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Development and Delivery Activities for Out-scaling R4D Technologies for Greater Impact

During 2016 and Plans for 2017

P4D week; 21 November 2016 Ibadan, Nigeria

Emmanuel Njukwe on behalf of Central Africa Hub Colleagues


The Central Africa Hub


Central Africa Hub

Diverse crops and systems • Farming systems: Slash

and burn, integrated, mono-cropping, mixed-cropping

• Crops: annual, perennial, trees, legumes and vegetables

Diverse challenges•Crop diseases and inappropriate cropping system•Hilly topography and severely degraded soils•Lack of agricultural inputs and tools•Absence and use of inappropriate processing equipment•Poor infrastructure (research, road, market etc)•Limited products and post-harvest options •Weak capacity


Vision and ImpactThe Vision of the Central Africa Hub is ‘Be the leading research partner in finding solutions to hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation and delivering these with partners at scale.

The ultimate impact is to lift over 3.5 million Africans out of poverty and turn 1.0 million of land into sustainable use


Theory of change

Legume Choice

N2AfricaCIALCA

Humidtropics


CIALCA (Consortium for Improving

Agriculture-based Livelihoods in Central Africa)


CIALCA impact

Burundi DRC Rwanda

63

71 73

60 61

52

Change in Poverty Level(%)Poverty rate in the counterfactual groupPoverty rate in the actual adopting group

Burundi DRC Rwanda CIALCA Region0

500,000

1,000,000

1,500,000

2,000,000

2,500,000

3,000,000

3,500,000

4,000,000

4,500,000

5,000,000

People Lifted out of Poverty

18974

Half a million people559,810

425723

115114

-21%-10%-3%


Platform of stakeholdersA platform of stakeholders comprising Research institutions, NGOs, Government, Private sector and Farmers was instituted to :

Joint planning• Synergy among partners• Harmonize strategies

Joint implementation• Organize joint events• Share information and

knowledge• Exchange germplasm

Joint evaluation

Visit of partners to BXW rehabilitated field in Burundi


Control strategies of the Xanthomonas wilt of Banana epidemiology have been identified: from total mat removal (with dire livelihood consequences) to single diseased stem removal

Engagement of development partners for scaling, including CRS, FH, Floresta, amongst others.

Over 15,000 training materials including manuals, factsheets, posters and videos are developed and disseminated to strengthen the capacity of extension workers.

Over 6,000 fields rehabilitated in 3 years; scaling is on-going

Engagement of development partners

Total mat removal

Single diseased stem removal

Sensitization


Sustainable cocoa intensification for increasing cocoa productivity, quality and income

Diffusion of good agricultural practices

Demonstration plots for cocoa regeneration and diversificationFarmer Field

Schools

~6000 farmers trained and 40 demonstration plots established in 2016

Similar targets for 2017

Engagement of development partners


Private sector engagementOver 150,000 plantlets of improved banana varieties from tissue culture established in 125 nurseries for macro-propagation. Farmers now sell a bunch of FHIA 17 between 5 and 10 USD per bunch compared with < 4 USD for local cultivars

Buja Rural Cibitoke Muyinga Overall

71 75 85 77

Use of improved banana varieties in 3 Provinces in

Burundi in 2014 (%)


Farmers organized to access marketGARUKIRIGITOKE Farmers Association in Muyinga, Burundi supply banana bunches to Tanzania for processing into juice, twice in a week

Over five truck loads of banana are shipped to Tanzania weekly from Muyinga with average gross income to farmers of 120 USD per week

The CIBITOKE Banana Cooperative supplies banana beer to Bujumbura three days in a week (200 liter) with average gross income of 200 USD per farmer


Policy engagementThe coffee-banana work is changing policy in Rwanda and a similar request was made from Burundi. In both countries, until recently, it was discouraged to associate other crops with coffee!


Moving forward


Going forward – moving beyond CIALCA

Model 1: Youth/ENABLE

See presentation tomorrow


Model 2: Community-based processing to supply existing markets


Upcoming support through the World Bank in DR Congo and Burundi; TAAT in DR Congo; etc

Eight Community CassavaProcessing Center (CCPC) alreadyoperational in South Kivu, DRCongo for cassava processing

Fresh cassava root is processedinto Hugh Quality Cassava Flour(HQCF) for bakery products

Starch is processed for laundryservices and pharmaceuticalproducts

Transformation of cassava wasteinto feed for livestock

Over 2.5 tons of fresh cassava root

processed per day and per CCPC

On-going and ‘New’


Model 3: Public Private Partnerships (PPP) within specific value chains


Upcoming support through the World Bank in DR Congo and Burundi; TAAT in DR Congo; etc

Bukanga Lonzo park in DR Congo

With over 80,000 ha of arable land, the agro-industrial park will serve as resource and training center for agro-enterprise development.

PPP around a nucleus farm and transformation unit

In such a model, the agro-input supply chains and output chains are guaranteed through a nucleus farm and an out-grower model will be used.


• A total credit of about $ 47,600 accessed by 8 farmer groups to access inputs and improve general legume production

• 1800 women farmers have been trained on soya processing for both business and household consumption

Going forward – moving beyond CIALCAModel 4: Backstopping NGOs and Government-led development programs

Upcoming support through FH an ADRA in DR Congo, N2Africa in DR Congo and Rwanda, IFAD in Burundi and Rwanda, etc

• A total of about 9,000 farmers (36% women) have been reached with various technologies (e.g. inoculants, improved seeds, fertilizers, etc)


Commercialization of plant tissue culture Public-private partnership for the production of tissue

culture plants Focusing on cassava, plantains and cocoa, expansion to

coffee, pineapple, potato, Linked to centers for plant multiplications throughout the

countryBiopesticide and neem extract for insect control and insects for feed Biopesticide production – present interest by Elephant Vert;

targets, cocoa, plantains, vegetables. Production of neem extracts for use in insect control on

multiple crops. Insects for feed: ex. Black soldier flies for breaking down

waste (e.g. oil palm sludge), with residues used as fertilizer and fish and animal feed.

Going forward – moving beyond CIALCAModel 5: Business Incubation Platform (BIP) to stimulate private sector engagement


Final thoughts


Research in Central Africa has generated impact and will continue to do so

We’ve learnt a lot of what works or doesn’t and will integrate these lessons in future initiatives

We have dissemination models that have passed a validation phase and that are ready to move

We have learnt how to embed relevant research into development activities and will continue to do so

We look forward to a continued support from the P4D directorate and hope to have a Central Africa P4D director appointed soonest deputy

Final thoughts


Thank you for your attention

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