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Center For Economic Growth and Agricultural Development
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PROGRAM: Central Programs
TITLE AND NUMBER: Science and technology developed to improve agricultural productivity, natural resource management, markets, and human nutrition, 933-009*
STATUS: New
PROPOSED FY 2002 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: $55,256,000 DA
INITIAL OBLIGATION: FY 2002; ESTIMATED COMPLETION DATE: FY 2010Summary: Agriculture is a critical element in alleviating hunger, preserving the environment, enabling trade and promoting economic growth that reduces poverty and conflict. This program pursues science and technology-based solutions that raise agricultural productivity, reduce hunger and conserve the natural resource base. Results reported through FY 2000 reflect accomplishments under the predecessor activity, which is planned for completion in FY 2002. Through alliances with universities, international agricultural research centers, the private sector and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the program will bring the results of agricultural science and food policy research to farmers and small businesses in the world's developing and transition economies, benefiting both producers and low-income consumers.
Key Results: Managed by Global Bureau's Center for Economic Growth and Agricultural Development (the Center), this program contributes broadly towards worldwide food production. By linking state-of-the-art research with the problems of farmers in developing countries, this program generates an array of technologies (e.g., improved crop varieties), land and water management packages, and policies whose application will improve the productivity, sustainability and efficiency of agriculture. The program leverages substantial resources in the U.S. land grant university system and over $300 million in support from other donors to the system of international agricultural research centers sponsored by the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). Direct benefit to the poor and hungry is an enormous and continuing story, with productivity gains worth billions of dollars per year leading to lower real prices and increased incomes. U.S. agriculture also benefits. In wheat and rice alone, the return on USAID investment in international research to American farmers and consumers runs into the billions of dollars. The program also carries out substantial capacity- building efforts aimed at increasing the ability of developing countries to benefit from partnerships in technology and policy development and applications. Increasingly, results of this program are also being measured in policy and nutritional terms, as researchers pay greater attention to diet quality. Gains in animal and fish productivity are particularly important to achieving nutritional impacts, along with expanded production and availability of micronutrient-rich crops and vegetables. Resource management goals are more clearly defined through the use of geographic information systems and computerized models of agro-ecosystems.
Performance and Prospects. While food crop productivity continues to rise, its rate of growth continues to slow. These trends hold dire consequences for the food security of poor people. This program will respond by increasing investment in biotechnology, informational technologies and other new tools that will emphasize poor peoples' crops and diets. The program will also develop biofortified crop varieties that sustainably reduce micronutrient deficiency by improving the quality of key foods in the diet of poor people. In Africa, productivity growth and yield levels are far below those in other developing areas, pointing to the need for emphasizing African agricultural productivity through improved access to technologies and markets. In Asia and Latin America, progress has been stronger, with even Bangladesh now erasing its "food gap" for the first time in history. Maintaining and continuing these gains remains critical. Compounding the challenge in South Asia and Africa is rapid growth of population where land and water resources are coming under increasing pressure. New techniques to increase the stress tolerance of crops and livestock will also be employed to decrease risk and favor investment.
In FY 2002, the Center will continue to pursue scientific leadership in agricultural research and development, working extensively with USAID's domestic partners (universities and NGOs) as well as other donors supporting multilateral programs. Alliances with the private sector will be important across the program, from joint biotechnology research for improved nutrition research to marketing of tropical crops such as cocoa and coffee. The program will continue to provide support for overseas USAID missions, leveraging substantial amounts of mission and regional bureau buy-ins. The program will expand successful efforts to boost private-sector participation in innovative food and technology work, and will rapidly begin to explore approaches to address the devastation of the agriculture sector by the HIV/AIDS pandemic in parts of Africa.
The Center will also explore how to better address new opportunities presented by information technology and communications methods to reach poor farming communities. It will address continuing problems represented by desertification, water scarcity, climate variability, and rural financial market failure, by building on solid and fruitful partnerships with the university, NGO, private sector, and research communities. The program will jointly identify, design and launch mechanisms to strengthen and leverage such partnerships even further in ways that ensure results and accountability but minimize staff time. In particular, these mechanisms will guide the global outreach of our scientific and technological partners to support innovation by the private sector, research institutes, universities, NGOs, and rural communities that will help reduce hunger, increase income and improve trade.
Possible adjustments to plans: This program will foster and contribute to the development of the Global Development Alliance. This may lead to greater integration across the program portfolio through collaborative research, as well as stronger ties to private sector research and development.
Other donor programs. The program works with a wide range of donors, focussing especially on research collaboration and on food security, poverty, and hunger. Research collaboration with 50 bilateral donors and the World Bank is facilitated by our role in the CGIAR. Food security issues are the focus of special coordination efforts with the European Union and Japan. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development/Development Assistance Committee's Poverty Reduction Network, in which the Center participates, includes both European bilateral donors and the World Bank.
Principal Contractors, Grantees, or Agencies: Partners include: the 46 U.S. land grant universities; and their NGO partners (e.g., World Vision, CARE, etc.) participating in the Collaborative Research Support Programs (CRSPs); the 16 international agricultural research centers; U.S. agribusiness research leaders, e.g, the Specialty Coffee Association of America, American Chocolate Research Institute, Geosys, Inc., M&M Mars Corporation, Cargill Technical Services, Land O'Lakes, Inc., Harza Environmental Services, Monsanto; the American Association for the Advancement of Science; the U.S. Treasury Department; and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Selected Performance Measures**: 933-009
Indicator FY97 (Actual) FY98 (Actual) FY99 (Actual) FY00 (Actual Preliminary) FY01 (Plan) FY02 (Plan) Indicator 1: Per capita food production Index (FAO) 117.7 119.5 121.2 121.2 122.7 123.4 Indicator 2: Food production Index (FAO) 132.8 137.0 141.2 143.4 146.0 148.5 Indicator 3: Average combined yields of coarse grains, all developing countries (FAO) 1,865 2,065 1,985 1,915 1,975 1,990 Indicator 4: Average combined yields of coarse grains, all developing countries (FAO) 2,712 2,759 2,775 2,736 2,780 2,783 Indicator Information
Indicator Level (S)or(IR) Unit of Measure Source Indicator Description Indicator 1: S Per capita food production index Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Index of per capita food production: all developing countries. Indicator 2: S Food production index Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Index of food production: all developing countries. Indicator 3: S Kilograms per hectare Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Average combined yield of coarse grains (corn, barley, rye, oats, millet and sorghum): all developing countries. Indicator 4: S Kilograms per hectare Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Average combined yield of cereals (primarily wheat and rice with small quantities of other cereal grains): all developing countries.
* Formerly titled the "Improved food availability, economic growth and conservation of natural resources through agricultural development" in the FY 2001 Budget Justification, Annex V, pages 38-40. It has been substantially changed.
** USAID Programs address food insecurity in developing countries; the above indicators track the supply, demand and sustainability dimensions of food security in these countries. These indicators were formerly measured under the strategic objective titled the "Improved food availability, economic growth and conservation of natural resources through agricultural development" in the FY 2001 Budget Justification, Annex V, pages 38-40. The Program has substantially changed.
U.S. Financing
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Obligations Expenditures Unliquidated Through September 30, 1999 0 DA 0 DA 0 DA 0 CSD 0 CSD 0 CSD 0 ESF 0 ESF 0 ESF 0 SEED 0 SEED 0 SEED 0 FSA 0 FSA 0 FSA 0 DFA 0 DFA 0 DFA Fiscal Year 2000 0 DA 0 DA 0 CSD 0 CSD 0 ESF 0 ESF 0 SEED 0 SEED 0 FSA 0 FSA 0 DFA 0 DFA Through September 30, 2000 0 DA 0 DA 0 DA 0 CSD 0 CSD 0 CSD 0 ESF 0 ESF 0 ESF 0 SEED 0 SEED 0 SEED 0 FSA 0 FSA 0 FSA 0 DFA 0 DFA 0 DFA Prior Year Unobligated Funds 0 DA 0 CSD 0 ESF 0 SEED 0 FSA 0 DFA Planned Fiscal Year 2001 NOA 0 DA 0 CSD 0 ESF 0 SEED 0 FSA 0 DFA Total Planned Fiscal Year 2001 0 DA 0 CSD 0 ESF 0 SEED 0 FSA 0 DFA Future Obligations Est. Total Cost Proposed Fiscal Year 2002 NOA * 55,256 DA 452,728 DA 507,984 DA 0 CSD 0 CSD 0 CSD 0 ESF 0 ESF 0 ESF 0 SEED 0 SEED 0 SEED 0 FSA 0 FSA 0 FSA 0 DFA 0 DFA 0 DFA
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