Activities in the frame of rural development and foodsecurity - Federal Office for

Agriculture and Food (BLE)

Sentinel-2 Preparatory Symposium, 25.03.2012

Henning Knipschild, BLE, BLE – Federal Office for Agriculture and Food - Germany

PG 530 “Global Food Security and International Cooperation”

Rural development and foodsecurity

General farm information

Intercropping Crop rotationTotal croped

area (ha)

66% 55% 1,15

Farm Animals

Cows Goats

Number 1,4 2,1

The BLE – Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food

within the area of BMELV - Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection

Higher FederalAuthorities

Separate Legal Institutes

Federal ResearchInstitutes

Separate Legal Research Institutes

etc.

AllocationRecipients

etc.

Inter-institutional German working group on foodsecurity

Selected activities of the division „International Cooperation and Global Food Security”

1. Research and knowledge transfer & dialogue with target groups

2. Statistics networks

3. Centre for German Geodata management at BLE

Bottlenecks

data availability

data accessability

ARD was defined as Agricultural Research generating knowledge to trigger Development (i.e. in countries of the South).

This definition also accounts for the fact that research, which is funded through ARD programmes, but does not contribute towards development and production in the South, may not meet the demand of the ARD definition and the MDGs.

1.1. ARD - Agricultural Research for Development - definitions

1.2. ERA-ARD – Research coordination

ERA-ARD is an ERA-NET, i.e. a European coordination instrument .

Maximizing the EU contribution to achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

2012: Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland and Turkey publish a call in support of ARD:

“Improving rural livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa: Sustainable and climate-smart intensification of agricultural production”

GroupType of funding mechanisms

Drivers - Initiating Organisations

Programmes (%)

1) EU policy driven programmes:

Support to IARCsMinistries of Foreign Affaires and Cooperation 29 47

Support to NARCs Ministries of Agriculture18

2) Knowledge driven programmes:

Calls for EU led research

Ministries of Science and Education

20

20

3) Southern centred programmes

Grants and fellowshipsMinistries of Foreign Affaires and Cooperation, Ministries of Science and Education, Foundations

5

33University partnerships and courses

22

Calls for DC led research 6

Drivers and mechanisms inEU Programmes (2006)

[i] ERA-ARDI: 2006, Descriptive synthesis of ARD Programmes, BLE (DE)

1.3. Research dialogue

Cooperational projects between FARA and BLE in Knowledge Management:

dialogue among actors e.g. African scientists, policy makers, extension workers

in close cooperation with the subregional research fora ASARECA, SACD, CORAF

eRails: the African portal on Agriculture

www.erails.net

Actors publish their research-blog

www.erails.net

Question & Answer Service (QAS) www.runetwork.org

• Farmers publish QUESTIONS via internet

• demand driven Information & Knowledge Management

• information need assessment

• mapping farming practices

Answer-Service

Question & Answer Service (QAS) www.runetwork.org

Informationoffer

Producer/Information

client

Filter

Question

Demand driven & tailored information service

• Information not filtered & packaged

• information dissemination not scalable

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FARMERExtension / NGO / Farmers Assoc.

Expert

Farmers‘ interests: questions classified according to product group

Information needs and interests: some

some results from the QAS in Uganda

Supply driven versus demand driven.

Subsidy of SupplySubsidy of Demand

Service provider

Target group

Financing agency

Service provider

Target group

Financing agency

Flow of fundsInformation flow

Legend

The Voucher System: Concepts to fund demand driven KM

Products of interest (for RS) ?

Farmers provide data for household survey.

farming practice of single farmer is known.

geographic position of farmer is registered with a GIS camera.

agroecological zone is characterized by expert .

archives with answers are provided (printouts in folders) .

radio programmes in local languages provide summaries.

local people are trained to participate.

15 SSA countries

2. Joint research and data appraisal

Statisticians and scientists jointly work on network platforms on the internet

the platforms support experts to collect and classify information

GIS interfaces allow management of distributed data

the database calculates jointly developed algorithms

data is openly accessible

Information system:

shared data, harmonized

algorithm, joint road map

www.aphlis.net

Country : Kenya Province : Coast Climate : Semi-arid climate (BSh) Year : 2007 Crop : Maize

Postharvest losses

RESIMAO – official market information system of the CEDEAO

BLE manages data for crisis decisions at German level

3. Centre for geodata management at BLE

How can information contribute to

improved rural development ?

In the words of the Agricultural

Innovation System (AIS, Worldbank)…

INTEGRATION & NETWORKING & OWNERSHIP

• An innovation system is a network of organizations and individuals bringing new products and new processes into economic use.

• Locating agricultural research within an AIS is a means of heightening the performance of research systems through improved articulation with demand, more effective institutional partnerships and better market integration.

Scale up to local level?

EO in cooperation with Food security Statistics and

Research

Information clientFilter

dialogue

Demand driven & tailored information service

RS data transferData on farmers and information needs

Scale up to local level?

EO in cooperation with Food security

Statistics

Demand driven & tailored information service Open Source

joint framework (like in the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC). Shared definition for the levels of intervention.

joint „warning“ to policy and scientists (like AMIS, IPC).

information packaged for different clients. Outcome of CFS Monitoring Food Security:

short messages for policy makers (e.g. countrybreefs foodsecurity)

capacity development for partners in SSA

Scale up to local level?

EO in cooperation with Food security

Statistics

Demand driven & tailored information service

Funding into Agriculture for Development is on the agenda and funding seems available.

But: the financial crisis causes instability in many institutions.

Maybe this is the time to come up with a road map for EO in support of rural development

Extrapolation for rural development ?

EO in cooperation with Food security

Statistics

a combination of data from RS and statistics provide a basis for extrapolation.

data on farming practices complement RS information.

Thank you!

Henning KnipschildPG 530 - International Cooperation and Global Food Security Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE)Deichmanns Aue 29, 53179 Bonn, GermanyTelefon: +49 (0)228 6845-3538

E-Mail: henning.knipschild@ble.de E-Mail: 530@ble.de