Sustainable intensification of crop-livestock systems to improve food security and farm income diversification in the Ethiopian highlands: Project Design Workshop—Project Outline and concepts
Presented by Shirley Tarawali at the Sustainable intensification of crop-livestock systems to improve food security and farm income diversification in the Ethiopian highlands: Project Design Workshop, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 30 January-2 February 2012.
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Sustainable intensification of crop-livestock systems to improve food security and farm income diversification in the Ethiopian highlands: Project Design Workshop—Project Outline and concepts
1. Sustainable intensification of crop-livestock systems to improve food
security and farm income diversification in the Ethiopian highlands:
Project Design Workshop
Project Outline and Concepts
Shirley Tarawali
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 30 January-2 February 2012
2. Context
• USAID Feed the Future – to end
hunger and food insecurity
– 3 multi-stakeholder agricultural
research projects
– Sustainable intensification of key
farming systems
– Catalyse and promote synergies; Sudano – Ethiopian
Sahelian Highland
leverage opportunities with s
research and development action
= alignment
• Comprehensive Africa Agricultural East and Southern
Africa Cereal Mixed
Development Programme (CAADP)
in Ethiopia
• Major agricultural development
programmes
• National and CGIAR research
efforts
3. Sustainable intensification in the
Ethiopian Highlands
• Planning meeting October 2011
• Core team for concept note: ILRI, EIAR,
ICARDA, CIMMYT, ICRISAT, IFPRI, IWMI, USAID
• Shared on line (blog) and comments received
• Project design workshop:
– Explore opportunities for alignment
– Input into project content
– Detailed planning and next steps for
implementation
4. Project overview: Key messages
• Significant numbers of poor small holders in crop
livestock systems in Ethiopian Highlands
• Livelihoods are complex, dependent on animal
and crop production based on land and water
resources, with emerging market opportunities
• Overall the project aims to make the whole
greater than the sum of the parts in two ways –
by connecting:
– Separate research on crops, animals, natural
resources and markets
– Research and development efforts
5. “Sustainable intensification”
• Complex, multidimensional....
• So:
– What are our advantages?
– Where should we focus?
– How should we interact with other research and
development programmes?
– How to empower others to respond to dynamic
and changing situations?
– How to ensure sustainability beyond project life?
16. Adding together – focus on
intersection of crop and livestock
enterprises
Combining feeds
(breed, health
and delivery)
“dual purpose”:
•Cereals
•Legumes Soil
Crop mixtures Crops Animals
Use of inputs Water
Combining manure
and fertilizer
Water management
18. Knowledge Management
Inputs and Soil
Consumer
Production Animals Processing Marketing
services
Crops
Water
Capacity development
19. AU/NEPAD
ASARECA CAADP
AGP SLM LGP
Inputs and Soil
Production Animals Processing Marketing
services
Crops
Water
USAID VCs
CRPs
Markets;
Major development
projects
Enabling policies......
20. Connecting
Inputs and Soil
Production Animals Processing
Pathways Marketing
services
Crops
Water
Adding technologies
Trade-offs
21. Hypotheses
Pathway:
• That the potential trajectory for intensification – and therefore solutions to
enhance sustainable intensification of smallholder crop livestock systems will vary
depending on the initial level of intensification in the farming system, and the level
of capital assets among farm households, which will also reflect the market
opportunities for specific crop and livestock commodities and as well as
institutional and policy environments
Adding technologies together:
• There are real opportunities to improve productivity and environmental
management through applying, combining and improving existing technological
interventions
Trade offs:
• Evaluation of trade offs between different combinations of interventions will
further enhance targeting and ensure diverse livelihood dimensions, including
opportunities for women are balanced
Connecting:
• Institutional innovations and options that build and enhance social capital –
bonding, bridging and linking relationships are crucial to leverage growth
opportunities and improve farmers’ access to knowledge, inputs, credit and
services and thus, market participation as well as potentially influencing the
enabling policy environment
22. Project overview: Key messages
• Significant numbers of poor small holders in crop
livestock systems in Ethiopian Highlands
• Livelihoods are complex, dependent on animal
and crop production based on land and water
resources, with emerging market opportunities
• Overall the project aims to make the whole
greater than the sum of the parts in two ways –
by connecting:
• Separate research on crops, animals, natural
resources and markets
• Research and development efforts
Hinweis der Redaktion
In addressing these questions, need to consider how the farming systems operate, what are the challenges and how best to engage.... For maximum synergy!
Begin by looking at the complexities at production level