WAVES0303
Africa RISING West Africa Virtual Exchange Seminar (WAVES)
3 March 2021
Virtual via Ms TEAMS
Participants
- N. A. Rahman, IITA – Ghana
- B. Boyubie, IITA – Ghana
- B. Kotu, IITA – Ghana
- B. Zemadim, ICRISAT
- E. Thuijsman , WUR
- F. Badolo , ICRISAT
- F. Kizito, IITA – Ghana
- F. Muthoni, IITA - Tanzania
- G. Fischer, IITA – Tanzania
- I. H. Zeledon, IITA – Ibadan
- I. Sugri, CSIR-SARI
- J. Groot, WUR
- J. Odhong, IITA – Ibadan
- K. Jimah, IITA – Ghana
- N. Y. Asafu-Adjaye, CSIR-STEPRI
- T. Ansah, UDS
- T. Minh, IWMI
- W. O. Duah, IITA – Ghana
Agenda
- Welcome and introduction
- Review of progress with West Africa handbook
- Any Other Business
Welcome and introduction - F. KIzito,IITA, Chief Scientist West Africa Project
F. Kizito
- I really appreciate that you have taken time to attend this meeting, knowing how much you are all busy. It is good that you are able to attend this meeting. Like we agrred during the previous meeting, we will be doing this the first Wednesday of every month. We need to catch up to ensure that we are on track on our scientific deliverables.
- During the pprevious meeting, we discussed the handbook and I greatly appreciate Wilhelmina and Jonathan who coordinated to ensure that we have the minutes of the meeting, and this was shared with you. In case you don’t have access them, I can again paste them as a link in the chat to access later.
- The minutes for this meeting will be shared with you all.
- It will also be good for members who are not necessarily part of this meeting to follow up later.
- During our first meeting last month, we discussed how we could get our handbook back on track. A couple of steps were laid out that we needed to follow. We sent a couple of email reminders during the course of the month. I greatly appreciate the partners that were able to get back to us in relation to the progress of the handbook chapters. A couple of suggestions came on board as to areas that we needed to change: delete/ include some authors and chapters, change the ordering of chapters etc. This is very encouraging because I look at this as the foundation for our house. The foundation needs to be prepared – there is the need to know who is committed to the processing, who will continue along the way. It is going to be an interactive process so that we get a refined product.
- Unless we get the team on board and the content of the handbook, we cannot really proceed. Now that we have got 30% response, I think we can use this meeting as an opportunity to tie up the other loose ends, and start working on the respective chapters.
- I would also like to pause for any other introductory comments or remarks that Irmgard would like to share with us in relation to the process.
I. Hoeschle-Zeledon
- We are still at the very beginning of publishing this handbook; it’s a long process. You may know that we are also publishing such a book for Africa RISING ESA. And, its been exactly one year since we started working very intensively , on writing and revising of the chapters; and fulfilling all the requirements that the publisher asked us. We are still far away from publishing and we hope that within the next six (6) months the book will be published. We are still in the process of giving final touches to the chapters, and then we will send them for proof reading.
- We should not think that when we submit the first version of the chapter, we won’t have anything more to do. There will be several back and forth works to review the chapters, to amend dates and to respond to reviewers’ comments. I hope that you will not decrease your enthusiasm to have this book published. I’m very sure it will be very useful, but it’s a big job.
I. Hoeschle-Zeledon
- Thanks Irmgard. I like the note on which you ended – we should keep our enthusiasm and I hope you’ve been passionate about this mainly because it will increase the visibility of the work that is being done.
- I would like to bring to your attention that there is a template I have shared with you earlier in relation to the meetings that we are meant to hold monthly. We have meetings lined up for the next three months. We also have quite a number of slots that are open. As and when you feel comfortable about sharing your knowledge product or something you are about to publish, feel free to share it because this will help colleagues to make their inputs. As much as we can, we should try and share content with the people who are going to attend the meetings so that they can make meaningful contributions to their work. We really wanted to ensure that we finish our handbook.
- In a meeting I had three weeks ago with Irmgard, we thought it would be a good road map for us to streamline the handbook, and once we are done with the streamlining, we will then have the modeling on April 7. Jean Baptiste’s work will follow, and then Francis Muthoni’s. I really appreciate the colleagues who filled this template. We should kindly feel free to fill in the dates which would be convenient for us. I would like to share with you the template that we needed to discuss upon mainly in relation to the respective chapters and bring you up to speed.
Review of progress with West Africa handbook
Key action points
- Lead Authors for each Chapter will discuss and confirm team members (most have been identified)
- Lead authors to discuss with respective co-authors the Titles of each Chapter
- Lead Authors conduct a consultative process to decide on what the sub-components for each Chapter are (Please refer to Chapter sub-components below this Table).
WA handbook chapters and authors
| Chapter | Lead Author | Contributing Authors |
| Introduction – General | Fred Kizito | Irmgard Hoeschle-Zeledon, Birhanu Zemadim, Jonathan Odhong |
| Chapter 1: Weaving Gender into Sustainable Agricultural Intensification Interventions | Gundula Fischer | Kipo J, Michalscheck M, Minh Thai, Bekele Kotu, |
| Chapter 2: Genetic intensification for resilient cropping systems | Nebie B | Nebie B, Toure A, Haile D, Kanton RAL, Denwar A, Tignegre J B, Kusi F, Kotu B, Gundula F, Badolo F, Shaibu M, Kipo J |
| Chapter 3: Practices to intensify and diversify cropping systems | Buah SSJ (*Nurudeen to follow up on this) | Buah SSJ, Nurudeen A R, Larbi A, Kanton RAL, Folorunso M. Akinseye, Tignegre J B, Haruna A, Kusi F, Mumuni A, Kotu B, Gundula F, Badolo F, Shaibu |
| Chapter 4: Integrated soil fertility management | Nurudeen A R | Buah SS, Nurudeen A R, Larbi A, Kanton RAL, Yilzagla J, Kotu B, Bouba T, Gundula F, Badolo F, Shaibu M, Kalifa Traore |
| Chapter 5: Strategies for improving land, soil and water resources management | Birhanu Z | Kizito F, Minh Thai, Kalifa T, Adimassu Z, Appoh R,Ayantunde A, Umutoni C, Kotu B, Gundula F, Badolo F, Shaibu M, Kipo, J ; Possibly consider contact Eva Huet |
| Chapter 6: Improved small ruminant practices/technologies | Ayantunde A | Adda W, Salifu S, Avornyo F K, and Theophile Dembele |
| Conservation and utilization of crop residues for livestock feed (Consider being part of Chapter 6) | Addah Wesseh | Augustine Ayantunde, Sarfo G K, Amponsah K B, Nantume H, Coulibaly S, Koita S, Larbi A, Kotu B, Gundula F, Badolo F, Shaibu M |
| Developing the Small Ruminant Value Chain in Northern Ghana (Consider being part of Chapter 6) | Franklin Avornyo | Augustine Ayantunde |
| Chapter 7: Minimizing food waste and improving food safety | Ortega-Beltran A | Bandyopadhyay R, Agbetiameh D, Sugri I, Haile D, |
| Chapter 8: Improving household nutrition and food quality | Saaka MM (*Fred to follow up) | Sobgui CM, Fawzi S, Diallo F C, Coulibaly S S, Kotu B, Gundula F, Badolo F |
| Chapter 9: Integration and systems approaches for Africa RISING interventions | Fred Kizito | Katrien Descheemaeker, Arouna Dissa, Kotu B, Gundula F, Groot J, Michalscheck M, Thuijsman, E. |
| Chapter 10: Approaches for taking technologies to scale (Include experiences from other Regions) | Consider who will take leadership | Felix Badolo, Jeroen, MirjaNzungize J, Sogoba B, Binam J, Sseguya, Kizito F, Dicko M, Birhanu Z, Muthoni F, Nurudeen A R, Larbi A |
NOTE: The discussions captured in the notes below have been reflected in the above table representing the current status of the chapters and authors.
Introduction Chapter
Authors: Fred Kizito (lead), Irmgard. Hoeschle-Zeledon, Birhanu Zemadim, Jonathan Odhong
Chapter 1: Genetic intensification for resilient cropping systems
Authors: Nebie Baloua (lead), Toure A, Haile D, Kanton RAL, Denwar A, Jean BaptisteTignegre, Francis Kusi, Bekele Kotu, Gundula Fischer, Melon Shaibu, Kipo Jimah
Chapter 2: Practices to intensify and diversify cropping systems
Authors: Saaka Buah, Abdul Rahman Nurudeen, Asamoah Larbi, Kanton RAL, Folorunso M. Akinseye, Jean Baptiste Tignegre, Haruna A, Francis Kusi, Mumuni A, Bekele Kotu, Gundula Fischer, Felix Badolo, Melon Shaibu
Chapter 3: Integrated Soil fertility management
Authors: Abdul Rahman Nurudeen (lead), Saaka Buah, Asamoah Larbi, Kanton RAL, Yilzagla J, Bekele Kotu, Bouba Traore, Gundula Fischer, Felix Badolo, Melon Shaibu
Chapter 4: Strategies for improving land, soil and water resources management
Authors: Birhanu Zemadim (lead), Fred Kizito, Thai Minh, Kalifa Traore, Zenebe Adimassu, Appoh R, Augustine Ayantunde, Umutoni C, Bekele Kotu, Gundula Fischer, Felix Badolo, Melon Shaibu, Kipo Jimah
Chapter 5: Contribution of area measurement of plots and mapping of fields to land management
Authors: Arouna Dissa, Katrien Descheemaeker, Kalifa Ouattara
Chapter 6: Improved small ruminants practices, technologies
Authors: Augustine Ayantunde (lead author) Weseh Addah, Salifu Sadat, Avornyo Franklin, Theophile Dembele
Chapter 7: Feed Conservation, ensiling, and Health management, feed chopper
Authors:
Chapter 8: Minimizing food waste and improving food safety
Authors:
Chapter 9: Improving household nutrition and food quality
Authors: Dr. Mahama Saaka (lead)
Chapter 10: Improving household nutrition and food quality
Authors: Dr. Mahama Saaka (lead)
Any Other Business
- Next meeting would be April 7. We would be discussing works on systems dynamics, modelling. This has been a collaborative effort.
Closing - F. KIzito,IITA, Chief Scientist West Africa Project
- Thank you ladies and gentlemen. I appreciate your time. We will share the transcripts of this meeting through a link on the wiki.
