Presented by Kindu Mekonnen (ILRI), Solomon Gebreselassie (CIP), Jim Ellis-Jones (Consultant), Steffen Schulz (CIP), Peter Thorne (ILRI), Gebrehiwot Hailemariam (CIP) and Abiyot Aragaw (CIP) at the Africa RISING Training Workshop on Innovation Platforms, Addis Ababa, 23-24 January 2014

1. Summary of Participatory Community
Analysis approaches and findings in
Africa RISING Ethiopia research sites
Kindu Mekonnen (ILRI), Solomon Gebreselassie (CIP), Jim Ellis-Jones (Consultant), Steffen
Schulz (CIP), Peter Thorne (ILRI), Gebrehiwot Hailemariam (CIP) and Abiyot Aragaw (CIP)
Africa RISING Training Workshop on Innovation Platforms
Addis Ababa, 23-24 January 2014

2.  What PCA is about and why we did it?
 How PCA was implemented in AR sites?
 What are the findings from the PCA exercise
(present condition/knowledge, site specific and
cross cutting challenges and opportunities)?
 Suggested interventions based on the PCA
findings!

3. What PCA is about and why we did it?
Participatory Research and Extension Approach
(PREA)
Stage 1: Social mobilisation and community
analysis (PCA)
Stage 2: Action planning
Stage 3: Encouraging local interest groups to try
out new ideas
Stage 4: Sharing experiences

4. How PCA was implemented in AR sites?
 Organized a training program on PCA toolkits for 2
days – trained more than 32 resource persons
(local and cigar partners)
 Conducted field work for 2-3 weeks in 8 AR
kebeles
 Involved 30 to over 40 individuals per Kebele for
information collection

5.  Considered 3 separate groups (men, women and young
men) for discussion in each Kebele

6. The discussion with communities in all AR kebeles
focused mainly on:
 livelihood analysis
 community based institutional analysis
 identification and characterization of farmer
profiles/typologies
 understanding of local farming systems
 prioritization of food and cash crops/livestock
enterprises for different social groups
 value chain analysis for priority crops and livestock
 water harvesting related activities

7.  Discussed with communities on the
possibilities of establishing innovation
platforms at the end of the PCA
exercises
 Produced a report and circulated it for wider
utilization: https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/33789

8. Findings from the PCA exercise (present condition/
knowledge, and site specific and cross cutting challenges, and
opportunities)
Livelihoods
Present condition/ knowledge
Increasing
 Buying and selling
 Remittances, Carpenter
 Eucalyptus
 Lentil
 Labour –working for others
Decreasing
 Cow, Goat, Sheep
 Faba bean, Field pea
 Sorghum, Barley, Maize
 Enset, potato

9. Farmer typologies – link to SLATE
Capital assets
Criteria or indicator
Natural
Land area cropped
Livestock ownership
Perennial crops grown
Access to trees (especially eucalyptus)
Equipment owned including access to irrigation
House type
Annual grain production and quantity sold
Use of credit
Labour hiring
Standing in the kebele
Food security in terms of meals consumed per day
Not identified by PCA participants
Physical
Economic
Social
Human
Poor=20-53%, Average=30-60%, Better resourced=16-30%

10. Crop priorities
Cash
Food

11. Livestock priorities

12. Institutions
Inside kebele
Outside kebele

13. Value chain analysis
Commodities
 Main crops
 Main livestock
 Watershed protection
Approach
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Input acquisition
Production
Storage & processing
Marketing
Analysis
 Present constraints and
priorities for each commodity
 Coping mechanisms
 Opportunity
 Possible interventions

14. Constraints/challenges
 Lack of improved varieties -presently using
own, exchanged or market purchased grain.
 Lack of draft animals and inadequate equipment -results
in late land preparation, late planting and subsequent
yield losses.

15.  Crop pests, weeds and diseases, and poor access to
agro-chemicals).

16.  Depletion of soil fertility (acidity, continuous
cropping), soil erosion and drainage problem + high
fertilizer price.
Urea- 1315.3 birr per 100 kg and DAP-1422.7
birr per 100 kg
Waterlogged wheat field at Goshe Bado

17.  Lack of crop storage facilities and low market prices
 Shortage animal feed and grazing land
 Poor access to veterinary drugs and animal health services
 Water shortage during
the dry periods
 Lack of improved milk
processing
technologies
 Poor household
nutrition (diets lacking
protein + vitamins)lte
rainfall on-set and
early off-set

18. Suggested interventions based on the PCA findings!
Intervention areas
Crops
Improving input supplies
Kebele seed production
Linking farmers to agrodealers
Improving use of pesticides
Improving production
Improving land preparation
Improving soil fertility, reducing
erosion
Improving storage and processing
Improving household nutrition
Improving marketing
Livestock
Improving livestock feeding
Improving livestock health
Linking farmers with agro-vet
suppliers
Supporting CAHWs
Improving breeds
Improving processing (milk)
Improving marketing
Watershed protection, improving access to water
Amhara
Gudo Goshe
Beret Bado
Tigray
Emba Tsibet
Hasti
Oromia
Salka
IluSanbitu
SNNPR
Jawe Upper
Gana
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19. Project partners in Ethiopia

20. Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation
africa-rising.net