TSBF INSTITUTE of CIAT Outcome line: ISFM-based crop production systems for major impact zones in sub-Saharan Africa KSW 2008

TSBF INSTITUTE of CIAT Program : ISFM-based agricultural production systems for major impact zones in the tropics KSW 2009

Last year Highlights MTP’10-’12 Finally

The Goal of the ISFM Outcome line is to improve the livelihoods of people relying on agriculture in the impact zones in sub-Saharan Africa by developing and creating an enabling environment for disseminating sustainable, profitable, socially just, nutrient-dense, and resilient agricultural production systems based on Integrated Soil Fertility Management Last year Highlights MTP’10-’12 Finally Goal

Last year Highlights MTP’10-’12 Finally Definition of ISFM ‘ The application of soil fertility management practices , and the knowledge to adapt these to local conditions , which optimize fertilizer and organic resource use efficiency and crop productivity. These practices necessarily include appropriate fertilizer and organic input management in combination with the utilization of improved germplas m ’

Marketing and income generation Improved health and nutrition Last year Highlights MTP’10-’12 Finally

Agricultural production systems Last year Highlights MTP’10-’12 Finally

Impact zones Last year Highlights MTP’10-’12 Finally

Last year Highlights MTP’10-’12 Finally

Highlight: ISFM for cassava-based systems in DR Congo Last year Highlights MTP’10-’12 Finally

Highlight: Facilitating the soybean value chain in Kenya Email of BIDCO (soybean processor) of 6th May 2009: ‘ We Bidco-elainto will buy and process any quantity of SOYA beans you produce. Please note that you need to worry for Marketing your soya beans at all in Kenya. We are the buyer.’ Last year Highlights MTP’10-’12 Finally

Highlight: Training of agro-dealers in ISFM Last year Highlights MTP’10-’12 Finally

Last year Highlights MTP’10-’12 Finally

MTP 2010-2012 – Outputs Last year Highlights MTP’10-’12 Finally Output 1 : ISFM practices for legume-cereal based systems in the West African Sahel and the West, East, and southern African savanna impact zones promoted. Output 2 : ISFM practices for cassava and rice based systems in the West and Central African humid forest and for banana based systems in the Central and East African mid-altitude impact zones assembled. Output 3 : ISFM practices for conservation agriculture systems in the Central America hillside impact zone assembled.

MTP 2010-2012 – Output Targets Last year Highlights MTP’10-’12 Finally A set of mechanistic principles underlying ISFM practices, for cassava and rice systems in the West and Central African humid forest and for banana-based systems in the Central and East African mid-altitude Impact Zones, in close cooperation with AfNet. Institutionalization of knowledge and approaches for evaluating and disseminating ISFM practices within the governmental and non-governmental extension systems, operating in the West-African Sahel and the West, East, and southern African moist savanna Impact Zones. An enabling environment for the adoption of ISFM practices, including strategic alliances along the legume-cereal value chains, sufficient knowledge on health and nutrition, effective partnerships, and technical stakeholder capacity for cereal-legume systems in the West-African Sahel and the West, East, and southern African moist savanna Impact Zones. A decision support framework for eco-efficient ISFM practices for cereal-legume systems in the West-African Sahel and the West, East, and southern African moist savanna Impact Zones. A set of holistically evaluated ‘complete’ ISFM practices , including biological inoculants, for cereal-legume systems in the West-African Sahel and the West, East, and southern African moist savanna Impact Zones.

Last year Highlights MTP’10-’12 Finally Renewed link to Latin America

Resources needed 1. Funding - Need for major investments (eg AGRA, BMGF) 2. Staff - Current: soil fertility, soil science, microbiology, markets, nutrition - Through other program areas: social sc. GIS, dissemination, seed systems - Partnerships: ARI, dissemination - AfNet: Capacity building 3. Infrastructure - Regional representation Kinshasa Bukavu Lilongwe Maputo Harare Kigali Maseno Sadore Nairobi Last year Highlights MTP’10-’12 Finally

Last year Highlights MTP’10-’12 Finally

Thank you! Last year Highlights MTP’10-’12 Finally