IFAD funded program: “Improving productivity and resilience for the rural poor through enhanced use of crop varietal diversity in IPPM;

Results from Uganda

Rose Nankya, Program SpecialistWorkshop 20-24 April 2015 in Rome, Italy

Bioversity International\R. Nankya

Some of the results from mixture trials

Increased diversity of crop varieties corresponded to a decrease in average crop damage levels and reduced risk to future damage

Year

Average HH richness

Average HH Evenness

Community Richness

Community Evenness

Divergence

WDI ALS2013

2.52 0.5 22 0.82 0.4 14.4

2008 2.4 0.38 26 0.87 0.6 17.58

The diversity and weighted damage indices for Rubaya site

Collecting data at the moment to see impact of the phase

Cross-site, on-farm experiments identified traditional varieties with more effective resistance to pests and diseases when grown outside their home sites

Variety Home site Reistance to Where

Shemererwa Rubaya Angular leaf spot Namulonge

Katosire Kabwohe Bean fly, Angular leafspot

Namulonge, Nakaseke

Kishoga Kabwohe Angular leafspot Namulonge, Rubaya

Kankuryembarukye purple

Rubaya Angular leafspot Namulonge, Kabwohe

Kanyobwa long Nakaseke Angular leafspot Namulonge, Kabwohe

Kasirira Bunyaruguru Beanfly Nakaseke, Kabwohe, Namulonge

Kaki short Nakaseke Beanfly Namulonge, Kabwohe

Yellow long Nakaseke Beanfly Namulonge, Kabwohe

Increased number of different landraces with different resistance available to farmers (amount of seed; number of varieties; number of farmers reached)

KIZIBA SEED BANK SEED QUANTIES AND NO. OF BENEFICIARIES

Increased number of different landraces with different resistance available to farmers (amount of seed; number of varieties; number of farmers reached)

Nakaseke seed bank

• Started with 379kg of common bean seeds of 37 varieties last season given to 45 farmers

•This season, have distributed 293kg to 39 farmers

•Due to bad last season, 329kg owed to the seedbank

•Nakaseke site in 2008 had a community richness of 12 common bean varieties

Increased production from clean diverse seedsNabadda Florence of Nakaseke site

Increased production from clean diverse seeds, other public pronunciations:

Ntudde Justine of Nakaseke – banana growing trainings

Jovaile Muhoozi of Kabwohe – growing common bean mixtures

Joy Mugisha of Kabwohe – growing mixtures, increased diversity of beans

Nantongo Sophia of Nakaseke – increased diversity of beans

Musinguzi Boaz of Kabwohe – good quality seed from Kiziba seed bank ( 1seed: 9 seeds now 1seed :50 seeds)

Sebuwufu Allen – banana growing trainings

Social Cohesion

Social Cohesion

Examples of linking good agronomic practices with intra-specific crop diversity to management pest and diseases to improve

production

Examples of linking good agronomic practices with intra-specific crop diversity to management pest and diseases to improve production

Progress in using the Damage Abatement framework

One of the major findings was that, in Uganda, banana diversity has a positive effect in reducing the incidence of pests and diseases.

Encouraged farmers to increase the diversity on-farm by making them aware of the above positive effect.

Abatement framework

The other finding is that the most important aspect of diversity for abating yield losses is evenness.

Encouraged farmers to mix varieties in relatively equal proportions to attain maximum benefit of abating yield losses

Capacity built and Training materials developed

Knowledge products / mechanism

Number No. of farmers / stakeholders reached

Training manuals 2 900

Video 3 1000 and more

Dramma 1 600

Website articles 6 Not tracked

Workshops 6 882

Diversity fairs, exhibitions 1, 4 2000

Cross site visits 2 100

Capacity built and training materials developed

Knowledge products / mechanism

Number No. of farmers / stakeholders reached

Posters 3 (2 in International conferences; 1 in National conference)

Over 2000?

Peer reviewed publications 2 Not tracked

Case studies 1 Not tracked

On-farm demonstrations 24, 8 720

Knowledge sharing events between scientists and farmers

2 130

Acknowledgements:

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