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Asia Regional Program- Planning Meeting"Strengthening WCA-region collaboration : Needs and Opportunities".

  1. Strengthening Inter-region collaboration : Needs and Opportunities Ramadjita Tabo and WCA Team Asia Regional Planning Meeting ICRISAT-Patancheru, May 4-5, 2016
  2. • Climate Change and Adaptation • Legumes Improvement • Cereals Improvement • Soil/Water/Nutrient Management • Crop and Systems Diversification • Mali Agribusiness Incubation Hub (MAIH) • Impact Assessment • Communications and Public Awareness Outline
  3.  What effective ways to test CSA technological options by farmers  How to develop pathways for the scaling up of climate-smart agriculture  How to effectively mainstream gender in CSVs’ activities  How to implement modeling and develop quantitative outputs South-south learning between Africa (West & East) and Asia about climate-smart villages approach and implementation
  4. Sharing experiences about science-policy fertilization processes • Transferring Nepal’s LADA (Local Adaptation Plans for Action) processes to West Africa: Especially with reference to effective decentralization of climate finance towards local authorities (https://ccafs.cgiar.org/publications/deconstructing-local-adaptation-plans- action-lapas-analysis-nepal-and-pakistan-lapa#.VyZF3sbJ_X4) • Sharing West Africa experiences and lessons learnt from the national science-policy platforms for informed policy planning in Senegal, Ghana, Mali and Burkina Faso
  5. Embedding quantitative assessments of climate impacts and adaptation benefits into bottom-up transformative scenario planning processes: • Building stronger systems prospectives from state-of-the-art biophysical modeling and socio-economic foresighting methods (learnings from AgMIP and ASSAR projects) - South Asia <> West Africa
  6. WCA Groundnut Improvement • Effort is being made to enhance genetic gain for traits of interest by: » Establishing a breeding pipeline for traits of interest (hybridization, observation nursery, yield trials) » Identifying representative test environments for target environments to reduce GxE interaction and phenotyping errors » Digitizing field data collection » Institutionalizing BMS (breeding management system) & BPAT (breeding performance assessment tool), » Utilizing both main & off-season to speed up generation advance, » Collaborating with other regional and continental programs including germplasm exchange and molecular breeding
  7. WCA Groundnut Improvement (Cont’d) • The program has been working with both India and Malawi programs. • India & Malawi programs have been good sources of breeding materials for release in WCA • Collaboration needs to be maintained and strengthened with the India & Malawi programs in the following areas: – Technical – Resource Mobilization and capacity building
  8. WCA Groundnut Improvement(Cont’d) • Strengthen and develop mechanisms for shuttle breeding between the three programs to reduce the breeding cycle – the identification of phenotyping sites in each region for traits of interest (drought, rosette, aflatoxin, ELS, LLS, etc) • Access to the Genebank at Patancheru. – Our Genebank at Niamey has to work closely for germplasm exchange and it needs to be supported by the genebank at Patancheru. Additional staff is required at Niamey. • Exchange/ sharing of improved/elite/ advanced breeding lines and MABC (Marker Assisted Back cross) lines with combination of traits viz., – early maturity – multiple stress tolerance (Foliar disease, GRD, Aflatoxin, drought) – improved nutritional quality (high oil, Fe and Zn ) under desirable agronomic background
  9. WCA Groundnut Improvement (Cont’d) • Continue collaboration on Regional and International Nursery/ Trials • Collaborative molecular work with the Genetic Gain Research Program for accelerated breeding for enhanced genetic gain. – Regular interaction and working closely with the program will be very important. – Accessing the molecular laboratories both in Patancheru & Nairobi should be possible with subsidized cost for our molecular work. • Possibilities exist in collaborating evaluating transgenic lines with GRD/Aflatoxin Resistance provided regulatory environments permit.
  10. WCA Cereals Improvement -Molecular tools for rapid Crop Improvement:  Marker Assisted Selection (MAS) for accelerated varietal development with enhanced resistance  High-precision field phenotyping through appropriate experimental plot design, field plot layout, and electronic data capturing and analysis  Genotyping of mapping populations, Genetic analyses and QTL mapping
  11. Exchange of Genetic material  Access to hybrid female parents with A2 and A5 that we need for diversifying our source of sterility as the main source we are using is A1 cytoplasm in WCA from India.  Access to mini core collection for specific traits with identified QLs of important traits such as midge resistant, anthracnose resistant, stay- green for use in WCA.  Harvest Plus/Biofortification (Fe/Zn)
  12. Capacity Building, Project Development and Use of Research Equipment  Joint supervision of students {e.g. Myriam Adam (WCA) and Vincent Vadez (Patancheru}  Training on data management/analysis (Abhi in Patancheru training in WCA on BMS)  Joint operation of NIRS facility at ICRISAT Mali and existing laboratory at Patancheru  Joint CN e.g. on 'Utilization of sorghum BCNAM populations
  13. Soil/Water/Nutrient Management • The successful efforts of watershed management Bhoochetana in West and Central Africa in selected sites • Spatial scale groundwater management • Monitoring and modelling • Watershed characterization to improve NRM • Tailor made short term training programs
  14. Bhoochetana in West and Central Africa Collaborative work in: • Piloting and up scaling efficient management and utilization of land and water resources • Science based productivity enhancement • Large scale adoption of integrated hydraulic, agronomic and soil management practices • Micro-nutrient application • Establishment of women self-help groups to improve the involvement of African women in agriculture
  15. Spatial scale ground water management • Improving ground water access and use • Off-season production of high valued crops • Policy formulation on efficient water withdrawal and use
  16. Monitoring and modelling • Monitoring high resolution and best quality data to support decision making • Biophysical and economic modelling incorporating system components
  17. Watershed characterization to improve NRM Target groups • Breeders • Social scientists • Hydrologists • System modelers • Planners Crop type / intensity Tracking adoption of NRM technologies Abiotic stresses Mali Land use / land cover Impact assessment 1) 1 - 50 2) 51 - 100 3) 101 - 150 4) 151 - 200 5) 201 - 225 Watershed prioritization Biomass (g/m2) LGP / planting dates Biomass
  18. Training on Modelling & Systems Research • Training is an associated support to modelling in system research. – Training of scientists (ICRISAT, NARS, other partners) – Training of local end users of DST. • Needs of inter-regional collaboration for – Development of Decision Support Tools (DST) – Support in resource person for training (scientists) • A good example is the training modelling course organized in Niamey (Sept 2015). – An advanced crop modelling with APSIM) and, – An Integrated Assessments tool (IAT), which combines outputs from a range of models and expert knowledge to gain enhanced understanding of bio-economic behavior of mixed smallholder systems
  19. Mali Agribusiness Incubation Hub (MAIH)
  20. Challenges & opportunities
  21. Yes We Can Create Change: Mali Agribusiness Incubation Hub IER,IPR,ICRISAT,FASOKABA, AfriRice, CORAF ICRISAT, FASAKOBA
  22. Launch of Mali Agribusiness Incubation Hub Feb 22-23,2016
  23. Leveraging South-South collaboration: India- Africa • Food processing agribusiness incubator in Mali through IAFS-II was proposed; project can be revived and MAIH can be involved as nodal incubator. • Technology Transfer from Indian NARS (ICAR-ABI) to African Agri Business HURDLE TECH MEAT PICKLE-IVRI FISH KURE- CIFT MEAT SALAMI EXTENDED WITH VEGETABLES-IVRI
  24. • This year, we are conducting impact assessment of different technologies, and we will need to: • Harmonize methodologies and tools for impact studies. • Synthesize impact and adoption studies. Impact assessment
  25. Information and Communications Technology-ICT  Use of ICT for Communication for Development: India has lot of experience in this area that could benefit delivery of technologies to farmers.  Development of joint partnerships proposals - Mobile phone companies and online platforms.
  26. Capacity building & Career Development  Professional training up to 6 and 12 months (for IT and communications unit-Africa Vs India )  Exchange visits (Africa Vs Asia Staff) for 6 to 12 months)
  27. Thank You/ Merci! ICRISAT is a member of the CGIAR Consortium
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