The CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems is leading a commission on SIA in order to share the expertise of the CGIAR and partners who are working on real life SIA solutions in developing and emerging economies. By collecting successful ‘on the ground’ examples and identifying the enabling environments needed from a policy and institution perspective, the Commission will outline how to transform our agricultural systems to be environmentally and socially sustainable.

1. Commission on the
Sustainable
Intensification of
Agriculture
WLE ISC

2. Our context
•Why this Commission? Why
CGIAR?
▪Developing / emerging economies
•Bring ‘on the ground’ success
stories together with enabling
environment needs
▪Policies, institutions, incentives

3. Making Agriculture fit for Purpose

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1. Commit & act on healthy diets
2. Produce quality food
3. Make agriculture regenerative
4. Spare half for nature, share the rest
5. Halve food loss & waste.
The next 100 yearsX

5. Moving forwards
Izabella Koziell, WLE
•Data on impacts is clear cut
•But transitions are slow and difficult
• Complex
• Costly
• Inertia
• Vested interests
• Habits and behaviors
•We know ‘it’s time act’
•And we need to speed this up

6. Capturing sediment in the Ethiopian drylands

7. Ensuring irrigation schemes include women in Tajikistan

8. New technology aiding soil restoration in
Sub-Saharan Africa

9. Scaling solar-powered irrigation In India

10. Where there is muck there is brass

11. Alleviating drought impacts with real-time data

12. Commission on Sustainable
Agriculture Intensification
•Finding the ‘best bets’ to support action
•Next steps…
Find creative and applied leaders
Create the framework
Deliver critical evidence on what works
• Tools, technologies, techniques
• Policy and institutional incentives
• Pathways to transition

13. • COLLABORATIONS: Who to engage with?
• RESEARCH: What core debates need to be
addressed or avoided? (e.g. organic vs. GMO,
small-holder vs. industrial, labor intensive vs.
employment generation, intensive vs.
extensive meat production, food vs.
environmental security)
• GAPS: What are the key knowledge gaps or
barriers that might slow progress towards an
SAI transition?
• FOCUS: What should be the geographic scale
and scope: Global or subnational? Developed/
emerging / developing economies?

14. Thank you!