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Reaching out to farmers, agronomists and plant breeders
with spatially efficient, participatory testing networks
Glenn Hyman, Pierre Sibiry Traore, Kai Sonder, Juan Arista, Jawoo Koo
The Africa Trial Sites Catalogue
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The poor performance of public institutions in disseminatingimproved varieties to small-scale farmers is broadly accepted,and there is an urgent need to design and test new
institutional arrangements ..
World Bank Development Report 2007
Cultivar testing is a key element in the process ofdelivering varieties to farmersMulti Environment Trials (MET) and GxE analysis havea rich history going back 100+ years
Trial networks for the cereal crops have beenespecially effective in the past
BUT
WE KNOW THAT:
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A solution to improve efficiency of breeding programs
through better availability and exchange of information:
Create an interactive website that allows breeders, researchers, extensionistsand other people interested in improving crops and getting better access to themto look for information on trial sites and cultivar evaluations.
Tools allow to identify those sites in Africa that are most similar to ones place ofinterest or work
Provide location specific data (climate, edaphic, contact) for all trial sites
Provide access to results from evaluation trials
Provide contact info and links to online seed ordering services from genebanks
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300+ crop
evaluation sitesare currentlyrepresented inAFRICATS
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Homologue layers for all sites show representativeness of sites
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Homologue tool compares any station with all others
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And giveslist of 10most similar
stations topoint ofinterest
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Links to breeding programs and gene banks
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Partners canenter newstations anddata as well asedit existingones
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Africats incorporatesthe GenerationChallenge Programs
drought timing tool
Supports trial site
planning for cultivarstolerant to drought
Includes waterbalance modelimplemented in
Fortran (Peter Jones),Google maps, andArcGIS server.
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Africats incorporatestools developed forthe HarvestChoiceproject (Jawoo Koo)
Supports queries of
climate data from theWorldclim database
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Tool for identifying importantcrops around a trial site
Uses the IFPRI SPAM model user-defined radius of the
buffer area Google maps ArcGIS Server
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FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS:
1.CIAT secured new funding from the climate change challengeprogram (courtesy of Andy Jarvis)
2.New crops: will engage other CGIAR centers not yet involved
3.Expansion to Latin America and Asia (will build identical sites)
4.Well hire a dedicated application/Web developer (as opposedto a student intern)
5.Andy Farrow will lead side meeting in the coming days