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ICRISAT Global Planning Meeting 2019: Research Program - West and Central Africa by Ramadjita Tabo and team

  1. Research Program West and Central Africa Ramadjita Tabo on behalf of WCA Team ICRISAT- Patancheru, February 4 to 8, 2019 Global Planning Meeting -2019
  2. Program Goal Improved technologies for sustainably increasing agricultural productivity, achieving food and nutritional security and enhancing income of smallholder farmers in the WCA region.
  3. Program overview Crop improvement Integrated crop management Systems analysis Policy and impact
  4. Crop Improvement (Pearl Millet) • Developing hybrid parents research consortium for cereals in West Africa • Accelerating genetic gain for yield, resistance and nutritional traits for our focus crops in West Africa • Keeping the product pipeline full based on market demand and consumer preferences in West Africa
  5. Crop Improvement (Sorghum) • Dual-purpose sorghum for livestock nutrition and phenotyping • Hybrids: locally adapted material - Regional heterotic groups and molecular markers • Nutrition (Iron and zinc contents and bioavailability; Phytates, proteins) • Modeling and climate agriculture services to define ideotypes and TPEs for better adaptation to drought and other stresses • Seed system strengthening - targeting seed value chain actors and integrating diagnostic marker for seed purity testing
  6. Crop Improvement (Groundnut) • Modernizing the breeding program o Fine-tuning of product concepts (PCs) in partnership with NARS o Strengthening digital data collection and storage o Mechanizing operations and improving seed processing/storage facilities • Strengthening product discovery and delivery o Scaling up the number of new population for target PCs and traits (yield, oil, drought tolerance, disease resistance), and speeding up the generation advancement process o Improving phenotyping and genotyping facilities o Strengthening partnership with NARS for performance evaluation of advanced varieties through ICRISAT product placement team o Strengthening groundnut seed system to enhance availability of seed for improved varieties and speed up variety turn over
  7. Crop Improvement (Genebank and Physiology) • Seed distribution, training, germplasm collection and acquisition • Improve access and utilization of germplasm by ICRISAT breeders and NARS partners • Continue upgrading the regional genebank facilities and implementing standard operation procedures • Measurement of water requirement and investigating the root system under pre and post flowering drought stress in lysimeter conditions
  8. Integrated Crop Management • Diversifying farming systems and increasing biodiversity to maintain and improve productivity and restore ecosystem services in resilient landscapes • Climate-resilient agricultural production systems through promoting climate-smart agriculture at all scales (from community to subnational to national levels) o Development of climate-smart villages in Niger o Integrated soil-water-energy system as a climate-smart agro- Sylvo-pastoral production model in Cinzana, Mali o Watershed management approach consists of managing land and water resources, community engagement in resource use planning, installation and management of water lifting structures
  9. Integrated Crop Management Soil/ water/crop and nutrient management for increased productivity: tillage practices, microdosing application, crop residue and manure management
  10. Watershed management: managing land and water resources, community engagement in resource use planning, installation and management of water lifting structures Plate I Plate II Plate III Plate IV Integrated Crop Management
  11. Discovery of Millet head miner egg parasitoids and fall armyworm egg parasitoids • Platform for discovery and delivery of biorationals for controlling insect pests of sorghum and pearl millet Development of mass rearing technique for the parasitoids Integrated Crop Management Delivery of the parasitoids Businesses for production and commercialization of beneficial
  12. • Identifying the underlying factors hindering or facilitating the adoption, adaptation and/or rejection of recommended released varieties and accompanying management practices • Analyzing drivers of transformational changes to identity key factors for creating enabling institutional environment for effective uptake of technologies Policy and Impact Photo: Thor Windham-Wright
  13. • Scaling out and up of best bet sorghum and millet technologies using Farmer Field School (FFS), Innovation Platform (IP), warrantage etc. • Improving household nutritive food consumption through sustainable utilization of improved varieties and good agronomic practices (TAAT) • Developing a business model to facilitate the sustainable uptake and up- scaling of weather and climate information services (WCIS) as prominent agricultural input” • Developing climate-smart value chains and landscapes for increased resilient livelihood in West Africa • Digital mechanisms to de-risk value chains, promote smallholder financing and safe market inclusion; Mainstreaming of earth observation, IoT and AI innovation for improved tactical decision making in smallholder agriculture System analysis
  14. Science - policy interface processes for science-informed decision making regarding agriculture and climate change plans and policies • Analyzing the enabling policy environment for CSA, food security and improved diets in West Africa • Analyzing the role of national science-policy dialogue platforms on the development of national policy instruments on climate change and CSA • Ex-ante evaluation for agriculture and CSA options in national agricultural development policy instruments (e.g. nationally determined contributions, and national agricultural investment plans) Policy and Impact
  15. Governance studies to examine institutions interactions across scale under climate change context.  Enabling institutions and policies for sustainable climate change governance in agriculture  Building the capacity of stakeholder institutions in the development and implementation of a climate change and CSA-related policy instruments  Providing technical assistance for the development of a coordination mechanism and governance structure for the monitoring and implementation of a national climate change and CSA-related policy instruments Policy and Impact
  16. • Country strategies and Operational Plans for Mali, Niger and Nigeria revised • Global Programs points of alignment • Joint project proposal development : Seed systems with GG and ESA; Crop livestock integration with IDS • Use of new tools : Modernizing breeding programs and Genomics with GG and ESA; GIS and modelling approaches, and Agri-Business Incubation with IDS; Watershed management approaches with Asia ; M & E (MEASURE) with IDS • Biofortification of Sorghum and Pearl Millet with GG. Country strategies
  17. Thank You Merci
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