The Africa RISING project in Ethiopia

Peter ThorneInternational Livestock Research InstituteSLATE Training for Africa RISING / NBDC

Addis Ababa / Jeldu. 1 - 5 April 2013

Feed the Future

Renews commitment to reducing hunger and poverty

Goal: Assist partner countries to halve poverty and hunger

Focused food security research agenda

www.feedthefuture.gov

Overview

Feed the Future Research Strategy

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3 Major Research Programs

IntegratedCross-Cutting Programs

Research in key farmingsystems

Program for Safe and Nutritious Foods

Program for PolicyResearch and Support

Program for Human and Institutional Capacity Building

Early Win Projects

“Quick Feeds” – ILRI / ICARDA / EIAR / ORARI “Quick Water” – IWMI / ILRI / Addis Ababa,

Bahir Dar, Arba Minch Universties “Quick Trees” – ICRAF / ILRI / EIAR / Mekele

University “Quick Pulses” – ICARDA / EIAR / ORARI / Farm

Africa Research Design – CIMMYT / ILRI

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Current household management strategy

Improved household management strategy

Household management strategies of peer group

Innovation generated by researchers

Markets

Policies

Institutions

Adaptation

Access to NRs

Human capacity

Knowledge brokers

Endogenous Driver of Innovation Exogenous

Community characterisation

and stratification

Inventory of current technologies /

practices and their sources

Participatory problem

identification and gap analysis

Opportunities for scaling innovation (endogenous and

exogenous)

Research component 1

Biophysical and socio-economic

benchmarks

Research component 2

Identified market opportunities

Characterisation of specific value chains (actors and links)

Research component 4

Functioning multi-stakeholder platforms

Review of best technology /

management options

Validate technologies / management practicesEx ante modelling /

impact assessment

Research component 5

Scaling: to be developed

Adaptation and integration of technologies /

management practices

Community knowledge exchange groups established

Research component 3

System characterisation and analysis

Community institutions and knowledge

exchange

Markets and wider stakeholders

Outputs to outcomes

“Action research”

Work packages

1. Data collection2. Livelihoods-based stratification (typology)3. Inventory of current practices / IK survey etc.4. Establish community knowledge exchange groups / initial

benchmarking5. Characterise market opportunities and value chains6. Establish multi-stakeholder platforms7. Problem identification / gap analysis/ ex ante impact assessment

Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation

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