Building the next generation of farmers Supporting capacity-development of African Farmer’s Organisations through improved Policies, Technologies and Capabilities Workshop , 6-7 November 2018, Brussels

1. Agricultural data
systems transform
Smallholder Farming
across ACP countries
Chris Addison, Chipo
Msengezi, Giacomo
Rambaldi

2. The issue

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Up to 70% food
production in
some countries
(SSA: 40% in
associations)
Only 20% of
production is
sold
Yield gap up to
75% in Africa
south of the
sahara.
Highly variable
by crop &
climate change
Data from smallholder
farmers data portrait
FAO
http://www.fao.org/family-
farming/data-
sources/dataportrait
Improving smallholder farmer productivity & profitability
58% of global food
production from family
farms
https://www.sciencedirect.com/s
cience/article/pii/S0305750X15
001217

4. Challenges for smallholder owned
agribusiness in the field from partners
Photo credit: CIFOR
Inaccurate
computation of
fertilizer inputs per
farm
Targeted advice
not possible as
lack of geo-
location of
farms
Lack of reliable
data on actual
size of farms to
support credit
facilities
Multiple
registrations for
the same farm
Weak systems
for tracking
inputs provided
to farmers on
credit =>
unrecoverable
Incomplete and
unreliable
farmers’ records
on yields and
crop use
Inappropriate
logistics as farm
locations
unknown
Concern over
use of farmers
data
Access to
government and
research data

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Profiles
Policy makers
Infomediaries
Researchers
Farmers Organisation
Needs
Data management
Licencing/rights
Visualisation
Analysis
Stakeholder needs
Capacity Development

6. Expert analysis of issues and link to
Policy with partners
Photo credit: CIFOR
Review of
research
studies into
data flows
(WUR)
Farmers
Organisations
unaware of
existing
safeguards
(WFO/PAFO)
Policy lessons
from weather,
farm and
agriculture data
(MoEA.NL)
Data profiles:
Making data
work for
smallholder
farmers WP
(SBC4D/CTA)
Digital and Data
Driven
Agriculture:
White Paper
with
(GFAR/GODAN
)
Articles on
example cases
ICTupdate &
Spore
(Wren
Media/CTA)
Capacity
Development
assessment to
design
curriculum for
MOOC & F2F
(GODANaction)
Ministerial in
Nairobi
(GODAN &
AGRA)
CAFDO
priorities for
Open Data in
Francophone
Africa
(GODAN)

7. Data4Ag
project

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Services addressing the yield and income gap
through associations are data driven
Farm data
Finance
Trade & Markets
Production

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Four types of data in use in farming

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Field
proofing
Data4Ag
Expert
analysis
Capacity
PAFO/Agricord
PAFO/WUR/
GFAR/GODAN
GODANaction
GFAR/FAO
GODAN/WUR
MoEANL
Policy

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CTA
Executive
CAD
Field
Validation
Stephane Boyera (Giacomo Rambaldi)
Igara
H Oweyesiga
Nucafe
D Muwonge
SACAU
I Sunga
EAFF
Stephen Muchiri
FEBAP
Oumar Oudreago
CAPAD
A Shirukub
Data Flows
Analysis
Hugo Besemer/WUR
GFAR
Valeria Pesce
WS/Study
Peter Ballantyne
WFO
Theo de Jager
Capacity
Development
GODAN Action
Policy
Change
Consultant
Africa -
GODAN
Martin Parr
Kenya –
WUR/Min NL
Sanders Jansen
Project team
CAD,CMS,GRA,,AST,MVB
Project
advisors
IBO,PAFO,Agricord
M&E
Consultant/LMEL
DFID Project
management
Rob Lokers - WUR
CTA Executive
CAD
Project manager
C Msengezi
Face2Face
CTA:C Msengezi
Land Portal
Various
Others
LRDC/GFAR/UofNri
MOOC
FAO: Imma
Subirats
Research Uptake
IDS:Alan Stanley
Risk manager
Open Data Institute
Communications
CTA: OHersperger
Project team
CAD,CMS,GRA,,A
ST,MVB
Project Board
Advisory group
Data4Ag
Project management

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Farmer led business and organisations
Data management &
Business
Development
SACAU-Lesotho,
Swaziland
IGARA – Uganda
NUCAFE - Uganda
EAFF-Kenya
PROPAC-Cameroon
ROPPA-Burkina Faso
Field validation
Consortium: CTA, Pan - African Farmers
Organisation, Agricord
& Agricord
Needs requirement
& partner proposals
Pan African Farmers
Organisation

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Results to date:
Registration/reach
0
20,000
40,000
60,000
80,000
100,000
120,000
140,000
160,000
Male Female Total Target
Lesotho Swaziland Nucafe Igara
FEBAP CAFAD EAFF Socoopmata
Registered 54345
Jobs created 51*
Access to credit
667M 449F
11 Countries policy
pledge
1 Country regional
data cube for
Agriculture
4 Organisations
using new
techniques
25 Knowledge
products produced
3 multistakeholder
communities created

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Computation of farms’
areas resulted into …
Ugandan example – Igara Tea Factory
… tailored distribution of
fertilizers

15. Source: IGTF, 2018
0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
Jan-00Jan-00Jan-00Jan-00Jan-00Jan-00Jan-00Jan-00Jan-00
Average raw material
(kg of fresh tea leaves) delivered
Series1 Series2
Leaf collection
0
2,000
4,000
6,000
8,000
10,000
12,000
14,000
2000 2005 2010 2015 2020
metrictons
2nd quarter of year

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Access to credit (cash)
Total number of members of the
SACCO by month and gender
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
Jan-00 Jan-00 Jan-00 Jan-00
Members Axis Title
Series1 Series2
Establishment of a SACCO
Opening date of the of the new IGTF Savings and Credit Co-operative (SACCO) office: 1 February 2018

17. Source: IGTF, 2018
0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
Jan-00Jan-00Jan-00Jan-00Jan-00Jan-00Jan-00Jan-00Jan-00
Average raw material
(kg of fresh tea leaves) delivered
Series1 Series2
Leaf collection
0
2,000
4,000
6,000
8,000
10,000
12,000
14,000
2000 2005 2010 2015 2020
metrictons
2nd quarter of year

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Radio
Q&A interviews on
radio aimed at raising
awareness of farmer
registration
Using National legislation
as basis developing
agreement on use of
farmer data by project
partner (being updated
as appropriate)
Data agreements
Farmer meetings Enumerators
Community meetings
used to present project
to farmers and gain
trust.
Training for enumerators
on how to communicate
with farmers in interviews
for data acquisition
Communication with beneficiaries

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Data system Workshops
Farmers organisation consultation &
expert analysis
Expert discussions
Weather data
Farm data systems
Ethics, policy & law
on farmers data rights

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Digital for Development:
European Development
Days
Dialogue and development community
ICTupdate/Spore

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Strategy support papers
Synthesis of findings & scaling up
Policy communication

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E-Learning
3 x Open Data MOOCs
1 x Land Data MOOC
1790 Trained
Capacity development
Webinars
14 Topics including Data management, publishing,
handling, visualisations
1010 audience
Communities
Capacity Development Working Group 74
Trainers Network 40+
RDA (just formed)
E-agriculture(FAO) Forum discussion
Face-to-Face training
Kenya - Journalists - July 2016
Equador - Policy makers - October 2016
Ghana - Trainers - July 2017
Ethiopia - Policy makers - September 2017
Kenya - Researchers- October 2017
Washington - Infomediaries - March 2018
South Africa - Infomediaries - May 2018
140 Trained (plus awards for 8 new courses 2018)
Workshops/seminars
Creating Impact with open data x 2
Creating Impact with weather data x1
220 attended
Project actions & results
Capacity Development

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GODAN – ACP support
Africa Open Data Conference
ACP members support
Ministerial Nairobi declaration
CAFDO Francophone group
GODAN – Policy groups
Min of Econ Affairs NL
Africa + Caribbean
Policy support

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Chris Addison
Senior programme coordinator, Data4Ag
@chrisaddison on Twitter
addison@cta.int
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