WA closeout2022
Africa RISING WA Project Close-Out Event
1 - 3 November 2022
Bamako, Mali
Objectives
- Present and critically assess the major research and development outputs and deliverables of the project.
- Explore opportunities for further scaling of project outputs and outcomes beyond the life of Africa RISING.
Day ONE [1 November 2022]
- 08:30 Participants registration
- 09:00 Introduction of participants/ overview of agenda for the day
- 09:30 Welcome & Opening remarks
- ICRISAT West and Central Africa Director – Tabo Ramadjita
- IITA West Africa Hub Director - Michael Abberton
- Representative from USAID Mali Country Mission
- USAID Center for Ag. Led Growth leadership (Washington DC) - Jerry Glover/Zachary Stewart
- 09:50 Welcome remarks by DG of IER - Modibo Sylla
- 10:00 Timeline presentation of Africa RISING, specific focus on WA – I. Hoeschle-Zeledon, Fmr. Project Manager
- 10:30 Break
- 11:00 Integration approaches for sustainable intensification in West Africa/Intro. to the WA Handbook of Technologies – F. Kizito, WA Chief Scientist
- 11:30 World Café Session: Reviewing and gathering inputs into the WA Handbook of Technologies
- Key questions to answer as part of the world café: (i) what linkages should be expressed within & between the chapters? (ii) what components/technologies/opportunities are missing but should be included in the chapters? (iii)how could/should the chapter authors enhance their key messages to ensure they resonate with development agents/policy makers who are the primary target audiences for the handbook?
- CHAPTER 1: Participatory Gender Assessments in Sustainable Agricultural Intensification - B. Boyubie, K. Jimoh, G.Fischer, M. Cavicchioli
- Gender-assessment tools based on the five SIAF domains
- Matrix-scoring based on SIAF
- Case study: Matrix scoring to assess gender dimensions of the cowpea living mulch technology in northern Ghana
- CHAPTER 2: Genetic intensification for resilient cropping systems - Saaka Buah
- Drought and Striga tolerant maize varieties
- Sorghum hybrids (Pablo, Fadda and Sewa, Dual-purpose sorghum)
- Soybean for Sustainable Intensification
- Aflatoxin resistant and early maturing groundnut varieties
- Vegetables varieties - tomato (Rio Grande), African eggplant (L10), Okra (Konni)
- CHAPTER 3: Practices to intensify and diversify mixed crop-livestock systems
- Maize-legume strip cropping (cowpea and groundnut) strip cropping
- Sorghum-legume (groundnut) intercropping
- Integrated pest management for cowpea - genotype and insecticide spray regime
- 12:40 Lunch
- CHAPTER 4: Integrated Soil Fertility Management for improving cropping systems
- Soil fertility management practices/technologies
- Maize-NPK
- Cowpea with starter N
- Rice-N fertilizer
- Compost application technique for sorghum
- Maize with cowpea living mulch
- CHAPTER 5: Strategies for Improving Land, Soil and Water Resources Management in West Africa and the Sahel
- Contour bunding technology with fast growing tree species
- Innovative Water Management Tools for Scheduling Irrigation
- Effectiveness of maize with cowpea living mulch for soil and water conservation
- Local policy instruments to govern natural resoruces management and farmers’ inclusion in agricultural value chains
- CHAPTER 6: Improved livestock management within mixed crop-livestock farming systems
- Crop residue production, processing and preservation as livestock feed
- Integrating Napier grass and Pigeon pea fodder production in farming systems to produce fodder for improved small ruminant productivity
- Small ruminant feed and health management for West Africa
- Developing the Small Ruminant Value Chain
- CHAPTER 7: Minimizing food waste and improving food safety
- Integrated practices to minimize grain storage
- Aflasafe for aflatoxin control
- Management of aflatoxin in groundnut using pre-and post-harvest technologies
- CHAPTER 8: Improving household nutrition and food quality
- Engaging mothers and fathers to increase support for optimal child feeding practices using the Care Group Approach/Model
- Integration of Nutrition education with agricultural interventions for improved child dietary diversity
- Preservation of Vegetables Using the Zero Energy Cool Chamber (ZECC) for Food Security
- CHAPTER 9: Integration and landscape-based approaches for Sustainable intensification
- CHAPTER 10: Approaches for taking agricultural technologies to scale for smallholder farmers
- Targeting of innovations to the biophysical context
- Targeting to farm and household features
- Farmer Research Networks
- Technology parks
- Innovation Platforms as means to boost the adoption of improved technologies
- Scaling through mass media approaches
- 16:00 Break
- 16:45 Summarized feedback from Chapter leads [1-2-4 all exercise]
Day TWO [2 November 2022]
- 08:50 Overview of agenda for the day
- 09:00 World Café Session: Reviewing and gathering inputs into the WA Handbook of Technologies continued
- 10:20 Break
- 10:50 World Café Session continued
- 11:50 Closing discussion from marketplace
- 13:00 Lunch
- 14:00 Reflections from regional Chief Scientists
- Mateete Bekunda, Chief Scientists ESA
- Kindu Mekonnen, Chief Scientist Ethiopia
- 14:30 Lessons in implementation
- 14:30 - 15:10 Gaps and opportunities for further research [views from the experts who took part in the internally commissioned external review of Africa RISING]– Mark Powell, Christine Negra
- 15:10 - 16:15 Panel discussion: Partnerships in Scaling - Christine Negra, Bougouna Sogoba, Mohammed Dicko (AMEDD), John Nzugize (ARDT-SMS), Mohammed Dicko, Maimouna Rep MaliMark, Nana Ntiamoah (DEGAS), Chief Amadou (SEEDPAG), Tumaini Sidibe (FENABE), Patrick Kiao (ESOKO)
- 16:15 Break
- 16:30 Next steps for closure of project and what follows (administrative focus) – F. Kizito
- 16:45 Closing remarks
- 17:00 Wrap up/ Close of science outcomes & impacts review meeting
- NB: Students will also slot in their posters at the various thematic-based market place sections. Extend the invitation to the graduate students to present their works.
Day THREE [3 November 2022]
- [To hold at ICRISAT campus in Samanko]
- 09:00 Registration
- 09:30 Achievements of AR Program in Ghana [N. AbdulRahman] and in Mali [B. Traore]
- 10:00 Exhibition tour, coupled with farmer testimonies
- New crop varieties of crops - sorghum, vegetables- Akinseye Folorunsu (Aminata Coulibaly Tangara)
- Nutrition - value addition - Mahama Saaka and Alpha/Raki (Farmer testimony)
- Compost manure and cattle corralling system work - Bouba Traore (Farmer testimony by Nfa Coullibaly)
- Mechanization - Bekele Kotu (Farmer Testimonies in form of Video display (training on machine maintenance)
- Contour bunding - Kalifa Traore Farmer Testimonies by Adama berthé
- 12:30 Speeches and remarks from the Sous Prefects of Koutiala and BougouniMande
- 13:00 Vote of Appreciation - Irmgard Hoeschle-Zeledon and Fred Kizito, Former and Current Africa RISING Project Managers
- 13:15 Closing and then Lunch
- 18:30 Cocktail at the hotel
