Tree Productivity and Diversity - Realizing Economic and Ecological Value from Tree Genetic Resources

Tree Productivity and Diversity aims to deliver on the best science and best proofs of concept required for safeguarding tree diversity, domesticating trees and delivering suitable tree planting material to growers. This falls within an overall framework of sustainable supply chains for enhancing social, economic and environmental benefits. Through co-research and co-development of decision support tools and by capacity building, stakeholders are better able to define priorities, select methods and improve and implement practices and policies.

This theme will boost the availability and access to quality tree-planting materials (foods, fodder, timber, medicinals, etc.) suited to location and purpose which are serious global constraints to tree planting. It achieves this by co-developing effective and affordable methods, technologies (including clones and varieties), gender-responsive guidelines, decision-support tools and proofs of concept in partnership with relevant institutions and networks. Under this theme work on the African Orphan Crops Consortium (AOCC) is also undertaken which supports the application of advanced breeding techniques to a wide variety of agroforestry trees and annuals and is designed to improve and enhance nutrition in Africa.

In the CGIAR Research Programme (CRP) on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA) phase II 2017-2022, a new flagship, Flagship Project 1 (FP1) on Tree Genetic Resources to bridge production gaps and promote resilience (FTA-TGR), was introduced. To guide the delivery of outcomes in accordance with the FTA programme document, a preliminary project implementation framework (PIF) for the whole period 2017-2022 has been prepared for FP1. This document also includes the annual plan of work and budget of FP1 for 2017. Impact and outcome statements of FTA-TGR are consolidated; preliminary work towards provision of adequate delivery indicators of FTA-TGR within the Strategic Results Framework (SRF) of CGIAR is summarised; and the essential elements of the performance management framework (PMF), in the form of targets, assumptions, research questions, hypotheses, deliverables, milestones and the required resources (inputs from projects and CRP), are outlined. The PIF is considered an iterative process and the document presented is planned to serve as a base reference for documentation of future impact, outcomes, outputs and inputs.