ICARDA’s R4D in Sub-Saharan Africa and Collaborative Activities in Ethiopia

Consultation Meeting On EIAR-CGIAR Partnerships

4-5 December 2014EIAR Hiruy Hall

ICARDA’s Ethiopia Research Platform and Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Program

SSA Platform and Regional Program is on Mixed Integrated Crop-Livestock Systems (small ruminants, natural resource management, cereals and legumes) and on five Flagships:

Flagship 1. Integrated Crop-Livestock SystemsFlagship 2. Integrated Natural Resource Management Flagship 3. Cereals and Grain Legumes Improvement Flagship 4. Social, Economic and Policy Research Flagship 5: Capacity Development

Cereals and Grain Legumes Improvement

ICARDA-mandates

Bread & durum Wheat

Rusts, foliar diseases, Quality

Seed systems

Legumes (Kabuli chickpea, faba

bean, field pea, lentil & grass pea)

Diseases, Insect pests. YieldSeed system

Market classes

Barley (malt and food)

Yield, quality, insect pests, diseases, Seed systems

Current Engagements• Main Objectives

• to narrow the yield gaps• to sustainably improve yield

through

– Technology scaling up and out• Varieties, crop management and IPM

– Developing elite germplasm in Ethiopia and other ICARDA sites

– Capacity development (Physical & human)• Farmers• Researchers• Seed growers

– Developing robust Seed Systems– Partnerships and linkages

• Joint planning and visit

Bilateral and CRP Projects

Location Target commodities

Season Partners Funding source

Narrowing yield gaps of barley-faba bean in highlands of Amhara region

North Shoa & North Gondar

Barley & faba bean

Belg , Meher & irrigated

ARARI & EIAR

Austria Development Agency

Integrated management of Orobanche on cool-season food legumes in Amhara and Tigray regions

South Gondar, South Tigray and south and north Wollo zones

Faba bean Meher ARARI & TARI

Embrapa, Brazil

Developing rust resistant lentil Debre Zeit and Sinana

Lentil & pea Meher and Belg EIAR OARI, Australia, Spain

GRDC, Australia

Disease resistance breeding Debre Zeit, Holetta, Ambo centers

Chickpea , faba bean and lentil

Meher and Off-season

NARS breeding programs

ICARDA-CRP-Grain Legumes

Cereal and food legume pest surveys

Central highlands and North Gondar

Wheat, barley, food legumes

Meher and Belg NARS ICARDA-CCAFS

Adaptation of food legumes and cereals to pastoral and agro-pastoral systems

Werer, Jinka and Arba Minch

Wheat, chickpea and barley

Irrigated Irrigated lowlands of Ethiopia

ICARDA-DS-ESA

Africa Rising AR sites in four regions

Barley and faba bean

Meher and Belg and double cropping

Wheat-based highlands

ILRI-AR

Current research projects being implemented with NARS & CG Centers partnership

ICARDA Shuttle Breeding : SBW

FRAMEWORKTarget Countries : 12

3 hubs: Ethiopia, Nigeria, Sudan9 partners: Lesotho, Eritrea, Kenya, Mali,

Mauritania,Niger, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Agroecologies: 2Warm areas (lowlands)Cool areas (highlands)

APPROACH & METHODOLOGY:Innovation platforms for technology validation, demonstration and dissemination along the wheat value chain

SARD-SC Wheat

Actual Impacts registered

• Changes in planting dates of lentil and chickpea– Breakthrough to increased productivity over 3t/ha

• High yielding lentil varieties with root rot and rust resistance

• High yielding Kabuli chickpea with resistance to diseases; suitable for early planting– Plays key roles the country to enter in kabuli

market• Arerti• Habru

Actual impacts…• Bread and Durum wheat

- High yielding varieties with resistance to diseases (rust)

• Food and malt barley– ICARDA direct introduction and

parents used in EIAR crossing program

• ICARDA Faba bean provides– Direct release– Sources of disease resistance– Seed size

• Sustainable Seed Systems developed and functional

Productivitywheat ፡ 5.5-6.5 t/ha

Strengthening national seed systemsMajor purpose • Deployment of varieties and associated technologies in AGP and Non-AGP

districts in four major production regions of Ethiopia• Developing a framework for deployment of crop varieties and technologies

• Fast-track testing and release of new crop varieties• Popularization and demonstration of new varieties and technologies• Accelerated seed multiplication

o Pre- and post-release multiplication of early generation during main and off-season working with NARS

o Partnering for large-scale certified seed multiplication with public and private seed sector s

o On-farm seed multiplication with small-scale seed enterprises, farmer seed producer's association and farmer groups

• Strengthening capacity of NARS and stakeholders

• Seed system studies to understand constraints and provide policy advocacy

Bilateral and CRP Projects

Location Target commodities

Partners Funding source

Deployment of rust resistant wheat varieties

Amhara, Oromia, Tigray and SNNPR

Bread and durum wheat

EIAR, RARIs, PSEs, farmers

USAID

Increasing productivity of chickpea in wheat-based cropping system

Amhara, Oromia, Tigray and SNNPR

Kabuli & Desi chickpea

EIAR, RARIs, PSEs, farmers

USAID

Deployment of malt barley and faba bean varieties and technologies

Amhara, Oromia, Tigray and SNNPR

Malt barley & faba bean

EIAR, RARIs, PSEs, farmers

USAID

Seed system studies Amhara, Oromia, Tigray and SNNPR

Wheat, barley, fab bean & chickpea

EIAR, RARIs, PSEs, farmers

USAID, CRP-DC, CRP-DS

Current Seed System projects being implemented with NARS & CG Centers partnership

Located in Upper catchment of

the Blue Nile River Basin and Lake Tana Basin

Gondar Zuria District, North Gondar Zone

Size: ≈56 sq. km

Dwellers 4246 people in 1148

HHs

Rainfall:

THE WATERSHED

Integrated Natural Resource Management

Community-based Breeding Programs for Adapted Sheep Breeds in Ethiopia

2007-2011

Goal and Purpose

Goal: Improved productivity and income of sheep owners by providing access to improved animals that respond to improved feeding and management, targeting specific market opportunities

Purpose: Development of successful community-based small ruminant breeding schemes that suit the communities’ conditions and farmers’ needs

Study areas, breeds and communities

• Four locations in different regional States:– Afar, Bonga, Horro,

Menz– 4 indigenous sheep

breeds – 2 communities per

location each with 60 households

1

2

34

1 = Afar

16

2 = Bonga

3 = Horro

4 = Menz

ICARDA-ILRI Program in Ethiopia:

Sheep and Goat Value Chain Development

in Ethiopia

started in 2012

Objective: to improve the performance of sheep and goat meat value chains in Ethiopia and in doing so to improve livelihoods, incomes and assets, particularly of women, through increased productivity, reduced risk and improved market access along the value chain.

Vision: By 2020, we see men and women enjoying increased levels of production, income and nutritious consumption derived from sustainable sheep and goat value chains

Objective and vision

Selected sites for sheep and goat value chains

Steps from assessment to interventions

1. Consultative site selection process through national and regional consultation meetings and site visits (June-Oct 2012)

2. Rapid Value Chain Analysis (VCA) at seven sites (Nov 2012-May 2013)

3. Three multi-stakeholder meetings for prioritization and planning of site-specific interventions involving about 70 persons (March/April 2013)

4. Testing/Implementation of prioritized best-bet interventions (July 2013-Dec 2016)

5. Workshop to define impact pathway s defined for four major intervention areas identified in the MS meetings (Feb. 2014)

6. Evaluation of interventions (pilot on CBBP in 2014)

Achievements up to date Rapid (qualitative) Value chain analysis (VCA)• Toolkit for rapid VCA for small ruminants (in Ethiopia) • 8 site reports from rapid VCA including challenges and proposed

interventions authored by NARS colleagues• Synthesis report on rapid VCA • Review of Ethiopia small ruminant value chain rapid assessment:

from a gender perspective • Safe Food, Fair Food qualitative integrated assessment of small

ruminant value chains in Ethiopia • Review of SFFF assessments from a gender perspective

Benchmarking (quantitative VCA) • Toolkit for SR VC in Ethiopia developed

• Mobile data collection with ODK tablets

• Data collection to be completed end 2014

Community Based Breeding Programs (CBBP)• Sheep and Goat Breeding Programs at 5 sites• Data Recording and Management System for SR (DREMS) • Evaluation report on sheep breeding programs at two VC sites

Feeds and Forages• 14 village reports on feed resources and technology

assessment for 3 sites (online) • Database on nutritional quality of food-feed cultivars in lentils,

chickpea, field pea and faba bean with Ethiopian national programs (ongoing)

• Database on Dryland Feeds (AFAWA)

Achievements up to date

Implementation of prioritized best-bet interventions

Planned best-bet Research and Development Interventions • Genetic improvement program for sheep and goats at 5 sites

(Menz, Horro, Abergelle, Atsbi, and Doyogana)• Pilot Multi-stakeholder Platform at district level marketing and

market information initiated for Atsbi sheep (ILRI (LIVES)-ICARDA-SNV)

• Optimizing SR Fattening Systems in Ethiopia (review, piloting and assessment tool)

• Improving crop residue quality of grain legumes (jointly with Ethiopian national breeding programs)

• Assessment of safety of milk fermentation techniques (ILRI SFFF) to be linked with improvements in processing

• Studies of meat safety in selected slaughterhouses (ILRI SFFF)

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Planned best-bet Research and Development Interventions • Smart marketing (market information and collective actions) • Forage development and seed delivery in Doyogana • Parasite control and feed intervention in Borana (jointly with

CRSP-Livestock Climate Change Project in Borana) • Diagnostic and epidemiological studies to identify key diseases and

assess their economic importance • Assessment of safety of raw meat (ILRI SFFF)• Farmers’ trainings on improved husbandry measures (jointly SNV,

LMD and LIVES)

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Implementation on prioritized best-bet interventions

Strengthening NARS Capacity and Infrastructure • Infrastructures

o Station Wagon (1), pick-ups (12), sedans (2) and mini-bus (1)o Heavy duty tractors (2) with implements (planters, levelers,

ridgers) and spare partso Mobile seed cleaners for seed producers associations (3)o Seed storage and preparation facilitieso Irrigation (10 ha in HARC)

• Human resourceso 5 PhD and 5 MSc through ADA, etco 2-3 PhD through SARD-SCo Regional and in-country short courses (breeding,

experimental designs, pathology, seed technology, etc for researchers, technicians, seed producers, farmer seed growers, etc)

Collaboration with EIAR and Regional Research

• We implement field activities with the NARS

• We organize many short term trainings

• We work together using facilities in Holetta, Debre Berhan, Bako, Bonga, Areka, Werer

• Assist in strengthening labs • We have supported (with ILRI)

training of 9 PhD (5 ongoing) and 18 MSc (6 ongoing)

Operationalization

• ICARDA’s strategy for Sub-Saharan Africa• Need to work together through CRPs

– Partner with NARS– Partner with other CGIAR centers and ARIs (CRPs and bilateral projects)– Partner with Private Sector, ATA, CBOs , NGOs, etc– Be inclusive in proposal development based on comparative advantages

(no big brother/sister approach)– Joint – Ensure that R4D meets the host country needs and priorities and if

regional should be compliant with their needs

• Capacity building be embedded – Degree training– Non-degree training

• Facilities within the country– NARS – ILRI

Thank you