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Approaches and interventions to make SI function in the Ethiopian Highlands: Africa RISING experience
1. Approaches and Interventions to Make SI
Function in the Ethiopian Highlands: Africa
RISING Experience
Kindu Mekonnen and Peter Thorne (ILRI)
Echo East Africa Symposium on Best Practices in Improved Nutrition
and Sustainable Agriculture in Highland Areas, Rwanda, 26-28
November 2019
3. One Program - four Projects.
o Mixed Cereal-Legume-Livestock systems in West
Africa
o Mixed Cereal-Legume-Livestock systems in
East/Southern Africa
o Crop-Livestock systems in the Ethiopian
Highlands
o M&E and data management
Funded by USAID BFS through the FtF initiatives.
Duration: 2012- Sept 2016 (Phase I) and Oct 2016-2021
(Phase II).
Africa RISING- Africa Research In Sustainable
Intensification for the Next Generation
Background
4. Focusses, targets and operational areas
Focus on SI of mixed farming systems to
contribute to:
o climate smart development- food security
o gender equitable development
o improved nutrition
o income diversification
o human and institutional capacity development
Conduct multi-disciplinary action research for
development.
Facilitate scaling through development
partnership arrangements.
Preliminary targets: 0.7 million direct beneficiary
hhs with the potential to scale to a further 3.4
million hhs.
5. The project in Ethiopia operates in four regions (Amhara, Tigray, Oromia and
SNNPR) in the highlands of Ethiopia.
The Africa RISING program operates in six countries in
Africa (Ethiopia, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Ghana and
Mali).
6. Multiple tools and methods (> 10) applied to understand systems and key issues.
Integrated and systems oriented thematic areas (7) formed based on priority issues.
Crop-livestock-NRM interventions (17) developed to address priority issues.
Action research approach followed to validate interventions together with CGIAR and
local partners.
Development partnership created to facilitate scaling of validated technologies.
Multi-stakeholder platforms used at different levels to engage researchers, farmers,
extension experts, decision makers, private service providers etc.
Human and institutional capacities developed at various levels to enhance knowledge
and skills of the project partners.
Approaches
7. o Livestock feed and forage management and
utilization practices
o Improved crop varieties and management practices-
cereals, food legumes and oil crops
o High value horticultural crops (HVFTs)- fruits and
vegetables
o Small-scale mechanizations – 2-WD tractor with
water pump, trailer, thresher and other accessories
o Fertilizer blends
o Water lifting, delivery and application
o Landscape restoration/ SWC
SI interventions
8. Oat-vetch mixture provides high biomass yields (12 t ha-1 of DM). It is a
balanced diet with protein and energy. It increase Milk yield with 50%
Livestock feed and forage management and utilization
practices
9. Oat-vetch mixture
Stepwise intensification; comparing traditional and improved practices, screening
competition tolerant varieties, intercropping selected faba bean varieties with
improved forage crops. The intervention provides both grain for the hh and feed for the
hh’s livestock.
10. Sweet lupin: yields up to 3 t ha-1 of grain and 8 t ha-1 of haulm. Supplementation of 200 g of
sweet lupine grain daily to fattening sheep results in a daily body weight gain of about 75 g.
11. Alfalfa: biomass yield of 20 t DM ha-1 can be obtained from 6 to 8 cuts under farmers’ fields and
management conditions.
12. Tree Lucerne: produce more than 7 t ha-1 of dry biomass year-1. A 1 kg supplement of dried TL
leaf feed to a lactating dairy cow can give up to 1.2 litres of extra milk
18. Figure 1. Mean productivity of farmer selected crop varieties across the four Africa RISING sites.
Improved crop varieties and management practices
19. Improved varieties of potato: Belete, Gudane, Jalene and Gorebella yielded 3 to 7 times
higher than local varieties (25-65 t ha-1 vs 8-10 t ha-1) in the Ethiopian highlands.
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Figure 2. Yield effect of improved Potato Varieties in Africa RISING sites of the Ethiopian
highlands.
20. PVS on faba bean. The same approach has been applied for other major cereal , oil and tuber
crops.
21. Community seed multiplication of potato. The same approach has been applied for other major
cereal, oil and pulse crops.
22. Improved wheat seed multiplication using cluster approach. The same approach has been applied
for other major cereal, tuber and pulse crops.
23. Bacterial wilt tolerant Enset clones
multiplied for more production
Enset is high value and food security
crop for more than 20 million people
in the south and central parts of
Ethiopia.
24. High value fruit trees production and utilization
Improved avocado varieties:
Set fruits within two years period
Dwarf and easy for harvesting
Fleshy and export quality
Fruit yield per avocado tree ranges from 25 to 150
kg.
25. Improved apple varieties: useful to
improve nutrition and diversify
incomes of smallholder farmers in
the Ethiopian highlands.
Apple fruit trees play a
potential role to moderate
the effects of climate
change.
26. Water harvesting, lifting and saving - ponds, rope and washer and solar
pumps
Irrigation of high value crops vegetables, fruit trees and irrigated
fodder.
27. Small-scale mechanization
Service provision approach to generate income through services provision – land preparation,
planting, shelling and threshing, water pumping for irrigating and transportation of produces.
28. Landscape management- evidence generation and tools development
Land reclamation through biological and physical means at model
watershed and landscape scale
29. Achievements
Scaling:
The project has managed to reach and benefit more than 206,535 hhs
with its validated technologies. This equates to a land area of 92160 ha.
Geographical and administrative coverage of the project has increased
from four to 31 woredas (districts) and four to nine zones.
Capacity development:
Attached more than 37 postgraduate students for their thesis and
dissertation research in the last seven years.
More than 19,959 partners have been enrolled in training and
knowledge-sharing forums within three years.
Publications/ products:
Produced 177 products in the last three years.
30. Lessons
Farmers prefer to test one or two SI technologies at a time to assess
workability and the benefits that they derive from them. This observation
entails that intensification is stepwise.
SI solutions (in terms of combinations of technologies) can be found, using
the approaches taken by Africa RISING, that meet the needs of very different
farmers’ situations.
Flexibility for modification and suitability to different agro-ecologies
enhanced wider acceptability and adoption of SI technologies- e.g: feeding
trough.
Development partnership (DP) is crucial to speed up technology
dissemination and reach and benefit many farmers. However, DPs become
effective so long us there is commitment from projects to allocate some
resources for capacity development activities (demonstration, trainings,
starter seeds for those which are not accessible).
32. Africa RISING Scaling Development Partners in the Different
Sites/Regions (Phase II)- Examples
33. Africa RISING communication tools
Website: http://africa-rising.net/
Documents and out puts :
http://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/16498
Presentation : http://www.slideshare.net/africa-
rising
Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/africa-
rising/sets
Wiki space: http://africa-
rising.wikispaces.com/events
34. Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation
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