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Africa RISING Program. Africa RISING Research Framework. Outline Context Purpose and objectives Research hypotheses Research outputs and activities. African Challenges – Purpose of Africa RISING. Unemployment Poverty Hunger. Rapid Urbanization. Water Scarcity. Adverse Impact - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Africa RISING Program
Africa RISING Research Framework
• Outline
• Context
• Purpose and objectives
• Research hypotheses
• Research outputs and activities
African Challenges – Purpose of Africa RISING
Land Grab?????
Water Scarcity
UnemploymentPovertyHunger
Adverse Impactof ClimateChange
Rapid Urbanization
Purpose of Africa RISING: Provide pathways of hunger and poverty for small holder families, especially for women and children, through sustainably intensified farming systems that sufficiently improve food, nutrition, and income security and conserve or enhance the natural resource base
Identify and evaluate demand-driven options for sustainable intensification (SI) that contribute to rural poverty alleviation, improved nutrition and equity and ecosystem stability
Evaluate, document and share experiences with approaches for delivering and integrating innovation for sustainable intensification (SI) in a way that will promote their uptake beyond the Africa RISING action research sites
Objectives: Research
Create opportunities for smallholders (within Africa RISING action research sites) to move out of poverty and improve their nutritional status – especially of young children and mothers – while maintaining or improving ecosystem stability
Facilitate partner-led dissemination of integrated innovations for sustainable intensification beyond the Africa RISING action research sites
Objectives: Development
Integrated innovations increase production and/ or improve productivity in a sustainable manner for targeted households at Africa RISING research sites
Aggregated impact of these farming practices at household level contributes to an improved understanding of ecosystem stability at the landscape level
Dissemination of integrated innovations for sustainable intensification leads to impacts beyond the Africa RISING action research sites
Outcomes: Research
Outcomes: Development
Wider adoption of innovations for sustainable intensification identified and tested enhances livelihoods
Development community initiates programs on innovations for sustainable intensification by from Africa RISING
Research design: hypotheses
Integration: Integrating technological components into sustainably intensive systems is more beneficial to small holder farmers than single components
Adoption: Integrating technological components into sustainably intensive systems stimulates adoption
Trade-off: Offering interventions tailored to the context specific conditions lowers environmental damage
Scalability: Agricultural interventions tailored to local context specific conditions are scalable to other settings
Research outputs• Situation analysis and program synthesis
• Integrated Systems Improvement
• Scaling and delivery of integrated innovation
• Monitoring and evaluation
Research output 1: Situation Analysis and Programme-wide Synthesis. Includes the activities that are necessary to ensure that project activities are able to characterise and stratify target communities effectively so that promising interventions are identified and inappropriate interventions rejected.
Research output 2: Integrated Systems Improvement. This output is delivered via a broad approach of participatory technology development and / or identification. This requires projects to allow for the identification of existing sound practices within communities that might be more widely propagated, the adaptation of these and other, exogenous innovations and the more effective combination of innovations from multiple sources.
Research output 3: Scaling and Delivery of Integrated Innovation. The first two outputs will generate integrated technology combinations that are more effectively targeted on farmer’s real development needs. This third output recognises that, even where such technology combinations can be identified, the approaches used for scaling them out may not always be effective and seeks to redress this shortcoming.
Research output 4: Integrated M and E Process. The programme will aim to wrap the three process-oriented outputs in a firm M and E framework.
Research Output 1: Situation analysis• Activities
• Determine development domains (agro-ecological potential, market access, and population density)
• Prioritize target areas (welfare, sustainability, farming systems, degradation, governments’ & USAID priorities)
• Develop farm household typologies
• Identify entry points for pathways
• Inventory of innovations
• Ex-ante potential of innovations
• Priority setting and planning for integrated systems improvement
• Program-wide synthesis and co-learning
Research Output 2: Integrated systems
• Identify research teams within R4D platforms to lead innovation activities related to system improvement
• Ex-ante technology evaluation, trade-off analysis, guide future research
• Participatory evaluation and adaptation of appropriate combinations of technologies and interventions
• New research challenges and opportunities emerging from the activities
Research Output 3: Scaling• Activities
• Assess scalability of integrated innovations (meta-analysis of options)
• Identify/develop scaling approaches for targeted integrated innovations
• Pilot test scaling approaches from action sites within project area
• Develop costed templates for scaling by development investors
• Evaluate aggregate impact at landscape scale
Research Output 4: Monitoring and Evaluation
• FtF Compliance: M&E standards, best practices, and core indicators established for the entire FtF initiative.
• Open-access platform: deliver and maintain an open-access, M&E data management and analysis platform to serve the needs of SI implementation partners and other stakeholders.
• Monitoring & projection: generate ex ante evaluations (e.g. project targets) for a range of farming system and livelihood outcome indicators on an annual basis to provide enhanced research management and outcome mapping needs.
• Multi-scale reporting: provide the capability to support multi-scale monitoring and evaluation
• SSA-wide: cross-system reporting to serve the needs of SI wide roll-up of indicators across the three investment geographies/system “project sites” (Guinea Savanna, Ethiopian Highlands, Eastern and Southern Africa)
Thank you
Africa RISING in Ghana
• Outline
• Partners
• Implemented work – 2012
• 2013 Plans
African Challenges – Purpose of Africa RISING
Land Grab?????
Water Scarcity
UnemploymentPovertyHunger
Adverse Impactof ClimateChange
Rapid Urbanization
Purpose of Africa RISING: Provide pathways of hunger and poverty for small holder families, especially for women and children, through sustainably intensified farming systems that sufficiently improve food, nutrition, and income security and conserve or enhance the natural resource base
• Whole farm productivity
• Natural resource management
• Connect to markets and input suppliers
• Catalyze ongoing sustainable farm intensification
Africa RISING – Program Outcomes
Africa RISING in West Africa : IITA – Led
Ghana: Maize/rice-legumes (IITA) Mali: Sorghum/millet-legume (ICRISAT)
AfricaRice -Rice AVRDC-Vegetables ILRI-Livestock IWMI-Water CIAT-Soil ICRAF-Agroforestry
Research institutes (CSIR), Ministries, Farmers, Input dealers, NGOs, USAID-Mission, Projects, CRPS
Stakeholder meeting, March 2012
Quick-win sites - 2012
Highlights: Analysis of 60 communities
Major crops
Major livestock and poultry
1. Credit- limited access2. Land preparation – inadequate equipment 3. Soil fertility – low4. Seed – quality5. Water - erratic rainfall and drought6. Striga7. Pest and diseases8. Storage – facilities and technologies9. Markets – access (some communities)10. Processing – equipment and technologies
Crop production constraints
1. Veterinary services - poor2. Diseases – high prevalence 3. Parasites – internal and external4. Management – in appropriate housing, feeding5. Water points - inadequate6. Theft7. Breeds – improved…??8. Feeding – dry season (wet season??)9. Markets – access (some communities)10. Processing – equipment and technologies
Livestock production constraints
1. Crop production – on-station and on-farm• Varietal trials• Soil fertility management• Cropping dates/spraying regimes• Striga management• Community-based seed production
2. Livestock – poultry, sheep/goats• Disease and pest management• Feeding management
3. Capacity building• Farmers• Research and extension staff
Community action plans
1. Improving productivity - crop and livestock
2. Natural resource management
3. Improving household nutrition
4. Capacity building
2012 Work Implemented - Components
Seed Area cover
CropVariety/promising line (kg) (ha)
Maize Omankwa 900 40Abontem 1980 88Aburohemaa 2700 120DT SR W COF2 5490 244Sub-total 11070 492
Cowpea IT 89K-288 90 3 IT 99K-2-1 90 3 Padituya 270 10 Apagbaala 270 10 IT 99K-1-1 360 13 Songotra 540 19
Sub-total 1620 58
Soybean TGX 1448-2F 270 7TGX 1904-6F 630 17Sub-total 900 24
Grand total 13590 574
Highlights: Seed multiplication
Highlights: On-farm demonstrations
Early
Extra-early
Medium
0 50 100 150 200 250
Number of on-farm demonstration
Farmers' variety
Abrohema - released
TZE WDT STR C4
0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600
Grain yield (kg/ha)
Highlights: Maize demonstrations
Highlights: Cowpea responses to planting date
Mid-July Early-August Mid-August0
400
800
1200
1600
Farmers' variety Songotra
Grai
n yi
eld
(kg/
ha)
Farmer-based organizations
Ministry of Food and Agriculture
Aggregator
Processor
Tractor Services Provider
Agro Input Dealer
Rural Bank
District Assembly
0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500
MaleFemale
Membership
Acto
rs
1. Baseline data collected2. Seed produced 3. Yield gap analyzed4. Multi-stakeholder platforms
Highlights: Rice-based systems characterized
Pumpkin (Cucurbita sp.)
Roselle (Habiscus sabdarifa)
African nightshade (Solanum sp.)
Jute mallow (Corchorus olitorius)
Okra (Abelmoschus sp.)
African eggplant (Solanum sp.)
Amaranth (Amaranthus sp.)
Tomato (Solanum lycopersicon)
Sweet pepper (Capsicum sp.)
Hot peper (Capsicum sp.)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Seed yield (kg)
Highlights: Vegetable seed production
260 280 300 320 340
Days of the year, 2012 Cropping Season
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0.02
0.03
0.04
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Fertilizer,manure (20kg), Tied RidgingNo fertilizer, manure (40kg), tied-ridgingControlNo fertilizer, manure (40kg), Contour bunds
260 280 300 320 340
Days of the year, 2012 Cropping Season
0.01
0.02
0.03
0.04
0.05
Orb
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Fertilizer,manure (20kg), Tied RidgingNo fertilizer, manure (40kg), tied-ridgingControlNo fertilizer, manure (40kg), Contour bunds
Highlights: Soil moisture responses to management
FM20R NFM40R Control NFM40C
Management regim es
0
0.4
0.8
1.2
1.6
Orb
illi m
aize
wat
er p
rodu
ctiv
ity (k
g m
-3)
FM20R NFM40R Control NFM40C
Management regimes
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
Orb
illi m
aize
GVP
(US
$ m
-3)
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cETonranspiratiCropEvapotYCropyieldoductivityCropWater
Highlights: Maize water productivity
Maize only Maize+ pito mash (20%)
0
1
2
3
4
Feed
cos
t/kg
gai
n (G
HC)
Highlights: Economic rations, guinea fowls
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 70
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
T1T2T4
Weeks of experiment
Perc
ent c
umul
ative
mor
talit
y (%
)
T1: Farmers’ feeding practice (F)T2: F + Improved health care (H)
T4: H + Supplementation
Highlights: Improved sheep/goat husbandry
Milk processing Food types
Highlights: Improving household nutrition – milk processing
Soybean processing Food types
Highlights: Improving household nutrition
Training courses
Integrated crop-livestock production
Experimental design
Cereal and legume processing
Food safety – marketers, processors
Irrigation techniques
Crop production – extension agents
Highlights: Capacity building
Highlights: Farmers’ field days
Thank you
2013 Work plans Ghana
• Outline• Planning process
• Developing a regional project document
• Concept notes development
• Workplans - submissions
1. Crop/Tree
3.Live
stock2. Soil/Water
1. Crop
2. Soil
3. Livestock
4. Crop Soil
5. Crop Livestock
6. Soil Livestock
7. Crop Soil Livestock 4 5
6
7
Africa RISING’s Niche-Integrated Research
•R4D Platforms•Markets•Institutions•Policies
Site selection 2013 - Stratification and characterization
Class Length of Grow period Market access
Low <= 162 >= 200
Med Low 162 – 180 100 - 200
Med high 180 – 190
High >190 <= 100
Stratification variables and cut-offs
Proposed action and control sites
1. Review and planning work-shop - October•Reviewed first-year activities•Propose future work-plan
2. Developing a regional project document – research framework•Maize-legume•Rice-based systems•Vegetables•Water management•Ruminants•Poultry and pigs•Improving household nutrition•Linkages to markets
3. Scaling and delivery of integrated technologies
4. Monitoring and evaluation
5. Partnerships and capacity building
2013 – Planning process
1. IITA – Maize legume2. Africa Rice - rice 3. IWMI – water management4. ILRI – ruminants5. AVRDC - vegetables6. CIAT – land and soil management7. KNUST – Natural resource soil fertility, poultry8. UDS – poultry, household nutrition
2013 Workplans: Partners and Components
1. Situation analysis• Identification of action research sites• Collection of baseline information – most work-plan• Development multi-stakeholder platforms• Construction of farm household typologies• Identification and prioritization of best-bet innovations
2. Integrated systems improvement•Varietal trial•Agronomic studies – maize, rice, sorghum, vegetables•Water soil and management•Feed resources assessment•Livestock feeding/health management•Improving household nutrition•Markets
3. Scaling and delivery of integrated technologies
4. Monitoring and evaluation
5. Partnerships and capacity building
2013 – Work-plans
1. Situation analysis• Identification of action research sites• Collection of baseline information• Construction of farm household typologies• Identification and prioritization of best-bet innovations
2. Integrated systems improvement – two types
•Participatory evaluation of integrated technologies from commodity projects at household and community levels using – Randomized Control Design, quasi-design designs
•Applied /new multi-locational research aimed at measuring interactions between technologies
3. Scaling and delivery of integrated technologies
4. Monitoring and evaluation
5. Partnerships and capacity building
Proposed Approach – 2013 Workplans
2. Integrated systems improvement – two types
•Participatory evaluation of integrated technologies from commodity projects at household and community levels using – Randomized Control Design, quasi-design designs
•1 Drought and striga tolerant maize (DSTMZ) + soybean + rhizobium (R)•2.DSTMZ + soybean + R+ phosphate fertilizer (P)•3.DSTMZ + soybean + R + P + organic fertilizer
•1. Farmer sheep /production practice (F) + housing (H) •2. F + H + supplementation (S)•3. F + H + S + vaccination
3. Scaling and delivery of integrated technologies
4. Monitoring and evaluation
5. Partnerships and capacity building
Proposed Approach – 2013 Workplans
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