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Presented at Community Radio Training Workshop, held at

Bogra Rural Development Academy, Bangladesh February
28-March 2, 2011
v Food security
v Rural and urban poverty
v Malnutrition
v Natural resources: land and water
v Farm sizes and labor
v Energy
v Climate extremes and climate
change
v Financial crisis
Èow full are
the grain
bins?
v Food scarcity and the resulting higher food
prices are pushing poor countries into chaos
v Such ³failed states´ can export disease,
terrorism, illicit drugs, weapons and
refugees.
v Water shortages, soil losses and rising
temperatures from global warming are
placing severe limits on food production.
v Without massive and rapid intervention to
address these three environmental factors, a
series of government collapses could
threaten the world order.





 
 

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v Complementary roles of public
sector, CSOs and private sector
v R&D
v Information
v Delivery of new technologies
v Rural development
v Capacity building
v Policies
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v Provide an overall strategy and umbrella for
contributing new science and technologies to short
and long-term cereal production growth in South
Asia
v More productive and more sustainable cereal-based
cropping and crop-livestock systems
v Annual grain yield growth of about 1.5% from rice
and wheat
v New Public-Private Partnerships: R&D, capacity
building and delivery of new seeds, technologies,
and information
v Strengthen policy support
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Phase 1: 2009-2011

BMGF: $19.6 M
USAID: $10-11 M
WB, RWC: $0.9 M

CGIAR:IRRI, CIMMYT,
IFPRI, ILRI
NARES
Private sector
NGOs
ARI
Universities
Societies (ASA)
FOCUS AREAS:
Intensive cereal-based systems in South
Asia that provide the bulk of cereals for
human consumption and other uses
v Irrigated or partially irrigated systems,
particularly
Ë Rice-Rice,
Ë Rice-Wheat,
Ë Rice-Rice-legumes, and others
v Emerging multiple/relay cropping systems
involving Rice, Wheat or Maize, particularly
Rice-Maize, Maize-Wheat,
v Favorable rainfed Rice areas with potential for
intensification/diversification
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v  M farmers achieve a yield increase

of >0.5 t/ha on 5 Mha and an
additional 2 M farmers achieve a yield
increase of >1.0 t/ha on 2.5 Mha
v Cereal cropping systems that are
sustainable and increase Nutrient
Use Efficiency and Water Use
Efficiency by 30%
v At least 5 Mt additional grain
annually, with an additional economic
grain value of >$1.5 billion
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v Substantial savings in terms of

energy and other production costs
v Fodder availability in livestock-
dependent households will be
increased
v 6 M poor rural households have
increased their annual household
income by at least $350 per year
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v Technologies that farmers want
v Customized solutions
v Strong agricultural professionals on the
ground
v Access to information
v Linkage with input and output markets
v Good business models
v Suitable policies and linkages with large-
scale investments
v Dedicated partners that complement each
other and contribute own resources
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v A 10-year research and delivery road
map
v Integrated germplasm, systems
management, capacity building and
policy solutions
v New business models
v Added value
v Umbrella - open to everyone