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Food for Thought!

Voices from the Hubs

June  2012  

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About AAS!

•  We work to improve the lives of people the Green Revolution failed to reach. 

•  We do this by reducing poverty and hunger in rural families who farm, fish and rear livestock in the world’s large rivers, deltas and coastal systems.

•  We think with people, not for people

With communities, changing lives

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AAS – a Dragon!

•  Pioneering •  Intelligence •  Wise •  Passionate

•  Flexible

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Update!

•  2012 roll out in Zambia, B’Desh and SI •  2013 roll out in Cambodia and Philippines •  Living our values – team effort •  Intensive learning while doing •  Great progress

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Activity Sequence!

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Zambia!

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AAS Roll Out in Zambia!

q Key Activities o  Programming and Planning o  Hub Scoping o  Inception of Diagnosis and

Design Process o  Dialogue and

Communication

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Barites Hub Roll Out !

§  Hub office space!

§  Hub staffing!§  Hub Research Manager!§  Community Development

Facilitator!§  Office support staff!§  Hire of M & E officer; and

Communication/Information/Knowledge management officer –

in progress!

§  Procurement of equipment!

PROGRAMMING AND PLANNING!

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AAS Roll Out in Zambia!

q Analysis of AAS programme in national setting

q Hub Development Challenge

q Stakeholder

Consultation Workshop

Hub Scoping -Working in Partnership

BRE

PPS PACO

UNZA

ZFA CO - WP

Media

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AAS Roll Out in Zambia!

Hub Scoping - Observations q Poverty rates of over 83%

–  female-headed households [70% of 205 households]

q Main Livelihood strategy –  mixed livelihood strategy

q Very poor infrastructure [roads] – limited access to services & markets

q Absence of a formal land use planning in place

q Scattered and temporary nature of settlements and production points [Transhumance system]

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AAS Roll Out in Zambia!

Hub Scoping - Observations

Low Economic Productivity q  Floodplain is a dynamic system characterised by high

variability and vulnerability •  short and variable seasons •  Flooding and drought [prompting

transhumance & crop looses] q  Poor and sandy soils in both the floodplain and uplands q  Very weak supply chains for agricultural inputs

and improved technologies –  lack of good, consistent and well-adapted seed [e.g. rice]

q  Declining cattle population and quality –  Animals disease and shortage of pasture

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AAS Roll Out in Zambia!

Par$cipa$on  45  Par$cipants  Farmers  &  Fishers  Private  Sector  Government          Civil  society  [NGOs]  Research  TradiHonal  Authority    Par$cipa$on  by  Gender  27%  female  73%  male  

Stakeholder Consultation Workshop!

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Solomon Islands !!

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The Hub!

Eastern

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Two overarching challenges!

Within AAS in Malaita a number of challenges have been identified and a number of opportunities. Two challenges

that operate over long time periods and will require long term investment to resolve are

1.  High population pressure 2.  Declining marine resources and collapse of

cash earning commodities (e.g. bêche-de-mer)

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Malaita Province AAS Development Challenge!

•  The people of Malaita face major challenges from rising population and diminishing marine resources.

•  The development challenge is to improve their lives through more productive, diversified livelihoods that empower communities to be better able to adapt to change and make more effective use of their resources.

•  The research challenge we will address with the people of Malaita is to develop and test alternative approaches to livelihood diversification and resource stewardship that will accelerate development and restore the productivity of their resources”.

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Partnerships!

Core partnerships well on the road to establishment ADVRC [The World Vegetable Center] KGA [local agricultural NGO] World Vision Core partnerships being built

MFMR, MAL, Bioversity, IWMI

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Learning for the next hub!

STAFFING •  Clarity on necessary roles

PROVINICAL GOVERNMENT •  Strong role to play

•  Opportunity

ARTICULATING THE DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGE

partnership Ÿ excellence Ÿ growth"

Bangladesh

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(Pairing of AAS with existing CGIAR priorities)

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AAS   AAS  

How to integrate other WFC projects?

(Getting everyone to think about the future rather than today is not easy!)

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The Challenges are Many

Social and Economic • Women’s constraints for increased equitable engagement • Income verses nutrition versus biodiversity • Future farmers: who are they and what do they need? • Agriculture systems that are not responsive to impact group • Control by and for elites Physical • Weather (flooding and droughts) • Drainage • Sea levels • Salinity

(The number of challenges really complicates our way forward.)

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Excitement!! The challenges are many but so are the opportunities

Salinity Markets Landscape engineering options

Water-logging Women and children Private sector input / market systems Large number of actors Off-farm labor opportunities A focus on farmer research capacity

(More convinced than ever of AAS being a game-changer.)

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Questions