PROIntensAfrica side event at the AASW7, Wole Fatunbi / FARA

6/15/2016 1
6/15/2016 1
Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa

The
PROIntensAfrica
Project
Wole Fatunbi(PhD)

Forum for Agricultural Research in AfricaForum for Agricultural Research in Africa
Agricultural Intensification thought ?
The problems of agriculture at the global scale and more
in Europe and Africa
• Sustainability Issues [Sustaining
productivity of labour, land and capital]
• Managing natural resources
• Increasing energy cost
• Meeting up the growing societal
expectations
• Working under the complicated
factor of climate change.

Constraints in Africa Agriculture
• Agricultural productivity still
low.. reflecting the failure to
find, adopt and use of more
productive farming
technologies and poor
market linkages.
• Inadequate
infrastructure and poor
land tenure
arrangements
•

Constraints in Africa Agriculture
Some Data
 <5% suitable agricultural
land in production
 Only 4% land in production
irrigated (30% in S Asia)
 Low fertiliser use/high
depletion of soil nutrients
 Agricultural productivity
was 25% of global average
 Only 1% of commercial
lending in Africa goes to
agriculture

State of Africa agriculture
Weak private sector
Underinvestment in
research; leading to
ineffective R&D models;
weak and unaccountable
institutions
In appropriate policies
External influences [
globalization etc.]

Crosscutting issues…
NRM
Sustaining
Increased
Productivity
Market
Policy
Income
Nutrition
Environment
Sustainable
livelihood
One Billion
Hungry

…Agricultural intensification thought
..agricultural
intensification is the
most suitable option
that we have to cope
with the ever-
increasing demand for
food and fiber, but
such intensification
must be carried out in
a sustainable way.
.. a balance among the
variable of sustainability !
…more than
• Good technologies
• Suitable policies
• Adequate infrastructure
• Balanced institutions
• Market

Understanding the
different intensification
pathways and developing
a combination of
pathways to respond to
diverse situations is the
key factor to sustainable
intensification.

• Research on sustainable models
of intensification is growing… but
not in Africa.
• Generic understanding of the
systems functioning is prominent
in Africa.
• The well known “ready-to-use”
intensification models may be
dysfunctional in Africa.
• long term research partnership
between Europe and Africa is
required.

The intensAfrica Initiative
The overall objective of the
IntensAfrica initiative is to
improve the food and
nutrition security and the
livelihoods of African
farmers and to enhance the
resilience of their natural
resource base by exploring
existing knowledge,
generating new knowledge
and utilizing knowledge on
effective pathways to
sustainable intensification of
agricultural systems
Multidisciplinary
Stakeholders
Participation
Pooling
expertise /
resources
Agricultural
Science
Ecological
Science
Economics
Social &
Policy Science
Innovation
systems
Africa &
European policy
partnership
Partnership with
Research
structures in
Africa

Objective
The objective of this project is to develop a
proposal for a long-term research and
innovation partnership between Europe and
Africa. With focus on the improvement of
the food and nutrition security and the
livelihoods of African farmers by exploring
and exploiting the rich diversity of
pathways leading to sustainable
intensification of African agro-food
systems, with support of the relevant policy
environment
The PROIntensAfrica
Outcome
A coherent and
fundable proposal for
a European / Africa
initiative that could
yield the much needed
agrarian revolution in
Africa and
sustainability in
Europe.

The PROIntensAfrica
The partnership proposal will:
1. Describe the scientific and innovation
domains that need further research to
identify and
2. Implement effective pathways (the
what),
3. Identify the value for both continents
in addition to ongoing partnerships
and activities (the why), and
4. Suggest financial and governance
structures that can adequately
support the partnership (the how).

..the Pert Chart of PROIntensAfrica

The PROIntensAfrica Work Packages
WP 1: Consortium Governance
and Project Coordination:
WP1 main responsibility is the
overall organization and
governance of the program, to
enhance coherence between the
various WPs and tasks to be
executed, monitoring the
progress, and to report efficiently
to the EU.

The PROIntensAfrica
WP2: Building IntensAfrica
Scientific Research Agenda
The CSA initiative intends to build, in
about two years, a convincing proposal
to evaluate within the diversity of
farming conditions and prevailing
markets those intensification pathways,
their impact, the conditions for their
opportune and effective implementation,
and finally the conditions through which
the expected changes may happen at
farm, communities and country scales.

The PROIntensAfrica
WP3 : Joint Programming: Building on What
Exist and Creating Synergies:
• Preparing the ground for joint programming of
EU/AU
• R&I activities in Africa.
• Mapping existing research (themes, actions)
• Funding mechanism.
• Describing national/continental research
mechanisms.
• Identifying ways to promote joint programming;
• Identifying ways to add value to on-going
projects.
• Positioning joint EU/AU R&I programming.
ProintensAfrica

The PROIntensAfrica
• WP 4: Working Modalities, Rules of
Participation and Funding Instruments:
• This will establish a clear and common
understanding of how partners will work
together to reach the goals of the project.
• This will be a handbook of sorts that helps
to focus efforts on the agreed-upon
strategic activities of the IntensAfrica
partnership.
• Create an infrastructure that facilitates
equal participation within the project and
provides a tool for enabling science-based
dialogs

The PROIntensAfrica
WP5: Prompting IntensAfrica Bi-
Continental Governance: -
Establishment of bi-continental high level
dialogue on governance and devise specific
policy measures
(1) Governments (Ministers of European and
African countries).
(2) The economic communities.
(3) International organizations and networks.
(4) Higher education and research institutions.
(5) The private sector and foundations,

The PROIntensAfrica
WP 6 Communication :
• Awareness of the need for, and
potential value of the IntensAfrica
initiative,
• Define and put in place the tools
required to ensure participation of
the various stakeholder groups, with
representation from policy, other
international research programs and
end-users (farmers, processors,
consumers
• information campaigns
• publication of outcomes

The PROIntensAfrica
WP7: Expected impact of IntensAfrica:
• WP7 deals with the expected impact of
the IntensAfrica initiative.
• As such it builds on the proposed
activities in the program, and is
strongly connected to the justification
of IntensAfrica.
• it will rely on a relatively concrete
detailing of the focus and instruments
in IntensAfrica, which in turn depend
on a detailed needs assessment and
mapping of existing initiatives.

The PROIntensAfrica
The project is
running…

Thank you
for the attention
To get the latest updated on
African agriculture research for development
visit
www.faraafrica.org
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