Opportunities for adoption and institutional innovation

Per HillburMalmö University, Sweden

Africa RISING East and Southern Africa annual review and planning meeting, Lilongwe, Malawi, 3-5 September 2013

Hillbur, Per (2013) The Africa RISING research sites in Tanzania. Opportunities and challenges to sustainable intensification and institutional innovation. Background paper, July 2013.

Hillbur, Per (2013) Research on institutional

innovation and scaling issues in Africa RISING. Draft research plan, August 2013

Why does not adoption occur?

What is the potential for sustainable intensification?

What has actually changed?

Population growth steady stimulates change challenges traditional land use patterns and livelihoods.

Target: Continue titles and land certificates process, livestock integration, ISFM, zero-grazing, etc

Challenge Babati

Farm household level >< Field (plot) level >< Landscape level

Target: Land use plans, landscape scale focus, pigeon pea intercropping

Challenge Kiteto

Climate change, soil fertility, soil conservation, labor availability

Targets: Land use plans, titling, landscape analysis, post-harvest technologies and mgmt, drought-resistant varieties,labour intensification, livestock integration

Challenge Kongwa

Three functions (Leeuwis and Aarts 2011):

network buildingsocial learningconflict management

How do we support ‘socially acceptable transformation’, e g how can platforms work in a way that is gender transformative?

R4D platforms

Stakeholders by categoryCategory of stakeholders

Kongwa/Kiteto Babati

Farmers MVIWATA Farmers repr

MVIWATA Farmer repr

Input suppliers Tanseed TFA TOSCA  

MeruAgro Minjingu Fertilizer CoPANNAR, SATECTanseed, TFA, TOSCA

Output handling and market support agents

Kibaigwa market 

FaidaMaliVirtus Global Ltd

Financial institutions

SACCOs  

SACCOs VICOBA

Stakeholders by category, cont.Category of stakeholders

Kongwa/Kiteto Babati

Extension agents Kongwa DC, Kiteto DC, NAFAKA, Orgut

Babati DCBabati TownC, Orgut  

Research institutions

CGIAR, ARI Hombolo NARI, Selian ARI, IRA/UDSM, SUAPasture Res. Centre, UDOM

CGIARNARI, NM–AIST, Selian ARI

Policy makers Kongwa DC, Kiteto DCMKURABITA

Babati DCBabati TownC 

Others (NGOs, donors etc)

CORDS, FARM-AfricaInades-Formation, INTSORMIL, LVIA, SULEDO USAID, World Vision Intl

FARM-Africa, FIDERECODA, TAP, TCCIA, TechnoServe USAID, World Vision Intl

“scaling is not simply about copying success; it is also about enabling high levels of innovation, experimentation, and feedback” Woodhill, J., Guijt, J., Wegner, L., Sopov, M. (2012). From islands of success to seas of change: a report on scaling inclusive agri-food markets. Centre for Develop ment Innovation, Wageningen UR.

Scaling up

Scaling out

 

Scaling adaptively

“scaling is not simply about copying success; it is also about enabling high levels of innovation, experimentation, and feedback” Woodhill, J., Guijt, J., Wegner, L., Sopov, M. (2012). From islands of success to seas of change: a report on scaling inclusive agri-food markets. Centre for Develop ment Innovation, Wageningen UR.

Scaling up

Scaling out

Scaling adaptively

Three categories of output: PRODUCTION, INCOME and NUTRITION (The Montpellier Panel 2013)

Support to interventions that target women as beneficiaries, is a support to higher productivity, improved health and nutrition status, and good governance

Impact

Research/implementation process The case of Africa RISINGFocus Aspect(s) of sustainable intensificationDefinition of area Projects sites, field sites, study unitsBackground Baseline studies, history of area, previous interventionsTrends Which are the current trends (poverty, environmental

degradation, market conditions, etc.) – potential for sustainable intensification

Stakeholders/actors Include all relevant stakeholders at relevant level to secure future information flows (R4D platform)

Indirect stakeholders Media, nature, etcValidation of stakeholders Contribution and benefit patterns

M & E : preliminary level for IDOs, impactVision for the area Impact at regional level (ESA) Preliminary formulation of entry

pointsStrategy Research logistics, time frame M & E: internal monitoring of program resourcesWork plan Entry points (innovation + target area/group)Formalizing/signing agreements local – intermediate – (national)

Sida strategy for 2013-2019Swedish International Development Authority. (2012). Bedömningsunderlag för ny samarbetsstrategi med Tanzania 2012-2016. Sida: Stockholm.

Results Indicators 2012 situation

Improved tenure security for smallholders and large-scale investors

Number of rural villages with a local Land Use Plan

About 10%

Number of rural households with certified land rights 

About 160 000 out of 8 000 000 (2 %)

Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation

africa-rising.net