CIAT in Africa: Research areas and opportunities of...

Eco-Efficient Agriculture for the Poor

CIAT in Africa: Research areas and opportunities of collaborating

research

Jean Claude Rubyogo, Robin Buruchara and Brigitte Mass.

CIAT-Africa

Presentation during CRSP Council meeting

Nashera Hotel, March 5-7th, 2013

Morogoro –Tanzania


CIAT Mission

CIAT mission is to reduce hunger, poverty and improve human health in the tropics through research aimed at increasing the eco-efficiency of agriculture:

1. Boost agricultural productivity to provide the poor with inexpensive and nutritious food

2. Make agriculture more competitive offering the poor new opportunities to increase incomes

3. Achieve agricultural growth that is sustainable and less harmful to environment.


CIAT in Africa: Four strategic objectives

•Strengthen bean research in Africa through the Pan

Africa Bean Research Alliance (PABRA) partnerships

•Expand Tropical Forage Research in East and Central

Africa

• Implement a global Soils Research agenda.

•Expand research on climate change and linking

farmers to markets in SSA


Research Emphasis • Beans

o Improving productivity

o Addressing malnutrition through more nutritious beans

o Linking farmers to markets

o Exploiting private public partnerships (seed production and value addition)

• Soils o Maintaining soil quality and

ecosystem services during sustainable intensification

o Sustaining soil fertility in important farming systems

• Tropical Forages: (Raising the

profile of forages)

o Forage-based dairy and beef

cattle value chains

o Adapted forage grasses and

potential value for supporting

environmental services

o Overcoming constraints of forage

seed production

o Efficient and reliable seed

systems

• Climate change:

o Supporting National Adaptation

and Mitigation Planning for

Agricultural Sectors in Africa

• Linking farmers to markets


CIAT Involvement in CGIAR Research

Programmes (CRPs)


CIAT Research Areas /Programmes CRPs

Agrobiodiversity :

• Beans

Grain Legumes (3.5)

Nutrition and health (4)

• Tropical Forage Agricultural systems for humid tropics (1.2.)

Livestock and fish (3.7)

Soil :

• Landscape Agricultural systems in Dry areas (1.1)

Agricultural systems for humid tropics (1.2.)

Water, Land and ecosystems (5)

• Soil health

• Agri-ecosytems

• Institutions

• Soil information

Decision and policy analysis

(DAPA)

Climate change, Agriculture and Food security (7)

Agricultural systems for humid tropics (1.2.)

Policies, Institutions and market (2)

Climate change

Linking farmers to market

CIAT in CGIAR Research Programmes (CRPs) in AFRICA


Target sub-regional areas

• Forages: (Eastern, Central and Southern Africa) •

• Beans: (Eastern, Central, Southern and Western Africa) •

• Soils (Eastern, Central, Southern and Western Africa) •

• Climate Change: (Eastern, Central, Southern and Western Africa)


CIAT –Africa Approach

• Alignment with continental agricultural agenda e.g. CAADP especially country compacts (CCs)

• Engagement and development of partnership with national and sub-regional organizations (e.g.ASERECA)

• From pilot sites to continental scaling-up through alliances e.g. Pan Africa Bean Research Alliance (PABRA)


DONORS CIDA, SDC, USAID, BMGF, McKnight, ASARECA,

KHT, SADC-FANR , AGRA, KIRKHOUSE

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Linking Research to use : PABRA’ s

Complementary and efficient use of resources

CIAT

Biophysical

Social

NARES:

Management

Scientists

Development

Partners and

Policy makers

Users

Technology development +

priority setting

Identify key research

constraints /opportunities

•Catalyze teams for strategic

and applied work

•Publish /share results to feed

into future work

Technology adaptation and

policy support

•Engage partners for adaptive

research to refine technology

across multiple countries

• Test approaches to upscale

fast, widely + with equity.

•Publish and share results

Catalyze links and partnerships

to reach users.

•Provide tools and methods for

widespread skills and knowledge

enhancement

•Raise awareness

•Test and use technologies


CIAT engagement in the Feed the Future initiative

1. Africa Rising (IITA-ILRI led )

• Increasing the productivity of preferred bean varieties

– e.g. introduction of early maturing and high/mid altitude climbing varieties in Tanzania

• Cereal value chain support (Ethiopia)

• Soil characterization and information (Tz and Ethiopia)

2. Implementing country mission priorities e.g. beans in Mozambique and Uganda

1: 3


Collaboration CIAT-CRSP

Existing : CIAT- CRSP /Dry Grain Pulses (excellent)

• Bean Breeding for abiotic/biotic constraints (joint

projects) in Rwanda, Uganda ,Mozambique

• Outreach strategies particularly effective seed

systems (East Africa region)

Potential

• Basic research in various CIAT research

areas

• Human capacity building in various agricultural

fields


BEAN TYPES & MARKET PREFERENCES OF RELEASED VARIETIES in TANZANIA

Type Variety Name Seed colour Seed size

Bush Lyamungu 85 red mottled Large

Bush Lyamungu 90 red mottled Large

Bush Selian 94 Pink Mottled Medium

Bush JESCA purple speckled Large

Bush Selian 97 red Large

Climber Selian 05, Khaki Small

Climber Selian 06 Purple Medium

Climber Cheupe White Medium

Bush Kabanima Calima Large

Climber Uyole 84 Cream, small

Bush Uyole 94 red striped on cream

background

Large

Bush Uyole 96 Dark Red Large

Bush Uyole 98 Orange medium


Cont; BEAN TYPES & MARKET PREFERENCES OF RELEASED VARIETIES in TZ

Type Variety Name Seed colour Seed size

Bush Uyole 03 cream coloured mottled Large

Bush Uyole 04 cream

Bush BILFA Cream

Bush Kablanketi

Bush Wanja Khaki

Bush Njano Orange medium

Bush Rojo, Red

Bush Ushindi

Bush Pesa

Bush SUA 90

Major issue is mass seed production and supply to millions farmers?


Some marketable bean types

• Breeding for specific market

Red mottled

Local and

regional market

Navy beans:

Export market (EU,

Asia)

Sugar: Regiona

and international

export market

RLarge Kidney:

Local, regional

and export

market


Thanks you all

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