Presented by Kindu Mekonnen and Peter Thorne at the Technology for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT), Small Livestock Compact – Small Ruminants Country Inception and Planning Workshop, 22 June 2018, ILRI, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

1. Action research and scaling partnership:
Africa RISING Experiences in the Ethiopian
Highlands
Kindu Mekonnen and Peter Thorne
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
Technology for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT), Small Livestock Compact – Small Ruminants
Country Inception and Planning Workshop
22 June 2018, ILRI, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

2. One Program - four Projects
1) Mixed Cereal-Legume-Livestock
systems in West Africa (Ghana
and Mali), led by IITA
2) Mixed Cereal-Legume-Livestock
systems in East/Southern Africa
(Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia), led
by IITA
3) Crop-Livestock systems in the
Ethiopian Highlands, led by ILRI
4) M&E and data management, led
by IFPRI
>100 partner institutions; >250
individuals
Africa Research In Sustainable Intensification for the Next
Generation (Africa RISING)

3. o Funded by USAID BFS through the FtF initiatives;
o Duration: 2012- Sept 2016 (Phase I) and Oct 2016-
2021 (Phase II).
To provide pathways out of hunger and poverty for
smallholder families through sustainably intensified
farming systems that sufficiently improve food, nutrition,
and income security, particularly for women and children,
and conserve or enhance the natural resource base.
Programme Purpose

4. Africa RISING Project Sites in the Ethiopian Highlands?
Phase I: 2012 to 30 Sept 2016

5. Phase II: Oct 2016-2021- Progressive

6. 1. Livestock , feed and forage management
2. Improved crop varieties and management
practices
3. Horticulture – fruits and vegetables
4. Natural resource management
5. Synergies, trade-offs and systems integration
Cross-cutting themes – nutrition, markets and value
chains, gender equity, human and institutional
capacity development.
Thematic Areas
Priority issues addressed through more than 17 action
oriented research interventions.

7. • Systematic site selection within the target geographies:
market access, pop’n densities, agro-ecologies
• Diagnostic analyses: identification of constraints,
opportunities and interventions at household, community
and landscape scales
• Participatory action research to adapt and validate SI
trajectories
• Facilitating dissemination and scaling-development
partnership-capacity building/ Innovation platforms
Africa RISING Action and Backstopping Research
Approach

8. Steps Followed to Establish Development
Partnership for Scaling
 Packed information/evidences on validated innovations
(fact sheets, reports)
 Identified potential scaling development partners
 Created awareness on validated innovations (face to
face meetings and discussions, workshops, IPs)
 Compiled engagements/ interests of development
partners in scaling- templates (which innovation/s,
where, how many hhs and when?)
 Built capacities (ToT on innovations) and provided
limited amount of starter seeds/ germplasm)

9. o Preliminary targets: 0.7 million direct beneficiary hhs with the
potential to scale to a further 3.4 million hhs.
Africa RISING Phase II Targets and Achievements
Table 1. Africa RISING -Scaling and R4D initiatives in 2017 cropping season
Region Zone Woreda Technology type Male
HHs
Female
HHs
Total
HHs
Areas
(ha)
Tigray 2 5 Crop, livestock, NRM 6769 1636 8405 1361
Amhara 1 10 Crop, livestock, NRM 22338 2099 24438 8154
Oromia 1 7 Crop, livestock, NRM 21911 3182 25093 10774
SNNPR 3 6 Crop, livestock, NRM 2210 246 2456 108
Total 7 28 Crop, livestock, NRM 53228 7163 60392 20397
o Reached to more than 60392 hhs and covered 20397 ha of land in
2017 with less than 12 month; and
o DPs convinced by the research evidences and co-invested in the
scaling initiatives.

10. Irrigated/rain-fed oat-vetch mixture in Sinana Africa RISING site,
Oromia, Ethiopia.
Africa RISING Livestock Feed, Feeding and Feed
Conservation Interventions: Examples

11. This is part of Africa RISING oat-
vetch scaling initiative in Higum
Birda Kebele, Ofla woreda,
southern Tigray, Ethiopia in 2017
main cropping season.

12. Feed and food crop (Sweet lupin)- Lemo, SNNPR, Ethiopia.

13. Fodder beet as part of Africa RISING feed and forage R4D intervention
in Sinana, Oromia, Ethiopia.

14. Alfalfa as part of Africa RISING feed and forage R4D intervention in
Simret Kebele, Endamehoni, Tigray, Ethiopia.

15. Faba bean/ forage intercropping- Lemo-SNNPR, Ethiopia

16. Fodder and fertilizer trees/shrubs- Tree Lucerne in Lemo Africa
RISING site, SNNPR, Ethiopia.

17. Farmers’ feeding systems in
Africa RISING sites in Tanzania
Feed trough in Cambodia, Asia
Post-harvest feed
management and utilization-
Improved feed trough in
Africa RISING sites- Basona,
Amhara, Ethiopia.

18.  Academic institutions:
 Wachemo, Mekelle, Madawolabu, Debre Berhan and Hawassa universities;
Maichew Agricultural College
 Regional research organizations:
 Amhara Regional Agricultural Research Institute, Southern Agricultural
Research Institute, Tigray Agricultural Research Institute, Oromia Agricultural
Research Institute
 Federal research organizations:
 Ethiopian Institute for Agricultural Research, Ethiopian Public Health
Institute
 Offices of Agriculture:
 Endamekoni (Tigray), Basona Worena (Amhara), Lemo (SNNRP) and Sinana
(Oromia)
 Private entrepreneurs: Fuji integrated farm
 NGOs: GRAD, Hundie, SOS Sahel, Sunarma
 Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA)
 Innovation laboratories: SIIL, ILSSI, PHIL, LSIL
LocalPartners (Phase 1)- Ethiopia

19. Scaling Development Partners in the Different Sites/Regions
(Phase II)- Examples
InterAide France SNNPR, Lemo NGO
Send-a-Cow SNNPR, Lemo NGO
Ethiopian Catholic Church SNNPR, Lemo NGO
Hundie Addis Ababa NGO
World Vision SNNPR/Lemo NGO
Woreda, zonal and regional livestock and
fishery development offices, and
agriculture and natural resources
development offices
SNNPR, Amhara, Oromia and
Tigray/Lemo, Basona, Sinana,
Endamehoni
GOs
GRAD/REST Tigray/ Endamehoni NGO
Raya, Dashen and Habesha Breweries Tigray/ Endamehoni and Amhara/
Debre Birhan
PLC
Oromia Seed Enterprise Oromia/Sinana GO
Madda Walabu, Wachemo, Debere
Birhan, Mekele, Hawassa Universities
SNNPR, Amhara, Oromia and Tigray GOV
Saint Mary and Michew ATEVT collages Tigray/Endamehoni GOs
Regional and Federal Research centers SNNPR, Amhara, Oromia and
Tigray/Lemo, Basona, Sinnan,
Endamehoni
GOs

20. Africa RISING CGIAR Partners in Ethiopia

21.  Website: http://africa-rising.net/
 Wiki space: http://africa-rising.wikispaces.com/events
 Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/africa-rising/sets
 Presentation : http://www.slideshare.net/africa-rising
 Documents and out puts :
http://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/16498
Africa RISING program communication tools:

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africa-rising.net
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