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IWMI/CGIAR:
Africa RISING and
LIVES
Introduction to
Livelihoods Research
18/12/2013, University
of Antwerp
Dr Valentine J Gandhi
IWMI– CGIAR, Africa
Location

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The CGIAR
• CGIAR is a global partnership that unites organizations engaged in
research for a food secure future.
• CGIAR research is dedicated to reducing rural poverty, increasing
food security, improving human health and nutrition, and ensuring
more sustainable management of natural resources. It is carried out
by 15 Centers, that are members of the CGIAR Consortium, in
close collaboration with hundreds of partner organizations, including
national and regional research institutes, civil society organizations,
academia, and the private sector.
• The 15 Research Centers generate and disseminate knowledge,
technologies, and policies for agricultural development through the
CGIAR Research Programs.
• The CGIAR Fund provides reliable and predictable multi-year
funding to enable research planning over the long term, resource
allocation based on agreed priorities, and the timely and predictable
disbursement of funds. The multi-donor trust fund finances research
carried out by the Centers through the CGIAR Research Programs.
• We have almost 10,000 scientists and staff, unparalleled research
infrastructure and dynamic networks across the globe. Our
collections of genetic resources are the most comprehensive in the
world.

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Evolution of the CGIAR

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IWMI
• IWMI’s Mission is to improve the management of land and water resources for
food, livelihoods and the environment.
• Research is the core activity of IWMI. The research agenda is organized around
four priority Themes including Water Availability and Access; Productive Water
Use; Water Quality, Health and Environment; and Water and Society.
• Cross cutting activities in all themes include, assessment of land and water
productivity and their relationship to poverty, identification of interventions that
improve productivity as well as access to and sustainability of natural resources,
assessment of the impacts of interventions on productivity, livelihoods, health and
environmental sustainability.
• IWMI works through collaborative research with many partners in the North and
South and targets policy makers, development agencies, individual farmers and
private sector organizations.

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Feed the Future Research Strategy

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Africa RISING
• The overall aim is to transform agricultural systems through sustainable
intensification projects in three regions of Africa:
• Sustainable Intensification of Cereal-based Farming Systems in the Guinea-
Savannah Zone of West Africa – led by IITA
• Sustainable intensification of crop-livestock systems to improve food security
and farm income diversification in the Ethiopian highlands – led by ILRI
• Sustainable intensification of maize-legume-livestock integrated farming
systems in Eastern and Southern Africa – led by IITA

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Research components

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LIVES
The Goal of the LIVES Project is to “contribute to enhanced income and gender equitable
wealth creation for smallholders and other value chain actors through increased and
sustained market off‐take of high‐value livestock and irrigated crop commodities.”
The Purpose of the Project is to “improve competitiveness, sustainability and equity in
value chains for selected high‐value livestock and irrigated crop commodities in target areas
of four regions of Ethiopia.”
The Objectives of the Project are:
• To facilitate the identification, targeting and promotion of improved technologies and
organizational and institutional innovations to develop the value chains of selected high
value livestock and irrigated crop commodities;
• To improve the capacity of the value chain actors and of the support services at the
different administrative (kebele to national) levels to develop the selected value chains
and respond to emerging challenges and opportunities;
• To improve generation, access, flow and use of knowledge relevant to the value chains
within and amongst the different administrative (kebele to national) levels;
• To generate knowledge through action‐oriented research on, and synthesis of lessons
learnt about, value‐chain development;
• To facilitate the promotion and dissemination of principles and good practices for the
development of value chains.

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LIVES

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Common to both projects
• R4D rather than R4R
• Demand Driven, Outcome focused..
• Increased participatory approach
GALS, Participatory Video, Participatory 3D Modelling,
Wot a Game, Companion modeling, etc.

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Subjective lessons from Objective
experience
• Train Journey
• Three views of any article – software, GEPHI, XMIND, END NOTES,
EVERNOTE)
• Emma Seppala – (‘Friends’, Reality vs. alternate reality, ‘settling down’ vs
destination)
• Ahead of the curve vs 9 to 5 (Aat Paanch Pachees)

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Thank You