1. IFPRI, Washington DC July 19-21 2016
DR GABRIELLE PERSLEY
Science and Technology in Africa Technology Assessments CGIAR and Partners in Africa
IFPRI, Washington DC July

2. Outline of Technology Assessments
CGIAR and Partners Technology Assessments
Outline of Technology Assessments
What is the constraint? What is the discovery and proof of concept? What is the product profile? Market demand - who are the target clients? Is there (ex ante) evidence of impact? What is required for scaling up and delivery - future partnerships and investments

3. Next steps Is the technology product “investor ready” ?
CGIAR Technology Assessments
Next steps
Is the technology product “investor ready” ?
Can a case be made for investment in further development and scaling of new technology for wide adoption?
Who are the likely investors?
Is the technology/product suitable for private investment, public-private partnership or public good investment?

4. Technology Assessment Outline 1. Constraint
CGIAR Technology Assessments
Technology Assessment Outline 1. Constraint
What is the constraint?
What agricultural constraint is the new technology/product addressing?

5. Technology Assessment Guidelines 2. Science
CGIAR Technology Assessments
Technology Assessment Guidelines 2. Science
What is the science?
What is the new discovery?
Has proof of concept been demonstrated?
Which CGIAR centres/CRP programs and national partners are involved in the research?

6. Technology Assessment Guidelines 3. Product profile
CGIAR Technology Assessments
Technology Assessment Guidelines 3. Product profile
What is the product?
What is the product profile?
Does the product meet its target/client specifications?

7. Technology Assessment Guidelines 4. Market Demand
CGIAR Technology Assessments
Technology Assessment Guidelines 4. Market Demand
What is the market?
Who are the target clients?
What is the demand?

8. Technology Assessment Guidelines 5. Potential for Impact
CGIAR Technology Assessments
Technology Assessment Guidelines 5. Potential for Impact
Is there evidence of potential for impact?

9. CGIAR Technology Assessments
5. Is there evidence of likely impact of successful technology/product adoption?
Bio-physical and micro-economic analysis on economic impact on farm income?
Potential size of markets in one or more African countries/agro-ecological regions?
Marketable technology/product suitable for
Private investments - or public/private – or
Is it a suitable public goods investment?
IMPACT analysis on likely food security impact?

10. CGIAR Technology Assessments
Technology Assessment Outline 6. Investment in development, scaling up and delivery
Can a case be made for further investment in technology development , scaling up and delivery?

11. What is required for success?
CGIAR Technology Assessments
What is required for success?
Partners and their roles in the innovation systems?
Partners and their roles required along the value chain?
Potential barriers to success?
What is the necessary enabling policy/regulatory environment?

12. Potential portfolio as examples
CGIAR Technology Assessments
Potential portfolio as examples
2 crop-based technologies/products
One seed based crop; e.g. drought tolerant maize
One vegetative propagated crop (food security crop) e.g. bacterial wilt resistance banana
2 livestock-based technologies products
One livestock breed (e.g. chicken breeds)
One animal health product e.g. African swine fever diagnostics for pig
1 post harvest technology - aflatoxin control in maize

13. African Chicken Genetic Gains
A platform for testing, delivering, and continuously improving tropically-adapted chickens for productivity growth in sub-Saharan Africa

14. Vision
Our Vision
The vision of this program is to catalyze public-private partnerships for increasing smallholder chicken production and productivity growth as a pathway out of poverty in sub-Saharan Africa.

15. What are we doing differently?
ACGG Five Pillars of Change
High-producing genetics that is well-adapted to low-input production systems;
Farmer preferred breeds of chickens;
Public-private partnership for improvement, multiplication, and delivery;
Women at the center to ensure success; and
Innovation platforms for developing solutions across the value chain.

16. ACGG Program Overall Outcomes :
Data driven understanding of the breeds and specific traits that smallholder farmers, especially women, prefer across the various countries;
Farmer preferred lines, that produce at least 200% more than existing local breeds, are made accessible to smallholders through public and private organizations;
Increased realized productivity for smallholders with access to the tested, farmer preferred lines;
Empowered smallholder women engaged as chicken producers;
Long-term chicken genetic gains programs with clear plans for breeding are established in each country with the capacity to drive accelerated genetic gains.

17. BecA-ILRI Hub
Empowering African scientists to solve Africa’s agricultural challenges

18. Mobilizing bioscience for Africa’s development:
BecA-ILRI Hub contribution to downstream / NARS impact
Striga-resistant sorghum varieties release in Sudan
Research scientist Rasha Ali, of the Agricultural Research Corporation (ARC), Wad Medani, Sudan, was supported by an ABCF fellowship to conduct research at the Hub in the development of striga-resistant sorghum. ICRISAT was partner
The new lines have undergone national performance trials in Sudan, and shown to be both resistant to striga and productive. The lines have now been released in Sudan, and are available royalty-free to farmers
Striga-resistant sorghum varieties in Sudan): Striga is a serious parasitic weed, causing considerable losses in sorghum in Africa, including Sudan. Research scientist Rasha Ali, of the Agricultural Research Corporation (ARC), Wad Medani, Sudan, and a PhD student with the University of Khartoum, was supported by an ABCF fellowship to conduct research at the Hub in the development of striga-resistant sorghum. In this study, which also involed ICRISAT as a research partner, a backcross scheme was initiated aiming at introgression of Striga resistance genes from donor parent sorghum variety, N13, into varieties Tabat and Wad Ahmed, which are farmer-preferred, improved (but striga susceptible) sorghum varieties in Sudan. At the BecA Hub, Rasha used marker-assisted selection to identify plants into which the resistance genes had been introgressed. The new lines have undergone national performance trials in Sudan, and shown to be both resistant to striga and productive. The lines have now been released in Sudan, and are available royalty-free to farmers.

19. Mobilizing bioscience for Africa’s development:
BecA-ILRI Hub contribution to creating research Leaders/Accelerators within the NARS
Research on African Swine Fever
Charles Masembe, an ABCF Fellow from Makerere University, Uganda, together with colleagues from ICIPE, ILRI Biosciences, the BecA-ILRI Hub and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, demonstrated that domestic pigs are a potential reservoir for Ndumu virus.
Through the opportunities and platform provided by BecA-LIRI Hub and other collaborators, Masembe has excelled and is now a Wellcome Trust fellow focusing on transmission dynamics of African swine fever. He has contributed to institutional capacity building through research, new knowledge, teaching and mentorship of staff and students.
Prof. Charles Masembe is a veterinarian and molecular geneticist.
Charles Masembe, an ABCF Fellow from Makerere University, Uganda, together with colleagues from ICIPE, ILRI Biotechnology theme, the BecA-ILRI Hub and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), demonstrated that domestic pigs are a potential reservoir for Ndumu virus. Domestic pig serum samples from Uganda were screened for the presence of RNA and DNA viruses using a 454 high-throughput pyrosequencing method, and sequences for the Ndumu virus (NDUV), a member of the Alphavirus genus, were identified. Previous studies had shown that NDUV is transmitted by mosquitoes, but otherwise very little information was available on the virus.
Through the opportunities and platform provided by BecA-LIRI Hub and other collaborators, Masembe has excelled in capacity and research-network building and is now a Wellcome Trust fellow focusing on transmission dynamics of African swine fever. He has contributed to institutional capacity building through research, new knowledge, teaching and mentorship of staff and students.