USAID soybean project in Ghana and other African countries

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"Enhancing Global Collaborations in Crop Science" GPC Symposium on 4th Nov. 2018 , CSSA/ASA Annual meeting In Baltimore USA. Kerry Clark, Division of Applied Social Sciences, University of Missouri. Feed the Future, Soybean Innovation Lab

Science

• NARS (National Agriculture
Research Services)
• Partner country universities
• U.S. Universities
• Private Sector
• Innovation Labs

Entire Soybean Value Chain
Seed
Systems
Inputs
(fertilizer,
inoculant)
Agronomic
issues
Mechanization Harvest
Storage Transport Marketing UtilizationProcessing

Programs
• Breeder education
• Field breeding capacity improved- IITA, Ghana, Rwanda, Ethiopia
• Pan African soybean variety trials
• Human nutrition improvement
• Weaning foods
• Village level processing
• Soy food entrepreneur network
• School lunch caterer training
• Gender equity research
• Agricultural mechanization
• Training for local production
• Design availability
• Agronomic research and yield improvement

Successes
Planned activities:
•Partnerships- Scale-up
•Breeder Education
•Improving Field Breeding programs and
germplasm
•Improved Agronomy
Not in original plans:
•Pan African Variety Trials
•Soy food Entrepreneur Network
•Early childhood nutrition
•Mechanization Program

Partners
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
Catholic Relief Services
Syngenta Foundation
Jimma Agricultural Research Center
University of Ghana WACCI
University of Development Studies (Ghana)
Savannah Ag Research Inst.
IIAM-Mozambique
SeedCo
Tamale Implements Factory
Ministries of Food and Agriculture
ADM Post Harvest Loss Institute
Compatible Technology International
Palladium –Malawi Ag Diversification
Cleber LLC
FtF Sustainable Intensification Lab
XSyn Corporation
IFDC- ATT Project
ACDI-VOCA Advance Project
Ghana and Ethiopia Dep of Education
Soya Solutions Eastern Africa Limited
Rwanda Agriculture Board
CGIAR Generation Challenge Program
Private Soy Food Entrepreneurs
Private welding companies
OMYA
BASF

Research for Development
• Provide evidence, technical support and
technologies
• to those developing soybean in Sub-Saharan
Africa, and other parts of the developing
world.
• to ensure smart and successful soybean
production and utilization among the
development community

1. Work takes place through collaborations with in-
country partners.

SIL and West Africa Center for Crop Improvement
WACCI’s Prof. Eric Danquah receives
the GCHERA World Agriculture Prize
2018
Preventing Brain Drain
and increasing capacity of
African institutions

2. Work serves development partners, i.e. those that
work with farmers and industry, not the farmers
themselves.
• Leverage partnerships to
reach a wider audience.
• Educate the educators
• Utilize and assist
extension, NGOs,
commercial sector.

3. Work is needs-driven. SIL collaborates to
identify the best approaches to meet the
partner’s goals and objectives.

Pan African Soybean Trials with Syngenta Foundation

4. Work involves formally testing innovations and
technologies in partnership with the development
community to scale proven products.

5. Work results in development products that can be
readily scaled by development partners to reach
hundreds of thousands of beneficiaries.
• Partners do
scale-up.
• Large scale
change needs
governments
or commercial
sector
involvement.

Feed the Future
Soybean Innovation Lab
http://soybeaninnovationlab.illinois.edu

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