Building Sustainable Rice Data and Information System in Africa

1. Building Sustainable Rice Data and Information System in Africa Aliou Diagne Program Leader & Impact Assessment Economist Policy and Impact Assessment Program Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) CARD 2nd Group Countries NRDS Development Workshop Cotonou, Benin 5 - 9 July, 2010

2. Outline Background Project objectives Institutional arrangements and implementation Countries’ survey designs and data Progress to date Preliminary Results Perspectives

3. Background 1. December 2007 Consultative Workshop on “Fostering the Exchange of Statistical Data and Information on the Rice Economies of AfricaRice Member States» 2. Follow up on the December 2007 Workshop recommendations: • Establishment of National consultative framework for rice data harmonization in pilot countries (Burkina Faso, Cote d’ Ivoire, Niger, Nigeria, and Senegal), • Joint publications of rice data and information. 3. Implementation of a Regional Strategy for rice data and information: Emergency Rice Data System.

4. Emergency Rice Data System for Sub Saharan Africa The project works with NARES partners in the 21 CARD candidate countries: - Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, DR Congo, Guinea, Madagascar, Mali, Rwanda, Senegal, Togo, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Uganda The project addresses the need for better quality rice data in all of the 21 CARD candidate countries to support the implementation and monitoring of national rice development strategies,

5. Emergency Rice Data System for Sub Saharan Africa Project Objectives: Strengthen the capacity of national agricultural statisticians and NARS scientists on best practices on agricultural survey design, sampling methodology for rice data collection and statistical analysis and publication, 2. Harmonize rice data collection methodologies, 3. Collect, process, analyze and publish updated Nationally representative rice statistical data in 21 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, 4. Publish policy briefs based on these data.

6. Organization and Implementation of Project Activities • Implemented the same way in all the 21 countries, • Executed jointly by the NARS and the NASS, • Designed to build a close and durable collaboration between the NARS and the NASS in each country to ensure the regularity of data collection, • Responsibilities of each of the two national partners have been clearly delineated and assigned with the corresponding budgets to manage.

7. Organization and Implementation of Project Activities • Overall In-country project coordination by the National Agricultural Research Institute (NARS). • Design of the survey, data collection and processing by the National Agricultural Statistical Service (NASS). • Questionnaire adaptation and training of enumerators are the joint responsibility of both partners (NARS rice researchers and NASS statisticians). • Data analysis and publication are also a joint responsibility of both national partners.

8. Organization and Implementation of Project Activities • Overall project coordination by AfricaRice: Two regional coordinators hired. • Preparation of harmonized draft data collection tools, tabulation plans and reports outline (English and French) • Technical support and backstopping to country teams by AfricaRice • Cross-country data analysis and synthesis by AfricaRice • Organization of regional launching and Methodological workshops.

9. The Launching Workshops: Outcomes In total, 45 participants attended these two launching workshops including an expert statistician from AfDB and a M&E consultant of CARD -- Only Mozambique was not represented, In general, each country was represented by a NARS agricultural economist and a statistician from the NASS Existing country data collection systems and sampling and the draft of proposed harmonized rice data collection tools were reviewed Countries Actions plans and Budgets were developed and administrative and organizational issues related to the country survey implementations

10. AfricaRice-AfDB joint Training Workshop on the Methodology of crop-specific Surveys Outputs Countries presented their data collection methodology and shared with participants their experiences Two experts statisticians consultants reviewed and commented on the various methodologies used by countries survey design options for collecting nationally representative detailed crop-specific data were reviewed A technical report (in French and English) was written by the consultants to serve as a guide for future crop-specific surveys.

11. Survey design and data collected

12. Survey design and data collected • Sampling Method and Sample Size

13. Survey design and data collected • Sampling Method and Sample Size

14. Type of Information Collected • NARS scientists’ (country/province level): • Main rice growing ecologies (areas and constraints) • Main biophysical and socio-economic constraints in rice production in the country • Information on improved rice varieties in the country • Village level • Main rice growing ecologies (areas, varieties, and yield) • Main biotic and abiotic stresses (+frequency, area affected and yield losses) • Socioeconomics constraints (access to key input, post harvest, product market etc.) • Inventory and characteristics of all varieties in the village • Village infrastructures and wages for different agric. tasks

15. …Type of Information Collected • Farmer/household level: • Knowledge and experience of main biotic and abiotic stresses (+frequency, area affected and yield losses) • Socioeconomics constraints (access to key input, post harvest, product market etc.) • Knowledge and cultivation of village varieties • Seed access and management by variety (availability, source and transaction) • Rice area cultivated, production and sale by variety • Land allocation and input used for all crops • Assets (non-productive, agricultural, livestock, etc..) • Food and non-food expenditures • Access to communication (Radio, TV and mobile)

16. Project implementation: Progress to date

17. Project Implementation: Progress to date In-country project coordination units established with two focal points by country (1 NARS & 1 NASS) by July 2009 Signing of MoUs between AfricaRice and all NARES completed in August 2009 Transfer of funds completed for all participating countries in September 2009. 2 Stata 11 single-user licenses for data analysis purchased and shipped to each country in August 2009 Data collection completed in almost all countries by February 2010 Almost all country draft final reports sent to Africa by April 30, 2010

18. Project Implementation: Progress to date • Status of country reports and databases

19. Project Implementation: Progress to date • Status of country reports and databases

20. Technical assistance provided by AfricaRice Development of Standardized questionnaires and Review of countries’ adapted questionnaires Development of the enumerator guide, reporting format along with a tabulation plan (in French and English) Development of countries’ data entry templates (for countries using Access) Provision of Stata program codes to produce the tables and conduct some of the statistical analyses Field monitoring missions to the various countries

21. Preliminary Survey Results

22. Distribution of Rice Farming Households’ Heads by Gender and Age 18 countries: Benin, Burkina-Faso, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, DRC, RCA, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo

23. Distribution of heads of rice farming households by marital status 16 countries: Benin, Burkina-Faso, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, Nigeria, DRC, RCA, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo

24. Proportion of farmers by field size 11 countries: Benin, Burkina-Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Madagascar, DRC, RCA, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo

25. Rice Yield by Ecology: All varieties From village level 9 countries: Benin, Burkina-Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Madagascar, RCA, DRC, Rwanda, Togo

26. Rice Yield by Ecology: All varieties

27. Average Rice Yield in All Ecologies From village level 9 countries: Benin, Burkina-Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Madagascar, RCA, DRC, Rwanda, Togo

28. Rice Yield by Variety: All ecologies From village level 5 countries: Benin, Madagascar, DRC, Senegal, Togo

29. Knowledge and use of rice varieties by farming communities 8 countries:Benin, Cameroon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, DRC, Rwanda

30. Major constraints in irrigated ecology 7 countries:Benin, Burkina-Faso, Cameroon, Madagascar, RCA, DRC, Rwanda

31. Major constraints in upland ecology 6 countries:Benin, Burkina-Faso, Madagascar, DRC, RCA, Sierra Leone

32. Major constraints in upland with supplementary irrigation ecology 5 countries:Benin, Burkina-Faso, Cameroon, DRC, RCA

33. Major constraints in lowland ecology 6 countries:Benin, Burkina-Faso, Cameroon, Madagascar, RCA, DRC

34. Major constraints in mangrove ecology 4 countries:Benin, Burkina, RCA, Sierra Leone

35. Perspectives • Further revision and update of Country and Synthesis reports – Final reports due end of September 2010 • Support to country teams to conduct in-depth analysis of data collected to: • Update the NRDS data and conduct ex-ante impact analysis, • Conduct rice research priority settings • Analyze competitiveness of local rice production • Publish papers and policy briefs • Publication of data in Google Map and analysis of aggregated data by AfricaRice • Build on the partnership established by this project and continue the work started for the next five years

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