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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