This document provides an overview of technologies developed, tested, and promoted by CIMMYT Ethiopia to improve smallholder agriculture. It summarizes several technologies including conservation agriculture to conserve soil and water, precision agriculture to optimize fertilizer use, relay cropping to increase production, agroforestry to provide suitable microclimates, and pest management approaches. It also discusses small-scale mechanization, post-harvest handling, nutrition-sensitive landscapes, participatory variety selection, and bringing research into use through co-learning and scaling up. The document contains graphs and data supporting the effectiveness of these technologies in Ethiopia.

1. An Overview of the Basket of
Technologies Developed, Tested and
Promoted by CIMMYT Ethiopia
Frédéric Baudron (PhD)
CARE Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, 4th March 2016

2. Conservation Agriculture: Conserving
Soil & Water
0
2
4
6
8
10
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Rainwateruseefficiency
(kggrainmm-1)
Conventional
practice
Conservation
agriculture
CA CP
Tigray
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
0 50 100 150 200 250
Soilloss(tha-1yr-1)
Date (days after planting)
CA CP
Oromia, CRV

3. Precision Agriculture for Smallholder:
Making the best out of Expensive Fertilizers
0.0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
0 25 50 75 100
NDVI
N applied (kg ha-1)
Booting Stage
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
0 25 50 75 100
NDVI
N applied (kg ha-1)
1st Node Stage

4. Strategic Relay Cropping: Producing
More with the Same Resources
27
28
29
30
31
32
0-15 15-30 >30
Soilmoisture(%)
Depth (cm)
Sole maize CONV
Sole maize CA
6.5 ± 1.2 t ha-1 6.5 ± 1.5 t ha-1
27
28
29
30
31
32
0-15 15-30 >30
Soilmoisture(%)
Depth (cm)
Sole maize CONV
Maize-Bean CA
8.6 ± 2.2 t ha-1

5. 0
1
2
3
4
5
6
0 2 4 6 8
Grainyield(tha-1)
Distance from the trunk (m)
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24
Airtemperature(°C)
Time of the day (h)
Outside canopy
Under canopy
Agroforestry: Providing a Suitable
Microenvironment to Crops

6. Pest-Suppressive Farms: Reorganizing
the Farm for Natural Enemies to Take Care of Pests
0
20
40
60
80
1 10 30
Numberofrovebeetles
captured
inyellowpantraps
Distance to ensete field (m)
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
1 10 30
Numberofantscaptured
inpitfalltraps
Distance to dense hedgerow (m)

7. Smallscale Mechanization: Saving
Labour & Increasing Precision of Operations
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
Conv land prep +
seeding
2WT direct
seeding
Time(hoursha-1)
(Data from
Assela,
Ethiopia)
~ 10 L ha-1
+ 50 % wheat yield

8. Importer/
Manufacturers
10 Importers METEC AMIO TGT
Dealers
Service
Providers
End users
Support
sectors
Enabling
environment
Union/
Cooperatives &
individual SPs
Commercial
farmers
Middle
income
farmers
Smallholder
farmers
Women
farmers
Regional
bureau of
Agriculture
Youth groups
Regional
agents
MFI’s Garages
Spare parts
shops
Media
Mechanization
policy
Mechanization
strategy
Testing &
standardization
Financial
policy
Extension
systems
AMTS, ESFRE
Interested
groups
Business Modelling

9. Post-Harvest Technologies: Reducing
Wastes and Losses from the Harvest

10. 4
5
6
7
8
Dietdiversity
(n°foodgroups)
Distance to the forest
χ2 = 110.68
P < 0.0001
Nutrition-Sensitive Landscapes: (1) semi-
natural areas, (2) livestock, and (3) fuelwood
0
20
40
60
Cropproductivity
(GJha-1farmland)
Distance to the forest
F = 0.358
n.s.

11. Farmland Exclosures: Collective Action to
Make Better Use of Available Nutrients
0
1
2
3
4
EF OF
Soilorganicmatter(%)
t = 2.86
P < 0.01
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
3
EF OF
Tefyield(tha-1)
t = 4.68
P < 0.001

12. Biofortification: Improving the Nutritional
Quality of Cereals
Traits Conventional
maize
QPM
Protein > 8 > 8
Lysine in
protein
1.6-2.6 (mean
2.0)
2.7-4.5 (mean
4.0)
Tryptophan in
protein
0.2-0.6 (mean
0.4)
0.5-1.1 (mean
0.8)

13. Identifying the Right Varieties:
Participatory Variety Selection & G×E×M
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
No tree Tree
Leaflength(cm)

14. Research into use: co-learning, D4R,
and scale
(www.n2africa.org)

15. Thank you
for your
interest!
f.baudron@cgiar.org
www.facasi.act-africa.org