[day 1] keynote - opening remarks and challenges
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Presented by Bashir Jama (AGRA) at the CGIAR-CSI Annual Meeting 2009: Mapping Our Future. March 31 - April 4, 2009, ILRI Campus, Nairobi, KenyaTRANSCRIPT
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Opening Remarks & Challenges
Bashir Jama, AGRA
Mapping Our Futurea CSI / AGCommons Vision & Agenda
CGIAR Consortium on Spatial Information (CSI)
Annual Meeting, ILRI, Nairobi, 31 March to 4 April 2009
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Overview
AGRA
• Focus on agricultural development in Africa
• A new model for development engagement
The Soil Health Program
• Need / opportunity for improved location-specific data and
analysis to support that initiative
• Special role for and linkages to AfSIS
Challenge to the Geospatial Community
What the community needs to do, how, and with whom
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What is AGRA?
A dynamic partnership working across Africa to help millions of small-scale farming families lift themselves out of poverty and hunger.
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Mr Kofi A Annan, Chairman of AGRA
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2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Seeds Program
Market Access
Investm
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AGRA interventions can solve problems
along the value chain
Policy & advocacy, M&E
Soil Health
Agricultural Extension
Water Resources
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Policies and Partnerships Program
• Accelerate investment in research and rural infrastructure
• Smart subsidies for farm inputs (‘growth enhancement credits’)
Policies for rapid transformation of Africa’s agriculture
• Develop networks of agrodealers across rural areas
• Secure national food supplies
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The Sahelian DrylandsArea: 1.2m km2
Population: 38m
Millet & sorghum belt: 23m ha
Humid Forest ZoneArea: 5.8m km2
Population: 168m
Cassava belt: 18m ha
NERICA potential: 2m ha
Moist Savanna and
Woodland ZonesArea: 4.4m km2
Population: 157m
Maize belt: 32m ha
CA potential: 7m ha
Africa is very different from Asia: A uniquely African Green Revolution is needed that respects diversity
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To succeed in sub-Saharan Africa, AGRA
must overcome enormous challenges
Ecological diversity
Diverse soils
Many crop species
Segmented political landscape
Erratic rainfall
Low adoption of improved crop varieties Soil Classes of
Africa
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1995-97 2002-04
Source: IFDC
Soil nutrient mining is killing Africa!
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Key entry points:
Unhealthy soils
Untamed water
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NetherlandsVietnam
JapanUK
ChinaFranceBrazil
USAIndia
South AfricaCubaBenin
MalawiEthiopia
MaliBurkina Faso
NigeriaTanzania
Mozambique GuineaGhana
Uganda
kg/ha
Sources: FAOSTAT 2003, Norman Borlaug 2004
0 100 200 300 400
Fertilizer
use per
ha in sub-
Saharan
Africa is
the lowest in theworld
500 600
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The Soil Health Program (SHP
Objective 1: Supply locally appropriate fertilizers
Objective 2: Adoption of appropriate ISFM technology packages
Objective 3: Create accommodative policy environment
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SHP Sub-Programs
1. Fertilizer Supply Program
• Focuses on the production and distribution (i.e. importing and wholesale) elements of the fertilizer supply chain
2. Soil health training sub-program
• Invest in African extension workers, technicians and scientists to facilitate the development and extension of new and existing ISFM technology packages
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SHP Sub-Programs…
3. Soil health research sub-program
• Focuses on supporting the development, adaptation and fine-tuning of ISFM technologies
4. Soil health extension sub-program
• Focuses on scaling up ISFM technological packages to thousands of farmers
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Quick impacts
• Identify large scale value chain type projects in key breadbaskets
• Support national implementation task forces and policy hubs
• Each project targets 20,000 to 100,000 farmers along value chain – involves the other programs
• Each project incorporates MSc and PhD training opportunities
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Soil Map of the World, vol. 6, Africa
(FAO/UNESCO, 1977)
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Bringing Soil Science into the 21st
Century
• Supply dynamic soil information
• Local scale: Provide support tools for farmers
and extension staff
• National scale: Advise national policy makers
on fertilizers recommendations
• Global scale: Provide information for global
databases
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Africa Soil Information Services (AfSIS)
• Aims at increasing access to a reliable, flexible and dynamic soil-health information service for the ultimate benefit of the African smallholder farm family
• Available opportunities:– Recent advances in digital soil mapping,
– Infrared spectroscopy,
– Remote sensing,
– Statistics
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Mapping recommendation domains for ISFM technologies and use of improved seed
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Mali
Ghana
MalawiZambia
Tanzania
Kenya
Uganda
NigeriaMapping agro-dealer network coverage
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Using GIS
tools to map
out grain trade
flow in eastern
and southern
Africa
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Geospatial Community
Challenge 1
• A clear vision and strategy urgently needed for the development and delivery of the key geospatial products and services for the next 5-10 years
• Vital that the community supports and strengthens the new generation of development mechanisms and institutions in Africa (eg, CAADP, AGRA)
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Geospatial Community
Challenge 2
Strongly encourage CSI and AGCommons to continue to build their strong partnership.
Expand the collaboration to engage with CAADP and AGRA initiatives.
Train and strengthen the capacity of national institutions in geospatial techniques.
Urge boldness and pragmatism in your deliberations about a new vision and turn into action and impact fast.
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Thank you