Contextualizing family agriculture in Nicaragua.
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La Panamericana
Contextualizing family agriculture in Nicaragua
preliminary results on a cross-CRP collaboration
La Panamericana in a nutshell
Cross-CGIAR: centers & CRP Small funding = flexibility & 6 monthsAiming at: - Improving the local capacity to analyze family
agriculture in Nicaragua- Contextualizing the dynamics and diversity of
family agriculture Approach: systems + local partners + data
Planned major activities
1. Learning with partners the adoption and dynamics of family agriculture: cases in Nicaragua
2. Building capacity of local orgs. on monitoring, evaluation & strategies: Information Systems
3. Informing better on diversity of family faming and entry points: sub-humid tropics in NI, SV & HN
4. Contextualizing better the dynamics of maize and livestock production in Central America
1. Dynamics of family agriculture NI
Objective: to learn with local organizations changes in key indicators of targeted populations
2. Capacity building on IS
Objective: to improve the capacity of local organization to design and use IS for M&E
30 people10 organizations
2 days courseReference guide
DecemberTopics:
IndicatorsSamplingData analysis
3. Diversity of farming (sub-humid)
Objective: to better inform on the diversity of family agriculture in the sub-humid region
• Focus: self-sufficiency & income
• 5 sites• 4 local organizations• 800 farmers• Short survey (~40min)• Workshops on data• Leaflets to farmers
3. Diversity: some results
3. Diversity: some results
Farm size groupsNo.
households %
1<= 2.5 mz Very small 41 26%
2<= 5 mz Small 44 28%
3<=10 mz Medium 32 20%
4> 10 Large 40 26%
Based on farm size, four classesof farm can be identified
3. Diversity: some results
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Migrar
Future strategies
Farm size group
Migration & selling family labour would be more common for households with very small and small farms
4. Dynamics maize & livestock CAC
Objective: to better contextualize maize & livestock production
Lessons learnt (pers.)
• Capacity building is strongly needed• Information needs to have a stronger role
among partners• Results & efficiency are key, but also process• Cross-CGIAR & collaboration with partners
needs less bureaucracy
Next steps
• Building a IS to improve & monitor agro-ecology in family agriculture (discussion with SIMAS)
• Linking livelihoods & landscape restoration (planned WLE & Humitropics 2015)
• Improving food & farming systems, nutrition & health in rural Mesoamerica (proposal CIMMYT + ILRI, CIAT & Bioversity)
• Analysis of secondary data + contextualization (in discussion MAIZE)
Major challenges
1. Restoration & livelihoods; big or small famers
2. Increasing deagrarianizationof rural landscapes
3. Working closely with partners & politics