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Background and approach IPMS project
Market oriented small holder development
IPMS experience sharing WorkshopJune 2 & 3, Addis Abeba
Outline presentation
• Background
• Approach
• Diagnosis and planning
• Implementation
• Concluding remarks
Policy environment
• The Ministry started formulating new policies aimed at transforming subsistence agriculture into a more market oriented agricultural system some 10 years ago.
• This was reflected in the PASDEP for the period 2005-2010.
How do you implement such a market oriented strategy??
• What should be the approach? Will it be the same as for food security and natural resource management?
• How do we design/test it?
Possible answer to the approach question
• Adopting a participatory market oriented commodity value chain approach– So what does it mean and how does it
complement previous approaches• Development through field testing and
learning
Participatory market oriented commodity value chain approach
Production based on improved technologies
Inputs /services
Processing and marketing Agri business
Farmers
Agri businesspublic sector
Research , extension education
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The process
Diagnosis & planning
Commodity development
Knowledge/skillsdevelopmentM&E and learning
M&E and learningCommodity development
Knowledge/skillsdevelopment
Role of partners and IPMS
• Partners are implementing the interventions• IPMS acts as:
– Facilitator: for the introduction of the new approach through technical assistance and finance for partners
– Partner: for extension and research (studies, documentation, synthesis) activities
Initial planning
• Diagnose/determine – Farming systems – different resources/potentials– Marketable commodities – which ones?– Value chain actors roles and linkages
• Design – Production, input/service, processing and marketing
interventions– Knowledge and capacity development interventions to
fill diagnosed gaps
Implementation
• Commodity value chain interventions
• Knowledge/skills development interventions
• Monitor, evaluate and learn
Awareness (demand) creation in District and communities
• Workshops, meetings
• Study tours
• Demonstration
Overall approach
• Based on diagnosed gaps in knowledge and skills– Service providers– Value chain actors in particular farmers.
MSc/BSc education and research Assessing market potentials coffee varieties Presenting results to the beneficiaries
Methods and tools
• Follow up visits by service providers
• Field days
• Meetings platforms/Woreda Advisory and Learning Committees (formal and informal)
Sequential interventionsFlowering of leguminous plants in communal grazing areas Which can be used for apiculture
So was a new approach developed?
• At District level– Various knowledge management interventions operational– Service providers and farmers capacitated for market oriented development– Linkages between producers, other value chain actors and service providers
operational– Change to commercially oriented agriculture using modern technologies– Alternative input supply , service delivery systems and marketing intervetions
operational– Role of extension starts changing from input supplier to knowledge broker and
facilitator of linkages • At regional and federal level
– EAP operational and increased understanding of the importance of knowledge for development
– Selected regional and federal level staff capacitated for market oriented development
– Increased understanding of value chain development
Main lessons & lessons
• Development is a continuous process which requires continuous engagement new responses and involvement of new actors and service providers
• Role of commercially oriented value chain actors can be the engine for development
• Key areas for future development, to increase production in the Districts: – Regional/federal level support system– Supply of inputs and services and – Processing and marketing of products beyond the District.