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thank you very much I'm going to talk very briefly about uh the assp research that is being done into sustainable intensification uh sustainable intensification can be defined in many ways we have one here but the core of it really is to increase the efficiency of agricultural systems that we work with whether they're crop-based livestock based or more commonly in small holder systems uh based around uh both components working together we have a number of projects that are working on sustainable intensification related issues we have the africar rising projects in uh Ethiopian Highlands also in East Africa and West Africa Zim cliffs in Zimbabwe and also the lives project in Ethiopia the main uh question that we're asking in all these projects in relation to sustainable intensification is how can these systems evolve to be more productive without compromising sustainability uh so what are you what's unique about these projects well they have to have a whole systems Focus as tradeoffs and synergies amongst the different components of the system have not just have implications for sustainability that lie right at the heart of whether systems tend to be sustainable or not they need to be M multidisiplinary because we don't just have crops we don't just have Livestock in these systems uh and they have to be collaborative uh which in the new cge system is a an opportunity that we have to address very strongly I believe some brief pictures illustrating some of the SI research that we're doing these are all taken from Africa Rising uh unintended consequences the trial in the picture on the left looks at the intensification of fabine system the the the the package generally includes uh varieties management practices and inputs but under farmer practices many of these crops are left to produce weeds that are harvested for fod production so this trial is looking at a more integrated approach to intensifying the system that doesn't exclude uh the forage component there's no point producing more if we just end up wasting it so we have Research into improved storage me methods for the crops that are produced and scale issues are also very important in si uh we can come up with innovations that are sustainable at the household level but when we scale them up across a landscape uh often there are adverse implications at landscape scale so we can't just look at one scale I was asked to consider opportunities for collaboration uh Africa Rising already has eight CG collaborators and more than 20 National Partners so we have collaboration coming out of our ears there are many positive aspects to this in meeting the particular needs of sustainable intensification related research but obviously there are many challenges um but I've tried to list some of the things that um that this collaboration is delivering uh and I think we one of the great achievements I think of Africa Rising is that we have multiple centers and multiple National Partners actually working together as research teams we're not don't have a an ILY component a cat component an niasat component we have research teams that are made up of researchers from many centers and many national partners and I think this is a a great move in a positive direction so as I have no more time I'll will finish there thank you very much