Day 1_Session3_TRIPS_WASDS_CIP - This presentation sets out planned CIP research activities in target action sites across the West African Sahel and Dry Savannas target region
3. 2012 Groundwork
• CIP started to engage with CRP Dryland
Systems in W. Africa (March)
• Regional Inception workshop – Ouagadougou
(July)
– New friends, colleagues, and questions
– In Ghana, there was interest in intensification of
pig – crop systems. Sweetpotato fits in well
– Sweetpotato and potato are important or have
potential at many of the benchmark
4. 2012 Groundwork
• Sweetpotato survey done at Ghana Benchmark
sites by CSIR-SARI scientists John Bidzakin and
Kwabena Acheremu
– PRA/RRA (2 villages at Wa, 2 at Tolon-Kumbungu and
2 at Bawku)
– Planting material, markets, pests (weevils) seen as
important
– Gender disaggregated problem tree
• Multiplication work started at same sites
– MOFA and NGO/CBOs partners
– Emphasis on Orange fleshed Cultivars
5.
6. 2012 Other work
• Complementary VC study contracted by B&MGF (end
of 2012, early 2013)
– Ghana, Burkina Faso, Nigeria (Overlap with benchmark
sites in each country). Supposed to do Mali as well, but
didn’t come off.
– Increasingly important commercial crop (5 to 10 years);
interesting potential for animal feed, particularly by larger
producers.
• Dry season multiplication work (enterprise approach)
started at benchmark sites sites in Ghana
– MOFA and NGO/CBOs partners
– Emphasis (perhaps mistakenly, on OFSP)
7. 2012 Groundwork
• Contribution of crop modeling to our work?
• Capacity to study root system architecture in
relation to management (and possibly genetic
improvement)
– Purchase of root scanner and software
– Visit by colleague from Louisiana State U
– Linkage with WASCAL for Ph.D. thesis research
topic
10. 2013 Workplan/thoughts
• CIP will invest for dryland systems in W. Africa.
– Allocating 60K (operational cost) to W. Africa
• Trying to understand how to appropriately
engage in the region, across sites.
– 2013 work will likely be conducted by and with
partners at Ghana action sites, with additional
contributions in Burkina Faso