Northern Region Cunthia Koraul, Siise Aliyu, Abdou Fall, Mary Glower-Amengor, Konlan S. Pigangsoa, Franklin Avoryo, Cosmos Nyar, Zakaria S. Iddrisu, Kazuki Saito, Kenneth Opare-Oboubi, Alexendra N. Wiredu and Fred Kizito West Africa Review & Planning workshop Towards Achieving an Integrated Systems Approach

What available technologies and institutional arrangements do we have that can be integrated to improve productivity and NRM?  Small scale mechanization for; Cropping, Transport, Processing  Soil conservation techniques Zai, Ridging, contours etc.  Integrated soil fertility mgt. Combination of organic and inorganic Crop rotation Rhizobia inoculation Nutrient manager( AfricaRice)  Understanding Intensification approach that enhances crop and livestock systems

 Improved availability of quality biomass Irrigation Fodder/ multi-purpose trees Cover crops Food-feed crops Medicinal plants Bio-conservation (no bush burning) Straw management  Promotion of improved genotypes of cereals and legumes  High quality seeds  Farmer sensitization on production of quality products (Eg. Rice)  Markets  Nutrition Available technologies/socio-economic tools for Integration - Need sensitization of farmers to eat quality products: HH nutritional sensitization - Food preparation could reduce mineral content - Animal source foods are an entry point for improving quality - Training on handling and processing at the processing level is critical: adding value to soybean ; and food preservation - Conducting baseline studies where nutritional content of food taken up is assessed thru lab analyses Interventions: -Introduce fruit trees for each household to improve nutrition -Eating patterns, traditions socio-cultural constructs and settings

What specific activities will leverage the power of integrated research?  Crop livestock intensification Crop-poultry Crop-small ruminants Cereal-legume-multipurpose trees  Develop functional MSPs for value chain promotion Information access E-learning (extension materials)  Water harvesting structures On-farm for livestock and supplementary irrigation Identify specific dev. domain - Approaches that assess systems and identify entry points leading to FtF outcomes. - Conveyance of manure: Introduce means of transport to facilitate manure movement for crop soil livestock integration: trailer mounted on bicycle, donkey transport - Txt msgs to inform farmers when to plough sow get inputs, market info - Construct solar driers to dry poultry manure, pkg them to sale them - Linkage of manure abundant areas to manure scarce areas

Conceptual Integration Framework Soil/ Water Live- stock Crops Int. S & W Mgt CLSI Nutrition /food security Value chain developmentLand and water right systems Natural Resource Base Research ideals  Small scale mechanization. (processing)  Soil and water conservation techniques  Water harvest  Irrigation  Red. erosion  Improved biomass  Improved access to market & inputs Tools/strategies Institutional arrangements Tech-Interventions Process-oriented interventions: Cross-cutting

 Writing team?  Specific individuals? Key project partners  Research team?  Generic functions required? Yes; outcome driven  Specific institutions and individuals?  CG Centres  National Partners  Public partners e.g MoFA  CBOs, NGOs, Private Sector Who should be part of the research team?

 Development partners  Other ‘knowledge’ partners  Specific institutions (and individuals)?  CSIR: ARI, WRI, SARI  KNUST  IPA  Women dev. groups Who could we partner with?

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