Scientific and Technical Partnerships in Africa: Technologies, Platforms, and Partnerships in support of the African agricultural science agenda, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, April 4&5, 2017

1. Harnessing Investments to Transforming Bean
Value Chains for Better Incomes and Diets in
Africa
Jean Claude Rubyogo (CIAT Tanzania )
Technologies, Platforms and Partnerships in support of the African agricultural science agenda
Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire / April 4 and 5, 2017
Your Name

2. Why Beans?: Bean is smart food/crop.
Consumption per capita is higher as 40-50 kg/year in Eastern Africa
Major source of cash of poor and women: Up to 50-90 % of harvest
commercialized

3. Beans for economic growth: value addition, nutritious
convenient food employment and wealth creation
 Value in addition : processing
 Employment creations
 Investment opportunities

4. Market led breeding since 2002
 wider market:
Red mottled
Local and
regional market
Navy beans:
Export market (EU,
Asia)
Sugar: Regional
and international
export market
RLarge Kidney:
Local, regional
and export
market

5. Investment areas along the bean value chain development
Production Post-harvest/storage Processing Marketing
Variety development Seed systems
Seed systems
Crop establishment Drying Canning Packaging
Weeding Grading pre -cooking Transport
Fertilization Winnowing Grinding
Irrigation Cleaning
Crop protection Storage
Harvesting
Crop insurance

6. National
/local Govts
PABRA’s investors
Private sector
(Value chains
actors)
CIAT/PABRA
BANKABLE AND
TRANSFOMATIVE BEAN
BASED PRODUCTS
TO INCREASE
VALUE CHAIN ACTORS’
INCOMES AND
CONSUMERS’ DIETS
Funding partners
GAC, SDC, BMZ,
IDRC, BMGF,
SYNGENTA F,
IRISH AID,
USAID/AGRA etc.

7. Increasing number of bean producers in East and
Southern Africa
0
40
80
120
160
200
33
6 6
75
2
61
16
92
188
11
Numberofseedproducers
2009 2015

9. Increased seed production under variety license by
KALRO in Western Kenya
40
200
0
50
100
150
200
250
2015 2016
Amount(tons)ofbeanseed
produced
Year
 Licensing addresses some of the
institutional barriers on accessing
early generation seed (breeder)
 It incentives private sector to invest
in seed production

10. Transformation Institutional change with
strategic/influential organizations e. Agricultural Seed
Agency (Tanzania)
Before 2014 From 2015-2016
Agro dealers –network establishment and sale of small pack approach through agro-dealers network in Tanzania

11. Farmer access to bean varieties seed through agro-dealer
network- Northern Tanzania
Year Numbe
r of
Varietie
s
Amount
Produced
by ASA (t)
Amount
Sold to
Agrodealers
(t)
Total No.
Farmers
reached
2015 4 37.2 12.1 845
2016 3 143 20.42 5654
Demand creation through agro-dealers based and
managed demos pulls farmers to use to certified
seed.
Seed companies and rural agro – dealers facilitate
the last mile reach to farmers (reduce distance for
farmers to get seed)

12. Seed access for wider impact (2012-2016)
• 96,230.9 tons of certified/quality declared produced
across 22 countries enough to plant about 1.4 million
hectares
• 490 seed producers engaged in bean seed production
• Ten seed producers adopted small packs approaches
(100 -1000g compared to the normal 2000 g)
• Approach expanded to other legumes in 20 countries

13. Beans for employment creation
 E.g. Ethiopia export about USD 120 M in 2015:
employing about 1.5 millions of small holders,
thousands direct and indirect people

14. Bean types/
grades Open Close High
Lo
w Change Vol_Ton
RWPA5 695 695 695 695 0 20.00
RWPA4 725 725 725 717 0 100.00
RWPA4 707 707 707 707 0 100.00
RWPA3 720 735 740 715 15 240.00
FWPA3 702 702 702 700 0 360.00
250,000
tons navy
beans will
be traded
on the
exchange
floor in
2015.
ECX White Pea (Navy)Beans Contract
1. Contract Classification and
Grades
2. Grading Parameters
3. Standard Trading Terms
4. Standard Settlement Terms
5. Standard Delivery terms
Some of the PABRA Beans traded on the
Ethiopian Commodity Exchange

15. Over 200% increase in bean
productivity: from 0.53 tons/ha
to 1.75 tons/ha between 2002
and 2014
(FAO, 2016)
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
1.2
1.4
1.6
1.8
2
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
Year
Increased bean productivity (t/ha): Ethiopia (2002-2014)

16. Looking Forward…
 Market and private sector Focus :
• Fine tune demand led breeding -
• Barriers across the countries e.g. licensing and branding of varieties
• Corridor as new business models to consolidate investments
• Forecasting demand (varieties, clients and quantity)
• Policy environment
• Market information (ICT)
 Bundling technologies to reduce of climate risk (genotypes/management e.g., testing
the crop insurance /timely widely control)
 Application of the model to other legumes
 Cross border trade and regional value chains
 Advocacy and evidence for supporting enhanced nutrition
 Changes in the corridors including production, poverty, nutrition