This document summarizes discussions from a planning meeting for the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish. The program aims to improve access to animal-source foods like meat, milk and fish for poor populations. Key points discussed include: - Defining intermediate development outcomes and targets for improving income, productivity and equitable benefits for small-scale producers, especially women. - Taking a value chain approach to address the whole system from inputs to consumers and design large-scale interventions with partners. - Recognizing challenges in forming integrated teams across centers but also the opportunities for more meaningful, long-term research partnerships and impact. - The need to focus efforts on a limited number of target value chains and

1. More meat, milk and fish by and for the poor:
Improving access to critical animal-source foods
1st Annual Review & Planning Meeting
Tom Randolph
Addis Ababa, 20-22 May 2013

2. What did we sign up to?
Can our research:
• More effectively contribute to meeting the challenge of
feeding 9 billion people in 2050?
• Demonstrate that smallholders and the poor—and especially
women-- can contribute to and benefit from producing a
share of that food?
• Establish the strategic role animal-source foods can play?
• Increase productivity of small-scale production and
marketing systems?
– ‘by the poor’  poverty reduction
– ‘for the poor’  food security

3. Proposed: an experiment
to accelerate research to impact at scale
 Organize and aim better our intensification agenda for animal
agriculture
 Pool together more effectively our CGIAR resources
 Partners rather than subcontractors
 Integrated teams rather than work packages
 4 key features to change ‘the way we do our business’

4. Consumers
Solutions developed for isolated issues in specific settings, but
ignoring other constraints in the value chain that discourage uptake
Inputs & Services Production Processing Marketing Consumers
...in Country A
Inputs & Services Production Processing Marketing Consumers
Inputs & Services Production Processing Marketing Consumers
...in Country D
...in Country C
...in Country B
To address why we haven’t had impact
Is it the piecemeal nature of our research?

5. Strategic L&F CRP Cross-cutting Platforms
• Technology Generation
• Market Innovation
• Targeting & Impact
ConsumersR4D integrated to
transform selected
value chains
in targeted
commodities and
countries.
Value chain development team + research partners
GLOBAL RESEARCH
PUBLIC GOODS
INTERVENTIONS TO SCALE
OUT REGIONALLY
#1: Addressing the whole value chain
Major intervention with development partners
Approach: Solution-driven R4D to achieve impact
#2: Working directly to design and support intervention at scale
#3: In partnership with development actors

6. #4 Focus, focus, focus!
Working in 8 target value chains  accountability
PIGS
AQUACULTURE
SHEEP & GOATS
DAIRY

7. Our engagement in a value chain embodies our impact pathway
Approach: Solution-driven R4D to achieve impact
Year 1  Year 8-12
Program horizon in a target value chain
Relativedegreeofinvolvement
Research
partners
Development
partners
Assessment
Mobilization
Best bets
Experiments
Evaluation
Evidence
Design
Piloting
Lessons
Context
Advocacy
Dissemination
Attracting
investment
Implementing
large-scale
interventions
Knowledge
partner
Along the Impact Pathway

8. Status
• Partnership of 4 CGIAR Centres
• Officially started January 1st, 2012
• Forming core team
• Developing strategy by Theme and value chain
• Identifying strategic partners
• Consolidating ongoing activities

9. So far?
• Good flow of technology research outputs and outcomes from
legacy and new projects
• Created momentum in 3 value
chains
• Dairy forum in Tanzania
• VCA tools
• Gender strategy
• Several new joint projects and
cross-CRP collaborations
• Improved tilapia strains
• Thermo-tolerant vaccine for
peste des petits ruminants
• Improved Brachiaria varieties

10. Mixed funding success
TOTAL Approved = US$99.6m
Restricted
mobilized
CG Fund
Restricted
GAP
2/3 funding secured

11. With many challenges
• It has been confusing!
• Consortium and CRPs: Making up the rules as we
go along
• Centers: adapting to CRPs
• Funding uncertainty
• Planning and reporting requirements
• Forming teams
• Musical chairs
• Fragmented responsibilities and multi-tasking
• Several critical gaps
• Developing implementation plans and vision
• Too many meetings!

12. How can we get it to gell?
• We must internalize our objective: designing
smart interventions
• We need new methods and frameworks that
support this approach
• Processes for value chain engagement
• Methods that allow us to interact to design
appropriate solutions
• Biological and social sciences
• Field to lab
• Continuously challenge our assumptions – what’s
the evidence that this approach is useful?

13. How can we get it to gell?
• Partnering better
• Research: not just collaboration
• Development: how do we work together?
• Make this your agenda!

14. Recognize the opportunity!
• For you as a researcher
• Clear and stable objective: role of IDOs
• (Relatively) stable funding
• ‘Field laboratories’ with economies of scale
• Able to dig in and follow through research questions
• Open field for new methods and demand for results
• For you as a researcher-for-development
• Clear objectives and relevance
• Obligation to translate into impact at scale
• Living multidisciplinarity
• Longer-term, more meaningful partnerships

15. Next 3 days
• Get to know the program
• Help us figure out how to make it work better
• Engage in the planning
• Understand how you can contribute
• Meet our SPAC and key partners
• Let’s generate a buzz!

16. More meat, milk and fish by and for the poor:
IDOs and Targets
1st Annual Review & Planning Meeting
Addis, 21 May 2013

17. Research
Outputs
Research
Outcomes
Intermediate
Development
Outcomes
Impacts
Methods +
capacity to
sustain VC
development
SLO2
Increased
food security
Actionable
Options
Process
Evidence
Increased
productivity
Evidence
base +
partnerships
to attract
investment
for
intervention
SLO1
Reduced
poverty
More supply
(qlty & qnty)
More income +
employment
Higher share for
women
More of nutrient
gap filled by ASF
Lower unit
envirnmt impacts
Supporting
policies/investment
SLO3
Improved
nutrition &
health
SLO4
Sustainable
NRM
Intermediate Development Outcomes are
changes achieved through anticipated
development interventions in our value
chains

18. IDO Example from Aquatic Ag Sys
Increased and more equitable income earned by low
income value chain actors in aquatic agricultural
systems, with increased share captured by women
Specific CRP targets (within 12 years):
• 50% increase in income from AAS value chains in 500,000
poor households in the Polder Zone of Bangladesh, with 40%
of that income earned by women
• 60% increase in income from AAS value chains in 50,000 poor
households in the Barotse floodplain of Zambia, with 40% of
that income earned by women

19. Defining IDO targets
1. What’s the adoption domain?
2. What is the best indicator?
3. What is a reasonable change in indicator?
4. What is a reasonable number of
beneficiaries?

20. CGIAR is a global partnership that unites organizations engaged in research for a food secure future. The CGIAR Research
Program on Livestock and Fish aims to increase the productivity of small-scale livestock and fish systems in sustainable
ways, making meat, milk and fish more available and affordable across the developing world.
CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish
livestockfish.cgiar.org