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Rising to the challenge of sustainable intensification of agricultural production in Africa
Farming systems design to support action research for development
Charlotte Klapwijk, Carl Timler, Nester Mashingaidze, Jeroen Groot Katrien Descheemaeker, Linus Franke, Pablo Tittonell, Ken Giller
Mateete Bekunda, Asamoah Larbi, Regis ChikowoGatien Falconnier, Mary Ollenburger, Tom van Mourik
Wageningen University, IITA, ICRISAT
Africa RISING East and Southern Africa annual review and planning meeting, Lilongwe, Malawi, 3-5 September 2013
Introduction Entry points for sustainable intensification:• Farm components and practices: crop and animal yield gaps• Farm yield gaps: configurations of components and inputs• Interactions with social-ecological and economic environment:
networks, markets, resources
Integrated farming systems analysis needed:• Context-specific• On-farm testing• Embedded in communities
Farming systems analysisSurvey
Rapid characteriz.
Detailed description
Explorationinnovations
Functional typology
Structural typology
Systems(re)design
Extrapolation
Farm diagnoses
Tradeoff analysis
Farm innovations
Potentialimpact
Malawi• Dedza and Ntcheu
Tanzania• Babati and Kongwa & Kiketo
Ghana• Northern• Upper West and Upper East with N2Africa project
Mali• Bougouni and Koutiala with ICRISAT
Where?
Farm selection – Y frame
Data collection
Preliminary results Tz, Mw
Preliminary resultsProposed improvementmentioned by farmers
Babati (Tz)
Kongwa (Tz)
Dedza (Mw)
Ntcheu (Mw)
New crops, cultivars, processing 0.43 0.60 0.88 0.74
Inputs (fertilizers, seeds) 0.25 0.31 0.38 0.23
Land availability 0.23 0.13
Economic resources 0.07 0.15 0.20 0.26
Advice, education and research 0.23 0.13
Improved farm management 0.22 0.06
Technologies and machines 0.17 0.33
Natural resources (soils, manures) 0.14 0.14 0.03
Subsidies 0.02 0.05
Social initiatives, groups 0.01
Large diversity of farm sizes and endowment Farmers identified large sets of improvements To be explored:• The role of functional and human/social farm characteristics in
grouping and targeting• Role of exploration (solution spaces) and design steps in the
delivery of entry points for farm improvement• Cross-country comparison of farming systems, their constraints and
potential entry points
Discussion
Rapid characterization survey completed (Mw, Tz) or ongoing (Gh, Ma)
Secondary data (crops, animals, etc.) collected Data inserted into Farm DESIGN tool (Mw, Tz) Data overviews made (Mw, Tz) Farms for detailed analysis selected (Mw, Tz) or ongoing
(Gh, Ma)
Presented at Farming Systems Design conference
Progress overview
Detailed data collection (Sep-13) Data analysis and explorations (Oct-Nov-13) Suggestions for entry points available (Dec-13)
And...• Cross country comparison (Sep-Dec-13)• Make plan for phase 2 (Sep-Nov-13)
Next steps
Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation
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