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How is Africa RISING in Ghana?

Asamoah Larbi International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Tamale, Ghana

Contract Review Presentation11 May, 2015


Outline• Africa RISING Program

• Achievements: 2012-2015

• Contribution to rural development

• Future plans for IITA


Purpose of Africa RISING: Provide pathways out of hunger and poverty for small holder families, especially for women and children, through sustainably intensified farming systems that sufficiently improve productivity, nutrition, and income security and conserve or enhance the natural resource base

Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation (Africa RISING)


Africa RISING - West AfricaSustainable Intensification of Cereal-based Farming

Systems in the Guinea-Savanna of West Africa


1. Situation analysis

2. Integrated systems improvement

3. Scaling and delivery of integrated innovations

4. Monitoring and evaluation

Strengthened capacity

Africa RISING – Program Outputs


Africa RISING’s - Niche


Africa RISING - Ghana


Africa RISING - Cereals


Africa RISING – legumes and vegetables


Africa RISING – livestock


Africa RISING – nutrition


• Assist Coordinator manage partnership/project in Ghana• Identify partners and establish partnerships• Set up demonstration plots – cereals and legume• Provide guidance, direction and supervise staff• Contribute to technical progress reports• Collaborate with institutions – graduate training• Monitor partner’s preparation of manuscripts.

• Act as a Country Representative – Ghana• Represent IITA in Ghana as requested by Directors• Assist IITA projects in Ghana – Government & partners• Oversight for support staff as requested by Directors

Terms of reference


• Chief Scientist – West Africa• Representation – program level• Prepared annual reports• Built partnerships• Drafted project document• Interacted with donors• Assisted with mid-term review

• Systems Agronomist – Ghana• Managed the project• Conceptualized and implemented research• Recruited staff• Negotiated lease and movement from• Set-up and staffed Wa and Navrongo offices

Achievements – Africa RISING


Selected communities


Mobilized communities


ARI Animal Research Institute

CBOs Community-based Organizations

CRI Crops Research Institute

FRI Food Research Institute

GLDB Grains and Legumes Development Board

INSTI Institute for Scientific and Technological Information

KNUST Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

MOFA Ministry of Food and Agriculture

SARI Savanna Agricultural Research Institute

SEEDPAG Seed Producers Association of Ghana

SRI Soil Research Institute

UDS University for Development Studies

UG University of Ghana

USAID ADVANCE, ATT

CGIAR ILRI, IWMI, CIAT, AVRDC

Established partnerships


Organized workshops


CRI

SRI

INSTI

ARI

FRI

MoH

MoFA

ICRISAT

KNUST

AVRDC

CIAT

IWMI

ILRI

SARI

IITA

0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400

Budget allocation (x 1000 U$)

Prepared workplans and budgets


Established CBOs and R4Ds


Community CBOs and district R4Ds


Conducted on-farm research


Region

Trials Northern Upper East

Upper West

Total

Baby trials 326 307 187 817

Demonstration plots 170 200 189 559

Total 496 507 376 1376

Farmer-managed trials established, 2014


Cereal-legume-livestock systems


Maize responses to N fertilizer

0 40 80 120 1600

600

1200

1800

f(x) = − 91.2857142857142 x² + 780.914285714285 x − 106.4R² = 0.925064290724368

a. Extra-early maize: Wa

Nitrogen fertilizer (kg/ha)

Gra

in y

ield

(kg/

ha)

0 40 80 120 1600

1000

2000

3000

4000f(x) = − 202.21428571 x² + 1891.8857143 x − 664.9R² = 0.948671119334665

b. Extra-early maize:Nyankpala


0 40 80 120 1600

1000

2000

3000

4000

f(x) = − 110.57142857 x² + 1135.4285714 x + 313.8R² = 0.896967385381535

e. Medium maize: Wa


Gra

in y

ield

(kg/

ha)

0 40 80 120 1600

1000

2000

3000

4000

5000

f(x) = − 290.65357143 x² + 2424.9464286 x − 411.21R² = 0.97303723267279

f. Medium maize: Nyankpala



Erect cowpea-Mamaba

Speading cowpea-Mamaba

Erect cowpea-Obatanpa

Mamba

Erect cowpea-Etubi

Spreading cowpea-Etubi

Spreading cowpea-Obatanpa

Etubi

Obatampa

Erect cowpea-Pan 53

Spreading cowpea-Pan 53

Pan 53

Spreading cowpea

Erect cowpea

0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 3500

Cowpea Maize

Grain yield (kg/ha)

Mamba

Spreading cowpea

Etubi

Erect cowpea

Erect cowpea-Mamaba

Obatampa

Speading cowpea-Mamaba

Erect cowpea-Etubi

Erect copea-Obatanpa

Spreading cowpea-Etubi

Spreading cowpea-Obatanpa

Pan 53

Erect cowpea-Pan 53

Spreading cowpea-Pan 53

0 500 1000 1500 2000

Net returns (Ghana Cedis)

Hybrid maize-cowpea – net returns


Genetic intensification - cowpea lines

IT07K-274-2-9

IT09K-456

IT08K-126-19

IT09K-269-1

IT04K-332-1

ITO7K-297-13

IT08K-180-11

IT08K-193-15

IT04K-339-1

IT08K-180-5

IT09K-321-1

Local check

0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600

b. dual-purposeUpper West Upper East Northern

Grain yield (kg/ha)


Integrated pest management- cowpea

IT 99K-573-1-1

IT99K-573-2-1

Songotra

Padi Tuya

Bawutawuta

Farm Variety

0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200

a. no insecticide spray

Late-AugustMid-AugustLate-JulyMid-July

Grain yield (kg/ha)

IT 99K-573-1-1

IT99K-573-2-1

Songotra

Padi Tuya

Bawutawuta

Farm Variety

0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200

b. insecticide spray

Grain yield (kg/ha)


Maize-soya strip cropping


Soybean production


TGX 1987-10F

TGX 1989-19F

TGX 1989-40F

TGX 1990-21F

TGX 1990-37F

TGX 1990-38F

TGX 1990-3F

TGX 1990-40F

TGX 1990-46F

TGX 1990-52F

TGX 1990-55F

TGX 1990-57F

TGX 1987-10F Check

TGX 1987-62F Check

TGX 1835-10E Check

Local Check

0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 3500 4000

Upper East Northern Upper West

Grain yield (kg/ha)

Early-maturing soybean lines, 2013


Farmer's practice

Triple super phosphate at 60 kg/ha (TSP)

Fertisol applied at 4 t/ha (F)

TSP + F

TSP + F + Boostxtra

0 1000 2000 3000 4000

Upper West region Northern region

Grain yield (kg/ha)

Soil fertility management effects on soya


Nitrogen fertilizer (kg/ha)Stocking (Sheep/ha) 0 60 900 1.13 1.56 1.65200 1.67 2.15 2.48400 1.78 2.71 2.54s.e. 0.088P-value 0.009

Sheep & N effects maize grain yield (t/ha)


ItemPhosphorus (kg P2O5/ha)

Cowpea variety 30 90Haulm crude protein (g/kgDM) Zaayura 153 149

Hewale 146 143s.e.d 6.3

Haulm neutral detergent fibre (g/kg DM) Zaayura 478 462Hewale 503 460s.e.d 20.3

Voluntry intake (g DM/kg BW) Zaayura 2.59 2.31Hewale 2.24 2.66s.e.d 0.016

Blood urea nitrogen (mmol/l) Zaayura 10.88 10.3Hewale 9.03 12.16s.e.d 0.032

Crop-livestock: P affects haulm quality


1 4 7 10 13 16 19 22 25 289

12

15

18

21

Contour Farming Half-MoonFarmers Practice

Days from start of measurement

Soil

moi

stur

e co

nten

t (%

)

Contour farming

Contour ridges

Half-moon

Farmers' practice

0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5

Maize grain yield (t/ha)

Soil conservation effects on maize grain


Capacity building: Short-course, 2013


Experimental design and data analysis

Integrated crop-livestock systems

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70

Number of participants

Short-courses participants, 2012-15


Name Gender Degree University1Mary Awuni F MSc UDS2Peter Agalam M MSc UDS3Daniel Apalibe M MSc UDS4Martha Agyri F MSc KNUST5Daniel Apalibe M MSc KNUST6Haruna Abdulai M MSc KNUST7Richard Amponsah M MSc KNUST8Jonathan Naaba M MSc KNUST9Eliasu Salifu M MSc KNUST

10Mohammed Abdul-Kadir M MSc KNUST11Theodore Avukpor M MSc KNUST12Raphael Azayiga M PhD KNUST13Abdul R Nurudeen M PhD KNUST14Safo-Kantanka Goodman M PhD KNUST

UDS=University for Development StudiesKNUST=Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Capacity building: Graduate supervision


Scaling-out: Farmers’ field day, 2014


Participants Composition (%)

Region Male Female Total Male Female

Upper East 211 293 504 42 58

Northern 176 248 424 42 58

Upper West 277 258 535 52 48

Total 664 799 1463 - -

Scaling-out: Farmers’ field day, 2014


Publications - 2013


• Peer reviewed journals – 4 (1 accepted, 3 review)

• Booklets – 2 (one published, other in press)

• Conference proceedings – 3

• Project reports – 6

• Leaflets – 9

Publications


US Congressional Staff Visit - 2012


• Negotiated office space at INSTI-CSIR• Managed Accra/Tamale offices and staff• Negotiated IRS resident and working permit• Negotiated for Country agreement• Facilitated the Extended Management Meeting• Facilitated implementation of other projects

• SARD-SC• N2 Africa• Cowpea• Maize CRP review

• Represented Hub Director • Met Government Officials

Achievements – Country Representative


Organized Management Meeting, 2014


Country Agreement - Approved, 2015


• Achievements presented contribute to following determinants of African Rural Development

• Increase agricultural production• Food security – quantity and quality• Incomes – job creation• Sustaining the natural resource base - soil• Capacity building – empowering women

Contribution - Rural Development


• Africa RISING• Chief Scientist - scientific leadership/mentoring• Project management – Ghana• Preparation for Phase II

• IITA in Ghana – increase visibility• Finalize Country Agreement• Build strategic partnerships• Streamline project management • Explore possibility of acquiring land – Tamale• Manage Tamale and Accra offices

• Contribute to Science Quality – publication• Integrated Crop-Livestock research• Capacity building

Future plans with IITA

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