Sustainable Intensification of Maize Legume cropping systems for food security in Eastern and Southern Africa SIMLESA The Why, How and Where Geographic focus Ethiopia Kenya Malawi Mozambique South Africa Tanzania Mulugetta Mekuria; Prasanna B, Rodriguez D , Shiferaw B, Wall P, Dixon J,Dimes J, Potgieter A
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Sustainable Intensification of Maize Legume cropping
systems for food security in Eastern and Southern Africa
Dual Challenge to SSATo double food production, and significantly increase incomes
and livelihood opportunities, while• Ensuring resilience and sustainability of farming systems on
essentially the same land area, • Adapting to climate change and the increases in costs of
fertilizer, water, and labor.SIMLESA goes right to the heart of this challenge
More productive, resilient and sustainable
smallholder maize-legume practices,
tactics and strategies
SIMLESA aims at increasing farm-household food security and productivity, in the context of climate risk and change, through the development of more resilient, profitable and sustainable
maize-legume farming systems
Mainstreaming Gender, M&E , Spill overs, Scaling out and capacity building
Socio-economic characterization
Input and output
value chain
Whole farm resource allocations
Improved range of maize and legume varieties available for smallholders
30% increase in maize and legume yields and 30% reduction in risk500,000 households over the next 10 years
3 IsINTEGRATION (SYSTEMS)
INNOVATION PLATFORMS
IMPACT ORIENTATION
Program Leader
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Farmer-to-farmer exchanges SIMLESA, 2010
Baseline surveys, and SE studies
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Arumeru Karatu Hanang
Reported Farmers' Sources of Income
other
craft
petty trade
beer brewing
self-employment
remittance
hiring-out labour
livestock sales
vegetable sales
crop sales
Farming systems modelling
Researcher and extension
training
Researcher managed trials
On-farm trialsFarmer-
managed trials
Farmers experimentingCommunity
awareness meetings
Governance and Organization
Project Steering Committee
Project Management: CIMMYT
EIAR Ethiopia
KARI Kenya
MoAMalawi
IIAM Mozambi
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MoATanzania
ASARECA CIMMYT
ICRISAT-TL2
Australian Partners
South African Partners
Objective 1: Major achievements-2010
Household baseline survey• Baseline survey completed in all the five countries and on-going in Malawi
• 29 districts located in two agro-ecological zones and maize-pigeon pea, maize-beans, and maize-groundnuts , maize-soya beans cropping system
• More than 580 villages
• Community survey data collected from these villages
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Kenya
Malawi
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Achievements in Objective 2 (CA)• Ethiopia: Second season 2011/2012 progressing vey Field days ongoing• Kenya and Tanzania Season two crops mid season stage-
Field days being organized• Malawi and Mozambique-First Season results reported
Field Day –Hawassa –Ethiopia16 August 2011
Objective 2: Establishment of on-farm exploratory trials by farmers
Country Farmer groups # of Exploratory trialsEthiopia 9(12) 47 (58 in Year2)
Kenya 8 48
Tanzania 8 48
Malawi 6 36
Mozambique 6 36
Total 37 215
• Innovative relay & intercrop cropping systems tested for Queensland