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Strategy for increasing smallholder farmers’ productivity
This document outlines a strategy to increase productivity for smallholder farmers through several domain areas. It identifies problems such as weak extension systems and lack of private sector investment. The strategy involves: 1) compiling technologies and packaging them for uptake through databases, innovation, and communication; 2) establishing partnerships between public and private sectors; and 3) backstopping and ensuring legal support for technologies. The goals are to increase awareness, adoption of productivity-enhancing technologies, and improved food security and incomes through a coordinated, holistic long-term approach.
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- 1. Strategy for increasing smallholderfarmers’ productivity By Henri TONNANG
- 2. Problems • Weak extensionsystem • Cross-boundary barriers • Little private sector investment • Poor connections between research & extension • Weak policies and regulations/ Lack of regional harmonization • Lack of regional coordination • Affordability of existing technologies • Restricted and targeted public financing • Poor dissemination and packaging • Long technology verification & release system
- 3. Strategy Domain Areas • Databaseand knowledge management • Packaging and innovation • Communication Capacity building Competence development Policies • Partnerships • Dissemination pathways • Backstopping & Legal issues
- 4. Database and knowledge management Inventory Products, Tools, Methods,Skills Service and Process Profiling: Documenting and Value Ranking and Grading Domain Area Activities
- 5. Packaging and innovation Knowledge management Innovation technology enhancements Integration focusing on productivity DomainArea Activities Provision of productivity enhancing technologies (High yield crops/breeds varieties – drought tolerant maize variety, integrated pest and disease management (IPDM), micro- nutriment dense crops – pro-vitamin A rich orange – fleshed sweet potato and high iron beans) should be the main focus
- 6. Communication Capacity building Competence development Policies Communication strategy: Stakeholder mapping communication producttranslation Technology Portal: A knowledge repository Tools for technology transfer Capacity building Training materials and curriculum Competence development Domain Area Activities POLICIES
- 7. Partnerships Create synergy Public &Private sector Networking Field/ Innovation day Fairs Demonstration weeks Business Incubation Model to establish microenterprises Domain Area Activities Investing in farmers productivity can increase their income and transform their lives which then boost businesses revenues and profit Working directly with farmers self formed groups to optimize results at lost cost with large scale
- 8. Dissemination pathways Spreading Targeting end users Tracking mechanismand feedback Analyze best mechanisms create links with value chain Domain Area Activities Stimulate & Create Champions Align with country policies & administration systems
- 9. Backstopping & Legal issues Backstopping:Identify challenge and bottleneck ethics and risks and managed – Provide feedback, enhance technologies Legal support: Address ownership intellectual Domain Area Activities
- 10. Database and knowledgemanagement Packaging and Innovation, Communication and Capacity Building Partnerships Backstopping and legal issues Increase awareness and available information Compiling technologies to prone uptake & adoption Experience technology performance Conducive environment for take up Establish community of end-users Building credibility Technology adopted Stimulate business & jobs Influence policies Communities capacitated Increase productivity Improved food security Employment opportunities Access to data & information New decision Output Input Outcome Impact Communication Stakeholder Mapping Campaigning Up scaling Enhancing Spin-offs startups M & E
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- 12. Participating companies increasedsales of MasAgro hybrid seed by 44 percent from 2014 to 2015
- 15. One Acre Fund Asset-BasedLoans. Farmers receive high-quality seeds and fertilizer on credit, and we offer a flexible repayment system that allows them to pay back their loans in any amount throughout the loan term. Delivery. We deliver inputs to locations within walking distance of every farmer we serve. Training. Farmers receive training throughout the season on modern agricultural techniques. Market Facilitation. We offer crop storage solutions and teach farmers about market fluctuations, so that they can time crop sales to maximize profits
- 16. Africa Rice -Nigeria 2011 to 2015: Combined innovative ICT- based ways to deploy improved rice production technology to farmers which increased the yield from 2MT/ha to 4 MT/ha.
- 17. SOME IDEAS TOCAPITALIZE ON Digital Green integrates the use of locally recorded video, “mediated instruction” and extension systems to increase adoption rates among farmers of new practices and technologies. Rikin Gandhi When I founded a telecommunications company in the mid 1990s, nearly 3 in 4 Africans had never heard a telephone ring. Now, more than 3 in 4 have a mobile phone. In Africa, when conditions are right, change can happen fast. Srive Masiyiwa
- 18. Maize Variety Selector (MVS) Overview Database Geospatial Database Variety characteristics Locationspecific variety options Database Seed availability Database Agro-dealers locations Location specific variety availability Analytics Maize Variety Selector Knowingwhat varietiesto plant* in your location * or stockinyour shop Kebele: Omonada GPS: 716644, 37.32596 Maturity: 160 days(late) Variety: BH661 Additional info: drought tolerant, yield potential 95-120 q/ha, …. >> Jimma Ethiopia MaizeVarietySelector i TakingMaizeAgronomytoScaleinAfrica -TAMASA 5 Maize Variety Selector Knowing what varietiesto plant* in your location * or stock in your shop Kebele: Omonada GPS: 716644, 37.32596 Maturity: 160 days (late) Variety: BH 661 Additional info: drought tolerant, yield potential 95-120 q/ha, …. >> Jimma Ethiopia MaizeVariety Selector i TakingMaizeAgronomy to Scale inAfrica - TAMASA 5 ICT can revolutionize the way we communicate with stallholder farmers Let progress with technologies advancement and not become like Nokia
- 19. Rural poverty iscomplex, and there is no single solution to the problems smallholder farmers face. The logical sense is an holistic, long-term approach starting from a complete bundle of services, within the value chain beginning with seed/seedlings/breeds farm inputs (fertilizer, agrochemicals), mechanization, land tenure, extension, irrigation, training on agriculture techniques, post harvest handling, storage, market facilitations, policies and regulations. CONCLUSION
- 20. THANKS YOU FOR YOURINTEREST
Editor's Notes
- #19 Schematic representation of maize phenology data flow, from field collection, conducting analytics and adding extra information (variety characteristics, seed availability and agro-dealers locations) to the creation of knowledge output through smart phone application for better decision making to improve farm production is SSA