The document outlines 7 initial proposed Megaprograms (MPs) that will guide research under the new CGIAR Consortium model. The MPs include: 1) Integrated agriculture systems for the poor, 2) Policies and markets for enabling agricultural incomes, 3) Sustainable increases in staple crop productivity, 4) Agriculture, nutrition and health, 5) Water scarcity and land degradation, 6) Forests and trees, and 7) Climate change. The bulk of livestock research is expected to be contained within MP3 on livestock and fish, but MP4 on health and nutrition and other MPs may also include some livestock components. A Consortium Board and CEO will oversee research, and performance will be measured through contracts between

1. Steve Staal, ILRI
Livestock Week
IFAD, 4-6 May 2010
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2. Consortium Board and CEO to oversee all CGIAR
center research
First meeting in Nairobi, March 2010
CEO to be recruited
Consortium HQ either Addis Ababa, Delhi, Montpellier,
Nairobi or Rome
Strategic Results Framework to set priorities
Megaprograms for delivery
Currently 7, may expand to 15
Initial CN’s being submitted this week
To be reviewed externally and by Consortium Board end May
Those agreed go to full Proposal development
Multi-donor fund managed by a Fund Council
Performance contracts
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3. MP1: Integrated agriculture systems for the poor
and vulnerable (potential fast tracked)
Integrated agriculture for dryland systems
Integrated agriculture for tropical humid systems
Integrated coastal/aquatic systems
MP2: Policies, institutions, and markets for
enabling agricultural incomes for the poor
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4. MP3: Sustainable staple food productivity increase
for global food security (probably multiple MPs,
some potential fast tracked)
Rice
Maize
Wheat
Cluster: Pulses and legumes
Cluster: Roots and tubers, bananas and plantains
Cluster: Sorghum, millet and barley
Cluster: Livestock and fish
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5. MP4: Agriculture, nutrition and health
MP5: Water scarcity and land degradation
MP6: Forests and Trees
MP7: Climate Change (potential fast tracked)
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6. Systems with the deepest endemic poverty and with the most
vulnerable people
≤200 mm rainfall- Saharan and part of Sahelian zones in Africa
Systems with the greatest potential to impact on poor in the short
to medium term
300 to 600 mm, Sahelian countries in West Africa
Systems most vulnerable/at risk to degradation and climate
variability
500 to 900 mm - North Soudanian, Sub Sahelian climate (West Africa)
Types of intervention testing and research
Information (weather, prices) and tools (eg index based livestock
insurance) to manage weather and other risks
Participatory approaches to land use planning and conflict management
Payment for environmental services schemes
Ag, livestock and NRM technologies and practices validated, adapted and
assessed in system context
Institutional innovations around increasing market access
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7. Intensification strategies, crops, feeds, nutrient cycling,
environmental management (an important component
here relates to trade offs in biomass use)
Feeding strategies in value chain context
Combining feed and breed with risk mitigating animal health
and insurance options
Optimising crop and livestock husbandry, crop residue use
Balanced feed options with positive environmental impacts
(including number of animals)
Manure management options
Longer term institutional and environmental
sustainability including issues related to policies to
provide enabling environment, incentives and
regulations
Land policy/regulations
Incentives/regulations relating to environmental issues
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8. Policies and investments that enable poverty-reducing agricultural
growth
modeling for strategic foresight and future scenarios
international trade, macro and non-agricultural policies
production, natural resources and technology policies, and policy process
Value chains
input and output markets, incentives
testing interventions and capacity building
chain analysis methods, analysis of demand drivers
Enabling institutions and governance for the poor
governance in input/service supply
collective action
Livestock research elements
Livestock-specific features of modeling
(asset accumulation, natural resource interactions, non-market products and cost items)
Animal health issues in market, policy
Crop-livestock interaction and resource use pressures
Demand-led development interventions in the value chain
Data and sampling issues specific to livestock

9. Targeting and outcome assessment
Mapping of priority livestock and fish , targeting
strategies for specific technology, strategy and policy
interventions based on system analysis
Needs and constraints assessment and prioritization for
the Program, including gender analyses
Analysis of child nutrition impacts in livestock/fish
production systems, and strategies to increase availability
of these high nutrient products to rural children.
Outcome and communications strategies across Program
activities
Impact assessments of to guide research (re) design
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10. Characterization, conservation, and selective breeding
Better understanding of the genetic attributes of various livestock
breeds and the systems under which they can be are raised
Mapping of genotypes for conservation
Develop bio-banking protocols and systems, including phenotypic
descriptions of biobanked material from indigenous livestock and
fish populations.
Improved delivery of genetics
Adapt enhanced reproductive technologies and strategies to
multiply and deliver appropriate livestock genotypes
Exploring applications from new science
Development of new tools to allow integration of sequence data
with rich phenotypic data including systems analysis.
Reproductive tools to discover and to exploit discoveries in
functional genomics to improve livestock productivity under
various production systems
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11. Producing more and better quality forage and feed
resources:
Including crop residue fodder traits (quantity and quality) in
multidimensional crop improvement to exploit genetic
variation and by further targeted genetic enhancement towards
dual-purpose traits using conventional and marker assisted
crop breeding.
Improved dual purpose varieties of food – feed crops, and
improved pastures and forage options
Making better use of available feeds:
Harnessing spin-off technologies from 2nd generation bio fuel
technologies to improved basal diets
Strategic/smart supplementation strategies, byproduct based
rations with under-exploited local ingredients
Improving provision of forages and feeds through markets, and
sustainable forage and fodder crop seed/germplasm systems
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12. Vaccines and diagnostics for orphan viral, bacterial
and protozoan diseases for which there are few or
no other providers (with focus on endemic
diseases threatening productivity, survival and
market access)
Thermostabilization of current vaccines
Identification of vaccine antigens and proof-of-
concept vaccine trials for priority diseases
Development of molecular fingerprinting tools for
pathogen detection and surveillance
Disease risk assessment and disease modeling
Strategies for delivery of improved health
interventions to producers
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13. Development strategies for pro-poor value chains for
livestock and fish products
Systems for sustainable production and delivery of appropriate
livestock and fish genetics with private & public partners
Systems for improved disease surveillance and control, both
within production systems and along product supply chains,
focused on endemic diseases
Strategies for technology integration and innovation- feeds,
health and genetics for sustained productivity increases
Testing adapted organisational mechanims (hubs, innovation
platforms, SME’s, PPPs) to facilitate the access to knowledge,
information and technology, and increase value , including
post-harvest.
Livestock and fish product and post harvest process
development, including food safety and certification systems
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14. Agriculture for improved food security, diet quality, and nutrition.
Develop, test, approaches to
maximize the impact of agriculture on improving the availability, access to
consumption of nutritious and diverse foods – focus on women and young children;
to increase global awareness and knowledge of the importance of nutritious foods and
high-quality diets
Biofortication
Managing the multiple burdens of agriculture- associated disease (mostly
zoonotics)
Measure the human health burden (DALYs), and other burdens of AADs including
equity; economic cost of lost human and animal productivity; trade; market access;
ecosystem services;
Develop and scientifically evaluate better ways of managing priority AADs.
Integrated ways of studying and tackling zoonotic and other diseases, based on
Ecohealth and One World, One Health approaches
Scenario and other futures analysis to understand disease trajectories, risk analysis
for better managing food and water borne disease and occupational hazards; ,and
identify mitigation options
Value chain analysis to upgrade the ability of value chains to deliver safe products
Evidence for the development of more effective surveillance and response systems
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15. Delivering greater water and land productivity in rainfed
and irrigated systems
Enhancing and safeguarding land and water access for the
poor especially women
Improving land and soil health and water quality to
reverse widespread soil nutrient depletion and degradation
of ecosystem services
Enhancing ecosystem services and building resilience to
maintain vital ecosystems
Livestock research elements
Improved land and water management to support
pastoral livestock systems
Improved water use efficiency of livestock production in crop-
livestock systems
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16. Adaptation to Decadal Climate Change
Adaptation Pathways for Current Climate Risk
Poverty Alleviation through Mitigation
Diagnosis and Vulnerability Assessment for
Making Strategic Choices
Livestock research elements
Improved management of C-L systems to enhance
adaptation
Understanding role of livestock in CC
In situ conservation of livestock genetics needed for
adaptation
Increased productivity of livestock for mitigation
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17. Bulk of livestock research likely to be contained
within MP3 Livestock and Fish
Opportunities for new synergy
Productivity plus tools for uptake and impact
Better focus?
MP4 Ag for Health & Nutrition however contains
significant animal health and food safety research,
growing area of demand
Livestock research component within Systems,
Policy/Markets, Water/Soil and Climate Change
New levels of interaction are apparent already
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