Feed the Future Scaling-up Climate Smart Agroforestry

Technologies in Mali (SmAT-Scaling)

Washington DC – June 20, 2016

Presenter: Dr. Djalal Ademonla Arinloye USAID-Mali SmAT-Scaling Project Director (ICRAF)

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

• Background and linkage with FtF CSA framework

• Key agroforestry technologies

• SmAT-Scaling Objective

• Scaling-up approaches

• Intervention sites & implementation strategies in the North

• Key partners and consortium members

• Key FtF ambitious targets

• Gender inclusiveness

• Discussion points and way forward

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Climate Smart Agriculture main pillars

• Contribution to reducing the prevalence of poverty and under-nutrition

• sustainable productivity and income growth for both adaptation and mitigation

• Uptake of new technologies and practices by smallholders

(FtF-CSA Framework, 2016)

Background and linkage with FtF CSA

Background and linkage with FtF CSA

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Alignment with ICRAF Science Domains

see more on http://www.worldagroforestry.org/research-areas

Areas of integrating CSA in FtF Programs Implementation1) Reducing prevalence of poverty and under-nutrition2) Develop and deploy CSA technologies & innovations3) Strengthen human and institutional capacity4) Build and maintain partnerships for impact5) Support polices and enabling environment

http://www.worldagroforestry.org/research-areas

Improved fruit production

Grafted indigenous fruit species intercropped with cereals and vegetables :

• Karite (Vitellaria paradoxa)• Jujube (Ziziphus mauritiana)• Tamarind (Tamarindus indica)• Baobab (Adansonia digitata)

Key agroforestry technologies

Improved seedconservation

and genebanks

Tamarind Jatropha

Nere Baobab

Key agroforestry technologies

Improved management of parklands

• Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR)

• Enrichment planting

• In-situ grafting

Key agroforestry technologies

Species domestication

Adansonia digitata (baobab)

Parkia biglobosa (nere)

Leafy vegetables – food banksVitellaria paradoxa (Shea)

Tamarindus indica (tamarinier)

Ziziphus mauritiana (jujubes)

Key agroforestry technologies

• The majority of these promising technologies have remained at experimental level or in the best cases village-limited

• SmAT-Scaling initiative for Agroforestry technology Scaling Award under FtF-USAID

Key agroforestry technologies

SmAT-Scaling Objective

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GOAL: Enhance access to and use of tree-based climate-smart technologies through effective and context specific scaling-up of already-developed and proven climate-smart technologies to:

- improve market access - increase food and nutritional security, - build resilience of farming systems

SCALING-UP APPROACHES

1. Bottom-up demand driven and market oriented technology diffusion2. Rural Resource Centers3. Public-Private Partnership 4. Multi-stakeholder innovation platforms 5. Multilevel partnership

Partners Communes VillagesAKF 8 20

WV 8 24

CRS 21 105

ICCO 21 157

MBSA 27 470

NEF 19 30

TOTAL ICRAF 104 (5overlapping) 806

Dealing with security and expansion strategies in the North- Permanent USAID Mali Mission, ICRAF & ICRISAT Security monitoring and Alert- Travels limitation and use of secured water way when necessary- Using locally available facilities and resources (cars and staff from DRA)- Bringing field agents to a more secure location for training activities- Replacement of highly affected villages by the more secured ones- Remote monitoring, mobile money transfer, etc.

Key partners

• 240,000 individuals received training on tree-based technologies and practices for food security as a result of USG assistance

• 224,000 farmers applied improved technologies or management practices as a result of USG assistance

• 48,000 ha of land under climate-smart agricultural practices

• Sales of farm produce increased by 7%

• Prevalence of stunted and wasted children under 5 years old reduced by 5%

• Prevalence of children 6-23 months receiving a minimum acceptable diet increased by 20%

• Household dietary diversity increased by 3%

What we intend to achieve over 5 Years ?

1. Participatory prioritization/selection of agroforestry practices

2. Promoting improved tree seeds/seedlings production and delivery systems

3. Developing diversified market opportunities for tree products

4. Improving food and nutritional security

5. Promoting climate-smart agriculture practices (CSA, SWC, FMNR)

6. Strengthening capacities and business plan development

7. Promoting Public Private Partnerships:

a) Shea value chain 25,000 Women

b) Beeswax value chains 3000 Women + Impact research

c) Jatropha-based value chains 100 Coop. (45% Women)

SmAT-Scaling ongoing activities

Scaling-up approaches

+ 1,500 kg of various seed species used to plant 8.8 millions new trees

1. Bottom-up demand driven

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2- Rural Resource Centers…

Scaling-up approaches

• Skills development in nursery practices, tree propagation, group dynamics and marketing

• Information on new technologies

• Links with market actors (private sector)

• Access to market information

• Forum for exchange of information among farmers, and between farmers and other stakeholders

• Seeds, seedlings and other inputs

• 12 RRCs in (11 completed in 2016)

Office Toilettes

2- Rural Resource Centers…

Scaling-up approaches

Solar Drilling

Demonstration plot

Training hall

-Training hall-Well

-Business plan development

Second:INFRASTRUCTURE

First:VISIONARY & DYNAMIC LEADERSHIP

2- Rural Resource Centers…

Scaling-up approaches

Tree Nursery - Climate information & decision in RRC

Demonstration plots

• 132 Schools being trained (3700 pupils & teachers)

3. Public – Private – Partnership

Scaling-up approaches

Shea PPP (ICCO-OLVEA)Shea commercialization • 60 tons in 2015• 200 tons in 2016• 500 tons in 2017 through farmer’s

organization for (non and) organicBenefit over 25,000 women

Beeswax PPP (ICCO-Olvea)

- 3,400 beehives are distributed to women's cooperatives for the production of beeswax

- Benefit to 3,000 women trained in beeswax production

- Documenting aspects of Shea tree flowering and fruiting phenology

- Effect of bees on the fruit-set (study in 6 villages)

3. Public – Private – Partnership

Scaling-up approaches

3. Public – Private – Partnership

Local private sector partner (ICCO-SOATF)

Scaling-up approaches

Scaling-up approaches

3. Public – Private – Partnership Jatropha PPP (Mali Biocarburant S.A.)

• 8 Million of improved Jatropha on 8,000 Ha• 17,000 MT of improved maize and sorghum • Biodigester installed (Bio gaz) with 100 Coop.

(45% Women)• Add value to the press cake (organic fertilizer)• Soap factory in Sikasso (+ Koulikoro) • Shift from biodiesel to supplying soap

manufacturers (global price for petroleum)• Linking with the private sector more able to find

new opportunities & adapt to new markets

Scaling-up approaches

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• Support and strengthen capacity on national agricultural/forestry and extension service agents (IER, DRA, DRAF) for cascading knowledge

• Effective linkages with Food for Peace on Climate Resilience Program (NEF)

• Scaling up PPP in FtF CVC

5- Multilevel partnership

Scaling-up approaches

Main focus on women and nutritional security: tree-based leafy vegetables (Moringa, Baobab, Tamarind) cooking demonstration & juice processing

At least 30% of beneficiaries been women (~ 100% for Shea & beeswax)

Business plan development women cooperatives and access to credit facilities (100% women)

FtFMS – WEAI for women empowerment assessment

Diversification and marketing opportunity CSA framework

Gender inclusiveness

Further insight from

Discussion points and way forward

• Building on existing consortium network, agreement and MoUs

• Potential areas/opportunities for fitting-in with new/ongoing USAID initiatives (GCC, Resilience, BFS and CSA, Forestry and Biodiversity-FAB) and opportunity for raising additional funds – Alignment concept notes

• Valuing and sustainability on SmAT-Scaling achieving through new PPPs, Climate Change, Payment for Ecosystem services to value millions of trees being planted, etc.

Thanks for your Attention

Email a.arinloye@cgiar.org

mailto:a.arinloye@cgiar.org