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ICARDA’s R4D in Sub-Saharan Africa and Collaborative Activities in Ethiopia
Consultation Meeting On EIAR-CGIAR Partnerships
4-5 December 2014EIAR Hiruy Hall
ICARDA’s Ethiopia Research Platform and Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Program
SSA Platform and Regional Program is on Mixed Integrated Crop-Livestock Systems (small ruminants, natural resource management, cereals and legumes) and on five Flagships:
Flagship 1. Integrated Crop-Livestock SystemsFlagship 2. Integrated Natural Resource Management Flagship 3. Cereals and Grain Legumes Improvement Flagship 4. Social, Economic and Policy Research Flagship 5: Capacity Development
Cereals and Grain Legumes Improvement
ICARDA-mandates
Bread & durum Wheat
Rusts, foliar diseases, Quality
Seed systems
Legumes (Kabuli chickpea, faba
bean, field pea, lentil & grass pea)
Diseases, Insect pests. YieldSeed system
Market classes
Barley (malt and food)
Yield, quality, insect pests, diseases, Seed systems
Current Engagements• Main Objectives
• to narrow the yield gaps• to sustainably improve yield
through
– Technology scaling up and out• Varieties, crop management and IPM
– Developing elite germplasm in Ethiopia and other ICARDA sites
– Capacity development (Physical & human)• Farmers• Researchers• Seed growers
– Developing robust Seed Systems– Partnerships and linkages
• Joint planning and visit
Bilateral and CRP Projects
Location Target commodities
Season Partners Funding source
Narrowing yield gaps of barley-faba bean in highlands of Amhara region
North Shoa & North Gondar
Barley & faba bean
Belg , Meher & irrigated
ARARI & EIAR
Austria Development Agency
Integrated management of Orobanche on cool-season food legumes in Amhara and Tigray regions
South Gondar, South Tigray and south and north Wollo zones
Faba bean Meher ARARI & TARI
Embrapa, Brazil
Developing rust resistant lentil Debre Zeit and Sinana
Lentil & pea Meher and Belg EIAR OARI, Australia, Spain
GRDC, Australia
Disease resistance breeding Debre Zeit, Holetta, Ambo centers
Chickpea , faba bean and lentil
Meher and Off-season
NARS breeding programs
ICARDA-CRP-Grain Legumes
Cereal and food legume pest surveys
Central highlands and North Gondar
Wheat, barley, food legumes
Meher and Belg NARS ICARDA-CCAFS
Adaptation of food legumes and cereals to pastoral and agro-pastoral systems
Werer, Jinka and Arba Minch
Wheat, chickpea and barley
Irrigated Irrigated lowlands of Ethiopia
ICARDA-DS-ESA
Africa Rising AR sites in four regions
Barley and faba bean
Meher and Belg and double cropping
Wheat-based highlands
ILRI-AR
Current research projects being implemented with NARS & CG Centers partnership
ICARDA Shuttle Breeding : SBW
FRAMEWORKTarget Countries : 12
3 hubs: Ethiopia, Nigeria, Sudan9 partners: Lesotho, Eritrea, Kenya, Mali,
Mauritania,Niger, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Agroecologies: 2Warm areas (lowlands)Cool areas (highlands)
APPROACH & METHODOLOGY:Innovation platforms for technology validation, demonstration and dissemination along the wheat value chain
SARD-SC Wheat
Actual Impacts registered
• Changes in planting dates of lentil and chickpea– Breakthrough to increased productivity over 3t/ha
• High yielding lentil varieties with root rot and rust resistance
• High yielding Kabuli chickpea with resistance to diseases; suitable for early planting– Plays key roles the country to enter in kabuli
market• Arerti• Habru
Actual impacts…• Bread and Durum wheat
- High yielding varieties with resistance to diseases (rust)
• Food and malt barley– ICARDA direct introduction and
parents used in EIAR crossing program
• ICARDA Faba bean provides– Direct release– Sources of disease resistance– Seed size
• Sustainable Seed Systems developed and functional
Productivitywheat ፡ 5.5-6.5 t/ha
Strengthening national seed systemsMajor purpose • Deployment of varieties and associated technologies in AGP and Non-AGP
districts in four major production regions of Ethiopia• Developing a framework for deployment of crop varieties and technologies
• Fast-track testing and release of new crop varieties• Popularization and demonstration of new varieties and technologies• Accelerated seed multiplication
o Pre- and post-release multiplication of early generation during main and off-season working with NARS
o Partnering for large-scale certified seed multiplication with public and private seed sector s
o On-farm seed multiplication with small-scale seed enterprises, farmer seed producer's association and farmer groups
• Strengthening capacity of NARS and stakeholders
• Seed system studies to understand constraints and provide policy advocacy
Bilateral and CRP Projects
Location Target commodities
Partners Funding source
Deployment of rust resistant wheat varieties
Amhara, Oromia, Tigray and SNNPR
Bread and durum wheat
EIAR, RARIs, PSEs, farmers
USAID
Increasing productivity of chickpea in wheat-based cropping system
Amhara, Oromia, Tigray and SNNPR
Kabuli & Desi chickpea
EIAR, RARIs, PSEs, farmers
USAID
Deployment of malt barley and faba bean varieties and technologies
Amhara, Oromia, Tigray and SNNPR
Malt barley & faba bean
EIAR, RARIs, PSEs, farmers
USAID
Seed system studies Amhara, Oromia, Tigray and SNNPR
Wheat, barley, fab bean & chickpea
EIAR, RARIs, PSEs, farmers
USAID, CRP-DC, CRP-DS
Current Seed System projects being implemented with NARS & CG Centers partnership
Located in Upper catchment of
the Blue Nile River Basin and Lake Tana Basin
Gondar Zuria District, North Gondar Zone
Size: ≈56 sq. km
Dwellers 4246 people in 1148
HHs
Rainfall:
THE WATERSHED
Integrated Natural Resource Management
Community-based Breeding Programs for Adapted Sheep Breeds in Ethiopia
2007-2011
Goal and Purpose
Goal: Improved productivity and income of sheep owners by providing access to improved animals that respond to improved feeding and management, targeting specific market opportunities
Purpose: Development of successful community-based small ruminant breeding schemes that suit the communities’ conditions and farmers’ needs
Study areas, breeds and communities
• Four locations in different regional States:– Afar, Bonga, Horro,
Menz– 4 indigenous sheep
breeds – 2 communities per
location each with 60 households
1
2
34
1 = Afar
16
2 = Bonga
3 = Horro
4 = Menz
ICARDA-ILRI Program in Ethiopia:
Sheep and Goat Value Chain Development
in Ethiopia
started in 2012
Objective: to improve the performance of sheep and goat meat value chains in Ethiopia and in doing so to improve livelihoods, incomes and assets, particularly of women, through increased productivity, reduced risk and improved market access along the value chain.
Vision: By 2020, we see men and women enjoying increased levels of production, income and nutritious consumption derived from sustainable sheep and goat value chains
Objective and vision
Selected sites for sheep and goat value chains
Steps from assessment to interventions
1. Consultative site selection process through national and regional consultation meetings and site visits (June-Oct 2012)
2. Rapid Value Chain Analysis (VCA) at seven sites (Nov 2012-May 2013)
3. Three multi-stakeholder meetings for prioritization and planning of site-specific interventions involving about 70 persons (March/April 2013)
4. Testing/Implementation of prioritized best-bet interventions (July 2013-Dec 2016)
5. Workshop to define impact pathway s defined for four major intervention areas identified in the MS meetings (Feb. 2014)
6. Evaluation of interventions (pilot on CBBP in 2014)
Achievements up to date Rapid (qualitative) Value chain analysis (VCA)• Toolkit for rapid VCA for small ruminants (in Ethiopia) • 8 site reports from rapid VCA including challenges and proposed
interventions authored by NARS colleagues• Synthesis report on rapid VCA • Review of Ethiopia small ruminant value chain rapid assessment:
from a gender perspective • Safe Food, Fair Food qualitative integrated assessment of small
ruminant value chains in Ethiopia • Review of SFFF assessments from a gender perspective
Benchmarking (quantitative VCA) • Toolkit for SR VC in Ethiopia developed
• Mobile data collection with ODK tablets
• Data collection to be completed end 2014
Community Based Breeding Programs (CBBP)• Sheep and Goat Breeding Programs at 5 sites• Data Recording and Management System for SR (DREMS) • Evaluation report on sheep breeding programs at two VC sites
Feeds and Forages• 14 village reports on feed resources and technology
assessment for 3 sites (online) • Database on nutritional quality of food-feed cultivars in lentils,
chickpea, field pea and faba bean with Ethiopian national programs (ongoing)
• Database on Dryland Feeds (AFAWA)
Achievements up to date
Implementation of prioritized best-bet interventions
Planned best-bet Research and Development Interventions • Genetic improvement program for sheep and goats at 5 sites
(Menz, Horro, Abergelle, Atsbi, and Doyogana)• Pilot Multi-stakeholder Platform at district level marketing and
market information initiated for Atsbi sheep (ILRI (LIVES)-ICARDA-SNV)
• Optimizing SR Fattening Systems in Ethiopia (review, piloting and assessment tool)
• Improving crop residue quality of grain legumes (jointly with Ethiopian national breeding programs)
• Assessment of safety of milk fermentation techniques (ILRI SFFF) to be linked with improvements in processing
• Studies of meat safety in selected slaughterhouses (ILRI SFFF)
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Planned best-bet Research and Development Interventions • Smart marketing (market information and collective actions) • Forage development and seed delivery in Doyogana • Parasite control and feed intervention in Borana (jointly with
CRSP-Livestock Climate Change Project in Borana) • Diagnostic and epidemiological studies to identify key diseases and
assess their economic importance • Assessment of safety of raw meat (ILRI SFFF)• Farmers’ trainings on improved husbandry measures (jointly SNV,
LMD and LIVES)
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Implementation on prioritized best-bet interventions
Strengthening NARS Capacity and Infrastructure • Infrastructures
o Station Wagon (1), pick-ups (12), sedans (2) and mini-bus (1)o Heavy duty tractors (2) with implements (planters, levelers,
ridgers) and spare partso Mobile seed cleaners for seed producers associations (3)o Seed storage and preparation facilitieso Irrigation (10 ha in HARC)
• Human resourceso 5 PhD and 5 MSc through ADA, etco 2-3 PhD through SARD-SCo Regional and in-country short courses (breeding,
experimental designs, pathology, seed technology, etc for researchers, technicians, seed producers, farmer seed growers, etc)
Collaboration with EIAR and Regional Research
• We implement field activities with the NARS
• We organize many short term trainings
• We work together using facilities in Holetta, Debre Berhan, Bako, Bonga, Areka, Werer
• Assist in strengthening labs • We have supported (with ILRI)
training of 9 PhD (5 ongoing) and 18 MSc (6 ongoing)
Operationalization
• ICARDA’s strategy for Sub-Saharan Africa• Need to work together through CRPs
– Partner with NARS– Partner with other CGIAR centers and ARIs (CRPs and bilateral projects)– Partner with Private Sector, ATA, CBOs , NGOs, etc– Be inclusive in proposal development based on comparative advantages
(no big brother/sister approach)– Joint – Ensure that R4D meets the host country needs and priorities and if
regional should be compliant with their needs
• Capacity building be embedded – Degree training– Non-degree training
• Facilities within the country– NARS – ILRI
Thank you