Africa RISING Mali team achievements until 2013

Africa RISING Mali Team Achievements until 2013

Tom van Mourik (ICRISAT)Africa RISING West Africa Review and Planning Meeting,

Bamako, Mali, 3-4 February 2014

Africa RISING partners and activities Synergies with other ongoing projects Africa RISING achievements and ongoing activities

in 2013 Exchange visit conclusions and suggestions Conclusions and remarks

Presentation Outline

Focus on (1) Sustainable intensification (2) Farm household scaleInteractions with other scales acknowledged and studied i.e community, landscape, watershed etc.

Stepwise progress towards SI

Farm typologies

Platforms, co-learning

Critical entry points

Conceptual framework

Improving vegetable production and processing (USAID, AVRDC)

FARMSEM seed enterprise project on dryland crops (USAID, ICRISAT)

Agro-ecological intensification project (McKnight Foundation, WUR, IER, ICRISAT, AMEDD)

Dryland Systems and WLE CGIAR research program(ICRISAT, ICRAF, ILRI, IWMI, Bioversity)

CORAF project on crop livestock integration (IER)

Synergies with other initiatives

Four Research Outputs (RO’s):1: Situation Analysis and Program-wide Synthesis (IFPRI, WUR and partners)2: Integrated Systems Improvement (CGIAR, AVRDC, WUR, national partners)3: Scaling and Delivery of Integrated Innovation (idem) 4: Integrated Monitoring and Evaluation (IFPRI with partners)

Activities in 2013 workplan (may 2013, project started in June 2013)1.1 Community mobilization & establishing platforms2.7 Household nutrition 2.8 Sustainable NRM and fodder2.9 Farm and field productivity

Africa RISING outputs and activities

Development domains & villages selected Basic farm HH characteristics collected in 7 villages

RO1 Achievements & activities 2013

Diagnostic / planning meetings all AR villages Platforms established in 4 villages

Yorobougoula (NRM, local conventions)Nampossela (Farm & field productivity, McKnight)Sirakele & Mpessoba (nutrition)Exchange visit West Africa in Mali, 21-24 Nov. 2013)

Community mobilisation & platforms (1)

Fencing and wells constructed in 3 villages and existing sites identified in 2 villages (ICRISAT, ICRAF)

Physical platforms for experimentation Fruit tree establishment trials Off-season irrigated vegetable / seed production

Community mobilisation & platforms (2)

Study on level of interaction and influence of different stakeholders in IP Yorobougoula

Lead farmer generally interacts and informs 5 other farmers outside IP

Analyses for mapping of networking and interaction among stakeholders on-going

Community mobilisation & platforms (3)

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Ones that can make difference

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Level of interest

Level of influence

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Ass. Jeunes

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Coop eleveurs

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Benkadi-ton

Faso-Jguiya

Sabali-tonCP volaille

Association chasseurs

Chikolo-ton

Household nutrition survey completed (AVRDC) Nutrition field schools implemented 2 villages (AVRDC, ICRISAT)

8 training modules developed in French & Bambara and tested with participantsNutrition field schools linked to nutritious vegetable and field crop trials and seed salesTraining video produced on the preparation of enriched porridge

Household nutrition (1)

Household nutrition (2)

Nutrition status Boys Girls 6-23 months

24-59 months

Severe / moderate malnutrition

6% 10% 15% 1%

Risk of malnutrition

17% 21% 37% 11%

Normal 77% 69% 45% 88%

Nutritional status of ~1300 children between 6 months and 5 years assessed

Girls and especially youngest group high rates of poor nutrition status

Survey and analyses of feed resources, FEAST (ILRI, AMEDD), Sources of income

Sustainable NRM & fodder (1)

Agriculture59%

Livestock25%

Remittance6%

Farm Labour

4%

Commerce3%

Arboriculture2%

Agriculture67%

Livestock16%

Remit-tance8%

Farm Labour

1%

Commerce7%

Bougouni Koutiala

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Participatory land use mapping Biomass assessment, cropped /non-cropped land

(ICRISAT, AMEDD, MoBioM, WUR)

RO2 Sustainable NRM & fodder (3)

Farm & field productivity (1)Field crop trials in Bougouni area

Trial type Planned Planted Harvested Analysed

Sorghum / cowpea intercrop

20 18 15 11

Cowpea 31 28 25 21

Soybean 20 20 17 14

Groundnut 12 12 12 Not yet analysed

Sorghum-Cowpea intercrop Sorghum: No

treatment effect (poor germination, brd damage)

Cowpea fodder yields:

inter-row not significantly different from pure crop, in-row significantly lower. Dunanfana significantly higher fodder yield than local.

Cowpea No significant effect

of Neem insecticide Farmers expressed

preference for Wilibali, despite similar yields to local variety

white grain, early maturation much appreciated

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Soybean intensification trials Soybean yields

showed no significant treatment effects.

Farmers interested in soybean

New crop, farmers don’t know what to do with soybean

Request for training on soybean processing/preparation

Control + Compost + Innoculum + Compost+ Innoculum

Farm & field productivity (2)Field crop trials Koutiala area 2013 (total ~200 trials)

Trial type Planned Harvested For analysis

Sorghum mechan-microdos 10 8 8Sorghum intensification 31 28 21Maize intensification 45 45 45

Cowpea intensification 41 38 38

Groundnut/roselle intercrop 12 12 12

Soyabean intensification 39 30 30Sorghum/cowpea intercrop 5 5 5Maize/cowpea intercrop 32 32 32

MaizeT1 : local variety, no fertilizer T2 : local variety, manure 9t/ha +150 kg urea, 100 kg complex 15-15-15T3 : hybrid maize « Bondofa », no fertilizerT4 : hybrid maize « Bondofa », manure 9t/ha, 150 kg urea, 100 kg complex 15-15-15

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Promising results, potential of 100 USD/ha more net profit than the local practice with about 20 USD /ha investment (hybrid seed, fertiliser, disk)

Participatory agro-economical analyses of mechanised microdosing trials with sorghum

Strategic sheep feeding trials initiated with cowpea/groundnut hay and maize bran

3 feed treatments:

600g legume hay/day

900g legume hay/day

600g legume hay & 400 g maize bran /day

Vaccinations and salt lick blocks standard treatment for all

Distribution & viewings of videos related to sustainable intensification options performed in all AR villages

(~100 DVDs distributed, > 10,000 farmers exposed)

Preliminary study performed on what information is retained and what farmers do with the information (unsupervised experimentation and innovation)

RO3 Scaling approaches

Capacity building (1)Training title Men Women total

Nutrition field schools (8 modules, AVRDC, ICRISAT) 14 646 660

Vegetable processing, conservation and storage (AVRDC)

23 36 59

Mechanised microdosing technique & trial establishment (ICRISAT)

7 1 8

Use of media for large scale farmer training (ICRISAT) 4 2 6

Grafting and planting practices for improved fruit trees (ICRAF)

144

Establishment of rural resource center (ICRAF) 25

Introduction to monitoring and evaluation (IFPRI, ICRISAT)

15 3 18

Integration, integration & integration!! Organisations, technologies, system components,

Harmonizing data collection, sharing and reporting

Describe where activities fit into the farming system and describe links to other activities

Flexibility partnerships and consultations where necessary

Exchange visit conclusions and suggestions from participants

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Thank you / merci!