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Here, you may also download the presentation by Sigrid Ekman.
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Here, you may also download the presentation by Sigrid Ekman.
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Building partnerships
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Summary report, presentations and exercises from SIANI/FAO Workshop:
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7-8 December 2011, Stockholm
Main workshop objectives:
Presenting the tool and spreading its usage
Assessing the needs/demand related to CC mitigation for further development of the tool
Building partnerships
The Ex-Act tool:
The tool is a multi-functional software. Ex-Act has the capability to perform, amongst others, Carbon Footprint Analysis, illustrating which agricultural and forestry activities are CO2 emitters or Carbon sinks.
The results can be used to measure and manage environmental impact and for communication purposes.
Integrated Management of Soil Fertility - Prerequisite for Increased Agricult...SIANI
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There is a renewed interest in the role of agriculture at the climate change negotiations, as evidenced by a number of interesting side-events during COP 16 in Cancun. The reason is simple: Agriculture and related activities account for a third of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, most of which can be mitigated, an opportunity that policy makers simply cannot afford to miss. What’s more, some of the techniques that sequester carbon have the added advantage of building the water-retention capacity and nutrient content of soils, hence contributing to a triple-win situation where mitigation, adaptation and yield increases are all addressed.
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How the millions of resource-poor smallholder farmers, so vital for food production and economic growth, can benefit from the prospects of a new bio-economy?
How countries in Sub-Saharan Africa can develop programmes, institutional capabilities and bioscience innovation structures able to adapt and use technologies and know-how based on their own priorities and needs?
How can Sweden assist countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to move Towards a Knowledge Based Bio-economy?
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The project focuses on cows in the period around calving, a time associated with health disturbances that are decisive for the economy of dairy producers. Metritis, inflammation of the uterus, is common after calving with consequences for the cow’s future fertility and milk production level.
The main cause is lacking management and nutrition in this critical time period. Better knowledge of risk factors for metritis and their economic consequences is necessary for the motivation of farmers to adopt preventive measures.
Farms will be visited for gathering of information about management routines around calving. Newly calved cows will be examined for diagnosis of metritis. Practical recommendations will be suggested, adapted to prevailing circumstances. The aim is to keep the cows healthy through the calving process, during the transition from non-lactating to lactating state, for future successful breeding, optimized milk production and longevity.
Capacity-building activities like teaching of university staff (veterinarians) in diagnostic tools like gynecological ultrasonography for diagnosis of reproductive disorders will be performed. A course will be run for farmers on connection between nutrition and reproduction and management of the cow around calving. Workshops for researchers and stakeholders will be arranged.
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Macroeconomics- Movie Location
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Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
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Magnus Jirström, Lund University at SIANI Annual Meeting 2014
1. Afrint
intensification of food crops agriculture
in sub-Saharan Africa
Swedish-African Research Network
Agricultural development and its
relation to food security and poverty
alleviation
Primary research in nine sub‐Saharan
African countries
1
2. Afrint - three phases 200I-2016
Afrint I - 2001-2005
The African Food Crisis – the Relevance of
Asian Experiences
Afrint II - 2007-2010
The Millennium Development Goals
and the African Food Crisis
Afrint III - 2011-2016
• Equity impacts of rural income
diversification in Kenya and Ghana – (VR)
• Gender gaps and pro-poor agricultural
growth in Malawi and Zambia - (Sida)
• African Urban Agriculture – Kenya and
Ghana (Sida, Formas)
2
3. African Afrint teams
Ethiopia
Dr. Wolday Amha, Ethiopian Economic
Association
Dr. Teketel Abebe, Addis Ababa
University
Dr. Mulat Demeke, Addis Ababa
University
Kenya
Prof. Willis Oluoch-Kosura, African
Economic Research Consortium (AERC)
Tanzania
Prof. Aida Isinika, Institute of Continuing
Education, Sokoine Agricultural
University.
Malawi
Dr. John Kadzandira, Centre for Social
Research, University of Malawi, Zomba
Nigeria
Prof. Olatunji Akande, Nigerian Institute
for Social and Economic Research
(NISER), Ibadan
Dr. Olorunfemi Oladapo
Ogujndele, Nigerian Institute for Social
and Economic Research (NISER), Ibadan
Dr. Wapulumuka O. Mulwafu, Faculty of Ghana
Social Science, University of
Prof. Ernest Aryeetey, Vice Chancellor.
Malawi, Zomba
University of Ghana
Assoc. Prof. Daniel Bruce
Zambia
Sarpong, Department of Agricultural
Mr. Mukata Wamulume, Institute of
Economics & Agribusiness, University of
of Geography, Kenyatta University
Economic and Social Research (INESOR) Ghana
Assoc prof. Joseph Karugia, Inernational
Ms. Charlotte Wonani, Development
Livestock research institute (ILRI)
Dr. Fred Dzanku, Institute of
Studies Department, University of
Statistical, Social and Economic Research
Zambia
(ISSER), Legon-Accra
Uganda
Prof. Oliver Saasa, Institute of Economic
Prof. Bernard
and Social Research, University of
Bashaasha, Principal, College of
Zambia
Agricultural and Environmental
Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala
Mozambique
Dr. Peter Coughlin, EconPolicy Research
Group, Ltd., Maputo
Dr. Stephen K. Wambugu, Department
3
4. Afrint I-III
Advisors Afrint I:
Göran Hydén,
Ruth Oniang’o,
Deborah Bryceson,
Kjell Havnevik
Advisors Afrin II:
Göran Hydén,
Richard Mkandawire ,
Judi Wakhungu,
Monty P. Jones
Funded by:
Afrint I: 2002-2005: Bank of
Sweden Tercentenary
Foundation and Sida
Afrint II: 2007-2010: Swedish
Research Council and
Sida/SAREC
Afrint III: 2011-2016: Swedish
Research Council, Sida, and
Formas
Swedish Afrint team:
Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt
(team leader) (LU)
Sarah Alobo (LU-CIRAD)
Elina Andersson (LU)
Magnus Andersson (LU)
Johanna Bergman Lodin (SLU)
Göran Djurfeldt (LU)
Ola Hall (LU)
Mikael Hammarskjöld (LU)
Ellen Hillbom (LU)
Hans Holmén (LU UNITO, Turin)
Björn Holmquist (LU)
Vera Karmebäck (LU, UoN)
Magnus Jirström (LU)
Rolf Larsson (LU)
Yahia Mahmoud
Sultana Nasrin (LU)
Cheryl Sjöström (LU)
4
6. When starting Afrint in 2001 we questionned the
wide spread pessism about African development
• Asia in the 1950s and 1960s:
– Threat of famine, chronic food
shortages, import
dependency, rampant poverty
– Rapid population growth
– Soft states, corrupt governments
– Western pessimism
• Africa in 2000:
– Threat of famine, chronic food
shortages, import
dependency, rampant poverty
– Rapid population growth, AIDS
– Soft states, corrupt governments
– Westen pessimism
6
7. Modelling agricultural development in Asia
Geo-political
context
Domestic
factors
Technology
Contextual
conditions
Small-farmer
base
State
interventions
in agriculture
Mechanism
Self-sufficiency
in food grains
Marketmediation
Intervening
conditions and
mechanism
Effect
7
8. Afrint case studies – Mixed method approach
• Macro study (secondary sources & interviews)
• Micro study (survey & qualitative field research)
8
9. African micro study
• 9 countries
• 20 regions
• 103 villages
• 4000 farms &
households (3000 in the panel
from 2002 to 2008)
• Third round (2013) of data
collection includes only four
countries, 1600 houeholds.
• The farm households are
typical, but not necessarily
statistically representative
9
10. Results from Afrint I: The African Food Crisis
is a deep economic and political crisis
– Food crop intensification
decelerated post-SAP
– Not (primarily) an
ecological crisis
– Neither (primarily) a
technological one
– Nor a demographic one
10
11. Results from Afrint I: An untapped potential
for increasing production and productivity
– Contemporary evidence
– yield gaps
– Historical evidence –
spurts in production
11
13. The Afrint II project:
• Changes in the staple crop sector between
2002 and 2008
• Same countries, a few villages dropped,
others added, but on the whole the same
villages
• Income data added in this round, also more
technology data
• Spatial linkages of household livelihoods
• A couple of qualitative studies added
• Development of a meso (community level)
questionnaire, around 500 variables
• 4000 farms & households (3000 in the
panel from 2002 to 2008)
13
14. Results from Afrint II: Cross-sectional analysis
• Decreasing farm sizes, uneven access to land,
stable crop portfolios
• Persistent yield gaps (around 55%) for all cereals
• Stable technology use
• Around half of the households sell some of their
staple crop output.
• Sale of staple crops most important source of
cash income
• Non-farm incomes around a third of total cash
income, half the sample lacks any kind of NFI
14
15. Results from Afrint II: Panel level analysis
- Commercialization the main driver of maize
production
- Larger farmers have left the maize market,
making room for poorer households
- Households return from the non-farm sector
into agriculture
- Market led growth is not anti-poor or antiwomen
15
16. Afrint III
• Equity aspects of income diversification
outside agriculture in Ghana and Kenya
funded by Swedish Research Council 20112013: Uses the micro/meso/macro setup
• Gender gaps and pro-poor agricultural
growth in Malawi and Zambia (Sida), 20122014, micro survey and qualitative data
- Places livelihoods in wider perspective
- Strengthens the gender dimension
- Looks inside the household
- Survey data to be collected in early 2013
(around 1600 households)
- A mixed-methods focus
• African urban agriculture (Sida, Formas)
2013-2016)
- small and medium-size urban centres in
Kenya and Ghana Survey data late
2013, around 4100 households
- A mixed -Method focus
16
17. Book 2005
Book 2012
Sida reports 2006,
2012
Selection of Journals in which we have published since 2012:
World Development (2012) and (2013), Oxford Development Studies (2013),
Africa Review (2012), Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging
Economies (2012) , Global Food Security (2013), Culture, Agriculture, Food and
Environment (2014), Journal of Eastern African Studies (2012), Food Security
(2013), Journal of Modern African Studies (2012), Gender, Technology and
Development (2012)
17