An overview of the Feed the Future Innovation Laboratory for Small Scale Irrigation

1. Feed the Future
Innovation Lab
for Small-Scale
Irrigation
Cooperative Agreement
USAID - Discussion
April 2, 2014

2. Introduction and Scope
• Progress on FtF ILSSI Coop Agreement
• Opportunities to scale up and out ILSSI
• Potential Linkages with other FtF
Innovation Labs
• Addressing the broader USAID portfolio

3. Progress
• Approval of Workplan and Budget
• Desk Top paper - survey on small scale
irrigation technologies
• Stakeholder workshop for Ethiopia
• Engagement with Africa Rising and LIVES
• Second partner planning meeting
• Bilateral meeting IDSS - IFPRI

4. Candidate Innovations
• Low cost water lifting devices
• Watershed management
• Water recharge
• In-situ water harvesting
• Irrigated fodder
• Drip irrigation (possibly)

5. Next Steps
• Further stakeholder engagements
• Meetings in Ghana and Tanzania
• Closure on technology innovations
• External advisory committee
• Pilot study on application of IDSS
• Training workshop on IDSS
• Linkages with other FtF labs – Africa Rising
• Annual meeting
• Plans for year two

6. Integrated Decision Support
System

7. Scale up and Scale Out:
Biophysical and Economic Impacts
• Link IFPRI Economic Models with IDSS
– SPAM (Spatial Production Allocation Model)
– DREAM (Dynamic Research Evaluation for
Management)
– EMM (Economy-wide Multimarket Model)
• Biophysical Scales:
– Field -> Farm->Watershed->River Basin->Country->Continent
– APEX-> APEX-> SWAT -> SWAT -> SWAT -> SWAT
• Economic Scales:
– Farm -> Village/Kebele -> Region -> Country
– FARMSIM-> FARMSIM -> DREAM/EMM -> DREAM/EMM

8. SWAT
Crop Mix
Change
Optimized
APEX
PHYGROW
NUTBAL
EMM or DREAM
FARMSIM
SPAM
GIS Ex Ante
Analysis
Village – Family – Gender
Economics & Nutritional
Impacts
Price Changes
Crop Yield
Distribution
IDSS – IFPRI Integration
Technology &
Location Identified
Scale Up
Regional/National
Farm/Village/Household

9. Potential Linkages with other FtF
Innovation Labs
• Comprehensive IDSS/IFPRI models
• Global natural resource and economic databases
• Crops, livestock, soil and water resources, land
use and climate
change, technologies, environmental and
economic impacts
• Scalable from farm scale to continental scale
• Buy-in possibilities for extending FtF ILSSI
• Initial engagement with other innovation labs

10. Potential Linkages with other FtF
Innovation Labs
• Quantify impacts of climate change and climate-
resilient germplasm and farming technologies on
production, soil and water resources, and farm to
regional economics (6 Innovation Labs)
• Quantify impacts of technologies developed by
collaborative research on crops and livestock (6
Innovation Labs)
• Others?

11. Addressing the broader USAID
portfolio
• IDSS developed over years for USAID, USDA, EPA
with substantial input from
USAID, WB, CGIAR, and national programs
• Applied to design, implement, operate mixed
farming and water management systems
• Accurately and cost-effectively predicts
production, economic, human nutrition, and
environmental impacts of interventions
• Field, farm, watershed, national, and continental
scales

12. Examples of ILSSI/IDSS Capabilities
• APEX and SWAT: Dr. Raghavan Srinivasan
– Small-scale water capture and irrigation of high-
value crops in Ethiopia
– Application to kebele and river basins in Ethiopia
– Large-scale applications in Eastern
Europe, Asia, and Africa
• FARMSIM: Dr. James Richardson
– Farm- to village-scale economics for decision
makers -> regional and national projections