Strategy for increasing smallholder farmers’ productivity

1. Strategy for increasing
smallholder farmers’
productivity
By
Henri TONNANG

2. Problems
• Weak extension system
• Cross-boundary barriers
• Little private sector investment
• Poor connections between research & extension
• Weak policies and regulations/ Lack of regional
harmonization
• Lack of regional coordination
• Affordability of existing technologies
• Restricted and targeted public financing
• Poor dissemination and packaging
• Long technology verification & release system

3. Strategy
Domain Areas
• Database and knowledge management
• Packaging and innovation
• Communication Capacity building Competence
development Policies
• Partnerships
• Dissemination pathways
• Backstopping & Legal issues

4. Database and
knowledge
management
Inventory
Products, Tools,
Methods, Skills
Service and
Process
Profiling:
Documenting and
Value
Ranking and
Grading
Domain Area
Activities

5. Packaging and
innovation
Knowledge
management
Innovation
technology
enhancements
Integration
focusing on
productivity
Domain Area
Activities
 Provision of productivity enhancing technologies (High yield
crops/breeds varieties – drought tolerant maize variety,
integrated pest and disease management (IPDM), micro-
nutriment dense crops – pro-vitamin A rich orange – fleshed
sweet potato and high iron beans) should be the main focus

6. Communication
Capacity building
Competence development
Policies
Communication
strategy:
Stakeholder
mapping
communication
product translation
Technology Portal:
A knowledge
repository
Tools for
technology transfer
Capacity building
Training materials
and curriculum
Competence
development
Domain Area
Activities
POLICIES

7. Partnerships
Create synergy
Public & Private
sector
Networking
Field/ Innovation
day
Fairs Demonstration
weeks
Business
Incubation Model
to establish
microenterprises
Domain Area
Activities
 Investing in farmers productivity can increase their income and transform
their lives which then boost businesses revenues and profit
 Working directly with farmers self formed groups to optimize results at lost
cost with large scale

8. Dissemination
pathways
Spreading
Targeting end users
Tracking
mechanism and
feedback
Analyze best
mechanisms
create links with
value chain
Domain Area
Activities
Stimulate & Create Champions
Align with country policies & administration systems

9. Backstopping &
Legal issues
Backstopping: Identify
challenge and bottleneck
ethics and risks and
managed – Provide
feedback, enhance
technologies
Legal support: Address
ownership intellectual
Domain Area
Activities

10. Database and knowledge management
Packaging and Innovation,
Communication and Capacity Building
Partnerships
Backstopping and legal issues
Increase awareness and available information
Compiling technologies to prone uptake & adoption
Experience technology performance Conducive
environment for take up
Establish community of end-users
Building credibility
Technology adopted
Stimulate business & jobs
Influence policies
Communities capacitated
Increase productivity
Improved food security
Employment opportunities
Access to data & information
New decision
Output
Input
Outcome
Impact
Communication
Stakeholder
Mapping
Campaigning
Up scaling
Enhancing
Spin-offs
startups
M
&
E

11. SUCCESS STORIES

12. Participating companies increased sales of MasAgro hybrid
seed by 44 percent from 2014 to 2015

15. One Acre Fund
Asset-Based Loans. Farmers receive high-quality seeds and
fertilizer on credit, and we offer a flexible repayment system
that allows them to pay back their loans in any amount
throughout the loan term.
Delivery. We deliver inputs to locations within walking
distance of every farmer we serve.
Training. Farmers receive training throughout the season on
modern agricultural techniques.
Market Facilitation. We offer crop storage solutions and
teach farmers about market fluctuations, so that they can
time crop sales to maximize profits

16. Africa Rice - Nigeria
2011 to 2015: Combined innovative ICT-
based ways to deploy improved rice
production technology to farmers which
increased the yield from 2MT/ha to 4
MT/ha.

17. SOME IDEAS TO CAPITALIZE ON
 Digital Green integrates the use of locally recorded
video, “mediated instruction” and extension
systems to increase adoption rates among farmers
of new practices and technologies. Rikin Gandhi
 When I founded a telecommunications company in
the mid 1990s, nearly 3 in 4 Africans had never
heard a telephone ring. Now, more than 3 in 4
have a mobile phone. In Africa, when conditions
are right, change can happen fast. Srive Masiyiwa

18. Maize Variety
Selector (MVS)
Overview
Database
Geospatial
Database
Variety
characteristics
Location specific variety options
Database
Seed
availability
Database
Agro-dealers
locations
Location specific variety availability
Analytics
Maize
Variety
Selector
Knowingwhat
varietiesto
plant* in
your location
* or stockinyour shop
Kebele: Omonada
GPS: 716644, 37.32596
Maturity: 160 days(late)
Variety: BH661
Additional info:
drought tolerant, yield potential 95-120 q/ha, …. >>
Jimma
Ethiopia
MaizeVarietySelector i
TakingMaizeAgronomytoScaleinAfrica -TAMASA 5
Maize
Variety
Selector
Knowing what
varietiesto
plant* in
your location
* or stock in your shop
Kebele: Omonada
GPS: 716644, 37.32596
Maturity: 160 days (late)
Variety: BH 661
Additional info:
drought tolerant, yield potential 95-120 q/ha, …. >>
Jimma
Ethiopia
MaizeVariety Selector i
TakingMaizeAgronomy to Scale inAfrica - TAMASA 5
ICT can revolutionize the
way we communicate with
stallholder farmers
Let progress with
technologies advancement
and not become like Nokia

19. Rural poverty is complex, and there is no single
solution to the problems smallholder farmers face.
The logical sense is an holistic, long-term
approach starting from a complete bundle of
services, within the value chain beginning with
seed/seedlings/breeds farm inputs (fertilizer,
agrochemicals), mechanization, land tenure,
extension, irrigation, training on agriculture
techniques, post harvest handling, storage, market
facilitations, policies and regulations.
CONCLUSION

20. THANKS YOU FOR
YOUR INTEREST