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Africa RISING Mali team Achievements until 2013

Africa RISING Mali team Achievements until 2013. Tom van Mourik & AR Mali team Africa RISING review & planning meeting Azalai Grand Hotel , 3-4 February , 2014. Africa RISING partners and activities Synergies with other ongoing projects

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Africa RISING Mali team Achievements until 2013

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  1. Africa RISING Mali team Achievements until 2013 Tom van Mourik & AR Mali team Africa RISING review & planning meeting Azalai Grand Hotel , 3-4 February, 2014

  2. Africa RISING partners and activities • Synergies with other ongoing projects • Africa RISING achievements and ongoing activities in 2013 • Exchange visit conclusions and suggestions • Conclusions and remarks • Presentation Outline

  3. Focus on • Sustainable intensification • Farm household scale Interactions with other scales acknowledged and studied i.e community, landscape, watershed etc. Stepwise progress towards SI Farm typologies Platforms, co-learning Critical entry points • Conceptual framework

  4. Improvingvegetable production and processing(USAID, AVRDC) • FARMSEM seedenterpriseproject on drylandcrops (USAID, ICRISAT) • Agro-ecological intensification project (McKnightFoundation, WUR, IER, ICRISAT, AMEDD) • DrylandSystems and WLE CGIAR research program(ICRISAT, ICRAF, ILRI, IWMI, Bioversity) • CORAF project on croplivestockintegration (IER) • Synergies withother initiatives

  5. Four Research Outputs (RO’s): 1: Situation Analysis and Program-wide Synthesis (IFPRI, WUR and partners) 2: Integrated Systems Improvement (CGIAR, AVRDC, WUR, national partners) 3: Scaling and Delivery of Integrated Innovation (idem) 4: Integrated Monitoring and Evaluation (IFPRI with partners) Activities in 2013 workplan (may 2013, project started in June 2013) 1.1 Community mobilization & establishing platforms 2.7 Household nutrition 2.8 Sustainable NRM and fodder 2.9 Farm and field productivity • Africa RISING outputs and activities

  6. Development domains & villages selected • Basic farm HH characteristics collected in 7 villages • RO1 Achievements & activities 2013

  7. Diagnostic / planning meetings all AR villages • Platforms established in 4 villages Yorobougoula(NRM, local conventions) Nampossela(Farm & field productivity, McKnight) Sirakele & Mpessoba (nutrition) Exchange visit West Africa in Mali, 21-24 Nov. 2013) • Community mobilisation & platforms (1)

  8. Fencing and wells constructed in 3 villages and existing sites identified in 2 villages (ICRISAT, ICRAF) • Physical platforms for experimentation • Fruit tree establishment trials • Off-season irrigated vegetable / seed production • Community mobilisation & platforms (2)

  9. HIGH Ones that can make difference Guanan-ton Coopeleveurs Chikolo-ton Ass. Jeunes CP miel 5 Jigiya-ton Association chasseurs Chikolo-ton CP-coton Bio LOW Faso-Jguiya CMDT AV 3 HIGH Study on level of interaction and influence of differentstakeholders in IP Yorobougoula Lead farmergenerallyinteracts and informs 5 otherfarmersoutside IP Analyses for mapping of networking and interaction amongstakeholders on-going • Community mobilisation & platforms (3) 1 2 4 5 Level of influence Benkadi-ton Sabali-ton 2 CP volaille Level of interest 1 LOW

  10. Household nutrition surveycompleted (AVRDC) • Nutrition fieldschoolsimplemented 2 villages (AVRDC, ICRISAT) 8 training modules developed in French & Bambara and testedwith participants Nutrition fieldschoolslinked to nutritiousvegetable and fieldcrop trials and seed sales Training videoproduced on the preparation of enriched porridge • Household nutrition (1)

  11. Household nutrition (2) Nutritionalstatus of ~1300 childrenbetween 6 months and 5 yearsassessed Girls and especiallyyoungest group high rates of poor nutrition status

  12. Survey and analyses of feedresources, FEAST (ILRI, AMEDD), Sources of income • Sustainable NRM & fodder (1) Bougouni Koutiala

  13. Sustainable NRM & fodder (2) Koutiala Bougouni Koutiala more availability of cereal residues and concentrates Bougouni, more availability of green forage and grazing

  14. Participatory land use mapping • Biomassassessment, cropped/non-cropped land (ICRISAT, AMEDD, MoBioM, WUR) • RO2 Sustainable NRM & fodder (3)

  15. Farm & field productivity (1) Field crop trials in Bougouniarea

  16. Sorghum-Cowpea intercrop • Sorghum: No treatment effect (poor germination, brd damage) • Cowpea fodder yields: inter-row not significantly different from pure crop, in-row significantly lower. Dunanfanasignificantly higher fodder yield than local.

  17. Cowpea a a a • No significant effect of Neem insecticide • Farmers expressed preference for Wilibali, despite similar yields to local variety • white grain, early maturation much appreciated a b b a a b b b b

  18. Soybean intensification trials • Soybean yields showed no significant treatment effects. • Farmers interested in soybean • New crop, farmers don’t know what to do with soybean • Request for training on soybean processing/preparation Control + Innoculum + Compost + Compost + Innoculum

  19. Farm & field productivity (2) Field crop trials Koutiala area 2013 (total ~200 trials)

  20. T1 : local variety, no fertilizer T2 : local variety, manure 9t/ha +150 kg urea, 100 kg complex 15-15-15 T3 : hybridmaize « Bondofa », no fertilizer T4 : hybridmaize « Bondofa », manure 9t/ha, 150 kg urea, 100 kg complex 15-15-15 Maize

  21. Sorghum T1 : local variety, no fertilizer ; T2 : local variety, manure 9t/ha +DAP 75 kg/ha T3 : hybridsorghum « Pablo », no fertilizer T4 : hybridsorghum « Pablo, manure 9t/ha, DAP 75 kg/ha

  22. Cowpea T1 : ‘wulibali’ cowpea, no fertilization T2 : ‘wulibali’ cowpea, P 20kg/ha T3 : ‘Dunanfanacowpea, no fertilization T4 : ‘Dunanfanacowpea, P 20 kg/ha T1 T2 T3 T4

  23. Soybean T1 : no fertilizer , no inoculum ; T2 : manure 4t/ha, P 20 kg/ha, no inoculum T3 : no fertilizer, inoculum T4 : manure 4t/ha, P 20 kg/ha, inoculum

  24. Promising results, potential of 100 USD/ha more net profit than the local practice with about 20 USD /ha investment (hybrid seed, fertiliser, disk) • Participatory agro-economical analyses of mechanisedmicrodosing trials with sorghum

  25. Strategic sheep feeding trials initiated with cowpea/groundnut hay and maize bran 3 feed treatments: 600g legume hay/day 900g legume hay/day 600g legume hay & 400 g maize bran /day Vaccinations and salt lick blocks standard treatment for all

  26. Distribution & viewings of videos related to sustainable intensification options performed in all AR villages (~100 DVDs distributed, > 10,000 farmers exposed) • Preliminary study performed on what information is retained and what farmers do with the information (unsupervised experimentation and innovation) • RO3 Scaling approaches

  27. Capacity building (1)

  28. Integration, integration & integration!! • Organisations, technologies, system components, Harmonizingdata collection, sharing and reporting • Describewhereactivities fit into the farming system and describe links to otheractivities • Flexibilitypartnerships and consultations wherenecessary • Exchange visit conclusions and suggestions from participants

  29. Thank you / merci!

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