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The presentation covered the overall objectives and activities of the Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Collaborative Research Support Program (SANREM CRSP). SANREM’s global focus on conservation agriculture production systems (CAPS) and their design which employs techniques of climate smart agriculture and resilient agro-ecological systems to achieve sustainable intensification were presented as modes of increasing smallholder food security and income and promoting natural resource conservation. Project locations around the globe and long-term research awards within geographic regions were introduced along with the methodological approach to their implementation. The presenter spoke to the success of replicated experiments at multiple project locations, farm scale demonstrations, and the involvement of farmers within program activities. A table displaying the number of institutional partners involved with SANREM projects across the globe was included. Overall accomplishments of the program were quantified in regards to the number of men and women who have been trained, the households that have benefited from program activities, and so forth.

The presentation covered the overall objectives and activities of the Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Collaborative Research Support Program (SANREM CRSP). SANREM’s global focus on conservation agriculture production systems (CAPS) and their design which employs techniques of climate smart agriculture and resilient agro-ecological systems to achieve sustainable intensification were presented as modes of increasing smallholder food security and income and promoting natural resource conservation. Project locations around the globe and long-term research awards within geographic regions were introduced along with the methodological approach to their implementation. The presenter spoke to the success of replicated experiments at multiple project locations, farm scale demonstrations, and the involvement of farmers within program activities. A table displaying the number of institutional partners involved with SANREM projects across the globe was included. Overall accomplishments of the program were quantified in regards to the number of men and women who have been trained, the households that have benefited from program activities, and so forth.

Increasing an academic health system's research productivity is an institutional challenge that requires multiple complex actions over a sustained period of time. In this Commentary, we describe how 2 academic health systems with different organizational structures used similar models of investment of clinical income in the research enterprise to enhance their success. This strategy assumes enhanced urgency in the current climate of flat National Institutes of Health (NIH) budgets. In 2006, NIH experienced its first budget cut since 1970, resulting in a 13% loss of research purchasing power since 2003, while grant applications have doubled since 1998.1 The level of NIH support remains one of the few objective benchmarks by which an academic health system can evaluate its academic and research success. Unlike reputational rankings, the NIH process is the only nationally competitive, peer-reviewed metric available.