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April 12, 2015Luke A. Colavito, PhD, IDE Nepal, Country Director
Education for Agricultural Commercialization iDE Nepal Experience, Needs, and Observations
Linking Transformative Teachingwith Sustainable Workforce Development
Presentation Overview Agricultural
Commercialization Context and Approach
Climate Change Thoughts on Agriculture
Education Needs Direct Estimate iDE
program Agricultural educational needs
Areas iDE could contribute to education for agriculture
Multiple Use Water System (MUS)designed to provide water fordomestic and agriculture use
Agriculture - Weak Market Context
Nepal agriculture is highly subsistence, only 13% of agricultural produce is marketed
Private sector present mostly in district capitals
Most private companies in agriculture are small, lack technical staff, and function as distributors of imported inputs
Nepal has very good markets for high value commodities but there is a basic market failure constraining private investment: Free rider problem: company A organizes
and trains farmers, but companies B,C,D reap returns
Commercial Pocket Approach
Over the last 10 years iDE with partners especially CEAPRED has developed an approach to commercialize smallholder agriculture
Key features are creating sufficient volume of production in a rural community to establish: A community managed collection / processing
centre for market access (which requires mangers/staff)
Local Service Providers marketing inputs, equipment, and giving embedded training (need training!)
iDE has developed more than 200 commercial pockets serving over 150,000 HHs
Approach mainstreamed by USAID/donors/GON Applies across subsectors!
Collection / Processing Centers (CC)
100 to 1,000 HHs organised in groups of 20 HHs
Farmers elect a Marketing and Planning Committee (MPC) to establish and manage a collection centre. The MPC includes/is advised by input suppliers, traders, GON extension, and other stakeholders
The MPC selects entrepreneur(s) to manage the CC
Over time, many CC become cooperatives Services provided include: marketing,
detailed crop calendars, technical support, inputs, credit, linkage to government services, advocacy…
CCs are a Public Private Partnership approach
Collection Centres!
Sustainable Farmer Organization
Our key entry point is the development of sustainable farmer organisation
Farmer organisation built and maintained not by project resources but by management of an economic opportunity (crop production, essential oil processing, community forestry management, other)
Commercial pockets make possible application of HH-level and community-level
resilient agriculture technologies
USAID Initiative for Climate Change Adaptation (ICCA) project.Drip saves water and increases yields!
250,000 Micro Irrigation Systems Sold
Over 250 Multiple Use Water Systems covering more than 50,000 people
Working with IWMI and GON to Institutionalize the MUS Approach. IWMI study shows MUS benefit/cost is 11 to 1!
IPM Packages using safe bio-agentsUSAID IPM Innovation Lab with NARC/DOA
USAID Administrator Dr. Shah meeting a local service provider trained by IPM Lab marketing IPM bio-agents for Agricare Pvt. Ltd.
Commercial pockets enable climate adaptation
interventions and planning
Climate Change AdaptionCommercial pocket farmer organisation: Facilitates Local Adaption Plans of Action (LAPA) Promotes resilient practices through crop
calendars Provides mechanism for pest/disease
management Allows local assessment of climate change
impacts and enables farmers to seek solutions
Facilitates/provides access to finance and insurance
Reduces transaction costs of information to smallholders Piloting use of collection centres using SMS to
provide actionable information to their members
Important for Climate Change/Adaption in education!
Thoughts on Agriculture Education Needs
Project / Public sector: higher degrees / vocational degrees / certifications (Key areas: agri-business, agriculture engineering, IPM/plant protection, irrigation, micro-irrigation, coop management / social mobilization, finance/insurance)
Private Sector (primarily focused on input/equip supply): Community Business Facilitator (CBF, sales agent) certificate
or 2 year degree (large numbers) Input/equipment supply chain needs technical staff to train
and manage sales agents (BSc/MSc) Key subsectors: Horticulture/spices, essential
oils/NTFPs, livestock, coffee, tea, fisheries, and conservation agriculture (mechanization)
Need business planning/budgeting/marketing skills!
Estimate of iDE Program Education Needs
Over the next 5 years in the USAID Pahal, DFID Anukulan BRACED and other projects iDE will be working with about 400,000 smallholder HHs
Project Staff: 100+ BSc/Advanced Degrees, 400 CTEVT 2 year, SLC/Certificates/training 800 mobilizers
Private Sector: 40 BSc/Advanced, 2,000+ Community Business Facilitators (mix of 2 year / certificates), nursery operators 4,000 (certificates)
Applied Approach at Nat Level: 1,400 BSc+, 15,000 CTEVT 2 year, 60,000 (certificates)
Improved training for degree and non-degree people from USAID Innovate, Universities, and CTEVT would greatly increase impact!
Areas where iDE Could Help Prioritizing practical agricultural educational
needs Assisting for practical curriculum supporting
agricultural commercialization including certificate programs (CBFs, nurseries)
Specific technical areas: micro irrigation/water resource development, IPM, horticulture, business planning / agriculture marketing, coop development, essential oil development
Follow-up: (1) iDE happy to host a field based scoping team with innovate/stakeholders to assess education needs and improve the CBF training and look at CTEVT certification (2) Working with Innovate/stakeholders for a focused workshop on the scoping study findings
Education is key for Agricultural
Commercialization in Nepal!
Photos by Bimala Rai Colavito, iDE Volunteer
THANK
YOU!!!