What role can the private sector play in climate smart smallholder agriculture in Africa? Presentation from Agriculture and Rural Development Day (ARDD) 2011

1.
A climate smart value chain
approach to improve maize and
soya bean productivity
Austin Ngwira"
Director of Agriculture"
Clinton Development Initiative (Malawi)"
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Learning Event 6: What role can the private sector play in climate smart
smallholder agriculture in Africa?"
Agriculture and Rural Development Day"
COP 17"
Durban, South Africa"
3 December 2011"
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2. CDI Anchor Farm Business Model"
• Farmer club:"
– Typically 10 to 20 members (at least 40% women)"
– Elects leaders democratically"
– Appoints lead (progressive) farmer to be their coach"
– Creates local employment (450 people at peak season)"

3. Project Summary"
q Goal: increase rural household incomes and food
security by increasing soya beans production"
q Farmer targets: Increase from 2500 farmers in
2010/11 to 21,000 in 2012/13"
q Elements of climate smart agriculture:"
q Soil cover with crop residues"
q Fertiliser trees in farming systems"
q Zero/minimum tillage supported by use of
herbicides"

4. Support services to farmers"
q Extend agronomic best practices by working with:!
q Develop and strengthen market linkages"
q Develop farmer organisations"
q Support community infrastructure development
through anchor farm profit plough back"
"

5. ISFM farmer demonstrations"
q Jointly designed with:"
v AGRA Soil Health Programme"
v Department of Agricultural Research Services"
(Chitedze Research Station)"
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q Treatments (4):"
v T1: "Intercrop Maize with Gliricidia sepium under CA with
full fertiliser recommendation"
v T2: "Same as T2; replace Gs with Tephrosia vogelli!
v T3: "Soya-Maize Rotation under CA with full " "fertiliser
recommendation "
v T4: "Farmer practice (control) for maize cultivation"

6. CDI–AGRA/AECF partnership"
• Expanded outreach to smallholder farmers from 200 in
2008 to 10,400 in 2011/12"
• Expanded geographical coverage from 1 to 6agruclutral
extension planning areas"
• Capacity building"
• Networking"
• New marketing linkages: financial institutions, input
suppliers"

7. Achievements"
• Evidence from farmers & demo plots: "
– Saves labour, time, money "
– Avails manure on farm"
– Reduced Striga incidence"
– Vigorous crop performance"
• Effective market linkages:"
– Bank approvals for farmer loans 2011/12"
– Secured seed grower contracts"
– Secured pre-season soya seed contract 2011/12"

8. Market linkages model"
THE
CDI/AGRA
PROJECT
FARM
INPUT
&
OUTPUT RELATIONAL
MODEL
• Farm
input
loan
agreement
• Club
and
individual
accounts
opening
• Financial
analysis
• Loan
recovery
• Farmer
service
• Scheduled
v an
system
MOU/Agreement
(
payments
&
deposits)
•
• Best
prac*ce
soya
agronomy
• Farm
input
distribu*on
• Soya
collec*on bulking &
shipping
to
buyer
,
• Pre-­‐season
contract
with
soya
buyer
• Monitor
produc*on
&
marke*ng
• Loan
payments deduc*ons
from
soya
sales
Input
• Guarantee
market
(Price
• Soya
supply
contract
&
Volume)
(pre-­‐season
signing)
• Market
campaign
(radio
• Soya
shipping
&
messages,
farmer
*mely
payment
(zero
mee*ngs,
monitoring
tolerance
on
delays)
visits)
• Cost
share
in
coll ec*on
&
bulking
centers

9. THANK YOU ALL!!!"
CDI Country Executive, Joyful kids at Nsilombe Village, TA
Walker Morris (Right)" Mavwere, Mchinji District, 4 March 2011"