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Sustainable Farming Systems Research for Rainfed Highlands

This project focuses on rainfed highland farming systems, assessing needs, modeling scenarios, refining biophysics, addressing contrasting situations like drought and waterlogging, optimizing crop yields, managing environments, and breeding for resilience. It emphasizes forage breeding, waterlogging solutions, and pest/disease resilience while involving key stakeholders for sustainability and impact. Partnering with government programs, seed systems, and research institutions to bridge short-term wins with long-term goals, the project aims to enhance agricultural productivity and resilience in the Ethiopian highlands.

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Sustainable Farming Systems Research for Rainfed Highlands

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  1. System focus • Rainfed highland with supplemental irrigation • Crops, feeds/forages, trees (forage, fruits) to define against outcome from targeting group

  2. Farming systems research • Need assessment (targeting), modeling and scenarios including potentials, markets, gender…. To refine biophysics • Contrasting situations including drought, waterlogging and intervals, soils acidity, soil fertility (not having discussed markets etc.) • Entry: yield gaps for crops, trees, feed/forages and livestock and linking to breeding and selection • Plant options (gene mining), biophysical management, agronomy • Environmental assessment (GHG, water, soils, N-fixation • Post harvest

  3. Up stream research • Forage breeding (to link with NARS as long term strategy); more short term selection • Options for waterlogging (for the time there are few e.g. Tef, Sesbania) • Defining feed supply demand • Pest/diseases vs climate change • Gene mining

  4. Presently involved and who should be involved – Ethiopia (to be amplified) • Breeding: EIAR, RARIS • NRM: EIAR, RARIS, Government programs, SLM (GIZ, ICRAF) • Irrigation: Lives, new project, SIMILESA • Systems: Africa Rising, N2Africa (IITA) • Pest/Disease vs climate: Rust Initiative (CIMMYT, ICARDA), Push-Pull (ICIPE) • Post Harvest: CIMMYT • Identify gaps for new partners • Link with development partners • Link to key government policies and initiatives • Feed seeds project, ATA, trees?

  5. Short term vs Long term • For short term wins connect with on-going initiatives and see where we can add value (site selection for proof of concept – combining easy wins with stressed (biohysics, institutional, markets) environments • Keeping the long term focus • Link with Ethiopia priorities

  6. Other issues • Capacity building (needs assessment, including specific activities) • Scaling • Communications • Seed systems

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