop improvement Crop Commodities through CRPs on Wheat, Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals Mining Desirable Genes from Wheat Wild Relatives Synthetic Wheat Wheat Rusts Resistance & surveillance Heat and Drought Tolerant Wheat, Barley and Food Legumes (Lentil, Kabuli Chickpea, Faba beans) Early Nutrient Rich Lentil for Fallow Replacement. 2

4 Mining Genes from wild Relatives of Wheat T. boeoticum T. urartu T. dicoccoides probably different from Yr15 Ae. speltoides yellow rust resistance leaf rust resistance earliness high productive tillering spike productivity plant productivity plant height drought tolerance Sunn pest resistance Russian wheat aphid resistance Septoria tritici resistance

5 Development & Rapid Deployment of Rust Resistant VarieNes in Ethiopia: USAID-supported Project Formal and informal approaches used in accelerated seed production and distribution of wheat resistant varieties to Stripe & Black Stem Rusts developed by NARS in collaboration with CIMMYT and ICARDA and Public - Private Partnership in seed production: Public and private sector distributed 85,943 MT seed of rust resistant varieties 572,956 ha wheat area in two seasons 2012 & Field Inspection Farmers Field Day

6 Stripe Rust Survey: Impact in Ethiopia on Rust Hot Spots Total Survey n = 1084 fields Total Survey n = 1292 fields 5

7 Fast-tracking of Iron & Zinc-rich lennl varienes India: Pusa Vaibhav (Fe 102 ppm) Bangladesh: Barimasur-4 (Fe 86 ppm; Zn-59 ppm) Nepal: Shekhar (Fe-78 ppm; Zn-68 ppm) Ethiopia: Alemaya (Fe-98, Zn-64 ppm) 6

8 Lentil cultivars with high concentration of Fe & Zn Resistant to Stemphylium Blight and Rust Diseases Ethiopia: LenNl Alemaya culnvars with dissemination high concentranon of Fe & Zn Bangladesh: Barimasur-4, are in fast-tracking Barimasur-5, seed disseminanon Barimasur-6, Barimasur-7, Binamasur-7 India: Pusa Vaibhav Nepal: Sisir, Shital, Shekhar, Khajurah-1, Khajurah-2 Syria: Idlib-2, Idlib-3, Idlib-4 Turkey: Myveci-2001 Portugal: Beleza

9 Early Lentil Demonstration Replacing Fallow in Rice- Fallow Rotations in Bangladesh & India 8

10 Impact of Research Investment in integrated water and land management Integrated Water and Land Management through Water Bench Mark Sites under the Water, Land and Ecosystem CRP Enhanced Water Productivity Improved Water Use Efficiency 9

11 Innovative technologies in Water Management to Enhance Water Use Efficiency Deficit Irrigation Supplemental irrigation Water harvesting for fruit trees & forage production Mechanical micro-catchments for rangeland rehabilitation Sustainable intensification of production systems Improving the WUE through raised-bed production Greywater reuse Salinity management Hydroponics/Soilless Culture for high-value crops Breeding for drought tolerance & WUE. 10

12 Salinity Management in Salt-Affected Soils: the integrated approaches

13 Research impact on salinity management to reverse land degradation Salinity Management for Food Security in Iraq Dujaila Region Importance of investment in salinity management

14 Research impact in Water and Land Management Sustainable Intensification of Production Systems Bridging Yield Gaps to Enhance Food Security in MENA Region and Sub-Saharan Africa through Wheat and Dryland Systems CRPs Raised bed planting Furrows Irrigation Flat Bed Irrigation Raised Bed Irrigation 13

15 Water wastage through farrow and flat-bed irrigamon compared to raise-bed irrigamon FP: furrows irrigamon FlP: flat bed irrigamon RBP: raised bed irrigamon

16 Raised-bed wheat improvement package Egypt Sustainable Intensification of Production Systems Promoted through Enhancing Food Security in 10 countries in West Asia and North Africa Reduce applied water by 30% Increased yields by 25% Reduced seed rate by 50% Increased WUE by 72% 70,000 acres (feddan) in Sharkia Province in Egypt in four years Up scaling by Egyptian Government in 22 provinces (8.7 EP million investment) JIRCA Award 2015

17 Impact of research invest in Sub-Saharan Africa Sustainable IntensificaMon of Wheat ProducMon Systems The AfDB Project on Support Agricultural Research for Development for Strategic Crops (SARD-SC): Wheat Component lead by ICARDA 16

18 Achievements & Impact of Wheat Component of SARD-SC Component 1: Technology generation in 2014/15 New varieties developed with management packages Hub countries: 15 varieties released to farmers with improved production package 4 released in candidates in 2015 Merits: highly adapted, heat tolerant, good quality, disease resistant varieties with yields of 5-7t/ha in Nigeria. Ethiopia: - 2 released in candidates in check Improved Sudan - 6 candidates in Ethiopia Sudan Nigeria Nigeria: - 2 released in candidates in 2015

19 ICARDA s research impact in Africa : record wheat yields in Sudan Gezira yields: 43% to 163% higher than average Northern State yields: 27% to 79% higher than average 5 t/ha compared to 2.8 t/ha 18

20 Impact of Research Investment in Resilient Production Systems in Marginal Drylands Integrated Livestock/Rangeland/Crops Production System for Marginal Lands through the Dryland Systems & Livestock CRPs Improved livestock nutrimon & forage and barley producmon Rangeland management Community livestock breeding work for Smallholders Unraveling genemc base for livestock heat tolerance 19 Providing market access for women

21 Ex-ante impact assessment for IFAD investment project (second phase: ) Estimated outcome from restocking of households with goats with improved livestock nutrition and livestock community breeding Nearly five-fold increase in goat numbers estimated for 2016 (7512 goats) compared to the total number of goats distributed during (1578) Nearly four-fold increase in the value of goats (present value of USD 1.28 million in 2015) compared to investment (USD 280,000) from for the community. 20

22 Thank you THANK YOU