ICRAF Research Program in Tanzania

Anthony A. Kimaro

Scientist and Country Representative

World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Tanzania

Adjunct Professor of Agroforestry, Department of Soil Science,

University of Saskatchewan, Canada

a.kimaro@cgiar.org

Collaborative Research Programs (CRSP) Council Meeting; 4th March, 2013

Outline

• Research Agenda

• Where we work

– Map of Tanzania

• Overview of ICRAF Projects in Tanzania

– Africa RISING

– Mitigation of Climate Change in Agriculture (MICCA)

– Evergreen Agriculture and Rural Institutions

– Allanblackia

– Gene bank

Research Agenda in Tanzania

• Improved food security and poverty reduction

• Sustainable natural resource management and land rehabilitation

• Agroforestry options for climate change mitigation and adaptation

• Value chain of agroforestry tree products

• Strengthening rural institutions for natural resource conservation

• Field Genebank of Tree/shrub species

ICRAF Tanzania:

Where we work Tanga

Mbeya

Tabora

Dodoma

Manyara DSM

Pemba

Arusha

Africa RISING: Intensification of maize-legume

based systems in the semi-arid Tanzania

• On-farm evaluation of improved legume and cereals varieties for integration in maize-legume based systems – ICRISAT and CIMMYT

• Integrated soil fertility management options for SI – Targeting fertilizer recommendations to agro-ecological and socio-

economic conditions of farmers

– Enhancing nutrient and moisture use efficiency

• Integrated soil and water management to address land degradation and moisture limitation to crop growth – ARI-Hombolo

• Integrated tree-crop-livestock for productivity enhancement – Tree/shrub fodder and/or pasture quality management

– Livestock and poultry feeds improvement

– Trees and shrubs for integration in maize-based farming systems

Cash crop N2O Diversification

Food/cash CH4 Insurance

White = livelihoods Red = mitigation Yellow = adaptation

Firewood C sequestration

Food crop

Pasture C sequestration

Kaptumo, Kenya: multiple GHG sources and sink, and livelihood options

Mitigation of Climate Change in Agriculture

(MICCA) in Tanzania and Kenya

Landscape or system

components

Source (Emissions) Sinks (Removals)

CO2 N2O CH4 Biomass Soil C

Animal + - +++

Pasture/manure

deposited

++ ++

Stored manure ++ +++

Perennials +++ ++ +

Annual crops ++ +

MICCA Project in Tanzania (Kolero ) and Kenya (Kaptumo)

Sources and Sinks of GHGs in

Agricultural Landscapes

Kolero, Tanzania

Develop methodology for GHG

(N2O, CH4, CO2 & NO)

measurements in agricultural

landscape

Agroforestry-based intervention

for addressing agricultural drivers

of deforestation

Evergreen Agriculture, Mbarali, Mbeya

A form of more intensive farming that integrates

trees with annual or perennial crops, maintaining

a green cover on the land throughout the year

Evergreen Agriculture and Rural

Institution

• Testing extension approaches for scaling up Evergreen Agriculture and other agroforestry systems – Rural resource center

– Demonstration (CAWT) and Land care approach

Rural Institution project

• Strengthening rural Institutions for sustainable management of natural resource – Dynamics of farmer groups before and after donor-

funded projects

Evergreen Agriculture project

Value chain of agroforestry tree

products

• Allanblackia value chain

– Domestication of Allanblackia stuhlmannii

– Extraction and marketing of Allanblackia oil

– Development of the Allanblackia strategy

– Partners: Novel Tanzania and MAFSC

• Cocoa value chain

– Development of the cocoa strategy

– Partners: Technoserve, Tanzania and MAFSC

Acknowledgement

• Farmers

• Field staff

• Funders

• Partners