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CIP WORK SO FAR AND THOUGHTS ON 2013 AND BEYOND CRP Dryland Systems meeting, Kumasi, Ghana Ted Carey March August 1-2, 2013
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Day 1_Session3_TRIPS_WASDS_CIP - This presentation sets out planned CIP research activities in target action sites across the West African Sahel and Dry Savannas target region
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CIP WORK SO FAR AND THOUGHTS ON 2013 AND BEYOND
CRP Dryland Systems meeting,
Kumasi, GhanaTed Carey
March August 1-2, 2013
What does CIP bring to CRP Dryland Systems?
2012 Groundwork
• CIP started to engage with CRP Dryland Systems in W. Africa (March)
• Regional Inception workshop – Ouagadougou (July)– New friends, colleagues, and questions– In Ghana, there was interest in intensification of
pig – crop systems. Sweetpotato fits in well– Sweetpotato and potato are important or have
potential at many of the benchmark
2012 Groundwork
• Sweetpotato survey done at Ghana Benchmark sites by CSIR-SARI scientists John Bidzakin and Kwabena Acheremu– PRA/RRA (2 villages at Wa, 2 at Tolon-Kumbungu and 2 at
Bawku)– Planting material, markets, pests (weevils) seen as
important– Gender disaggregated problem tree
• Multiplication work started at same sites– MOFA and NGO/CBOs partners– Emphasis on Orange fleshed Cultivars
2012 Other work
• Complementary VC study contracted by B&MGF (end of 2012, early 2013)– Ghana, Burkina Faso, Nigeria (Overlap with benchmark sites in
each country). Supposed to do Mali as well, but didn’t come off. – Increasingly important commercial crop (5 to 10 years);
interesting potential for animal feed, particularly by larger producers.
• Dry season multiplication work (enterprise approach) started at benchmark sites sites in Ghana– MOFA and NGO/CBOs partners– Emphasis (perhaps mistakenly, on OFSP)
2012 Groundwork • Contribution of crop modeling to our work? • Capacity to study root system architecture in
relation to management (and possibly genetic improvement) – Purchase of root scanner and software– Visit by colleague from Louisiana State U– Linkage with WASCAL for Ph.D. thesis research
topic
June 2013 visit to Soukouraba, Burkina Faso
June 2013 visit to Soukouraba, Burkina Faso
2013 Workplan/thoughts
• CIP will invest for dryland systems in W. Africa. – Allocating 60K (operational cost) to W. Africa
• Trying to understand how to appropriately engage in the region, across sites. – 2013 work will likely be conducted by and with
partners at Ghana action sites, with additional contributions in Burkina Faso
Thank You
