1. Flagship 1 Priority Setting & Impact Acceleration
Arega Alene
Agricultural Economist, IITA
Flagship Program Leader, Priority Setting & Impact Acceleration,
CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals

2. PIM & livestock: staff time
Priority Activities for 2018 and beyond CoA1.1: Foresight, climate change analysis, and priority setting
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Work package 1: Foresight and ex-ante impact analyses building on the pre-proposal ex-ante evaluation to identify the research and technology options that are likely to have the greatest impacts and the areas where the research will be most relevant
Develop multi-dimensional assessment framework to capture multiple roles of GLDC crops
2018
2018: report on multi-dimensional assessment framework
W1&2
Expert consultations: online surveys to get values of parameters needed for foresight and priority-setting (validating baseline values; scenario development)
Survey report
Assess GLDC technologies based on impact on poverty, employment, food & nutrition security, livestock feed, and NRM (urbanization and diet preferences)
2022
2019: report on assessment of GLDC technologies (breeding + agronomy)
2020: report on assessment of GLDC technologies (system research)
2021: report on foresight for GLDC technologies (urbanization; diet preferences)
2022: manuscript submitted to peer-reviewed scientific journal
Work package 2: Food supply, demand and price projections under climate change and other socio-economic drivers of change such as technology, population growth, and urbanization (e.g., changes in diets and consumer preferences with urbanization and income growth)
Revise base values in bio-economic modeling framework: enhance accuracy of projections of demand and supply of GLDC crops
2018: Excel files with code changes in IMPACT
PIM & livestock: staff time
W1&2: operations
identify future hotspot areas relative to the competitive uses of GLDC crops across target GLDC countries under a changing climate
2019
2019: report on future hotspot areas relative to the competitive uses of GLDC crops across target GLDC countries under a changing climate
2020: manuscript submitted to peer-reviewed scientific journal

3. Priority Activities for 2018 and beyond CoA1
Priority Activities for 2018 and beyond CoA1.2: Value chains, markets, and drivers of adoption
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Adoption
1. Systematic review of a decade of learning on drivers of adoption (joint with 1.4)
2018
2019
W1+2
2. Pilot study on behavioural biases in adoption decisions (funding needed)
3. Gender yield gap analysis – lessons for drivers of adoption
Bilateral + W1+2
4. Adoption assessment using DNA fingerprinting from 3 national representative
5. Aspirations of rural households as drivers of adoption
bilateral
6. Drought tolerant crops – adoption progress and the influence of SMART Food marketing
Value Chain
Any on-going work?
Any needs outside FP 1 working group?
Consumer and market demand
Asssessment of GLDC potential for the urban poor ?
Lessons from SMART food campaign
Bilateral?

4. CRP GLDC Gender Strategy
Priority Activities for 2018 and beyond CoA1.3: Gender integration and social inclusion in the drylands (con
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1.3.1 Participation of women in GLDC value chains
Revise a GLDC Gender (women) strategy from GL, DC and DS (
June 2018
Dec 2018
CRP GLDC Gender Strategy
W1/w2
Synthesis of the GENNOVATE data, learning and publications – norms and decision making/power relations in the GLDC value chains + prioritize VC segments with potential for engagement (pilots)
Jan 2019
Dec 2019
Report, Paper,
Opportunity structures/business development in GLDC Value chains that enhance women’s participation (systematic reviews, partnership negotiations, piloting)
Jan 2020
Dec 2020
Piloting women empowerment strategies in selected GLDC value chains
Jan 2021
Dec 2022

5. Strategy document+ paper on process
Priority Activities for 2018 and beyond CoA1.3: Gender integration and social inclusion in the drylands (con
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1.3.2 Participation of youth in GLDC value chains
Develop a GLDC youth strategy (systematic review, consultative process, workshop, publications)
May 2018
April 2019
Strategy document+ paper on process
W1/W2
Characterize the youth in the drylands (consultative process, surveys, pilots, case studies)
Jan 2019
July 2019
Report, Paper,
Opportunity structure and roles of ICT/Digital agriculture in GLDC Value chains (systematic reviews, partnership negotiations, piloting)
Aug 2019
Dec 2020
Piloting youth empowerment strategies in selected GLDC value chains
Jan 2021
Dec 2022

6. Priority Activities for 2018 and beyond CoA1
Priority Activities for 2018 and beyond CoA1.4: Enabling environments and scaling to accelerate impact
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Enabling conditions
1. Systematic review of impact & adoption studies of GLDC commodities (with CoA 1.2)
2019
Paper + coms. products
W1/2
Scaling approaches
support scaling projects to evaluate scaling approaches & models (TL3 & Hope II)
2020
Scaling comparison protocol + paper + coms
W3 with W1/2 to supplement
3. Getting to scale toolkit for GLDC varieties/mgt. practices
Toolkit + guidance + online video
Impact assessment
provision of guidance and support for selected bilateral projects

7. Thank you Demand-driven Innovation for the Drylands www.gldc.cgiar.org
In partnership with CGIAR Centers, public and private organizations, governments, and farmers worldwide
Thank you