This document discusses sorghum and millet development initiatives in Eastern and Central Africa led by ASARECA. ASARECA's vision is to be a regional leader in agricultural research and development to improve livelihoods. It conducts research on generation of improved technologies, dissemination, enabling policies, and capacity building. Past research includes projects on integrated striga management, pearl millet production, and sorghum value addition. Future areas of focus include markets/value chains, food/nutrition quality, yield stability, biotic/abiotic stress management, and genetic resources utilization. Public-private partnerships are important for innovation given changing agricultural research and development needs in the region.
The Brussels Development Briefing n. 57 on “Investing in smallholder agriculture for food security and nutrition” organised by CTA, the European Commission/EuropeAid and the ACP Secretariat was held on Wednesday 11th September 2019, 9h00-13h00 at the ACP Secretariat, Avenue Georges Henri 451, 1200 Brussels, Room C. The Briefing discussed smallholder agriculture and its key role in delivering food security/nutrition, and sustainable food systems, as recognised in SDG 2.
Presentation hold by Marie Antoinette Haba, Head of cooperation and development, Ministry of Agriculture and focal point on GIs of OAPI, at the Brussels Briefing ‘Geography of food: reconnecting with origin in the food system’, organized by CTA on 15th May 2013.
More on: http://brusselsbriefings.net/
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The Brussels Development Briefing n. 57 on “Investing in smallholder agriculture for food security and nutrition” organised by CTA, the European Commission/EuropeAid and the ACP Secretariat was held on Wednesday 11th September 2019, 9h00-13h00 at the ACP Secretariat, Avenue Georges Henri 451, 1200 Brussels, Room C. The Briefing discussed smallholder agriculture and its key role in delivering food security/nutrition, and sustainable food systems, as recognised in SDG 2.
Presentation hold by Marie Antoinette Haba, Head of cooperation and development, Ministry of Agriculture and focal point on GIs of OAPI, at the Brussels Briefing ‘Geography of food: reconnecting with origin in the food system’, organized by CTA on 15th May 2013.
More on: http://brusselsbriefings.net/
B4FA 2012 Ghana: Seed Trade Environment in Ghana - Daniel Otungeb4fa
Presentation by Daniel Otunge, African Agricultural Technology Foundation
Delivered at the B4FA Media Dialogue Workshop, Accra, Ghana - September 2012
www.b4fa.org
Harold Roy-Macauley's presentation on "Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice): A CGIAR research center and pan-African association of member countries" to the World Bank delegation from Côte d'Ivoire led by Mr Pierre Laporte, World Bank Country Director for Côte d'Ivoire, Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea, and Togo based in Abidjan, visited AfricaRice headquarters on 15 July 2016. The other members of the delegation were Mr Abdoulaye Touré, Lead Agricultural Economist and Task Team Leader of WAAPP-World Bank (Africa Bureau); and Mr Taleb Ould Sid Ahmed, Senior Communications Officer. Mr Hiroshi Hiraoka, Senior Agriculture Economist, AFTA2, World Bank and member of the Coalition for African Rice Development (CARD) Steering Committee also accompanied the delegation.
Tawanda Muzhingi presents an overview of Flagship Project 4 'Nutritious food and added value' of the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB), during the 18th Triennial Symposium of the International Society of Tropical Roots Crops (ISTRC) in October 2018.
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The panel discussion was organized as part of the Third Edition of the Agra Innovate West Africa Conference, on 23 November 2016 in Lagos, Nigeria, with support from the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) and the Nigeria Agribusiness Group (NABG).
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Sixth bulletin of the quarterly publication of Tropical Legumes III (TL III) ...Tropical Legumes III
This edition of the bulletin features: Key highlights, achievements, lessons learnt during year 1 of project implementation and success stories from the field.
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The panel discussion was organized as part of the Third Edition of the Agra Innovate West Africa Conference, on 23 November 2016 in Lagos, Nigeria, with support from the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) and the Nigeria Agribusiness Group (NABG).
AfricaRice Director General Dr Harold Roy-Macauley leading the panel discussion on "Africa Riceing : Mobilizing and applying science and complementary resources to achieve self–sufficiency in rice in Africa." at the 7th Africa Agriculture Science Week and FARA General Assembly, Kigali, Rwanda, on 14 June 2016
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Harold Roy-Macauley's presentation on "Global research partnership efforts: tackling food and environmental challenges in sub-Saharan Africa" at the Sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VI) Side Event organized by the World Bank on the “Future of Food in sub-Saharan Africa: Reviewing progress, charting next steps” held in Nairobi, Kenya, 26 August 2016.
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Developing Sorghum and Millet in Eastern and Central Africa
1. Sorghum and Millet Development in Africa: Experiences
and Initiatives from Eastern and Central Africa
PPP Platform Meeting, Montpellier-France, October 27-29, 2015
Brian E. Isabirye, Ph.D.
Sustainable Agriculture, Food Security and Nutrition (SAFSN) Theme
2. Eastern and Central Africa-ECA
• Food pdn < population growth while
poverty
• Similar challenges (and opportunities)
across ECA
• Similar AEZs and development
domains hence same TIMPs
• Share TIMPs in regional collective
action, collaboration and specialization
3. ASARECA
……
Vision
Regional leader in AR4D for improved
livelihoods in ECA
Mission
Enhance regional collective action in
AR4D, to promote economic growth, fight
poverty, eradicate hunger and enhance
sustainable use of resources in ECA.
Goal
Enhanced sustainable productivity, value
added and competitiveness of the sub-
regional agricultural system
4. What we do
• Generation of TIMPs for the sub-region.
• Dissemination and up-scaling of TIMPs.
• Enabling policy environment for AR4D.
• Enhance institutional and stakeholder capacities
• SR knowledge, information and learning platform
7. Sorghum, a Global Snapshot
• Sorghum supply and demand in broad balance over the medium period
• Ethanol use to rise, but at a slower pace than recently
• Food use gains mostly linked to population growth in Africa
• Low investment in seed variety improvement could limit growth in yields.
International Grain Council, 2014
8. Africa-Semi-arid tropics
• Inhabited by much of the world’s
poorest
• Unpredictable climate, low/erratic
rainfall and poor soils
• Inadequate physical and social
infrastructure
Temp: 15 to 45o
C (optimum 23 to 40o
C)
Day length: 10 to 14 hrs
Rainfall 700 to 1500 mm
Relative humidity 15 to 80%
Sorghum Requirement
9. 19% of Global Production
Sorghum
in ECA
FAOSTAT, USDA, Harvest Choice
16. Sorghum-Millet Research
Integrated Technologies for Drought Mitigation and Increasing Smallholder Sorghum
Productivity
Enhance sustainable productivity of smallholder sorghum systems in drought prone
areas of ECA
Countries: Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Tanzania and Sudan
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research, Eritrea, National Agricultural
Research Institute Kenya, Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, Sudan,
Agricultural Research Corporation and Tanzania, DRT Uyole Research Institute
Integrated Striga Management for Improved Sorghum Productivity in ECA
Identify evaluate and promote integrated Striga management technologies.
Striga resistant lines released for commercial use in Sudan, ASAECAT1, ASARECAW2, ASARECAAG3,
Countries Tanzania, Ethiopia, Sudan and Uganda
DRT, Ministry of Agriculture (Tanzania), EIAR (Ethiopia), ARC (Sudan), NARO
(Uganda) Uyole Agricultural Research Institute, Tanzania
17. Sorghum-Millet Research
Integrating Pearl Millet Production Practices with Sustainable Natural Resource
Management for Improved Food Security In Drought Stressed Environments
Introduction of genetically superior pearl millet varieties and integrated production
practices under environmentally friendly application to revolutionize food availability
and supply in these frequently food deficit regions
Countries Kenya, Sudan, Eritrea, Tanzania
KARI (Kenya), DRT, Ministry of Agriculture (Tanzania), ARC (Sudan), NARI
(Eritrea), ICRISAT
Increasing Sorghum Utilisation and Marketability through Food Product
Diversification
Diversifying sorghum products through value-adding processing to give the
convenience and quality desired by modern consumers.
Countries: Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda
DRD, Ministry of Agriculture (Tanzania),: Kenya Industrial Research and
Development Institute (Kenya), NARO (Uganda) Ilonga Agricultural Research
Institute, Tanzania
18. Sorghum-Millet Research
Sustainable Intensification of Sorghum-Legume System to Improve Livelihood and
Adaptation to Climate Change in Semi-Arid Areas of ECA
•Integration and validation of staple crop management practices to mitigate the effect of drought and
climate change.
•Addressing regional threats for sustainable improvement in the productivity and competitiveness;
•Enhancing productivity, value addition and access to regional and global markets
Countries: Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, Eritrea
Pearl Millet Innovations for Improved Livelihoods in Drought-Prone Areas of Eastern
and Central Africa (ECA)
•Harnessing the opportunities along the pearl millet value chain from production to consumption as key to
increased productivity and utilization.
•Adaptive approach, developing and delivering crop, cropping systems and value chain innovations, taking
advantage of local knowledge institutions and comparative advantages.
Countries: Tanzania, Kenya, Sudan, Eritrea
19.
20. Success Story: Sorghum Seed businesses taking root in
Tanzania
Fatuma Ramazani- Singida: Got involved in seed
production in 2011. Was trained on seed
production by ASARECA-SLI & registered to
produce QDS. Obtains foundation seed from
Hombolo & multiplies on 1 1/2 acres. In 2012,
she harvested 25 bags selling seed at 100,000
Tshs/bag (US$ 63). Grain of the same quantity
sells at 60,000 Tshs (US$ 38). She invests at least
300,000 Tshs ((US$ 188) for labour, inputs,
harvesting, weeding etc & the business is
profitable. Her clients come from Singida &
Manyara. She has benefitted from the QDS seed
venture through building a bigger store, sending
her 2 children to private school & completed her
house.
21. Policy and Advocacy
Rationalization and Harmonization of
Policies, Laws, Regulations and
Procedures for Key Agricultural Sectors in
ECA Project
22. 1. The regional approach to biotechnology and biosafety in eastern and southern Africa (RABESA)
• COMESA policy on commercial planting of GMOs, trade in GM products and access to emergency food aid with
• GM content approved in the 5th
Joint COMESA Meeting of Ministers of Agriculture, Environment and Natural
Resources, 16-20 September 2013 in Addis Ababa
• A communication strategy to create awareness about the COMESA biosafety harmonization agenda
• A biosafety roadmap - to support countries establish and implement functional biosafety
23. • COMESA seed trade harmonization regulations
• Regional Variety Catalogue
• Regional Quarantine Pest List
• 7 National Performance Trials (NPT) Protocols
• Interagency Seed Certification Scheme
2. Harmonisation of seed standards, regulations and procedures in ECA (HESSREP)
• Improved skills and collaboration among
regulators
• Regional release of varieties
• Regional seed potato standard
24. •Sudan Seed Trade Association•Sudan Seed Trade Association
•Ethiopia Seed Trade Association
•Seed Proclamation 2013
•Ethiopia Seed Trade Association
•Seed Proclamation 2013
•South Sudan roadmap for seed industry
policy reform
•National seed policy taskforce
•South Sudan roadmap for seed industry
policy reform
•National seed policy taskforce
•Seed Trade Association of Rwanda (STAR)
•Ministerial decree 002/11.30 Seed production
•Ministerial decree 002/11.30 Seed marketing
•Ministerial decree 002/11.30 Seed pricing
•Seed Trade Association of Rwanda (STAR)
•Ministerial decree 002/11.30 Seed production
•Ministerial decree 002/11.30 Seed marketing
•Ministerial decree 002/11.30 Seed pricing
•Inter Professional Seed
Association (AISC)
•Inter Professional Seed
Association (AISC)
•Seed Trade Association of Burundi (COPROSEBU)
•Seed Act (2012)
•Draft Plant Variety Protection Bill
•Draft Seed Act (Regulations) 2013
•Draft Seed Act (Phytosanitary) Regulations
•Draft Seed Act (Seed Import and Export) Regulations
•Seed Trade Association of Burundi (COPROSEBU)
•Seed Act (2012)
•Draft Plant Variety Protection Bill
•Draft Seed Act (Regulations) 2013
•Draft Seed Act (Phytosanitary) Regulations
•Draft Seed Act (Seed Import and Export) Regulations
•Seed and Plant Varieties Act (Seed Regulations) Draft
•Plant Variety Protection Bill
•Plant Health Bill
•Inspection and certification manual for vegetatively
propagated material
•Seed and Plant Varieties Act (Seed Regulations) Draft
•Plant Variety Protection Bill
•Plant Health Bill
•Inspection and certification manual for vegetatively
propagated material
•Malagasy Seed Variety Catalogue 2010•Malagasy Seed Variety Catalogue 2010
•Plant Variety Protection Act 2012•Plant Variety Protection Act 2012
•Seed and Plant Varieties Act (Seed
Regulations) Draft
•Plant Variety Protection Bill
•Plant Health Bill
•Inspection and certification manual
for vegetative propagated material
•Seed and Plant Varieties Act (Seed
Regulations) Draft
•Plant Variety Protection Bill
•Plant Health Bill
•Inspection and certification manual
for vegetative propagated material
National Level initiatives
Strengthened national seed trade associations
25. 3. Regional data portal on agricultural inputs and food price trends
AGMEMOD price forecasting model
27. Main Focus…
• Growth of markets and value chains for sorghum and millet
• Food and nutritional quality to enhance marketability and consumer
health
• Increase the stability and yield through sustainable crop, soil, and water
mgt
• Mgt of biotic stresses and abiotic to increase grain yield and quality
• Improve stability and yield through use of genetic technologies…
Biotechnology!
• Enhance regional sorghum and millet genetic resources/ biodiversity
utilization
28. PPP in ECA• PPPs have long been a way in ECA, albeit mostly informally:
Private and public sectors have long been involved in innovation
User engagement by the private sector is standard practice
• Changing patterns of AR4D necessitate:
R and D capacity for regional/ global markets
Approaches cannot be only public sector, but both
• Increasing consensus that PPPs offer important potentials:
New innovation pathways and New capacity,
New skills and New markets,
New hardware and software.
Name Country Crop Lead Partner
Tanzania Corridor Project
(SAGCOT)
Tanzania Prorustica and AgDevCo (co-leads)
Unilever, Yara, AGRA, USAID, Diageo, DuPont,General Mills,
Monsanto, SAB Miller, Syngenta,Standard Bank (Stanbic), National
MicrofinanceBank, Norfund, Food and Organisation (FAO), and The
World EconomicBank, Norfund, Food and Agriculture Agriculture
Tanzanian maize seed Tanzania Maize Root Capital Tanzanian government; CIMMYT; Tanseed; AGRA
Triple bagging East & Central Africa Cowpea BMGF; IITA; World Vision; Niger National
Ug99 wheat Africa Wheat SFSA Syngenta Seeds; CIMMYT;
VIRCA (Virus resistant
cassava for Africa)
Africa Cassava Monsanto Danforth Centre; USAID
Virus resistant sweet potato Kenya Monsanto Danforth Centre; USAID
WEMA
Kenya, Tanzania;
Mozambique; S Africa;
Uganda
Maize AATF
USAID; KARI; ARC-Roodeplaat Vegetable and Ornamental Plant
Institute of South Africa; ISAAA, BMGF; Buffett; CIMMYT; Monsanto;
National ag research organisation for Kenya, Tanzania; Mozambique;
S Africa; Uganda
29. Name Country Crop Lead Partner
Affordable credit to
community-based
enterprises in Africa
Rwanda, Tanzania,
Uganda and Kenya
Coffee Root Capital USAID
African woman in R&D
(AWARD)
Africa
Capacity-
building
BMGF Rockefeller; CGIAR; BMGF; CGIAR; Novus; Dow.
BecA E&C Africa Bioscience NA Universities; NARS; Research Institutes; SFSA; Private Sector
Biofortified Sorghum stage I Africa Sorghum Africa Harvest DuPont; BMGF; ICRISAT
Cassava improvement Global Cassava Danforth Centre DOW
Double coffee incomes of
small scale farmers in East
Africa
Rwanda; Tanzania Coffee Techno serve BMGF.
Drumnet Kenya Software Technology Ltd PrideAfrica
Farmers' Friend Uganda AppLab BRODSI
Golden rice Global Rice Golden Rice Humanitarian Board Rockefeller Foundation; Syngenta; SDC; SFSA;Harvest Plus; IRRI
Good cocoa growing
practices
Cote D'Ivoire; Togo;
Nigeria; Tanzania;
Uganda
Cocoa OLAM Blommer Choc (Rainforest alliance certified) and Nestle (Fairtrade).
Grofin/ASPIRE
E+W Africa; Kenya,
Rwanda, Tanzania and
Ugand
General Shell Foundation Grofin; Foundations of Deutsche Bank America,Skoll, SFSA
Harnessing Modern Science
in Africa to Sustain Sorghum
and Pearl Millet Production
for Resource
Kenya; Ethiopia
Sorghum;
pearl millet
Syngenta NARS in Kenya and Ethiopia
IMAS SSA Maize CIMMYT Pioneer; Gates; USAID; South African ARC;KARI
Improve food processing in
Africa
Africa General Mills USAID; Prefar
Improving Tef with MM Ethiopia Tef :SFSA Uni of Bern; Ethiopian Inst. Ag Res; BecA
Index-based micro-insurance:
Kilimo salama
Kenya
Crop
insurance
SFSA
CETRAD; UAP Ins; Syt E Africa; Swiss Re;MicroEnsure; Safaricom;
MEA; Kenya Met Office; IFC
Investments in cotton and
sesame in Uganda
Uganda
Cotton;
sesame
OLAM Northern Uganda regional government
IRMA III
Ethiopia, Kenya,
Malawi, Mozambique,
Tanzania,
Maize SFSA CIMMYT; Kenya Ag Res Inst
Name Country Crop Lead Partner
30. Name Country Crop Lead Partner
Kenya avocado clusters Kenya Avocado USAID Emerging Markets Group Limited; East African Growers
Kenya Farmers' Helpline Kenya Kencall GSMA Foundation
Kenya Horticultural
Development Programme
Kenya Horticulture USAID
12 public and private sector partners; DelMonte, Premier Foods;
Sunripe; Vegpro
Kenyan smallholders market
led extension
Kenya General SFSA Technoserve; Syngenta E Africa
KickStart
Tanzania, Burkina Faso,
Kenya, Mali
General Kickstart
The Skoll Foundation; The Lemelson Foundation;The John Deere
Foundation; The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; USAID & DFID
(past)
Mango and passion fruit
farmers in Uganda and Kenya
Kenya; Uganda Technoserve Gates; Coca-cola; coca-cola Sabco
Money for Honey Kenya Honey HoneyCare Africa NGO's
NUE, DT and ST Rice for
Africa
Africa Rice USAID
African Agricultural Technology Foundation(Kenya), Arcadia
Biosciences (USA), National Agricultural Research Systems in Ghana,
BurkinaFaso, Uganda and Nigeria, for Tropical Agriculture
(Colombia), PIPRA (USA).International Centre
OAF Bean Seed
Commercialisation Project
Kenya Beans One Acre Fund AGRA; SFSA; Private Seed Cos
Organic Cotton Industry
Uganda
Uganda Cotton USAID Dunavant
Project Novella
Tanzania; Ghana;
Nigeria
Allanblackia Unilever Multiple local NGO's & government agencies
SABIMA Africa General FARA
SFSA; NARS of Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya,Malawi, Nigeria and
Uganda
Seeds of Development
Program
East and Southern
Africa
General Market Matters Inc SFSA; Rockefeller; USAID; DFID; Cornell
SKEP (DuPont-IRRI) Rice DuPont IRRI
StrigAway E Africa Maize BASF IITA; AATF; CIMMYT; BMGF
Sustaining Partnerships to
Enhance Rural Enterprise and
Agribusiness Development
(SPREAD)
Rwanda Pyrethrum USAID SC Johnson; Société de Pyrèthre au Rwanda Co LtD
Tanzania Agricultural
Partnership (TAP)
Tanzania General
Tanzanian Government; Norad; Yara; MS Tanzania; numerous others
including Syngenta,Monsanto, local NGO's
31. Some lessons… the down side!
•Diverting capacity and resources: Publicly funded facilities, staff, funds allocated
to high value cash crops…at the expense of other important crops…
•Market segregation approaches with unknown, potentially negative impacts.
For instances in cases where subsidies for the poor are provided….
•Lack of risk management arrangements of PPPs, and poor poverty targeting and
analysis…
•Poor mapping of impact pathways – In many cases one cannot really say they
are pro poor or not. There have also been cases where the interests of the poor
have been ignored….
•Exclusive licensing arrangements emerge – potentially excluding opportunities/
not expanding them – with negative affects on market structure
32. Those that work…
• Partnerships are built around real demands for unique technologies…not just supply of
traditional commodities or products…
• Farmers are involved from lower end (technology development) to the upstream
segments of the value chain (technology transfer)…
• Link AR4D and technology transfer with learning by doing through participatory
monitoring and evaluation by multiple stakeholders….say innovation platforms…
• Ensure a genuine demand led approach by building innovation platforms for partnership
development, hence avoid ad hoc supply driven responses…
• Address power imbalances in partnerships explicitly, negotiating objectives and claims
for all partners in the platform/ value chains, especially farmers/ the poor
• Develop strategies to manage and mitigate the range of potential risks, including
regulatory and IP issues…
• Analyse impact pathways - and base pro-poor claims on better evidence…rather than
adhoc arrangements
33. ASARECA projects receive technical and financial support from
European Union
COMESA FARA CIMMYT CORAF CARDESSA
Our collaborating partners