UNIT CIMMYT IFPRI, CIAT, many others Africa Agriculture GIS week Application of spatial science in African research and development Addis Ababa 12-14 March 2013
New Delhi, India Tbilisi, Georgia Nairobi/Njoro, Kenya Ankara, Turkey Beijing, China Almaty, Kazakhstan Islamabad Pakistan Kabul, Afghanistan Kathmandu, Nepal Dhaka, Bangladesh CIMMYT global offices Karaj/Tehran, Iran Hyderabad India
development High consumption in many African countries especially urban areas Food crisis 2008 riots in some countries linked to rising bread prices High foreign currency expenditures for import due to limited local production In 2010 African countries spent more than 12.5 billion US$ to import of 32 million tons of wheat
in some SSA countries to fill the growing gap between domestic production and consumption requirements Will such production be economically profitable than importing wheat? Suitability Ecocrop Suitability FAO GAEZ
a high performance cluster Benchmark varieties were defined for different wheat mega environments Soils files from WISE database Climate data from Worldclim fed into climate generator 10 km pixels Economic part: Transport cost model for wheat and fertilizer Import parity price comparison with internal production plus transport Net economic return was calculated for each pixel on ha basis
this were presented to wheat research community in Africa and policy makers in a conference in Addis Ababa in October 2012 http://conferences.cimmyt.org/index.php/en/wheat-for-food-security-in-africa
impact of climate change on maize bean systems in 4 Central American countries: Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador Project was carried out coordinated by CRS carried out by CIAT and CIMMYT Biophysical and socioeconomic combination but focused on climate change Report focused on adaptation strategies
44,532 8,096 0 20,000 40,000 60,000 80,000 100,000 120,000 140,000 160,000 Nicaragua Honduras El Salvador Guatemala Maize production loss. Quantity (t) & value (000 us$) Maize production losses at 2020 (t) Estimated value of maize production losses at 2020 (Thosands us$)
10,000 20,000 30,000 40,000 50,000 60,000 Nicaragua Honduras El Salvador Guatemala Maize/beans value of production losses (000 us$) Estimated value of maize&beans production losses at 2020 (us$)
to maize and bean research communities in 4 project countries Africa and the ministers of Agriculture in a series of national meetings. Will go into national adaptation strategies. http://www.crsprogramquality.org/storage/pubs/agenv/climate-change-maize-beans-full-report.pdf