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 * Sustainable intensification of crop-livestock systems to improve food security and farm income diversification in the Ethiopian highlands **
 * Project Design Workshop **
 * 30 January - 2 February 2012, Addis Ababa Ethiopia **

**Presentation: Research on sustainable intensification (by Iain Wright)**

This workshop provides an opportunity for a broad group of important stakeholders to both learn about the project plans and to share their views on expectations from and opportunities for synergies with the project (days 1 and 2) and for the core project team to finalize the project details (days 3 and 4).

The CGIAR is changing and this has implications for this particular project.
 * SI introduction: Does this mean more production per acre?
 * Elements: inputs to tech, social infrastructures, farmer knowledge and capacity, engagement with private sector, gender issues and access to micro-finance, availability of credit, ensuring public sector support for agriculture.
 * The new CGIAR: to reduce poverty and hunger through 4 high-level outcomes: reducing rural poverty, improving food security, improving nutrition and health, sustainable management of natural resources.
 * To achieve these outcomes the new CGIAR programme has 15 CGIAR research programmes (CRPs) of which 4-5 are very relevant for this programme too:
 * __Integrated systems in dry areas__ (CRP 1.1). Four strategic research themes (SRTs): a) innovation systems, policy and partners b) reduced vulnerability, c) **sustainable intensification**, d) targeting, characterisation and impact via future scenarios etc.).
 * __Integrated systems in humid areas__ (CRP 1.2): Three SRTs: analysis of situation, Research for Development (R4D) triangle (**systems productivity, markets integration, NRM**), R4D scaling.
 * __More milk, meat and fish by and for the poor__ (CRP 3.7): increased access to ASF can be achieved at scale by carefully strengthening value chains across inputs/services, production, processing, marketing and consumers. Relation here is the **value chain on small holder small ruminants in Ethiopia**.
 * __Water-land ecosystems__ (CRP 5): improvements in governments and management, effective interventions to end land degradation, **tradeoffs between intensification and NRM**. Focuses on river basins **including Nile basin**.