N2Africa - Putting nitrogen fixation to work for smallholder farmers in Africa Promoting legumes for food, feed and seed in Ethiopia: N2Africa’s public-private partnerships Transforming value chains to benefit smallholders ILRI-N2Africa Box 5689 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ● +251 11617 2200/25/33/35 ilri.org ● n2africa.org ● n2africa-Ethiopia.wikispaces.com N2Africa project is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation N2Africa is a large scale, science-based “research-in-development” project, launched in Ethiopia in January 2014. Vision of success: Build sustainable, long-term partnerships to enable smallholder farmers to benefit from symbiotic N 2 -fixation by grain legumes through effective production technologies including inoculants and fertilizers. Target four regions (30 woredas), four legumes The legacy will be a strong national expertise in grain legume production and N 2 -fixation research and development. Introduction Public-private partnerships (PPP) • N2Africa has designed and developed public-private partnerships (PPP) as an approach and mode of project implementation • The four pillars to ensure long-term sustainability: knowledge transfer, legume technology dissemination, efficient input supply chains and access to markets Potential partners in the legume value chain mapped during 2014-2015, and 19 were organized into 7 PPPs. • North cluster: Chickpea seed and grain • South cluster: Common bean seed and grain • Central cluster: Chickpea seed and grain • South-east cluster: Chickpea seed and grain • Chewaka cluster: Soybean seed and grain • Jimma cluster: Soybean utilization and nutrition • Pawe cluster: Soybean as animal feed Pawe cluster PPP model on soybean as animal feed N2Africa-Ethiopia partners Mama Union & AKF with the active involvement of ILRI- N2Africa & EIAR-PARC signed contractual agreement and supplying 3000qt of soybean with reasonable price. Target Legumes Faba bean Chickpea Haricot bean Soybean 1 3 4 2 FTDG: Farmers Technology Dissemination Group K 4 K 5 (FTC) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 41 11 12 42 14 15 … 1 K 1 K 2 K 3 Demonstration Adaptation 30 …Woreda (s) Soil fertility maintenance & reduced input cost 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 Chickpea grain yield with P and/ or I (t/ha) Chickpea grain yield in control plot (t/ha) Effect of Inoculation and P on Grain Yield of Chickpea (Arerti variety) on farmers plots (Damot Gale, SNNPR, Ethiopia) +I +P +P+I Capacity Building Market Access Input Supply Stakeholders’ capacity development on improved legume technologies, agribusiness, gender mainstreaming, legume value addition and nutrition Bulking and pulling marketable surplus, strengthening collective marketing, linking with lead firms & stimulate home consumption as alternative Dissemination Delivery of proven legume technologies, organizing technology promotional and dissemination campaigns Input demand information and delivery (Seed, inoculant, fertilizer, agronomic and business support services) Cross Cutting Issues: Gender Mainstreaming and Enhancing Agriculture-Nutrition Linkage • Strengthen the PPPs. • Strengthen technology dissemination, adaptation and market access to ensure farmers’ benefits. • Improve inoculants quality control along the input supply chain. • Support rhizobiology research and identification of factors for non- responsive soils. • Use legumes to intensify crop-livestock systems. Ways forward M & E D&D Research +I+P -I-P This poster is licensed for use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence. March 2016