n2 africa 2010 general presentation (gap)(2)
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Putting nitrogen fixation to work for smallholder farmers in Africa
Putting Nitrogen Fixation to
Work for Smallholder Farmers
in Africa
N2Africa
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Putting nitrogen fixation to work for smallholder farmers in Africa
• The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded
the four year grant to Wageningen University,
September 2009
• CIAT-TSBF and IITA are subcontractors leading
the implementation of the project partnering with
NARS, NGOs, CBOs, in the 8 countries: Nigeria,
Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, DR Congo, Zimbabwe,
Malawi and Mozambique
• Main crops: soybean, groundnut, cowpea and
common bean – and legume forages
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Putting nitrogen fixation to work for smallholder farmers in Africa
N2Africa Action Sites
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Putting nitrogen fixation to work for smallholder farmers in Africa
N2Africa: Research & development
Development: making best varieties,
inoculants, agronomic practices available
to farmers, market linkages
Research: on agronomy, rhizobiology and
unique opportunity for comparative
research between 8 countries
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Putting nitrogen fixation to work for smallholder farmers in Africa
Why legumes?
Legumes have great potential to address soil
fertility problems in Sub-Saharan Africa, linking
protein & nitrogen needs of African farmers
Presents a mechanism of renewable soil fertility
management through N2-fixation and crop
rotations
Provides farmers with improved nutrition options
and income-generating crop production
enterprises
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Putting nitrogen fixation to work for smallholder farmers in Africa
Vision of success
To raise legumes yields by 954 kg/ha, to
increase average BNF by 46 kg/ha, and
to increase average incomes by $465,
benefiting 225,000 households
(1,800,000 individuals) from Nigeria,
Ghana, DRC, Kenya, Rwanda, Malawi,
Mozambique, Zimbabwe.
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Putting nitrogen fixation to work for smallholder farmers in Africa
• Increase the area of land cropped with legumes
• Increase legume productivity - agronomy and P
fertilizer
• Select better legume varieties
• Select better rhizobium strains and inoculate
• Link to markets and create new enterprises to
increase demand for legumes
Increase of overall legume production:
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Putting nitrogen fixation to work for smallholder farmers in Africa
Objectives
1. Establish a baseline of the current status of N2-
fixation, identify farm enterprises and niches
for targeting N2-fixing legumes in the impact
zones, and establish mechanisms for
monitoring and evaluation (M&E) and impact
assessment
2. Identify and field-test multi-purpose
legumes that provide income, food, animal
feed, and high quality crop residues with
enhanced N2-fixation and integrate improved
varieties into farming systems
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Objectives
3. Collect and characterize superior rhizobia
strains for enhanced N2-fixation and develop
inoculum production capacity in sub-
Saharan Africa through collaboration with
private sector partners
4. Deliver legumes, inoculant technologies and
associated N2-fixation technologies to farmers
throughout sub-Saharan Africa
5. Develop and strengthen capacity for N2-
fixation research, technology development, and
application
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Putting nitrogen fixation to work for smallholder farmers in Africa
Utilization of inputs (West Kenya)
With P Without P
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control +Pfert +ino +Pfert+ino
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Putting nitrogen fixation to work for smallholder farmers in Africamaize following maize maize following climbing beans
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Putting nitrogen fixation to work for smallholder farmers in Africa
Central-East Africa (DRC, Rwanda, W-Kenya):- Farmers planted for 2nd time
West Africa (Ghana, Nigeria):- Farmers planted in June/July – harvesting
Southern Africa (Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe):- 1st growing season is about to begin, lead farmers have been
trained, inputs are being distributed
Progress
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Putting nitrogen fixation to work for smallholder farmers in Africa
Monitoring & Evaluation
• Characterization of impact zones
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Putting nitrogen fixation to work for smallholder farmers in Africa
N2Africa Impact Zones
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Putting nitrogen fixation to work for smallholder farmers in Africa
Monitoring & Evaluation
• Characterization of impact zones
• Baseline survey (400 HH in 8 countries, gender
disaggregated data, some qst on decision making,
control of harvests, etc)
• In-depth income & nutrition – still to be done
• Detailed farm characterizations
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Monitoring & Evaluation
Participatory farmer evaluations of trials &
demo‟s
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• Participatory farmer evaluations of trials &
demo‟s
• M&E indicators & development of instruments
• Developing tools for evaluating dissemination
approach (adoption)
Monitoring & Evaluation
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Gender – where does it come in?
• Legumes considered to be “women‟s crops” in
many places in Africa
• Legumes often have direct impact on household
nutrition
• Opportunities to engage women in processing &
marketing
• Crucial importance of „gender‟ is recognized by
participating organisations & donor, but….
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But….
• Insufficient expertise at level of project staff
• Diversity across countries need for very
context-specific strategies
• Profit making processing cq marketing offers
opportunities but also at risk to be taken over by
men – no strategies in place (yet) to address this
challenge
• Late action on gender – part of the project
proposal & activities, but no „action-priority‟ on
gender
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Assets
• Framework is useful - stimulated us to look at
N2Africa from a different perspective
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Putting nitrogen fixation to work for smallholder farmers in Africa
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