Presentation to the AIFSC-ILRI Nutrition Workshop

1. .
Current activities
Mateete Bekunda
IITA, Arusha, Tanzania

2. Africa RISING
www.africa-rising.net
Africa Research in Sustainable
Intensification for the Next Generation
A program Supported by USAID as part
of the US Government's Feed the Future
(FtF) global food security initiative:
Hypothesis …catalyzing agricultural-led
growth will raise the incomes of the poor,
increase the availability of food, and
reduce under nutrition….
Africa RISING Purpose:
Provide pathways out of hunger and poverty for smallholder families through
sustainably intensified farming systems that sufficiently improve food, nutrition
and income security, particularly for women and children, and conserve or
enhance the natural resource base.

3. Increasing agricultural productivity for enhanced
food and nutritional security
Income
Food & Food
Productivity nutrition safety
security
Nutritious
food

4. Activities over the past year:
10 Quick-win projects
Short title Lead Institute
Value chain analysis of grain legumes in ESA IITA
Improved post-harvest technologies CIMMYT
Scaling up of evergreen agriculture ICRAF
Catalogue of tested crop, soil and water management options TSBF/CIAT
Mycotoxins in maize and cassava IITA
Identifying efficient seed systems, practices, models CIAT
Seed multiplication ICRISAT
Intensification of maize-based farming systems in Malawi CIMMYT
Weed management in rice-based systems Africa Rice
Enhancing vegetable value chains AVRDC