The Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals Agri-food Systems CGIAR Research Program will increase the productivity, profitability, resilience and marketability of critical and nutritious grain legume (chickpea, cowpea, pigeonpea, groundnut, lentil, soybean) and cereal (sorghum, pearl millet, finger millet) crops grown within the semi-arid and sub-humid dryland agroecologies of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. These agroecologies are where poverty, malnutrition, climate change and soil degradation are among the most acute globally.

1. Kiran K Sharma, Director, CRP-GLDC
Program Committee Meeting of ICRISAT Governing Board
April 10, 2019

2. CRP-GLDC: Progress so far
2018-19

3. Plan of Work and Budget
• Initial approved funding US$ 7.93M
• SMO Stretch Funding Cut @ 10.2%
• Final receipt of funds US$ 7.12M
• Total budget spending 97%
• Unspent 3% carried forward to 2019
• FP2 remains unfunded
• Approved funding US$ 8.5M
• Activity budget allocation to all participating centres
• New cross-cutting theme on Markets and
Partnerships in Agri-Business (MPAB) for key activities
of FP2
• US$ 250,000 for MPAB
Year 2018
Year 2019

4. Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (MEL)
• MEL platform; online MIS for CRP-GLDC
• MEL strengthened and upgraded in 2018
• Process of online data curation enhanced by training GLDC
scientists in India, Kenya, Morocco, Niger, Ibadan and France
• Scientists at other locations trained through video
conferencing, online tutorial and guides
• 2019 PoWB generated online through MEL
• Annual Report 2018 being generated through MEL
• Efficiency for online reporting preparation increased by 70%
compared to 2018 planning stage
• All CRPs to support SMO’s common dashboard – CLARISA (CGIAR
Level Agricultural Results Interoperable System Architecture)
• MEL to be fully compatible with CLARISA for harvesting
CRP-GLDC data directly from MEL in 2019

5. CRP-GLDC Governance
• Independent Advisory Committee (IAC)
• 42% women representation
• Online meeting in September 2018
• Face-to-face meeting in October 2018
• Recommends to add risks related to theory of change and of non-delivery in
ICRISAT risk register
• Internal review of management performance and recommendations to ICRISAT GB
• Research Management Committee (RMC)
• 10 Meetings in 2018
• Face-to-face meeting of RMC, CoA Co-leaders and IAC in October 2018
• RMC, FP leaders, CoA Co-leaders interacted with IAC members
• IAC members showed keen interest in all FPs research activities
• IAC to give advice, guidance and mentor FP leaders for
taking forward GLDC agenda

6. GLDC Innovation Fund
• US$ 480,000 in 2018; strategic investment through GLDC
Innovation Fund
• Leverage GLDC partnerships and strengthen capacity of GLDC
network institutions
• Reserved for Non-CGIAR partners to leverage expertise and
formalize engagement where mutually beneficial
• Engagement with non-CGIAR partners; innovative seed
systems, value addition, market integration through domain-
specific decision-support tools and deliver mechanism
• 14 Concept notes qualified for Innovation Fund Grant in 2018;
(FP3-3, FP4-5, FP5-5, CapDev-1)
• Grant disbursed through sub-grant agreements
• US$ 515,000 for 2019

7. • US$ 10,000 in 2018
• Support for capacity building of NARS by co-sponsoring
their participation in GLDC relevant global events and
position of GLDC globally
• Increased demand for sponsorships in 2018
• US$ 100,000 for 2019
• Already committed in 2019
o 13th International Conference on Dryland Development: Converting Dryland Areas from Grey to
Green (ICDD) from 11-14 February 2019, Jodhpur, India
o Beating Famine Sahel III Conference, from 26-28 February 2019, Mali
o SAARC Regional Consultation Meeting on Pulses Value Chain Development for achieving Food
and Nutrition Security in South Asia from 17-19 April 2019, ICRISAT, Hyderabad
o Asia Regional Workshop on Fall Armyworm (FAW) Management from 1-3 May 2019, ICRISAT
Hyderabad, India
o 15th World Congress on Parasitic Plants, 30 June - 5 July 2019, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
o 6th Asian PGPR International Conference for Sustainable Agriculture from 18-22 August 2019,
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
o 8th Asian-Oceanian Symposium on Plant Lipids (ASPL) from 19-22 November 2019, Canberra,
Australia
GLDC Sponsorship

8. • Critical to maximise the impact of GLDC globally
• Partnerships being development through FP leaders
• Partnership engagement needs to be
strengthened with NARS, SROs, ARIs, NGOs
and private sector
• Tap into available resources and connections
• Leveraging connections for scaling successful
innovations across South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
e.g.
Advanta-AGRA: Crop Network Groups
Corteva Agriscience: Molecular tools and techniques for intractable traits
GLDC Strategic Partnerships

9. GLDC Strategic Partnerships: CGIAR Centres
 WLE: Interface farms and landscapes, increase water-use efficiency
 CCAFS: Climate-risk management tools and information
 PIM: Foresight modelling tools to assess impacts
 A4NH: Biofortification and food safety
 LIVESTOCK: Dual-purpose varieties and hybrids
 RICE, WHEAT, MAIZE, ROOTS, TUBERS AND BANANAS: Intercropping with
dominant crops of the CRPs

10. Apex and SROs
Sub-Saharan Africa
Private Sector companies & consortia USAID Feed the Future Innovation
Labs
NARES
FARA
CORAF/WECARD
CCARDESA
ASARECA
RUFORUM
WACCI
AWARD
Corteva Agriscience™
Syngenta Foundation
Seed Co, Zimbabwe
Mars Chocolate
Microsoft
MANOBI-AFRICA, Senegal
Hybrid Parent Research Consortium
African Seed Trade Association
India Pulses & Grains Association (IPGA)
Farmer Producer Organizations, India
Sorghum and Millet
Peanut & Mycotoxin
Legume
Climate-Resilient Sorghum
Climate Resilient Chickpea
Climate-Resilient Cowpea
South Asia NGO & Large Programs ARIs
SAARC Agriculture Centre
APAARI
ICAR, India
Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa
Catholic Relief Services (CRS)
CARE
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
Farm Africa
African Agricultural Technology Foundation
Self Employed Women’s Association, India
Young Professionals for Agricultural (YPARD)
N2Africa
HarvestPlus
CSIRO, Australia
CIRAD, France
IRD, France
FAO Research and Extension
World Vegetable Center
SLU, Sweden
UWA, Australia
GLDC Strategic Partners

11. GLDC Gender Internship
• 6-month Gender internship program introduced for Masters
graduates from Eastern and Southern Africa
• Research topics
• Youth transitions in the drylands
• Gender dynamics in the program’s seed systems
• Two interns mentored by GLDC Gender & Youth
Co-ordinator
1. Ms Rachel Njeri Gitundu to do Master’s Thesis Research
under ‘Gender Dynamics in non-hybrid Seed Systems’ activity
2. Mr Isaiah Okuku (finalized his Master’s degree, waiting for
graduation) attached to GLDC Youth Project

12. CRP-GLDC; successful 2018
• GLDC real success - AVISA project; mapped W3 allocation
• Collaboration between CGIAR Centres: ICRISAT, IITA, CIAT
• Modernizing crop improvement for 5 GLDC crops
• ICRISAT - Groundnut, Pearl Millet, Sorghum
• IITA – Cowpea
• CIAT – Common Bean (integrated with GLDC as FP6)
CGIAR Collaborating Centres pleased with:
• The way GLDC functions
• Engagement with partners in a broad range of activities
• Collaborative approach GLDC has adopted
• Centres optimistic in delivering the GLDC agenda

13.  DryArc
 Climate Change
 Biofortification
 Crops to End Hunger (CtEH; the Breeding Initiative)
New CGIAR Initiatives

14. Multi-donor Initiative on Crops to End
Hunger (CtEH; the Breeding Initiative)
Strengthen the future role of the CGIAR system in global
and regional crop breeding programs

15. Crops to End Hunger (CtEH; the Breeding Initiative)
Aims to support more focused, well-resourced long term efforts on
investments by the CGIAR system in modern plant breeding on
priority crops:
• CGIAR’s demonstrated capacity for impact on food security though
plant breeding
• Its comparative advantages in global public goods research on crop
breeding and genetics
• CGIAR’s central role and responsibility for the conservation and
characterization of the world’s crop biodiversity, which is held in trust
by the CGIAR centers for the world community

16. In partnership with CGIAR
centers, public and private
organizations, governments,
and farmers worldwide
http://gldc.cgiar.org
Thank you