Farming systems: Slash and burn, integrated, mono-cropping, mixed-cropping Crops: annual, perennial, trees, legumes and vegetables

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Development and Delivery Activities for Out-
scaling R4D Technologies for Greater Impact
During 2016 and Plans for 2017
P4D week; 21 November 2016
Ibadan, Nigeria
Emmanuel Njukwe on behalf of
Central Africa Hub Colleagues

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The Central Africa Hub

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Central Africa Hub
Diverse crops and systems
• Farming systems: Slash
and burn, integrated,
mono-cropping, mixed-
cropping
• Crops: annual,
perennial, trees,
legumes and vegetables
Diverse challenges
• Crop diseases and inappropriate cropping system
• Hilly topography and severely degraded soils
• Lack of agricultural inputs and tools
• Absence and use of inappropriate processing equipment
• Poor infrastructure (research, road, market etc)
• Limited products and post-harvest options
• Weak capacity

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Vision and Impact
The Vision of the Central Africa Hub is ‘Be the leading research
partner in finding solutions to hunger, poverty, and environmental
degradation and delivering these with partners at scale.
The ultimate impact is to
lift over 3.5 million Africans
out of poverty and turn
1.0 million of land into
sustainable use

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Theory of change
CIALCA
Humidtropics

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CIALCA
(Consortium for Improving
Agriculture-based Livelihoods in
Central Africa)

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CIALCA impact
63
71 73
60 61
52
Burundi DRC Rwanda
Change in Poverty Level(%)
Poverty rate in the counterfactual
group
Poverty rate in the actual adopting
group
0
500,000
1,000,000
1,500,000
2,000,000
2,500,000
3,000,000
3,500,000
4,000,000
4,500,000
5,000,000
Burund
i
DRC Rwand
a
CIALCA
Region
People out of poverty
(number)
18,974 115,114 425,723 559,810
Population size of
sampled area
733,709 1,294,866 2,205,933 4,234,508
People Lifted out of
Poverty
1897
Half a million
people
559,810
425723
115114
-21%
-10%
-3%

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Platform of stakeholders
A platform of stakeholders comprising Research
institutions, NGOs, Government, Private sector and Farmers
was instituted to :
Joint planning
• Synergy among partners
• Harmonize strategies
Joint implementation
• Organize joint events
• Share information and
knowledge
• Exchange germplasm
Joint evaluation
Visit of partners to BXW rehabilitated
field in Burundi

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Control strategies of the Xanthomonas
wilt of Banana epidemiology have been
identified: from total mat removal (with dire
livelihood consequences) to single
diseased stem removal
 Engagement of development partners
for scaling, including CRS, FH, Floresta,
amongst others.
 Over 15,000 training materials
including manuals, factsheets, posters and
videos are developed and disseminated to
strengthen the capacity of extension
workers.
 Over 6,000 fields rehabilitated in 3
years; scaling is on-going
Engagement of development partners
Total mat removal
Single diseased
stem removal
Sensitization

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Sustainable cocoa intensification for increasing cocoa
productivity, quality and income
Diffusion of good
agricultural practices
Demonstration plots for
cocoa regeneration and
diversificationFarmer Field
Schools
 ~6000 farmers
trained and 40
demonstration
plots established in
2016
 Similar targets for
2017
Engagement of development partners

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Private sector engagement
Over 150,000 plantlets of improved banana varieties from tissue
culture established in 125 nurseries for macro-propagation.
Farmers now sell a bunch of FHIA 17 between 5 and 10 USD per
bunch compared with < 4 USD for local cultivars
Buja Rural Cibitoke Muyinga Overall
71 75
85 77
Use of improved banana
varieties in 3 Provinces in
Burundi in 2014 (%)

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Farmers organized to access market
GARUKIRIGITOKE Farmers
Association in Muyinga, Burundi
supply banana bunches to
Tanzania for processing into juice,
twice in a week
Over five truck loads of banana
are shipped to Tanzania weekly from
Muyinga with average gross income
to farmers of 120 USD per week
The CIBITOKE Banana Cooperative
supplies banana beer to Bujumbura
three days in a week (200 liter) with
average gross income of 200 USD
per farmer

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Policy engagement
The coffee-banana work is changing policy in Rwanda and a
similar request was made from Burundi. In both countries, until
recently, it was discouraged to associate other crops with coffee!

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Moving forward

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Going forward – moving beyond CIALCA
Model 1: Youth/ENABLE
 See presentation tomorrow

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Model 2: Community-based processing to supply
existing markets
Going forward – moving beyond CIALCA
 Upcoming support through the World Bank in DR Congo
and Burundi; TAAT in DR Congo; etc
 Eight Community Cassava
Processing Center (CCPC) already
operational in South Kivu, DR
Congo for cassava processing
 Fresh cassava root is processed
into Hugh Quality Cassava Flour
(HQCF) for bakery products
 Starch is processed for laundry
services and pharmaceutical
products
 Transformation of cassava waste
into feed for livestock
 Over 2.5 tons of fresh cassava root
processed per day and per CCPC
On-going and ‘New’

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Model 3: Public Private Partnerships (PPP) within
specific value chains
Going forward – moving beyond CIALCA
 Upcoming support through the World Bank in DR Congo
and Burundi; TAAT in DR Congo; etc
Bukanga Lonzo park in DR Congo
With over 80,000 ha of arable
land, the agro-industrial park
will serve as resource and
training center for agro-
enterprise development.
PPP around a nucleus farm
and transformation unit
In such a model, the agro-
input supply chains and
output chains are guaranteed
through a nucleus farm and
an out-grower model will be
used.

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• A total credit of about $ 47,600
accessed by 8 farmer groups to
access inputs and improve general
legume production
• 1800 women farmers have been
trained on soya processing for both
business and household consumption
Going forward – moving beyond CIALCA
Model 4: Backstopping NGOs and Government-led
development programs
 Upcoming support through FH an ADRA in DR Congo,
N2Africa in DR Congo and Rwanda, IFAD in Burundi and
Rwanda, etc
• A total of about 9,000 farmers (36% women) have been
reached with various technologies (e.g. inoculants, improved
seeds, fertilizers, etc)

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Commercialization of plant tissue culture
 Public-private partnership for the production of tissue
culture plants
 Focusing on cassava, plantains and cocoa, expansion to
coffee, pineapple, potato,
 Linked to centers for plant multiplications throughout the
country
Biopesticide and neem extract for insect control and insects
for feed
 Biopesticide production – present interest by Elephant Vert;
targets, cocoa, plantains, vegetables.
 Production of neem extracts for use in insect control on
multiple crops.
 Insects for feed: ex. Black soldier flies for breaking down
waste (e.g. oil palm sludge), with residues used as fertilizer
and fish and animal feed.
Going forward – moving beyond CIALCA
Model 5: Business Incubation Platform (BIP) to stimulate
private sector engagement

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Final thoughts

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 Research in Central Africa has generated impact and will
continue to do so
 We’ve learnt a lot of what works or doesn’t and will
integrate these lessons in future initiatives
 We have dissemination models that have passed a
validation phase and that are ready to move
 We have learnt how to embed relevant research into
development activities and will continue to do so
 We look forward to a continued support from the P4D
directorate and hope to have a Central Africa P4D director
appointed soonest deputy
Final thoughts

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Thank you for your attention