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Promising innovative extension approaches for climate-smart agriculture: The Plantwise example
Luca Heeb, Plantwise Programme Support Officer
GACSA Annual Forum 2016, CSA Speakers Corner, 16th June 2016, Rome
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●Complementarity of
• Plant Clinics
• Plant Health Rallies
• Mass Extension Campaigns
●Contribution to
• Food security
• Adaptation
• Mitigation
●Conclusions from
• 4 years of experience
• 34 developing countries
Outline
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Plantwise is a global programme, led by CABI,
to increase food security and improve rural
livelihoods by reducing crop losses
What is Plantwise?
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Video
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Barbados
Bolivia
Brazil
Costa Rica
Grenada
Honduras
Jamaica
Nicaragua
Peru
Trinidad &
Tobago
Africa Burkina Faso
DR Congo
Ethiopia
Ghana
Kenya
Malawi
Mozambique
Rwanda
Sierra Leone
Tanzania
Uganda
Zambia
Asia Afghanistan
Bangladesh
Cambodia
China
India
Myanmar
Nepal
Pakistan
Sri Lanka
Thailand
Vietnam
The Americas
Plantwise Countries in 2016
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●Extension approaches/initiatives share
common goals
• Food security
• Increased livelihoods
• Sustainable use of resource
● Extension approaches have different
impact and reach potential
Complementarity of extension approaches
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●Replicates the human health clinic
concept
●Provides diagnosis and recommendation
on any problem and any crop
●Staffed with 2 plant doctors from
government, private sector, public sector
●Records snapshot of problems on
farmers fields fed back to global
knowledge bank
Plant Clinic
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●Open to everybody and held in public
space
●Run by local extension workers
● Inform about one single topic
●Are complementary to plant clinics
because:
• Uses ‘clinic data’ to identify topics of the
rallies
• Can quickly raise awareness about
major agricultural risk
Plant Health Rallies
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●Deliver targeted messaged to thousands
/ millions of farmers
●Can be run by non-extension players
●Can make best use of modern technology
(ICT)
●Are complementary to plant clinics / rallies
because:
●Messaging is informed by problems
brought to clinics
●Campaigns use extension content
developed for clinics
Mass Extension Campaigns
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●It is know that “climate change is altering
distribution, incidence, and intensity of
plant pest and (livestock) disease”
●Up to 40% of crops are lost to pest
diseases
●As consequence:
• Reduction of productivity and income
(food security)
• Reduction of the efficiency of farming
systems (mitigation)
• Reduction of resilience and increased
vulnerability (adaptation)
Contribution to Climate Smart Agriculture
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●Food security:
●Reached 4.5 million farmers in 34 countries
●On-going 4 year impact assessment (mixed
method randomized control design)
●Demonstrated that:
Contribution to Climate Smart Agriculture (cont’d)
Farmers satisfied
with plant clinics
Farmers satisfied
with advice given
Farmers applied
the advice given
Farmers saw crop
yield increased after
plant clinic visit
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●Mitigation
● Increased system efficiency by reducing
crop losses leads to better use of
available resources
●This contributes to climate change
mitigation by reducing direct emissions
and indirect emission
Contribution to Climate Smart Agriculture (cont’d)
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●Adaptation and resilience
●Created framework for in-country
surveillance through plant clinics
●Empowered countries to respond quickly
to emerging plant health problems
through linkages within extension system
●Decreased dependency of farmers on
inputs through IPM advice
Contribution to Climate Smart Agriculture (cont’d)
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● “Plantwise is highly relevant and has a
positive impact on farmers’ livelihoods”
(Africa External Evaluation 2014, Doorman & Ngo-Samnick)
● “Plantwise is cost-effective and is
gaining the kind of in-country financial
leverage that most development projects
can only dream of”
(Asia External Evaluation 2015, EvidenceOnDemand)
● “Preliminary evidence that Plantwise
training has a large and significant effect
on plant health knowledge”
(Impact Assessment Report Kenya, American Institute for Research)
Conclusion
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● More effort needed to achieve strong in-
country buy-in and support at multiple
levels
● Measuring in-country impact requires a
mix of methods
● Data validation reveals weaknesses in
plant doctor performance; must now
strengthen feedback mechanisms
Lessons learned
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Over 1700 clinics in 34 countries Over 5,000 plant doctors trained
4.5 Million farmers reached Nearly global usage of PWKB
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Thank you
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We wish to acknowledge the support of our donors,
as well as our national and international partners,
who make Plantwise possible
Thank you
Ministry of Agriculture,
People’s Republic of China