African Agriculture Technology Platform (AATP):Presentation to Horizon2020 Preparation Meeting

Piers BocockCGIAR Consortium Director of KM & Communication

October 31 2013

The Challenge

• Growth rates less than the 6% target; adoption/use of improved agricultural technologies not as rapid as projected

The Opportunity: Three Major Initiatives have all called for a Technology Platform

CAADP/ Dublin Process

G8/New Alliance AUC/ CGIAR MoU

New Alliance Cooperation Frameworks: Signals for change in emphasis?

• Greater reliance on private sector as driver for investment, dissemination of improved technologies

• Performance of government institutions to provide needed/ appropriate incentives, services, and regulations –for private investors, smallholder access to and competitiveness in markets

• Connection of agriculture to food security/nutrition• Progress in agricultural development requires the innovation and

adoption of new technologies (inputs and practices) that increase productive and sustainable use of land and/or labor

• Commitment to using evidence, data, analysis to make decisions and track performance

What is the AATP?

The African Agriculture Technology Platform is a facilitated flexible, scalable, collaborative network designed to help African countries meet their CAADP National Agricultural Investment Plans by: •  Facilitating and enabling collaboration, awareness, knowledge and

capacity about availability of improved technologies for food systems critical to achieve sustainable yield, resilience, and nutrition impacts at local, national and sub-regional levels;

• Identifying current constraints to adoption in specific countries; and• Supporting the creation of roadmaps consistent with country NAIPs

to accelerate adoption of technologies; • Facilitated through on-the-ground, face-to-face interactions

supported by virtual tools.

Multi-Level, Face-to-Face, and Virtual

The Process, from Country Selection to the Technology Scaling Plan

V I P IDEAS: COMPONENT

WHICH COMMODITIES TO FOCUS ON?

Evidence-based identification of 3-4 focus commodities/value-chains for each country from within CAADP priorities using ranking based on user-defined weighting of the following criteria.

V I P IDEAS: COMPONENT

WHAT TECHNOLOGIES ARE AVAILABLE?

Organized inventory of knowledge on the existence, accessibility, performance, and sourcing of technologies & practices for the selected commodity and geography.

caadp-cgiar.orgagrilinks.orgerails.net

V I P IDEAS: COMPONENT

ARE THE TECHNOLOGIES SUITABLE HERE?

High-resolution geospatial layers of agro-ecological and socio-economical information and modeling frameworks bring site-selection and ex-ante analysis to the public.

bit.ly/natptzasagcot

Northern

Upper West

Upper East

Northern

Upper West

Upper East

Northern

Upper West

Upper East

100 kg[N]/haNo Fertilizer 50 kg[N]/ha

Yield (kg/ha)<= 500

501 - 1,000

1,001 - 1,500

1,501 - 2,000

2,001 - 2,500

2,501 - 3,000

3,001 - 3,500

> 3,500

Northern

Upper West

Upper East

Northern

Upper West

Upper East

Northern

Upper West

Upper East

Fertilizer+ No-Till

+ Manure+ Residue

FertilizerOnly

V I P IDEAS: COMPONENTWHICH MARKET TO GO FOR BUYING/SELLING?

Up-to-date aggregation of agricultural input/product market price information of local, nearby markets.

amitsa.orgratin.net/tanzania

V I P IDEAS: COMPONENTWHAT’S HAPPENING:WEATHER, LANDUSE, PESTS

High-resolution, site-specific, remotely sensed information to help optimizing agricultural management practice decisions.

awhere.com

earthengine.google.org

rusttracker.cimmyt.org

V I P IDEAS

COMMINUCATION PLATFORM

Discovery and Exchange of Knowledge Social Networking

– Who’s doing what– Who has the same problem and how they deal with– Peer-to-peer networking (beyond space and time)

Help-on-demand (On-site and On-line)– Help Desk– Support Desk

Knowledge Base– FAQ/IAQ– Research case studies

Next Steps

• Proposal has been drafted; will be shared with G8• Pilot face-to-face Technology Platform approach in

Ghana and Tanzania• Begin developing VIP components