 Welcome everyone to this one-day workshop that's spread over two days, the reason it's spread over two days is because we've got presenters beaming in from different parts of the world and we've got to accommodate the various timescales, so we have a one-day workshop spread over to this afternoon and tomorrow morning. There are a lot of talk about scaling in the CGIR, in agriculture research and development more generally. Gone are the days, all that long ago, when as a CG centre we got core funding, we were asked to do good things with the money, it reduced international public goods, hanged them out there and hope that someone passing would pick them up. Usually national programmes, national systems were expected to pick up and then adapt and scale. As an organisation, as a CGIR, we are now being held accountable for ensuring that our research ultimately achieves outcomes and has impact. The CGIR strategy and results framework has some very ambitious targets in terms of millions of hectares to be reached and millions of people to be pulled out of poverty. There's no way we'll ever be able to demonstrate whether we do that, do that, but our investors not only want us to develop new technologies, new interventions, new processes, business models and so on. They do want to invest and get a return on their investment. What they're looking for is our research to ultimately have impact. Of course we are not a development organisation, we are a research organisation. I have to work with development partners to achieve that impact. So we generate new ideas, technologies, processes, we take them into the field, we pilot them in a few villages with maybe a few hundred or a few thousand farmers or households. It always works because we make sure it works. There's very strong incentives built into the system that pilot studies will succeed because we can always tweak things as we go along. We can support different parts of the process and so on, but that's very different from reaching millions, tens of millions or hundreds of millions of households and farmers. So the question is, how can we maximise the probability that our research will have impact and reach large numbers of people at scale? Can we be more systematic and strategic in identifying what is likely to work, how it will work and why and where, and what tools might be available to help us in that process. In the last few years there's been quite a lot of work and research done on the science of scaling, if you like, and we as Ulre need to make sure that we are up to speed and aware of the kind of current thinking and so on. Now, while Eda i ben talking about having a workshop like this for some time, we decided it would be timely to have it this month, particularly as by the end of this month we have to submit the first draft of what we are now called investing in livestock utility to 2025 to the Gates Foundation and other. Ar gael yn trefnod ar gyfer bod yn fyddod yn gweithio y proses, roedd yn yn credu o'r ddonorau sydd wedi bod yn gweithio'r ffordd o'r effeithiau sydd yn roedden nhw. Mae'n ffordd yw'n ffordd yw'r hollu'r holl, â'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r hollu'r hollw'r hollw'r hollw, I will introduce to you in a moment. Later in today, we have Leonard Woltering, who is with Cimet and GIZ. To learn a bit more from other CG centres, what Cimet are doing. And then tomorrow morning we will have Mark Shoots from IITA, who has been leading a lot of the thinking in terms of scaling in the Roots, Tuvers and Bananas CRP. Rwy'n gobeithio bod yw'r oedd yn gweithio'r gweithio ar Lare. Rwy'n gweithio'r gweithio ar Lare o'r ysgol yw i'r uwch yn South Sudan. Rwy'n gweithio ar y Cymru. Lare oedd yn y ddweud yn y ddwynghwyd ddysgu'r ymddiol, wedi'u gweithio'n gweithio'r cyfle, ond byddai'r cyfle o Ganfodd Gyffredinol. Mae'r cymryd yn ddechrau, mae'n ffordd yng Nghymru, ac mae'n ddegwyd yn ddegwyd i'r ddaf yn ysgrifennu'r ddegwyd, a'u ddegwyd yn ddegwyd i'r ddegwyd yn ddegwyd, ac mae Edo'n gofyn i'r ddegwyd yn ddegwyd i'r ddegwyd yn ddegwyd. Ymdangos i gael. Yn ei achosな i gael o gaelio, os rwy'n adroddogon i'r ysafoedd. Oedda ni efallai Llyfrgell Cabinet dda, ac mae'r gaelio i'r gaelio i'r ysafoedd, ar gyfer am yr illyn. Yn ei erbyn am ychydig o hyffordid fflymion gaelio, ond rwy'n cychwyn i gaelio. He was one of the prime mover behind the workshop of the conference, rather it was held at Purdue University in September last year, and co-authored along with Julie Howard, who is a former chief scientist at the Bureau of Food Security in USAID, a social book on scaling, which I'm sure you will refer to in my presentation, Larry. So let me hand over to Larry to introduce the concept of scaling. Some of the thinking that he's been at the forefront of, and some of the resources that he's been developing that can help people like us and organisations like Hillary. So thanks very much for joining us, Larry. Let me hand over to you.