1. INCLUSIVE VALUE CHAIN COLLABORATION
INCLUSIVE VALUE CHAIN COLLABORATION
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UENR
INCLUSIVE VALUE CHAIN COLLABORATION
Inclusive value chain collaboration 3rd learning platform Tepa, 6 July 2017

2. Learning platform Share and validate research findings
Exchange and co-create knowledge
Enhance joint learning
Share innovative solutions to common problems

3. Learning platform 2016 -Tepa

4. Last year: Brokering for innovation
Role of change makers – live interviews (Miss Georgina, Mr Fosu, Mr Kusi, Mr Victor)
Change maker =
Someone who brings new ideas that impact on the lives of other people
Someone who is “Doing things differently” – processing, buying, saving groups, research
Kakraa shared results of research on policies
Anna shared results of research on innovations through a gender lens
AGL shared their company strategies for knowledge exchange and learning

5. Take home messages TEPA Susu and other saving scheme (VSLA)
Fruitful interaction and networking
LP is a real and unique platform for farmers to interact
Requests for more support from facilitators
Support farmers in farm rehabilitation K2
“Agriculture is a profitable venture, therefore people have to embark on farming and do it well too. This will change the lives of farmers.”
 Need fro groups and associations (1,1,1,1), and need to work together (1)
VSLA and savings (1,1
Cocobod support as example for oil palm (Oilpalm Board) (1,1)
Educative
Quality network 
“I am much happy to see how we plant palm trees”
 I think the organizers should try and meet the communities directly as well. Kudos to the organizers”
Furitful interaction and neworowking (1,1)
Need for continuous learning (1,1) and importance of nwtworkong
Understand changemakers (1,1,1)
Ho to improve yields, income and get better life (1,1 ,1,1
Learnt about diversification and how this can bring profits (1,1)
From innovations
Soap making (1,1)
K19. Stephen Amoah
“I have learn today that we can use our local soap to make … and also wear gloves before”
K20.
“Palm oil stakeholders especially traders and millers should avoid adding dangerous chemicals such as sudor IV to palm oil for sales as the chemical is dangerous for human health. Palm oil farmers and stakeholders should form associations to enjoy more benefits derived from it.”
K21. Peter Adusu, Pramkese:
“The programme has moved on well, and it has helped me to know change maker and also has gave me opportunity to ask question of what I do not understand. Thank you very much and God bless you.”
K22. Margret Appiah
“ I have now understood that working together helps a lot so I am going to give advice [to] my peoples. I have also understood that farming work is not only for men but also women in recent time.”
K23. Daniel Ampofo
“(1) Ghana should help farmers in general as doing to cocoa farmers. (2) That oil palm must also be treated equally as doing to the cocoa and even have same representative in at least every district. (3) That the spraying machines for the cocoa spraying should be abundant.”
K24.
“I have learnt that everybody can be a change maker it does not matter your educational background”
K25.
“In-depth knowledge about oil palm, cocoa trading”
K26. Kwame Amoako:
“This programme has given me understand[ing] to what I do not know, and to understand change makers. Thank you very much. God Bless You.”
K27. John Duku, Kwae
“Farmers should be co-operative so that they can help themselves”
K28. Elijah Hamenu, Kwae
“Change makers not one person, a company can be change making it can be cocoa purchasing companies, cocoa district office.”
K29. Samual Koomsom, Pramkese
“In fact about these programme it has become very effective and upliftment is very high to me also it has become more profitable so far. I appreciate the effort of the organizers. God Bless.”
K30.
Largely unreadable – something about making how ‘copies of this meeting should be supplied to institutions for compilations’.
K31. Edward …
“Farmers should learn from others”
K32.
“Lessons learnt. Through this programme I have learnt a lot. These are: (1) how to operate the palm oil extractor in order to avoid cracking the nut in contaminating the palm oil. (2) processing of local soaps with different colours. (3) Change makers requires networking to enhance information sharing.”

6. Recommendations Bigger room, breezier
Invite more people  increase outreach!
Discuss how to deal with climate change and decreasing yields
Knowledge dissemination within community

7. This year: Changes landscapes: challenges & innovations
Why looking beyond the farm?
Also benefits from the wider landscape (water, snails, pestles)
The landscape is changing (more cash crops, growing settlements, deforestation, galamsey)
Changes for the better & changes for the worse
How does it impact farmers?
How do farmers cope with changes?

8. Today’s programme
Kwabena’s research on landscape change in the Eastern Region  Here too? How? Why? Farmers’ responses?
Selasse’s research on cocoa and climate change
Andrea’s research on innovations-from-below
Live interviews with change makers
Panel discussion with institutional actors
Discussion on how to move forward with the LP
Take home messages and recommendations

9. Programme - Third annual platform meeting: ‘Changing landscapes: challenges and innovations
Time
Agenda
8:30 - 9:00
Registration
9:00 – 10:00
Introductions and Welcome
Getting to know each other and expectation
Looking back at Learning platform 2016
Introduction to the theme: bringing in the landscape perspective
10:00 – 10:45
Landscape Change
10: :15
The shifting cocoa belt
11:15 – 12:45
Farmers’ responses to changes in the landscape
BREAK
1:30 – 3.45
Landscape innovations in practice
Interview change makers
Panel discussion with institutional actors
Discussion: knowledge sharing beyond the project
3:45 - 4:00
Take away messages
Closing remarks & lunch
Programme ’
Thursday 6 July (8:30 to 16 hrs) Assembly Hall, Tepa
8:30 – 9:00 hrs: Registration
9:00 – 9:05 hrs: Words of welcome - Prof. Daniel Obeng Ofori, on behalf of the consortium
9:05 – 9:30 hrs: Getting to know each other – Dr. Mercy Derkyi (UENR)
Part 1. Presentations – Facilitator: Dr. Mercy Derkyi (UENR)
Introduction to the programme and focus of this learning platform - Dr. Mirjam Ros-Tonen (UvA)
Presentation by Kwabena Asubonteng (UvA) regarding landscape change
Sharing and discussing maps on the shifting cocoa belt by Selasse Gidiglo (AgroEco – Louis Bolk Institute (AE-LBI) 
Results of research on community perceptions of landscape change in the Ashanti and Eastern Regions - Andrea Vos (KIT) and Samuel Asiedu (UENR)
Coffee break and snacks
Part 2. Landscape innovations in practice – Facilitators: Dr. Anna Laven (KIT) and Martha Ataa-Asantewaa
(UENR)
Live interviews with change makers
Panel discussion with institutional actors
Discussion: knowledge sharing beyond the project
Closing remarks - Dr. Mirjam Ros-Tonen and Prof. Daniel Obeng Ofori
Lunch
16:00 hrs End of the programme