Presented by Jerry Glover, USAid at the Africa RISING Planning Meeting, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 17-18 September 2012

1. Introduction to the Africa RISING Program
Jerry Glover, USAid
Africa RISING Planning Meeting, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 17-18 September 2012

2. Management Structure
Program Research Framework Program Coordination Team
Task Force (IITA, ILRI, IFPRI, USAID)
Information/data Systems Team Communications Team
(IFPRI) (ILRI, USAID)
West Africa Project
Ethiopian Highlands Project E&SA Project
Steering Committee
Steering Committee (ILRI) Steering Committee (IITA)
(IITA)
FY2012 Activities
1. Program design 2. ‘Quick Start’ projects

3. Africa RISING
Program Purpose and Objectives
Provide pathways out of hunger and poverty for small holder families,
particularly for women and children, through sustainably intensified
farming systems that sufficiently improve food, nutrition, and income
security and conserve or enhance the natural resource base.
• Identify demand-driven sustainable intensification options that are
socially acceptable, economically feasible, and environmentally sound
• Combine and adapt these options to address constraints and exploit
opportunities.
• Evaluate their effectiveness at multiple scales.
• Catalyze ongoing sustainable farm intensification.

4. Africa RISING
Program Outcomes
• Whole farm productivity
• Natural resource management
• Connect to markets & input suppliers
• Nutrition and poverty, especially
women and children
• Economic & environmental resilience

6. Africa RISING
Beyond tradeoffs?
• Increase above- and below-ground biomass to
improve soil health & system productivity (e.g.,
fertilizer trees, legumes, N/P fertilization)
• Diversification (crop & enterprise) for greater
resilience, productivity, and nutrition
• Integrating livestock and mechanization into
conservation agriculture
• Improve water productivity to reduce risk & enhance
investment

7. Africa RISING
Other ‘Quick Start’ projects: Examples
• East & Southern Africa: “Value chain analysis of grain legumes”
• IITA (Lead Center), Dry Grain Pulse CRSP, Sokoine Univ., TZ Ag.
Res. Inst., Univ. Malawi, Zambia Ag Res. Inst., SIMLEZA project,
Nat’l Smallholder Farmers Assoc.-Malawi, ICRISAT, CIAT
• West Africa: “Increased nutritional and economic levels of women &
children”
• ICRISAT (Lead Center), Peanut CRSP, INTSORMIL CRSP,
SANREM CRSP, IER, IITA