Sustainable Intensification of Cereal-based Farming Systems in the Sudano-Sahelian Zone of West Africa[edit | edit source]

Project Design Workshop[edit | edit source]

9-12 January 2012, Modern City Lodge, Tamale, Ghana[edit | edit source]

GOAL, PURPOSE, OBJECTIVES, OUTCOMES

PROJECT OVERALL GOAL [to be finalized)

100% increase in system productivity in target areas

75% reduction in post-harvest losses 50% value addition to the harvest Lift X thousand people out of poverty Eliminate the hungry season in target populations

Assumptions

Governments of Ghana and Mali invest in capacity building and relevant infrastructure to bring research outputs to end users.
CGIAR and NARS partners deliver project outputs.

This project will increase agriculture production, improve nutrition quality of diets, reduce storage losses and improve markets. This will dramatically

1) improve livelihoods for women 2) Improve food security 3) Improve maternal and child nutrition 4) Eliminate the hunger period and Increase income\ In order to lift x million rural people out of poverty in the West African dry savanna

PROJECT PURPOSE

Achieve enhanced livelihoods of rural populations, particularly of women and children, of the Sudano-Sahelian (savanna) zone of West Africa through sufficiently improved food, nutrition and, income security and conservation or enhancement of the natural resource base.

PROJECT OBJECTIVES

Identify, combine and test [adapt and develop] sustainable farming technologies and practices.
Effectively deliver and scale out research outputs to end users

PROJECT OUTCOMES

– Sustainable increase of whole farm productivity – Improved on- and off-farm natural resource management – Reduced vulnerability of target population (esp women and children) and farming systems to adverse environmental and economic changes – Increased nutritional and economic levels of the target populations (esp women and children)