Proposals for Africa RISING Ethiopian Highlands Research Component 3 - Markets, value chains and stakeholder platforms

Proposals for Africa RISING Ethiopian Highlands Research

Component 3 – Markets, value chains and stakeholder platforms

Eliud Birachi (CIAT)Africa RISING Ethiopia project implementation meeting, Addis

Ababa, 13-14 February 2013

Promote innovative approaches for identifying market opportunities and increasing the participation of farmers in more efficient markets while promoting the participation of the private sector

Contribute to building multi-stakeholder partnerships and platforms to implement innovations in the agricultural sector in Ethiopia

Objective

1- Participatory market chain analysis To identify bottlenecks and actors involved in the supply chain, and develop plans and strategies to overcome them

Collecting and analyzing data from primary and secondary sources. Compiling value chain maps to organize the data, analyzing data to

reveal opportunities and constraints within the chains Compiling catalogues of best bet components to resolve the constraints Determining interventions and points of leverage for targeting research

investments to have large-scale impact and designing strategies for sustaining the interventions

Mobilizing and vetting strategies with stakeholders, communication and knowledge sharing systems

2- Characterization of value chain actors and linkages Identify and characterize current and potential actors at each stage

of the value chain including their functions Identify and evaluate what services are available and required to

support the value chain actors Identify and evaluate the nature of linkages between actors in the

market chains and strengthen them

3- Functioning multi-stakeholder platforms

The purpose is to validate and promote the potential of multi-stakeholder platforms as a more coordinated and cohesive approach to improve delivery and impact of agricultural research.

A rapid stakeholder analysis of the key partners and mapping stakeholder actions and interactions

Facilitate establishment of a stakeholder platform steering group to prepare and guide the preparation of the multi stakeholder platform(s)

Capacity building of identified value chain actors on how to operationalize platforms

Design participatory based monitoring and evaluation tools for platform management and implementation activities

Creating systematic impact through functional platforms

Impact Zone 1 Impact Zone 2 Impact Zone 3 Impact Zone 4

National Platform

Farmers in selected regions (through farmer organizations/coops)

Markets/Traders (linked to each zone below)

Supported by: Credit providers

Researchers

Policy (national and regional)

Market information providers

Physical infrastructure services- warehousing

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Scale of platform operation is flexible

Illustrative case: A potato IP in Rwanda Identified and prioritized issues in the Irish potato value chain: the market–technology–

policy interface of low prices, poor yields and post-harvest handling. Interventions: access to planting material of market preferred variety, rapid seed

multiplication, dehaulming before harvest, Value addition (potato washing, sorting, grading, and packaging); linking to credit and niche markets; and exploiting the favorable policy environment.

Facilitation by one of the stakeholders (a private female trader) to buy Irish potatoes from IP members and with input from research,

farmers role: adopted the use of clean seeds, inputs and crop management practices to provide good quality potatoes for the Kigali market.

Results: Delivered tonnage to selected markets increased by over 10 times within 2 years Created 15 jobs in the small production area, Credit access to traders and farmers (to allow them to dehaulm and wait for the potatoes

to cure and hence increase shelf life). Prices: Farmers immediately received a price increase of 30% above the usual levels.

Summary: key outcomes include improved potato quality, increased yields, improved shelf life and increased prices and incomes.

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