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Improving Tree Crop Systems in Nigeria and Cameroon ac6on sites: the Humidtropics Perspec6ve La#fou Idrissou, IITA-‐Ibadan, PMB 5320, Oyo Rd, Ibadan, Nigeria ([email protected]) Leonard Hinnou, INRAB, Benin Marc Schut, IITA-‐Bujumbura, Burundi , Wageningen University, The Netherlands ([email protected])
Introduc6on Humidtropics, the CGIAR Research Program on Integrated Systems for the Humid Tropics (Humidtropics) seeks to improve the livelihood of smallholder farmers in sub-‐saharan Africa, Asia and tropical America through integrated systems approach. Two regions are concerned in Africa, the West Africa Ac#on Area and the East and Central Africa Ac#on Area. The West Africa Ac#on Area comprises Cameroon , Nigeria, Ghana and Ivory Coast where ac#ons have been demarcated. Humidtropics intends to improve tree crop systems, the dominant farming system in the humid lowlands of these countries. Two track are used to iden#fy entry points for system interven#ons: Slow track: entry points iden#fica#on through systems analysis of detailed household data; Fast track track: entry points iden#fica#on through PRA and ex ante analysis (EXTRAPOLATE; RAAIS, etc.). A Rapid Appraisal of Agricultural Innova#on Systems (RAAIS) is undertaken in Cameroon and Nigeria to ‘fast-‐track’ entry points for R4D interven#ons. RAAIS is a diagnos#c tool that can guide the ex-‐ante analysis of complex agricultural problems, and the iden#fica#on of “entry points” that enhance the innova#on capacity of the agricultural system in which the complex agricultural system is embedded (Schult et al., 2015).
Results The use of RAAIS led to the iden#fica#on of tree crop systems’ constraints and challenges as raised by par#cipants from Cameroon and Nigeria. The main constraints are ins#tu#onal, economical and poli#cal in Cameroon while the diagnos#c exercise for par#cipants from Nigeria shows that the main constraints and challenges to the improvement of tree crop systems are poli#cal followed by ins#tu#onal and technological constraints and challenges (Fig.1). However, par#cipants to the workshops made li\le demarca#on between ins#tu#onal and poli#cal constraints and challenges.
Conclusion and future direc6ons Research ques#ons have been iden#fied to address the constraints and challenges raised during these workshops to improve tree crop systems in Cameroon and Nigeria ac#on sites. They are related to produc#vity, NRM, ins#tu#ons and market, gender and nutri#on.
Research ac#vi#es on these topics are being implemented to improve the tree crop systems in Cameroon and Nigeria Ac#on Sites.
Methodology The RAAIS workshop is carried with stakeholders who are representa#ves of farmers/producers, NGO/Civil society, private sector, government and research and training ins#tutes members of R4D pla_orms.
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Farmers/ producers 3 8 2 0 NGO/ civil society 4 3 2 2 Private sector 2 4 0 0 Government 4 3 4 2 Research and training institutes
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Figure 1 : Types of constraints and challenges as iden#fied by workshop par#cipants in Cameroon and Nigeria subdivided between the main (primary) types/ dimensions, and other types/ dimensions (secondary)
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Figure 2 : Main causes of constraints as iden#fied by workshop par#cipants respec#vely from Cameroon and Nigeria Ac#on Sites
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