Daniel A. Ofori Asaah, E., Peprah, T., Tsobeng, A., Tchoundjeu, Z., Munjuga, M., Rutatina, F., Anjarwalla, P., Mowo, J.G., Jamnadass, R.

WORLD CONGRESS ON AGROFORESTRY 2014, 10-14 FEBRUARY 2014, DELHI, INDIA

Public-Private partnerships on tree domestication for sustainable agroforestry and business

innovations: Allanblackia species as a case study

Contact: Daniel Ofori: d.ofori@cgiar.orgWorld Agroforestry Centre, United Nations Avenue, Gigiri, Box 30677-00100, Nairobi, Kenya

Allanblackia tree, fruits and seeds

Importance of Allanblackia• Fatty acids consists mostly of oleic and stearic

acids (40-51% and 45-58%, respectively) • Oil used locally for cooking, soap and

ointments • Industrial scale in food products• Fruit for whisky, jam, juice• Wood for timber• The bark extracts for medicine (coughs,

dysentery, diarrhea, toothache, aphrodisiac and pain reliever).

Demand and supply levels

• Oil – EU Certification• Oil demand >100,000 tons/yr• Supply = 210 tons/yr

Country Wild seed collection (tons)

Oil from wild seed collection (tons)

Tanzania 450 150

Ghana 110 40

Nigeria 60 20

Production/ income potential

1 tree 120 fruits

120 fruits 40 kg dry seeds

1kg dry seeds $0.40

1 tree/40kg seeds $16.00

40 kg dry seeds 12 kg oil

100,000 tons 8,333,333 trees

Farmer income $133,333,333.33

The main challenges in production:• Wild harvesting cannot sustain supply to industry• Both the tree and its habitat are under threat• Very limited knowledge on Allanblackia cultivation• Lack of quality planting stocks• Propagation from seed; seed dormancy, dioecious• Long gestation period• Limited investment potential at small holder level

Challenges in research and development

• Lack of funding for research and product development

• Inadequate support from public and private sector in adoption and commercialization of research findings

• Poor information flow from the research institutions to the end-users, thereby affecting negatively adoption of research findings and innovations

• Scientists do not have skills required for business development

Public-private partnerships ( PPPs)

• Established in 2002 • Multi-country PPP, multi institutions • Its main aim is to domesticate Allanblackia

species in Africa through engagement of boundary partners

Main components of AB domestication• Sensitization and encouragement of farmers to

participate in AB domestication• Range-wide germplasm collection, characterization,

selection of superior germplasm, development of propagation methods and gene conservation

• Ecology, abundance and sustainable harvesting• Integration of AB in farming systems and agroforestry

development• Facilitate development of marketing networks and

supply chain

Current members of the partnership • Unilever: Funding, product development & marketing• ICRAF: Domestication - selection, propagation, germplasm

distribution & conservation & agroforestry development• Novel International: Supply chain, marketing,

multiplication and distribution • NARS, Universities, ANR etc.: support R&D• IUCN: sustainable harvesting & biodiversity conservation• Farmers: Smallholder agroforestry systems• FORM: Pilot plantation - Ghana• RSSDA: Pilot plantation - Nigeria• UEBT: Certification of organic and fair trade standards

Marketing Supply chain and market development

Tree-to-tree variation in stearic and oleic acid content - Allanblackia floribunda

Allanblackia floribunda identified ‘‘plus trees’’ for fruit/seed production using the independent culling method on trees surveyed in four wild stands in Cameroon.

Diversity in fruit size – 58 trees selected

AFS 1

AFS 3AK 1

AK 2

ASN 11

ASN 12

ATB 1AWA 2

AY 1

B 1

B 10B 11

B 13

B 17

B 19

B 20

B 21

B 22

B 23

B 24

B 4

B 6B 9

BMK 13BS 1

D 6

DB 12

DB 2

DB 4

DB 9

DM 1DM 2

DM 4

GB 10

GB 11

GB 12

GB 34

K 2

K 5

KW 1

KW 2LAHO 5

LAHO 1

LAHO 2

LAHO 3LAHO 4

MA 1

MA 4

MH 1

MH 2

MH 3

MH 4

MH 5

MN 1

MN 3

MN 4

N 2

NB 1

NB 1

NB 3

NEN 11

NEN 14

NEN 16

NEN 18NEN 19

NEN 20

NEN 21

NEN 22

NEN 23

NEN 24

NEN 25

NEN 26

NEN 27

NEN 28

NEN 29NEN 30

NEN 4

NEN 6

NEN 9

NK 2

NK 6NK 7

NK 9

NZA 1

NZA 11

NZA 12

NZA 2NZA 24

NZA 26

NZA 3

NZA 31

NZA 40

OT 1

OT 3

OT 5

OT 7

SA 1

SA 2

SA 48

TIA 1

TIA 13

TIA 14

TIA 17TIA 2

TIA 3

TIA 4

TIA 6

TIA 7

TIA 9

WA 2

WA 4

WA 6

WAMK 1

WAMK 11

WAMK 14

WAMK 15

WAMK 2

WAMK 3

WAMK 4

WAMK 5

WAMK 6

WAMK 7

WAMK 8

WAMK 9

WH 1

WR 11

Axis 1

Axi

s 2

Participatory tree domestication

Research nursery

RRC

Satellite nurseryField planting

Smallholder farmers

Country Farmers planting AB Seedlings planted

Tanzania >500 >100,000Ghana >200 >34,000Cameroon >100 >3,500Nigeria Farmer registration

in progress 200,000

Benefits of PPP • Brings together stakeholders with different

interests and organisational capacities• Shares resources for increasing cost-efficiency • Avoids duplications • Accelerates technology transfer, foster application

by the private sector & increase private sector investments

• Enhances adoption and impacts of research/ innovation

Achievements

• Provision of quality germplasm• Development of supply chain• Market development• Product development - 2014

Constraints

• Different modes of operation by different organizations

• Financing not stable• Trust and release of information

Lessons learned• PPP improves linkages between research, actors in

the value chain and end-users• Development of programs in close collaboration

with strategic partners/ the private sector is beneficial

• Promotion of a new species needs strong engagement with markets

• Need for government policy support

Thank you for your attention