 At the end of the year, people say, OK, how much did we produce last year, or we're going to produce in just a minute. So we add 25,000 tons to it. That's how it works. If you want data on rice production, you go to FAO tables, and you can get very, very good numbers accepted and provided by the ministries of the countries, and they'll be for two years ago. How much is that? So we've been working with our partners very closely here in the Philippines, especially to develop tools that allow us to estimate what the production is. And this whole question of managing and developing the information, the Philippine rice information, together with remote sensing programs of our company in Switzerland, the national systems, are allowing us to put together the tools that will enable us to get real information, real-time information about what we expect from the rice crop. And that's coming from data from our space, satellites, which is really what I need. If you think about the work that we're doing here, I talked about working at the molecular level, talked about working at the field level, we're working from outer space, complete continuum, across scales. And we can, using the most modern technologies, map with incredible detail our rice production. And what's really neat about these satellites that are from the European Space Agency is that they can take images in the dark and they can see through clouds. In the past, when you took pictures from satellites of rice during the monsoon season, which is the main season for rice in Southeast Asia, you've got beautiful pictures of clouds, which I don't really tell you very much, except that it's probably raining, which we can tell if we were on the ground. But with today's technology, we can map with incredible precision. We're going to be down to six square meters, telling more about it. We can tell when the rice was planted, we can tell when it's harvested, it gives us a very, very good idea connected with our crop growth bottles as to what the yield would be. This really came home in October when we had Tai Fu Lando went through and sat over in the Philippines and dumped a lot of rain and really got a lot. With the middle of the board meeting here, remember last October? And Secretary Alkohler came, the storm finished like on Tuesday. He came to the board meeting on Thursday and said, I need to tell the President on Saturday what the losses from the Tai Fu Lando were. I said, I don't think so. Three, you didn't want to sleep. But at any rate, because we had this system, we could put together very detailed estimates. And the Secretary said we're going to meet the President. The President would tell him that according to these estimates, and these potatoes, we went down to the field level, what was flooded and what wasn't, what was harvested already would happen. Looks like it's about 1.1 billion tons lost. That kind of information is extremely important for government. Some folks are going to say, losses, 10 million tons, Philippines is going to starve, import everything, pay no matter price, no matter what. Others are going to say, that's all okay. And we see that our role in the flow is incredibly important. Focus on rights, but why is it so important that the information we provide will be clear? And we see ourselves developing information gateways that will allow policy makers to make foreign decisions. We can help guide those decisions, because we know the technologies are coming down. We know how we can change the existing situation. I think that's something that's really important. That's part of what's expected from here. And here is, again, arrogant. We are expected to be leaders in the war. And we are. And I was thinking about this. And what leadership is basically getting people to do the right thing. And they're happy to do it. That's what leadership is. Not telling people what to do. But you get people to understand what the right thing to do and they're excited about it. And it really, really struck home, various leadership, when the governments of India, Bangladesh, and Nepal signed an agreement that each would recognize their rival approval processes so that when material was approved in one country it could be immediately used in all the other two countries. That means that you can have a variety created in India. In the next year it could be grown in Bangladesh, but previously you have a variety created in India. They take it to Bangladesh, take it through six years of testing before it can get out the farms. When bureaucrats had to swallow their pride, and say, we will accept the data of this other country. And that's okay when you think, well, Nepal accepted it. But imagine India saying we accept the data from Nepal, and we'll release. That takes real courage. And I just want to recognize the gentleman second from your right, she's Paraguna, Secretary of Agriculture, tremendously courageous individual. Bureaucrat. Not an agriculture scientist. But he understood what was holding things back, and it was bureaucratic red tape. Anything he could do to cut that red tape he did. And I just have such admiration for people like that. Who can go out, and who can do that, and take the decisions, and do the right thing. And I visited him two weeks ago in Delhi and he becomes friends. And he was, you know, thanking you. I was congratulating him. It was a real love fest. It was fun. But the point is, you need to have individual courage to make change. Even when you're working in an institution that's supposed to drive change. And he really showed that. And I was like, I'm proud to call him my friend. So we're looking at it. Now the word ahead of us, we've got a tremendous surge of technologies coming through. It's just fantastic. We will change the way crisis is grown. We will change the world for a better place. We know that we will have, we already see it happening. People will be living better lives. They'll be better nourished. They'll have other problems. Now we're not going to take people problems the way they just have different problems. We know that they're not going to look back and say, boy, we're just going to battle. The good old days were starting again. We reached out to our problem, and that's not the case. And there's great demand for the work we're doing. And of course the increased risks have had a strong closet just further than the demand for our work. I asked if I could get away with giving a presentation without mentioning the CGI hour. I was told there was no Bob who had to talk about the CGI hour. CGI hour, actually 15 seconds. Thank you. Here was the first time that I had said this before and here he was here before there was a CGI hour. We'll be around after this. But the fact is the CGI hour has gone through the reform process. One of, I think, the great successes of the reform process was the facilitation of the creation of the globalized science partnership. I think it's just fantastic that the writing team, some of the writing teams are here. Bringing together all of the major institutions with global mandates on rice research is a wonderful consequence of the reform process. Like many very good things, but it was a consequence of the reform process and we took great advantage of it. We actually started creating Gris before there was the CGI hour reform process and so I am confident that no matter what happens to the CGI hour, this globalized science partnership will continue. And it's a really, really good thing. We have tanks to work out but all of us who are members do believe it's the right way to go. And it is that offers fantastic opportunity for so many partners around the world. And if you dig deep into it, and you look at the research projects, the partners, how the program is you can see that that richness is just not on paper. It is in fact, the pie chart simply represents the proportion of work that's devoted to different projects in different areas and aspects of the program. And you can see that it's well distributed. You can just go layer on layer and you see that it is in fact a very, very rich program. Rich in a sense of diversity and ideas. So what is the state of the CGI hour? Well, we're involved in a completely organization. Some of us would be forgiven and say, I told you so. I told you so. Exactly what we're talking about. Complete failure almost is the exception of risk. Yeah, with the exception of risk. The consortium is going to be disbanded in 2016. There will be a single governance program set up. I think the jury is still out as to whether or not this is rearranging the debt channels on the sinking ships. We don't know that yet. But there is no doubt in my mind that the area continues to be valued by its donors. That first two will continue. But finally, for the next year or two to the CGI hour, it's just going to be uncertain. So it's got to be a year or two of uncertainty. Maybe three, I don't think so. A year or two of uncertainty. But we will come back and remember 2008, the financial health. Investors I have bored. Investors investors came to the U.S. put their money in U.S. treasury bills for a zero percent interest. It's called a flight to safety. And that's what's going to happen in the area. When a push comes to shove our donors are going to say, we have money, we have to invest in development. Where can we invest it that we know will have a good impact that will be used wisely. It will come to Erie. It will come to Gris. Okay. Wrapping up. Afternoon is still young. I just came across this picture and I was thinking about change and transition. This was a picture taken in 2005. See how much younger I was. This was a meeting of Erie and Simon. We were talking about our land. And I went through and I put a circle around every scientist from Erie. These are senior people leading major program, major aspects of the institute. And I said, well, I'm going to be still here. We're almost all gone. But Erie is still vibrant and still healthy. I think that's an important lesson. You have turnover even in senior positions but the institute remains healthy and strong. It's got a great mission and great vision. Great people all the time. Some of those aren't going to be around. There's a couple here. They've got to be gone in a month or two. But the institution is still healthy. You also notice that the pictures that's white and so forth aren't completely opaque. And that's because we actually still interact with almost all of these people. So there is a chance. And then I started to think this was a pioneering interview with Gene Hell. Got to think about staff turnover and then data for HR. About the turnover time. Average tenure of an IRS and Erie is seven years. Average for an NRS is over 20. And people talk about that. I got to think. This is a really, really good answer. The big circle, the big gear NRS turns over slowly. IRS turns over much more quickly. Postdocs turn over even more quickly. New ideas coming in. Absorbed in the institution. Come around. Take in new ideas. IRS come and go. National staff stay longer. Goes around a couple of times. New IRS comes in. The NRS has courage and says oh, by the way, we tried that and it didn't work for this reason. Not that that would ever happen. But the point is I think this is a brilliant design. You don't see that in many institutions. It's innovative. It's transformational. But it's stable. And I think that's something we need to analyze further. I'm sure Chris, you don't have much to do. But this is the kind of thing that keeps AIRI so vibrant. How do we keep coming with innovation and innovation and innovation? I think that has a lot to do with it. We have talked about the next generation. This is me out in the village in India. Saw this little rice farmer thought I'd give him an AIRI hat. And AIRI or AIRI this is not on the list of things that drive you crazy. In 20 years I'll still have my health and I can go back and see this young fellow as a graduate of University of Larissa Agriculture Technology and being a great sophisticated farm manager in that village. So we are this is AIRI or AIRI I think we are the daughter of a new day, it's a new era. And I am in many ways sorry to believe it. It's been an unbelievable 10 years a little more. Chris put up the dedication from the bottom of my heart. I didn't go as long as I thought. I meant to bring you the box. One of the things I sent you all to all AIRI staff last week early this Monday I think it was, wasn't it Marco? I sent an AIRI a message to all AIRI staff and I asked for questions. I wanted you to send me your questions and I didn't want to call people nobody raises their hands. So I got everybody to send me a question to send me questions. Many of you did. If you didn't get a request for a question, come to Marco and he'll probably have your setting thrown. Anyway, so I thought I would just take some random questions here. And this question is from Helia Castigliano. Satisfaction in the area of what is your greatest regret of the day? The greatest satisfaction is visiting farmers and seeing their lives being changed by what we do. Greatest frustration, disappointment was watching our donors not able to get a handle on the weaknesses of the system and change them and watch billions of billions of dollars or billions of thousands of man out of inflation. So that's my great, the greatest satisfaction and the greatest disappointment. This is why you put these things in here because you get questions that people have raised their hands. This one's from Ricardo and Bo. Is it Dr. Siegler on the Heary website that says that you are an internationally respected plant pathologist. You are a fellow of the American Pathological Society. You received an international award for the International Plant Protection Society. But in none of your presentations you ever say a word about plant pathology. And you very much do you think that plant pathology is the waste of time? Did you use your abilities to clear something so to advance yourself? Have you no shame? Have you no thesis? Do I look very small? That is a serious question. No one has ever asked. I'm curious to ask. I was thinking about that. That really doesn't actually what so many of the people do. Things like plant pathology, soil science, crop protection, a lot of sociology, social sciences. Don't ever get a mention of it. But they're absolutely critical to the success of these. And we have to recognize as an institution especially as an advertisement that even the headline achievements have the contributions of many, many, many people behind it. So Ricardo, thank you for right asking that question. So, another question. I only have two left. I only have time for two since we're just about out of time here. I'm very lucky to get these questions. This one's from Hay. And he says, Bob, what are you going to do when people don't have to laugh at your jokes anymore? I don't think that'll ever happen. No, I'm just kidding. It's on the other side. And he said, what next? What are you going to do next? And what I'm going to do next is I'm going to try to live a normal life. I am trying to try to implant a person to live a normal life in Portland, Oregon. One thing that structurally we have a grand daughter and two some things that are changed. I feel really, really, really badly for for people who have grand daughters. I have the only perfect one in the rest of them in just seconds, but anyway that's what we're going to do. I'll try to keep my hand in. I'll be on call if you're ever want some observations or Matthew is going to be sitting there what would Bob do and he can call me and I'll tell him I don't do the opposite. That's a really good thing. So, Matthew all the life in the world you don't need life, actually it's better to be lucky than good. But anyway, to all of you thank you so very much again for such a wonderful experience I am deeply indebted to all of you for being able to have this opportunity. And thank you for being patient after that. Thank you. Thanks for the great and tremendous encouraging message exciting, very challenging questions and answers. Right now, I will give the chance to our major partner to give some comments about the work. This is the complete improvised. Ladies and gentlemen it's really, first of all it's perfect money for parts that are waiting for Christmas coinciding with this fantastic day. Bob, I'm inviting you not to be very emotional but it doesn't show you must feel present. Bob, you keep on talking, referring, insisting that it's about editorial week when you list all your achievements here of the last 10 years more of the week. Well I think honestly you should have reduced the royal version of the week when you talk about one achievement and that is I think the global rice science part. I wasn't big but worried by the way when you talk about it but in the end it came up. Honestly you have to go back to where we were in 2006 and think about rice science you mentioned it three times in your speech in the end at that time we know about it. After the rice, at the time you were not speaking in terms can you imagine the waste of opportunities and then to one man Bob Ziegler changed that and I think that's because you worked in Latin America you worked in Africa, you worked in Asia and I think it's his vision really that led to a team being sent to what was still a war at the time in 2007 where people started thinking about working together in Africa Sia, Erie and Africa Rice and Bob Kay February 2008 the big director general of Erie came to Africa Rice to go through the little system and the system I remember Dr. Torre to talk about creating global partnership on rice and we noticed also the first version on straws and you said let's go back to Africa all these gestures were extremely important and Bob I think we have grown from strengths to strengths we still have some things that we can compare where people learn from our failures and go from strengths to strengths and honestly on behalf of Africa Rice and I think on behalf of all partners here that are in the writing workshop we promise you to continue working on that big umbrella of global rice and science partnership and I'm sure and I don't find you close parallel writing colleagues really are behind it so I wish you really good luck and I hope you speak you soon again thank you so much because of the time I would not talk about this in your time anymore and also this rooms where we had other events were combined so here as the normal search seminars we also there's a search of kids from a search seminar and before this search of kids was taught by Dr. Degla and this perhaps was signed by some world and as a search seminar community I would like to appreciate all people from the office of DTDTR and communication partnership even all and IT to help us to sit in this room thanks again thanks to all of you for having us here tonight see you next week