Presented by Tom van Mourik (ICRISAT) at the Africa RISING West Africa Review and Planning Meeting, Bamako, Mali, 3-4 February 2014

1. Africa RISING Mali Team Achievements until 2013
Tom van Mourik (ICRISAT)
Africa RISING West Africa Review and Planning Meeting,
Bamako, Mali, 3-4 February 2014

2. Presentation Outline
 Africa RISING partners and activities
 Synergies with other ongoing projects
 Africa RISING achievements and ongoing activities
in 2013
 Exchange visit conclusions and suggestions
 Conclusions and remarks

3. Conceptual framework
Focus on
(1) Sustainable intensification
(2) Farm household scale
Interactions with other scales
acknowledged and studied
i.e community, landscape,
watershed etc.
Stepwise progress towards SI
Farm typologies
Platforms, co-learning
Critical entry points

4. Synergies with other initiatives
 Improving vegetable production and processing
(USAID, AVRDC)
 FARMSEM seed enterprise project on dryland
crops (USAID, ICRISAT)
 Agro-ecological intensification project (McKnight
Foundation, WUR, IER, ICRISAT, AMEDD)
 Dryland Systems and WLE CGIAR research
program
(ICRISAT, ICRAF, ILRI, IWMI, Bioversity)
 CORAF project on crop livestock integration (IER)

5. Africa RISING outputs and activities
Four Research Outputs (RO’s):
1: Situation Analysis and Program-wide Synthesis (IFPRI, WUR and
partners)
2: Integrated Systems Improvement (CGIAR, AVRDC, WUR, national
partners)
3: Scaling and Delivery of Integrated Innovation (idem)
4: Integrated Monitoring and Evaluation (IFPRI with partners)
Activities in 2013 workplan (may 2013, project started in June 2013)
1.1 Community mobilization & establishing platforms
2.7 Household nutrition
2.8 Sustainable NRM and fodder
2.9 Farm and field productivity

6. RO1 Achievements & activities 2013
 Development domains & villages selected
 Basic farm HH characteristics collected in 7 villages

7. Community mobilisation & platforms (1)
 Diagnostic / planning meetings all AR villages
 Platforms established in 4 villages
Yorobougoula (NRM, local conventions)
Nampossela (Farm & field productivity, McKnight)
Sirakele & Mpessoba (nutrition)
Exchange visit West Africa in Mali, 21-24 Nov. 2013)

8. Community mobilisation & platforms (2)
 Fencing and wells constructed in 3 villages and
existing sites identified in 2 villages (ICRISAT, ICRAF)
 Physical platforms for experimentation
 Fruit tree establishment trials
 Off-season irrigated vegetable / seed production

9. Community mobilisation & platforms (3)
Study on level of interaction and
influence of different
stakeholders in IP Yorobougoula
HIGH
Chikoloton
CP
miel
Lead farmer generally interacts
and informs 5 other farmers
outside IP
Chikolo- Association
chasseurs
ton
LOW
Level of
influence
FasoJguiya
1
SabaliCP volaille
ton
Analyses for mapping of
networking and interaction
among stakeholders on-going
Guana
n-ton
Coop 5
eleveurs
3
2
Benkadi
-ton
Ones that can make
difference Jigiya
CP- coton
Bio
CMDT
AV
2
LOW
1
Ass.
Jeunes
Level of
interest
-ton
4
5
HIGH

10. Household nutrition (1)
 Household nutrition survey completed (AVRDC)
 Nutrition field schools implemented 2 villages (AVRDC, ICRISAT)
8 training modules developed in French & Bambara and tested with participants
Nutrition field schools linked to nutritious vegetable and field crop trials and
seed sales
Training video produced on the preparation of enriched porridge

11. Household nutrition (2)
Nutritional status of ~1300 children between 6 months and 5 years assessed
Nutrition status
Boys
Girls
6-23
months
24-59
months
Severe /
moderate
malnutrition
6%
10%
15%
1%
Risk of
malnutrition
17%
21%
37%
11%
Normal
77%
69%
45%
88%
Girls and especially youngest group high rates of poor nutrition status

12. Sustainable NRM & fodder (1)
 Survey and analyses of feed resources, FEAST
(ILRI, AMEDD), Sources of income
Farm Labour
4%
Commerce
3%
Arboriculture
2%
Remittance
7%
Livestock
25%
Farm Labour
1%
Commerce
7%
Arboriculture
0%
Remittance
8%
Livestock
17%
Agriculture
59%
Bougouni
Agriculture
67%
Koutiala

13. Sustainable NRM & fodder (2) Resources
Available Feed
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
100
6
Bougouni
2
1
0
5
80
70
4
3
6
Koutiala
90
5
Availablity
Availablity
Available Feed Resources
4
60
50
3
40
2
30
20
1
10
0
0
Concentrates
Crop residues
Grazing
Cereal residues
Legume residues
Green forage
Green forage
Legume residues
Others
Grazing
Crop residues
Concentrates
Cereal residues
Rainfall Pattern
Rainfall Pattern
Koutiala more availability of cereal residues and concentrates
Bougouni, more availability of green forage and grazing

14. RO2 Sustainable NRM & fodder (3)
 Participatory land use mapping
 Biomass assessment, cropped /non-cropped land
(ICRISAT, AMEDD, MoBioM, WUR)

15. Farm & field productivity (1)
Field crop trials in Bougouni area
Trial type
Planned
Planted
Harvested
Analysed
Sorghum /
cowpea
intercrop
20
18
15
11
Cowpea
31
28
25
21
Soybean
20
20
17
14
Groundnut
12
12
12
Not yet
analysed

16. Sorghum-Cowpea intercrop
 Sorghum: No
treatment effect
(poor germination,
brd damage)
 Cowpea fodder
yields:
inter-row not
significantly different
from pure crop, in-row
significantly lower.
Dunanfana significantly
higher fodder yield
than local.

17. Cowpea
Cowpea grain yield
350
Grain yield (kg/ha)
300
a
a
a
a
250
Neem use
200
No
150
Yes
100
50
b
b
0
Dunanfana
Local
Wilibali
Variety
Cowpea fodder yield
a
Fodder yield (kg/ha)
1500
a
Neem use
1000
b
500
b
No
b
b
0
Dunanfana
Local
Variety
Wilibali
Yes
 No significant effect
of Neem insecticide
 Farmers expressed
preference for
Wilibali, despite
similar yields to local
variety
 white grain, early
maturation much
appreciated

18. Soybean intensification trials
Soybean grain yield (kg/ha)
500
400
300
200
100
0
Control
1
+ Compost + Innoculum + Compost
2
3
4
Treatment
+ Innoculum
 Soybean yields
showed no
significant
treatment
effects.
 Farmers
interested in
soybean
TrtCode
1 New crop,
2 farmers don’t
3
know what to do
4
with soybean
 Request for
training on
soybean
processing/prepa
ration

19. Farm & field productivity (2)
Field crop trials Koutiala area 2013 (total ~200 trials)
Trial type
Planned Harvested
For analysis
Sorghum mechan-microdos
Sorghum intensification
10
31
8
28
8
21
Maize intensification
45
45
45
Cowpea intensification
41
38
38
Groundnut/roselle intercrop
12
12
12
Soyabean intensification
Sorghum/cowpea intercrop
Maize/cowpea intercrop
39
5
32
30
5
32
30
5
32

20. T1 : local variety, no fertilizer
T2 : local variety, manure 9t/ha +150 kg urea, 100 kg complex
15-15-15
T3 : hybrid maize « Bondofa », no fertilizer
T4 : hybrid maize « Bondofa », manure 9t/ha, 150 kg
urea, 100 kg complex 15-15-15
Maize
6000
grain yield (kg/ha)
5000
4000
3000
2000
1000
0
0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
3000
grain yield of the control kg/ha
control=local no fert
hybrid no fert
local+fert
hybrid+fert

21. Sorghum
T1 : local variety, no fertilizer ;
T2 : local variety, manure 9t/ha +DAP 75 kg/ha
T3 : hybrid sorghum « Pablo », no fertilizer
T4 : hybrid sorghum « Pablo, manure 9t/ha, DAP 75 kg/ha
grain yield (kg/ha)
3000
2500
2000
1500
1000
500
0
0
500
1000
1500
grain yield of the control (kg/ha)
"control=local no fert"
local+fert
hybrid no fert
hybrid+fert
2000

22. Cowpea
1600
1400
1200
1000
800
600
400
200
0
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
T1
control grain yield (kg/ha)
control=wulibali no fert
fodder yield (kg/ha)
grain yield (kg/ha)
T1 : ‘wulibali’ cowpea, no fertilization
T2 : ‘wulibali’ cowpea, P 20kg/ha
T3 : ‘Dunanfana cowpea, no fertilization
T4 : ‘Dunanfana cowpea, P 20 kg/ha
20kgP/ha
5000
15000
T2
20000
15000
10000
5000
0
0
10000
20000
control fodder yield (kg/ha)
control=dunanfana no fert
20 kgP/ha
T3
T4

23. Soybean
T1 : no fertilizer , no inoculum ;
T2 : manure 4t/ha, P 20 kg/ha, no inoculum
T3 : no fertilizer, inoculum
T4 : manure 4t/ha, P 20 kg/ha, inoculum
grain yield (kg/ha)
2500
2000
1500
1000
500
0
0
200
400
600
800
1000
control- grain yield (kg/ha)
control=no inoculum no fert
no inoculum+fert
inoculum no fert
inoculum+fert
1200
1400

24. Participatory agro-economical analyses of
mechanised microdosing trials with sorghum
 Promising results, potential of 100 USD/ha more
net profit than the local practice with about 20
USD /ha investment (hybrid seed, fertiliser, disk)

25. Strategic sheep feeding trials initiated with
cowpea/groundnut hay and maize bran
3 feed treatments:
600g legume hay/day
900g legume hay/day
600g legume hay & 400 g
maize bran /day
Vaccinations and salt lick
blocks standard treatment
for all

26. RO3 Scaling approaches
 Distribution & viewings of videos related to sustainable
intensification options performed in all AR villages
(~100 DVDs distributed, > 10,000 farmers exposed)
 Preliminary study performed on what information is
retained and what farmers do with the information
(unsupervised experimentation and innovation)

27. Capacity building (1)
Training title
Men
Women
total
Nutrition field schools (8 modules, AVRDC, ICRISAT)
14
646
660
Vegetable processing, conservation and storage
(AVRDC)
23
36
59
Mechanised microdosing technique & trial
establishment (ICRISAT)
7
1
8
Use of media for large scale farmer training (ICRISAT) 4
2
6
Grafting and planting practices for improved fruit
trees (ICRAF)
144
Establishment of rural resource center (ICRAF)
25
Introduction to monitoring and evaluation (IFPRI,
ICRISAT)
15
3
18

28. Exchange visit conclusions and
suggestions from participants
 Integration, integration & integration!!
 Organisations, technologies, system components,
Harmonizing data collection, sharing and
reporting
 Describe where activities fit into the farming
system and describe links to other activities
 Flexibility partnerships and consultations where
necessary

29. Thank you / merci!
Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation
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