Poster prepared by Frederick P. Baijukya for the Capacity Development Workshop of the CGIAR Research Program on Humidtropics, Nairobi, 29 April–2 May 2014

1. Stakeholder platforms to guide N2Africa
business clusters in Tanzania
Frederick P. Baijukya, Country Coordinator, Tanzania
Context and background
N2Africa is putting nitrogen fixation to work
for smallholder farmers in Africa through
expanding the area, improving productivity
and profitability of grain legumes and their
products.
The entry point is enabling input and outputs
market along the product value chain.
Available opportunities
- There exist several stakeholders working
to improve production and productivity of
grain legumes.
- Existence of interest groups on specific
legumes (e.g. soybean growers
association, bean growers association,
etc).
- formalized business clusters for different
types of grain legumes (soybean,
groundnut).
- Existence of stakeholders with new many
innovations.
Some envisaged challenges:
- Vast geographical coverage making it
difficult and costly to bring key
stakeholders together.
- Element of competition between
partners.
- Poor established input output markets for
grain legumes.
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Conclusions
N2Africa in Tanzania is in process to establish stakeholder
platforms to facilitate and coordinate dissemination of
legume technology.
The country team is looking for skills and advice on:
- How to constitute and facilitate platforms.
- How to keep interests of members of platforms.
- tools and approaches for M&E of platforms
Current and future
activities
N2Africa phase II (2014-2018)
focuses on:
. Institutionalization: forging
partnerships for research in legume
agronomy and rhizobiology.
. Sustainability: forging partnership
for development to:
- Validate promising technologies.
- Understand variability.
- Enhance development partners
to out-scale best technologies.
- Conduct M& E with
development partners
Frederick P. Baijukya
f.baijukya@cgiar.org ● Tanzania.
Prepared for a capacity development workshop of the
CGIAR Research Program on Humidtropics, Nairobi, 29 April – 2 May 2014
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N2Africa action areas and priority crops
Past activities
N2Africa phase I (2009-2013) focused on:
• Proof of concept that yields and nitrogen
fixed by legumes depend on the
interaction between
(GL x GR) x E x M, where:
GL = legume genotype, GR = rhizobial
strain, E = environment and M =
management
• Moving to scale
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Ghana
Nigeria
DRC
Kenya
Rwanda
Malawi
Mozambique
Zimbabwe
Numberoffarmersreached
Total 0 17,055 80,301 208,925