1. Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation
Mateete Bekunda
Farming Systems Agronomist
East and Southern Africa Project
Seminar Presentation
Selian Agricultural Research Institute, Arusha
03 May 2013

2. Program purpose
Provide pathways out of hunger and poverty for small holder families, particularly for women and children, through sustainably intensified farming systems that sufficiently improve food, nutrition, and income security and conserve or enhance the natural resource base
Identify demand-driven sustainable intensification options that are socially acceptable, economically feasible, and environmentally sound
Combine and adapt these options to address constraints and exploit opportunities
Evaluate their effectiveness at multiple scales
Catalyze ongoing sustainable farm intensification

3. Which locations Guinea – Savannah Ethiopian Highlands
East and Southern Africa

4. Program outcomes Whole farm productivity Natural resource management
Connect to markets & input suppliers
Nutrition and poverty, especially women and children
Economic & environmental resilience

5. Equipment / fertilizer
Value chain context
INPUTS
PROCESSING & MARKETS
Extension
Equipment / fertilizer
Seeds & Breeds
Production
Marketing
Milling / packaging
Post-harvest storage
Maize
Horticulture
Livestock
Value chain focus, coordinating with missions and CAADP plans
Legumes
Strong, formalized linkages

6. The Research Framework

7. Research output 1: Situation Analysis and Programme-wide Synthesis
Research output 1: Situation Analysis and Programme-wide Synthesis. Includes the activities that are necessary to ensure that project activities are able to characterise and stratify target communities effectively so that promising interventions are identified and inappropriate interventions rejected.

8. Research output 2: Integrated Systems Improvement
Research output 2: Integrated Systems Improvement. This output is delivered via a broad approach of participatory technology development and / or identification. This requires projects to allow for the identification of existing sound practices within communities that might be more widely propagated, the adaptation of these and other, exogenous innovations and the more effective combination of innovations from multiple sources.

9. Research output 3: Scaling and Delivery of Integrated Innovation
Research output 3: Scaling and Delivery of Integrated Innovation. The first two outputs will generate integrated technology combinations that are more effectively targeted on farmer’s real development needs. This third output recognises that, even where such technology combinations can be identified, the approaches used for scaling them out may not always be effective and seeks to redress this shortcoming.

10. Research output 4: Integrated M and E Process
Research output 4: Integrated M and E Process. The programme will aim to wrap the three process-oriented outputs in a firm M and E framework.

11. Research design: hypotheses
ADOPTION rates for any innovation (combinations of technologies and management practices and knowledge) are enhanced by targeting on the demand from and capacities of potential adopters
INTEGRATION: Innovations with components that mutually reinforce whole farm performance/productivity produce greater and more sustained benefits than the joint adoption of equally effective single purpose technologies and practices
TRADE-OFF: Effective targeting of innovations also reduces the negative impacts of trade-offs between farm productivity and environmental sustainability and helps to identify potential “win-win” options for SI
SEQUENCING: Adoption of innovations that lead to SI is affected by the sequence in which the component technologies, practices and knowledge are integrated and applied
SCALABILITY: A research approach based on targeting and evaluating SI-related innovations, in context, increases the relevance of findings from action research sites and enhances their scalability to similar strata elsewhere (i.e. to similar development domains and households typologies in other locations)

12. Example: Babati sub-humid maize-based Research Team (2012/13)
Research Implementation:
Multi-discipline Research Teams at each Action Site
Example: Babati sub-humid maize-based Research Team (2012/13)
Lead Scientist
Institution
Research Subject*
Mateete Bekunda
IITA
Principal Investigator
Job Kihara
CIAT
Biophysical constraints to crop/livestock production (seminar subject for today)
Dan Makumbi & Jean C Rubyogo
CIMMYT, CIAT
Improved food and feed crop varieties
Ben Lukuyu
ILRI
Improved fodder species
Stephen Lyimo &
SELIAN, IITA
Efficient application of fertilizers and intercropping
Fen Beed
Mycotoxin contamination along crop value chains
Adebayo Abass
Post harvest technologies and management
*Within each research package are several other disciplinary researchers

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