Rebbie Harawa COUNTRY WORKSHOP The Knowledge Lab on Climate Resilient Food Systems: An analytical support facility to achieve the SDGs Co-Organized by IFPRI and AGRA FEB 7, 2019 - 08:30 AM TO 05:55 PM EAT

1. AGRA’s
Technologies for Agricultural
Transformation

2. Our Aim

3. Typical “Green Revolution” vs.
Sub-Saharan Africa’s Immense Diversity
• 49 Countries
• Variable agro-ecologies
• 17 Major Food Crops (maize, sorghum, rice, millet, beans, cowpea, banana,
cassava, sweet potato, Irish potato, tef, barley, groundnut, fonio, faba bean,
yams, taro)
• High vulnerability to shocks arising from crop disease, drought, climate
change, political crises/conflicts and economic volatility.

4. 4
The Technologies and Services AGRA strives to deliver at farm level
• Improved Seed – catalyzer of technological change at farmer level.
• Soil Fertility and Improved Fertilizers – building the soil, feeding the
crop, including micro-nutrients.
• Extension – giving all farmers an opportunity to increase yields and
profitability.
• Input Supply and Agro-Dealer Development – removing the barrier of
physical access to new technologies
• Markets – helping farmers meet market demand and standards;
growing SME grain traders.
• Inclusive Finance – improving access to capital for growth among
African agri-businesses.
Taking a
systems
approach in
partnership
with public
and private
actors

5. 5

6. 6
Soil Fertility & Fertilizer Systems Interventions
VBAs, Demos,
smaller packs, radio ICT
Platforms;
Key players: Agro dealers,
NGO’s,
Fertilizer companies.
(i) Awareness Dissemination (a)Physical Access;
Key players;
Hub and retail agro-
dealers,
(b)Financial access;
Key players,
Credit, Risk, Sharing
facility offtakers.
(i) Enablers
(i) Commercialization &
Distribution
Key players; fertilizer companies
Financing partners,
banks, AECF, AFAP
for capital and working capital for
feeder materials and operations),
hub agro-dealers,
retail agro-dealers.
Key players include; NARS,
Fertilizer companies e.g.
Yara, OCP, Minjigu, MEA, AFAP
(ii) Validation Trials:
Crop response and omission trials
Key players: NARS, CGIARs,
NGOs, Fertilizer
.
(i) Product Development
Key Players:
National Agriculture
Research (NARS),
CGIAR
Private sector such as
Soildoc, soil cares, AfSIS)
.
(i)Soil Testing & Mapping
(ii)Synthesis of existing soil
databases
Existing soil databases
a b c d e
Research & Development Technology
Dissemination Supply chain &
Management
Farmer Access
Policy - Release of new blends, quality control
Financing - Actors in the fertilizer chain including farmers

7. 7
Input Distribution Interventions
• Supply
Seeds/Fertilizer/other
inputs
• Promotion and demand
creation
Retail / Rural
Agro dealers
Input Supply
Companies
Hub Agro dealers
Commodity off taker
• Avail improved inputs to SHFs, especially in
rural areas
• Increase awareness and adoption of new
technologies
• Primary commodity aggregation, storage &
PHH
• Linking SHFs to structured markets
• Other farm & PH services –
spraying, shelling, etc
• Supply Seeds/Fertilizer/other inputs at
Large
• Increase awareness and adoption of
new technologies
• Commodity aggregation, storage &
PHH
• Commodity aggregation, storage and
PHH
• Advance cash to SME aggregation to
procure produce

8. Private Sector-Led Extension
using the Village-based Advisor Approach
VBAs are:
 typically hard-working, selfless farmers
 selected by, and therefore trusted by, farmers in
their villages.
VBAs are taught:
 how to reach and teach all farmers in their
villages, including women and youth;
 good crop/soil management and crop protection;
 how to produce quality seeds;
 post-harvest handling, grain quality standards;
 how to earn fees from input supply, aggregation
of farmers’ produce and related services.
Many VBAs graduate into village-based agro-dealers or agents for companies. This
motivates them to continue offering services to farmers after the end of a project.

9. 9
Create a conducive environment for national and regional trade
• Promote and encourage policies favoring trade
• Promote and encourage transparent and all inclusive evidence based decision by
governments
• Develop common framework and message for the coalition of partners with which to
engage government and agree on shared priorities
Competitive, resilient and inclusive regional commodity markets and value
chains
• Cross border trade
• Structured Trading
Enhance support service markets/support functions.
• Support SMEs financially/ technical support
• Develop digital platform to enhance trade
• Promote post harvest management technologies
Markets Systems Interventions

10. 10
Inclusive Finance System

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 Crop disease
 Drought
 Climate change
 Political crises/conflicts
and Economic shocks
(such as price volatility)
 Floods
 Commodity price instability
 Civil unrest
 Environmental degradation
 Soil fertility decline
 Poor infrastructure
 High rates of unemployment
Resilience Interventions
Prevent, Anticipate, Prepare for, Cope with, recover from shocks
Absorptiv
e capacity
Adaptive
capacity
Transformativ
e capacity
• Assets (on and off
farm)
• Access to other
assets (social
safety net - formal
and informal)
• Agricultural
Practices that
promote increased
environmental
assets
• Income and
access to food
(Diversification)
• Assets
(Agricultural/Non
Agricultural)
• Crop diversification
(inter-cropping,
rotation)
• Use of new
technologies
(improved seed,
blended fertilizers)
• Use of appropriate
practices
(conservation and
climate smart agric.,
post-harvest
handling)
• Diversified markets
• Innovative financial
instruments, including
insurance
• Market-led agric.
services
• Functioning
partnerships
• Access to basic
services (Education,
health, market, Credit,
etc.)
• Institutional linkages
across sectors -
access to social safety
nets and agric. (formal
and informal)
• Enabling institutional
environment
(mitigation &
adaptation)
• Transformation of
Governance (formal
and informal)

12. 12NAI-SRF-ManagementUpdate-20121206-PP Copyright © 2012 Monitor Company Group, L.P. — Confidential
In the last 11 years…….still counting.
12
15,000 FOs strengthened
5.4 million farmers aware of ISFM and 50%
of them using
600 SMEs trained and aggregated
607,000 MT of produce
Catalyzed changes in country and regional
policies
114 seed companies -602,000 MT of seed
produced; over 30,000 agro-dealers developed
Over 643 crop varieties released.
683 graduate students trained

13. Thank You