ISPC 13

1. CIP 2014-2023 strategy
and the CRPs
Oscar Ortiz
Deputy Director General for Research and Development
May 25, 2016

2. Outline:
1. CIP’s background
2. The 2014-2023 CIP strategic plan:
• CIP-RTB coevolution of
concepts
• Strategic programs: outputs
and outcomes
• Relationship with CRPs
3. Concluding remarks

3. 1. CIP’s background
Mission
The International Potato Center (CIP) works with partners
to achieve food security, well-being, and gender equity
for poor people in root and tuber farming and food
systems in the developing world. We do this through
research and innovation in science, technology, and
capacity strengthening
Vision
Roots and tubers improving the
lives of the poor
CIP’s Mission • Vision
Vision•Mission

4. • 1971: a project with North Caroline State University
• 1972: 5th Center to join the CGIAR
• 1980’s: pioneering participatory methods
• 1988: inclusion of sweetpotato
• 1990- 2000: leading System Wide Programs: Urban and
Peri-urban Agriculture, Sustainable Development in the
Andes – leading capacity development and impact
assessment
• 1999 – 2007: FFS introduction and adaptation to potato
• 2001-2016: leading value chain development
• 2010: part of the new CGIAR Consortium
• 2012 – 2016: leading RTB – active in CRP 1st / 2nd phase
Institutional evolution

5. Net annual benefit from CIP related technology documented in impact studies
CIP an excellent return on investment for
reducing poverty and hunger
• Annual net benefit: $225 million
• Estimated IRR: 20%
• Benefits accrue mostly to the poor
and hungry in developing countries.
Potatoes: total area of surveyed countries and CIP-related
share, 1972 - 2007
1,000,000
2,000,000
3,000,000
4,000,000
5,000,000
6,000,000
7,000,000
8,000,000
9,000,000
1972 1977 1982 1987 1992 1997 2002 2007
Year
Hectares
Area under varieties not related to CIP Area under CIP-related varieties
• CIP conducts ex post impact studies
• More than one million hectares with CIP
related varieties in developing countries (2007)
• 13% of potato area in developing world
• Currently revisiting adoption estimates

6. Some potato facts
• Third most important food crop
• Over 4,000 edible varieties of potato
• About 1.4 billion people eat potato
• Essential during the “hunger months”
• Produced and consumed locally –
less subject to international trade
variations
• Energy-rich, nutritious (Fe, Zn)
• Climate resilient – short period
• Cash crop in Africa and Asia

7. Sweetpotato facts
• Eight in the order of food crops
• Roots and foliage edible
• Short period – fits in “hunger months”
• Wide range of skin and flesh color, from
white to yellow-orange and deep purple.
• First biofortified crop (orange varieties-
vit. A) leading he way
• Gender crop: improves nutrition,
eliminates childhood blindness, reduces
stunting
• Climate resilient, grows in marginal
conditions

8. 1. Ecuador
2. Peru
3. Bolivia
3. Ghana
4. Burkina Faso
5. Nigeria
6. Ethiopia
7. Kenya
8. Uganda
9. Rwanda
10. Tanzania
11. Malawi
12. Mozambique
13. Uzbekistan
14. Taijikistan
15. Georgia
16. Nepal
17. Bangladesh
18. India
19. China
20. Vietnam
21. Philippines
22. Indonesia
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2
3
3
7
9
8
11
6
10
14
18
16
17
19
20
22
15
13
21
CIP around the world
4
5
12

9. Resilient
Nutritious
Sweetpotato
Agile
Potato
for Asia
Potato
Seed
for Africa
Game
Changing
Solutions
Resilient
Food
Systems
Conserving
Diversity for
the Future
2. The 2014-2023 CIP strategic plan:
The strategic objectives
Delivery oriented programs
Discovery oriented programs

10. • RTB first phase, both CIP and RTB ensured programs to be
more focused:
• The “flagship product” a well-defined central product with
potential for substantial impact
• Shared theories of change and impact pathways
• Estimation of beneficiaries from ex ante impact assessment –
used CIP methodology
• CIP focused in few but ambitious objectives (flagship
products), which became “core products” for CIP’s SCP and
clusters in RTB
• CIP-RTB to use common M&E system to keep track of
progress towards outputs and outcomes
Co-evolution of concepts CIP-RTB

11. CIP and RTB alignment
RTB migrating to flagship and cluster structure in 2016

12. Resilient Food Systems:
SO5
Resilient Nutritious
Sweetpotato:
SO1
The CIP Genebank:
Conserving Biodiversity
for the Future: SO6
Director General
Director
of RTB
DDG-RD
Research
Agile Potato Asia : SO2
Seed Potato for Africa:
SO3
Game Changing
Solutions: SO4
DCE Genetics & Crop
Improvement
DCE Crop Systems
Intensification &
Climate Change
DCE Social Health
Sciences & Innovation
Systems
Deputy Director of
Research
Programs
Disciplines
CIP Programs and RTB Flagships
RTB structure

13. Opportunity: use a naturally biofortified
crop as a source of vitamin A to reduce
childhood blindness and stunting
Target: Reach fifteen million resource-
poor households
Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Haiti.
Improve their diet, crop income,
production and intake of OFSP
Resilient
Nutritious
Sweetpotato
RTB clusters:
• SW 4.4 (Nutritious
sweet potato)
• SW 2.6 *(User
preferred
sweetpotato
varieties

14. Vitamin A deficiency
and sweetpotato
cultivation
Just 120 grams of OFSP per day is enough to
provide sufficient Vitamin A for a child
This can be produced in 500 sq meters per
family per year

15. Delivery oriented programs: Research for development at
different stages and with different partnership arrangements

16. Genetic Gains
Platform

17. Examples of research outputs:
• Improved breeding methods: accelerated breeding,
screening for virus disease, drought tolerance -
increasingly using genomics and genetics
• At least two suitable lab and field detection methods
(including LAMP – amplification of DNA, simple,
robust, easy) assessed for contribution to quality seed
production
• Communication materials and methods for nutrition
and health education and Social and Behavior Change
adapted to socio-economic and nutrition contexts in
at least 16 countries
• Scalability of integrated agriculture-nutrition-marketing
approaches assessed through Randomized Control Trial
and qualitative methodologies

18. • At least 20 NGO’s and 10 government
programs use modified nutrition social
behavior change materials and methods
when incorporating SP into their
nutrition programs
• At least 15m households in 16 countries
consume OFSP and/or other Vitamin A
rich foods as a result of integrated
agriculture-nutrition interventions,
Vitamin A deficiency reduced
Examples of research and
development outcomes:
• Breeders from CIP, NARS, and other RTB
centers from at least 10 African countries
and 2 Asian countries use improved
breeding methods, …genomic-related
breeding tools…

19. Agile Potato
for Asia
Opportunity: millions of ha of cereal-
based systems could diversified in a
sustainable way with potato
Target: Seven million households in
China, Bangladesh, India, Vietnam,
Pakistan, Nepal, and Central Asia
Intensify and diversify cereal based
systems with early-maturing agile
potato varieties
RTB cluster:
• PO 2.5 (Potato
varieties for Asia)

20. Genetic Gains
Platform

21. Examples of research outputs
• At least two gender-responsive methods for value chain
development and strengthening of potato demand
validated in at least three Asian countries
• Population and candidate varieties biofortified with Fe
and Zn, adapted to subtropical lowlands and highland
ecologies, resistant to virus or late blight and tolerant to
drought and heat
• Models developed to assess trade-offs for labor and
resource use in intensive cereal-based production systems
that include new potato varieties (China, India and
Bangladesh)

22. • At least 600,000 farmers have access to high
quality seed of improved varieties, improve
yield (20%), and income from the crop (20%)
in China, India and Bangladesh
Examples of research and development
outcomes
• CIP and NARS breeders (India , Bangladesh and
China) use new breeding tools aiming at
reducing time frame to achieve yield jumps,
new trait levels and combinations
• At least 20,000 households improve potato-
income (15%) through strengthened value
chains in India, Bangladesh by 2017

23. Opportunity: Public and private sector
interest in improving seed potato systems
– seed as an entry point for other
innovations – initially focused in Africa
Target: Increase potato productivity and
improve the livelihoods of at least 600,000
smallholder farmers in Africa by the use of
high-quality seed of suitable varieties – 3
M indirect
Potato Seed
for Africa
RTB cluster:
PO 2.4 (Potato quality
seed)

24. Genetic Gains
Platform

25. Game
Changing Solutions
Opportunity: Use of advanced
science to accelerate the
development of varieties and
technologies needed in the next
30-50 years
Target: Develop the proof of
concept of at least one solution
in the next 10 years
Contribute to RTB
clusters:
• DI 1.1 (Breeding
platform)
• DI 1.2 (Next
generation
breeding)
• DI 1.3 (Game
changing traits)

26. Genetic Gains
Platform
First potato GM varieties with
extreme resistance to late blight
under confined trials in Uganda

27. Opportunity: demand exist for
decision support tools and process
models to tackle complexity of food
systems facing challenges such as
climate change
Target: Improve decision making
using process models to reduce
food system vulnerability
Resilient
Food Systems
Contribute to RTB
clusters:
• CC 5.1 (Foresight,
impact
assessment)
• CC5.2 Sustainable
intensification and
diversification
• CC5.3: Gender
equitable
development
• CC5.4 Institutional
Innovation

28. Big Data Platform

29. Opportunity: ex-situ and in-situ
conserved biodiversity offer possibilities
to develop innovative solutions:
varieties and options to reduce
vulnerability in the agroecosystems
Target: Improving the efficiency of
genetic resources conservation and
use for the future
Conserving Diversity
for the Future:
The Genebank
Contribute to RTB
cluster:
DI 1.5 (Adding value to
genebanks
Integral part of the
Genebank Platform

30. Responding
to customer
needs
Contribute to
Genebank Platform

31. Resilient
Nutritious
Sweetpotato
Agile
Potato
for Asia
Potato
Seed
for Africa
Game
Changing
Solutions
Resilient
Food
Systems
Conserving
Diversity for
the Future
Through its strategic objectives, CIP will
contribute to the CGIAR goals and SDGs

32. 6. Concluding remarks
• CIP’s strategy focused on promoting two climate
resilient, nutritious, gender-related, competitive crops,
essential to deliver SRF commitments
• Need to manage innovative, more complex partnership
with both research organizations and development-
oriented partners towards outcomes and impact
• Need to strengthen M&E capabilities to track science
progress, partner roles and CapDev towards outcomes
and impact
• Pursue further coevolution of CIP and RTB during the
flagship and cluster implementation

33. Thank you very much

34. Monitoring key potato pests: Effects of climate change on
potato tuber moth, 2000 - 2050