Informing Food and Nutrition Security Poilcy and Practice : Strengthening the Agriculture –Nutrition Nexus and improving Outcomes

1. Dr. Aboubakar Njoya
Director of Research and Innovations
CORAF/WECARD
Cross-Learning Workshop and Writeshop
Informing Food and Nutrition Security Poilcy and
Practice : Strengthening the Agriculture –Nutrition
Nexus and improving Outcomes
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September 21 – 25 , 2015
Dakar , Senegal
INITIATIVES BY CORAF/WECARD
IN WEST AND CENTRAL AFRICA

2. 1. Overview of CORAF/WECARD
2. Overview of the Second Operational Plan
(2014-2018)
3. Tools for Partnerships and Synergies
4. Improving Food and Nutrition Security in
West Africa : Initiatives by CORAF
5. Some Key Results
Presentation Outline

3. 433 M
inhabitants
Sustainable reduction in poverty
and food insecurity in WCA through
an increase in agriculture-led
economic growth and sustainable
improvement of key aspects of the
agricultural research system
NARS of 23
countries
Created in
1987
1. Profile of CORAF/WECARD
Sustainable improvements to the
productivity, competitiveness and
markets of the agricultural systems
in WCA by meeting the key
demands of the sub regional
research system as expressed by
target groups
12 M km2
Surface area
1.25 US$ a day
< 48.5%
74% engaged
in agriculture
Growth rate :
7%
Food demand
> 60 – 80%
Average yield
Gap: 75%
VISION
MISSION

4. Core Functions of CORAF/WECARD
• Convert information to
knowledge & disseminate
• Establish innovation
platforms & support
experiential learning
• Provide information on
strategic options
• Influence policies
• Mobilise financial
resources
• Create & maintain expertise
• Foster institutional
strengthening
• Develop competence in
implementing IAR4D
• Encourage common
planning, fin. & admin.
systems
• Pool resources
• Support FAAP compliant
programmes
Coordinate
NARS
Strengthen
NARS
capacity
Knowledge
Management
Advocacy
End users/producers

5. Second Operational Plan (2014-2018)
Strategic Alignment
Key Aspects
• Links with MDGs, CAADP & Malabo Declaration 2014 and
FARA’s S3A
• Alignement to regional policies (ECOWAS, UEMOA, ECCAS,
CEMAC)
• Coherence with FAAP principles
• Programme Approach
• IAR4D – Innovation System & Value Chain Approach
Cross cutting
Issues
• Poverty reduction
• Food, Nutrition & Health
• Environnemental Sustainability/Climate Smart Agriculture
• Gender & Social Development
• Youth Entrepreneurship & Employment

6. Second Operational Plan (2014-2018)
Three priority themes identified by stakeholders, which are in line with
CAADP and the Agricultural Policies of the Regional Economic
Communities (RECs) of West and Central Africa
Theme 1: Food, Health and Nutrition – linking
agriculture with nutrition, food safety and health
(zoonosis and endemic diseases)
Theme 2: Markets and Trade – commercialization
and access to input & outputs markets through policy
support and continued engagement with value chains
and trade to drive markets
Theme 3: Sustainable Agriculture – challenges
posed by climate change, pest and diseases of livestock
and crops, biodiversity, agricultural livelihoods,
mechanization, harvest processes, post harvest
handling , storage and equipment

7. Second Operational Plan (2014-2018)
Six Programs
(i) Livestock, Fisheries and Aquaculture; (ii) Crops; (iii) Natural Resources
Management; (iv) Biotechnology and Biosafety; (v) Policy, Markets and Trade;
(vi) Capacity Strengthening and Coordination
Five Result Areas
Result 1: Increased use of appropriate technologies and innovations in WCA
Result 2: Increased uptake of strategic decision making options for policy,
institutions and markets
Result 3: Enhanced institutional and human capacity in agricultural
research for development
Result 4: Demand for agricultural knowledge form target client facilitated
and met
Result 5: Result delivery effectively managed by the CORAF/WECARD ES

8. CORAF’s Tools for Partnership and Synergies
 Competitive and commissioned project
schemes addressing focus areas
 Integrated Agricultural Research for
Development (IAR4D) paradigm based on
innovation systems thinking:
– Multi-stakeholders: producers and producers’
organizations, NGOs, Universities, Private Sector,
Extension, etc. ;
– Multi-level engagement
– Innovation platforms and value chains approach
 Research consolidated around National
Centers of Specialization within NARIs

9. CORAF’s Tools for Partnership and Synergies
Regional Competitive & Commissioned Projects
27
11
9
6
3
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
NARIs Facilitated
by C/W
Universities NGOs, Fos Regional
centers
NARIs
Facilitated by C/W
Universities
NGOs, Fos
Regional centers

10. CORAF’s Tools for Partnership and Synergies
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2
1
9
4
5
6
8
1
3 7
2
9
4
5
6
8
Céréales sèches
Riz
Fruits et légumes
Elevage
Riz de mangrove
Banane plantain
Racines et tubercules
Maïs
Aquaculture
3
WALIC
CIRDES
FARCHA
PRASAC
CARBAP
Regional Centres of Excellence

11. Supporting sustainable productivity, improvement
and competitiveness of dairy in WCA (Amprolait)
• A balanced dairy cow feed ration based
on locally available feed resources
• Increased milk yield up to 5 l/d per cow
against 1-2 l
• Good practices for managing milk
quality along the value chain developed

12. Sustainable Integrated pond based Aquaculture
with Rice and Poultry Production
• A sustainable integrated aquaculture system with rice
and poultry production developed
• Low cost and good quality floating fish feed using locally
available feedstuffs
• Technique for mass production of African catfish and Nile
tilapia

13. A Improving food safety, food quality and income poor actors
of the value chain of peanut by reducing aflatoxin
Three groundnut varieties (ICGV
93305, ICGV 91317 and ICGV
91328) resistant to aflatoxin
1,5 Mt of breeder seeds of a very
short duration variety
produced in Senegal for
multiplication
Innovation Platforms were set up:
2 in Senegal, 1 in Ghana and 2
in Mali

14. Enhancing Productivity, Competitiveness and Marketing of
Traditional African (leafy) Vegetables ( TAV)
•25 AVRDC best adapted lines of traditional African Vegetables
Improved production technologies disseminated (varieties,
pest management, plastic and grass mulch, drip irrigation,
organic manure)
•Improved processing and storage options for better market
and increased income
•Use of nutrition‐enhancing culinary options for more nutritious
and diversified diets

15. Development Support Project and the competitiveness
of local food processing (PADEC/ETA)
• Support competitiveness of local food
processing in Burkina Faso-Mali-Côte
d'Ivoire
• Build capacities of 245 members of
IPs (138 women ) on financial
management, marketing and
development of their processing
units
• Upgrading the standards of
processing units: renovation and
provision of new equipments

16. Partnership between research and producer organizations for improved quality and a
better start of the processed products of priority agricultural sectors in Senegal,
Togo, Niger and Benin [PROPAQ]
• 03 processing units with 04 equipments
(3 feeders of 1.0 HP and 01 pineapple
processing unit of 4.5 HP) acquired
• One Innovation platform set up in Benin
• 135 people (of which 88 were women
)received training in administrative and
financial management, hygiene and
quality management

17. Packaged GARI A farmer displays local bread produced
from Cassava flour
Key Results: Introduction of maize flour in backery
Machine for Cassava processing Finished Cassava Product on display

18. Training of Women and Youth in Food Processing
Before
After
After
After

19. Enhanced Technology Exchange Among WA Countries
KEY:
Improved varieties of rice
Improved varieties of Maize
Improved varieties of sweet potato
Improved varieties of millet
Multi-nutritional Blocks
Improved varieties of sorghum
E-extension
Improved varieties of cassava
Dried meat (Kilichi)
Yam
Post Harvest Bags
Thermostable vaccines
Animal Breeds
Planter
Bread flour
Cane planter
Rice steamer

20. Publications of Cooking Books

21. Conclusion
CORAF’s programs have generated technologies and
innovations in Food and Nutrition Security that are
impacting on livelihoods in WCA. These are being
consolidated in the Second OP to scale-up
dissemination and adoption for more impact
CORAF is the unique Institution which facilitates a
greater regional spill-over of technology and
innovation, and significant cross-boundary responses
to strategic issues that require regional approaches.

22. Thank You For Your Attention