Humidtropics systems framework,Action Areas,Humidtropics Research Questions and outputs,Allocation of budget to partners and regions,Humidtropics Governance and Management

2. Partnerships
• IITA, CIAT, icipe, ILRI, CIP, AVRDC – The
World Vegetable Center, ICRAF-The
World Agroforestry Center, IWMI, and
Bioversity International

3. Strategic Objectives
• The Humidtropics strategic objectives are:
– Accelerate household use of innovations and
technologies derived from systems and component
research activities.
– Improve the use of innovations and technologies that
promote a balance between enhancing livelihoods
and sustaining the biological and ecological integrity
of natural resources.
– Increase economic and social returns to households
from agricultural production systems within livelihoods
frameworks.
– Enhance partner and policy support to livelihood
frameworks.
– Increase and assess the value of the CRP for the
poor and vulnerable.

4. Humidtropics systems framework

5. R4D Model

6. Action Areas
To realize tangible synergies between Centers and partners, Humidtropics opts
for a common approach towards R4D in well-defined Action Areas across
Tropical Africa, America, and Asia. This will allow comparison and learning,
resulting in international public goods, but also local specific solutions.
Strategic: The selected Action Areas encompass all these development paths
and a diversity of supportive systems and drivers of change.
Urgent needs: The Action Areas have relatively high population densities
where intensification and rural transformation are urgently needed.
Representativeness: The Action Areas are characterized by a wide diversity of
relevant farming systems, institutional environments, and policy
frameworks. The targeted farming systems have a large scaling-out
potential.
Furthering earlier investments: Interventions to be implemented in
Humidtropics are based on existing expertise of the Centers and their
partners.

7. Tropical Africa
Length of growing period (days) Farming systems
East and
Central
African
West-African Action Area
Action Area
Legend
Large commercial & smallholder
Agro-pastoral millet/sorghum
Legend Pastoral
Coastal artisanal fishing
Action Areas
Southern Tree crop
Forest based
African Rice-tree based
<= 60 days
60-120 Action Area Highland perennial
Highland temperate mixed
120-180 Root crop
180-270 Cereal-root crop mixed
> 270 Maize mixed
Travel time to markets (hours) Livestock density (TLU km-2)
Legend
Legend
<= 5 TLU km-2
<= 2 hours 5-10
2-4 10-20
4-8 20-40
>8 > 40

8. Tropical Asia

9. Tropical America

10. Inputs and outputs shared with other MPs
MPs Inputs from other MPs Inputs to other MPs
MP1.1 Shared system approaches and Shared system approaches and evaluation
evaluation methods methods
MP1.2
MP2 Guidance about policies, institutions and Feedback about political, institutional and
market issues applicable to humid market-related needs and about policy
systems implementation
MP3 Component technologies, general Results of testing component technologies in
knowledege about crop/livestock broader humid and sub-humid system
constraints and management, models environments
MP4 Lessons and experiences to promote Feedback about health and nutrition related
health and nutritional aspects of needs in the humid and sub-humid tropics,
households in humid tropics information about interfaces among agriculture
and health systems
MP5 Methods,technologies, approaches and Feedback about soil and water management
decision support tools for managing soil related needs, and feedback about the
and water in humid systems performance of technologies and models in a
systems context, and trade-off analysis.
MP6 Knowledge, policy analysis and Feedback about the role of trees in improving
technologies livelihood frameworks in humid systems
MP7 Adaptation and mitigation strategies, Feedback about adaptation and mitigation
models and decision-support tools related strategies, its role in system resilience, results
to climate change of modeling applied with a systems perspective.

11. Humidtropics
Research Questions Research outputs
What are the system opportunities and Base line information on system opportunities and
constraints? constraints
How do you assess changes at system level? Tools, methods, and indicators for measuring
changes at system level
How do you identify the best options for improved Decision-support tools to identify best bets
components or combination of components that (system components and combinations that
contribute to diversification, productivity and long- contribute to diversification, productivity, and long-
term ecological integrity? term ecological integrity)
What options are best suited to particular farm Best bets (system components and combinations
household circumstances? that contribute to diversification and improved
productivity) evaluated with participatory action
research, with particular focus on gender
How can access to production support services Production support services strengthened for
be improved to facilitate access, scaling out and assessment, adoption, and scaling-up/out best
up? bets

12. Humidtropics
Research Questions Research outputs
How will system interventions affect ecological Models/methods to assess system interventions in
integrity of natural resource or socio-economic ecological and socio-economic term, including
conditions of households? gender and equity
How can long term ecological integrity of Best bet system interventions that maintain or
natural resources at the community/landscape improve long term ecological integrity natural
level be maintained or improved with system resources at the community/landscape level
interventions?
How do we determine the best option for value Decision-support tools to identify best options
addition from productivity or other components among value-added available
for the system?
What are the best bets for value addition Best options of value-added strategies identified
strategies for farmers? through participatory action research with particular
focus on gender.
How do value adding strategies affect Value-added strategies assessed in terms of
households, their vulnerability, and the long household gender equity, livelihood framework
term ecological integrity of the natural vulnerability, and long-term ecological integrity of
resources? natural resources.

13. Humidtropics
Research Questions Research outputs
How can access to market support services be Market support services strengthened to
strengthened to facilitate scaling up and out of value facilitate adoption and scaling-up and out of
adding strategies? value-added strategies
How can access to formal and informal financial and Assessment of the livelihood framework
capitol resources be enhanced equitably to improve access to formal and informal financial and
livelihood frameworks? capitol resources in terms of equity and long
term effects
What is the current capacity for systems analysis and Assessments of the learning competencies on
improvement among different stakeholders? system analysis and improvement for different
stakeholder groups
What are effective approaches for capacity Tools and methods for capacity building in
development for systems analysis and improvement effective system analysis and improvement
for different stakeholder groups (farmer level,
development workers, and researchers)?
What are effective approaches for cross-stakeholder Effective cross-stakeholder learning
learning for system analysis and improvement? approaches

14. Humidtropics
Research Questions Research outputs
Do system-oriented capacity building approaches deliver Effective system oriented capacity building
enhanced system productivity? tools and methods
What (where, how) kinds of partnership arrangements Successful partnership models for range
work at different scales that stimulate change? of scales.
What is the smallest stakeholder unit that should be Stakeholder unit as an innovation actor
considered as an innovation actor (farmer, farmer identified for novel partnerships for system
collective, federation) in novel partnership arrangements change
leading to system change?
How can partnership models at different scales be linked Mechanisms for creating vertical linkages
to lead to system change? for knowledge and product flow between
stakeholder groups at multiple scales
What are effective approaches for scaling out Effective approaches to scaling out
knowledge-intensive management and systems knowledge-intensive
interventions? products/management strategies/systems
What are the most effective mechanisms for bringing Suite of strategies for influencing policy
about changes in policy and practice leading to system and practice
change?

15. Allocation of budget to partners
%
0.25
0.2
0.15
0.1
0.05
0
IITA ICRAF CIP CIAT Bioversity ICIPE ILRI IMWI AVRDC

16. Allocation of Budget to Regions
100%
80%
60%
America
Asia
Africa
40%
20%
0%
2011 2012 2013

17. Humidtropics Governance and
Management