Legacy and highlights from the GRM: Graham Thiele, Director of the Roots, Tubers & Bananas CRP
The document summarizes a meeting between the Research in Tropical Agriculture (RTB) program and the Generation Challenge Program (GCP). Key points discussed include: - Opportunities for collaboration between the two programs to achieve greater scale, capacity, and synergies across their shared crops like banana, cassava, and sweet potato. - Examples of successful GCP projects that could provide lessons for RTB, such as using a "product delivery manager" focus and metrics to evaluate products, targeted communication strategies, and sequencing competitive and program funding. - Potential areas of future collaboration between RTB and GCP, such as supporting integrated breeding platforms, linking databases, developing concept notes, sustaining communities of practice, and final
Legacy and highlights from the GRM: Graham Thiele, Director of the Roots, Tubers & Bananas CRP
- 1. RTB and GCP meeting Graham Thiele GCP Meeting Rayong October 10th 2014
- 2. A COLLABORATION OF: + a wide spectrum of research-for-development stakeholders & partners
- 3. Banana Plantain Cassava Potato Sweetpotato Yam Other R&T 200 million farmers depend on RTB crops Buffering role in food systems Our Crops
- 4. • Enhance scale • Greater capacity • Exploit synergies: genuine “win-wins” eg similarities in challenges for breeding, seed systems and postharvest management To do together what we cannot do separately Program “value added”
- 5. “Lead” product and cluster iPhone Vast library apps Packaging & design concept Advertising Data bases user information
- 6. Delivery cluster: Combating vit A deficiency with orange sweetpotato Improve diet quality 15 million+ VAD households Strategic ObjectiveImpact pathway Outcomes Candidate OFSP varieties Gender responsive vine multiplicati on Demand creation Advocacy strategy Delivery framework Sustain intensificati on Client orientation - feedback
- 7. GCP: big lessons for CRPs! • Focus on products – product delivery manager • Valuing products - $, other metrics? • Targeted communication – getting product into use: • Perception, attitude and behaviour • Putting products into market place based on willingness to pay – IBP/BMS • Sequencing of competitive and program funding • Sunsetting and legacy
- 8. GCP- legacy for RTB PPK •People •Products •Knowledge
- 9. GCP- legacy for RTB People • NARS and CGIAR centers collaboration • Cassava: NARS proactive role • Communities of practice: • IBP around tools • RTB other initiatives • Linking with ISTRC and GCP21
- 10. GCP- legacy for RTB Products • Cassava GCP reference set – 100 accessions not captured • Drought prone trials mapping populations • Pyramiding resistance to CMD commenced • Unpublished QTLs?
- 11. GCP- legacy for RTB Knowledge • MARS recurrent selection scheme – in progress
- 12. GCP and RTB: next steps • RTB support IBP across crops/centers: 2nd Call • IBP link Cassavabase, Sweetpotatobase (GBS) • Concept note cassava group (Chiedoezie Egesi – NRCRI and NARS colleagues) • Sustaining and growing CoP • Finalizing products • Breeding populations – repository • Unique value proposition and cost