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Plantwise launchesGhana operationsLaunched recently at a ceremony in Accra,
Plantwise Ghana is ofcially underway and
already growing in interest and reach. Ministry
o Agriculture leaders, partners rom the
Council or Scientifc and Industrial Research
(CSIR), extension workers, members o
national press, and plant doctor trainees came
together to celebrate the launch and discuss
supporting ood security in the country.
Alongside the launch, a review and planning
workshop took place or stakeholders in the
agricultural sector who were all keen to share
their knowledge and ideas on how to develop
Plantwise.
Plantwise would help the challenges
aced by the ood and agricultural sectors
and reduce poverty in the country
says Ghanas Chie Technical Advisor
Dr Samuel Dapaah.
In the opening ceremony o the workshop,
Dr Entsua-Mensah, Deputy Director General o
CSIR, said she was particularly pleased the
clinics will be community based. She went on to
express her support o the knowledge bank (KB):
The best thing is the KB [which has] historical
data and then national and international data,
and [we] need to tap into that.
Plantwise began working in Ghana in June
2012 with the training o 29 plant doctors. As
part o this training, a pilot clinic was set up
which proved popular, receiving 52 queries
rom 42 armers in just 3 hours. This signifcant
interest inspired the trainees, and there havenow been 13 clinics launched in Ghana since
they frst began operation in September 2012.
There are plans to establish many more clinics
in Ghana, expanding coverage into the North
and East o the country.
UPDATE MAY2013
Dr Samuel Dapaah (let) observes a plant doctor at work
ClaireBeverley,CABI
Data owingrom KenyaSince the launch o the knowledge bank in July
2012, eedback continues to stream in on the
various developed online tools, ahead o the
next phase o production, version 2.1, coming
mid-2013. Amongst the latest tools are the
plant health news updates, new pest alerts,
image diagnostic search, pest actsheet
database, and Plantwise blogs, coveringmany plant health issues. MaryLucy Oronje
o CABI Arica, speaks about the importance
o bringing in eedback to put out the best
possible services. (See page 3)
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Plantwise at Agroest BarbadosThe annual celebration and plant party held in CABIs newest member country, Barbados, was a perect time or locals to get to know Plantwise.
Examining insects, asking or arming tips and learning about the plant clinics were some o the activities hosted by CABI.
At the strategic level, Plantwise has a potential to make a big contribution to the delivery o plant health systems, shares one Barbados partner
during a recent workshop.
2012
413
2013 (target)
538
2011
182
2010
124
2009
70
Number o plant clinics worldwide
Plantwise is a global alliance,led by CABI, working together
to improve ood security and
the lives o the rural poor by
reducing crop losses.
Plantwise Country Coordinator ShamelaRambadam demonstrates flling in a plant clinicmonitoring orm
Raising awareness o Plantwise pest diagnosticresources with an Agroest visitor
Plant doctor Wendy McQuilkin o the Ministry o Agriculture gives some advice to a visitor
YelitzaColmenarez,
CABI Y
elitzaColmenarez,
CABI
YelitzaColmenarez,
CABI
acebook/cabi.development
linkedin.com/company/cabi
twitter.com/cabi_news
Plantwise goes to Rome orCPM side-eventFor 350 international delegates and observers
attending the annual meeting o the Commission
on Phytosanitary Measures (CPM), standards will
be adopted on plant protection with ar-reachingimplications on livelihoods, ood security and
ecosystems back at home. Plantwise, working in
31 countries to improve livelihoods, held a side
event or national governments and international
organizations to discuss the impacts o improved
pest advice, and pest tracking, or the small-
holder armer. Held at the FAO headquarters
in Rome, Plantwise hosted representatives o
the World Trade Organization, the InternationalSeed Federation and Contracting Parties o the
International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC)
to demonstrate how Plantwise can support the
National Plant Protection Organizations (NPPO)
and contribute to the mission o the IPPC. The
discussion included three voices rom the feld-
specifcally IPPC contact points or Tanzania, Nepal
and Sierra Leone. They shared their experiences
o bringing Plantwise into their countries and
the valuable benefts and lessons learned along
the way. This is the missing link between
armers and experts. Plantwise is one
area where everyone is brought together,
says Yubak Dhoj o Nepal. View the ull sideevent presentations online and join the
discussion.
Attendees hear about Plantwise policies, knowledge bank applications and the NPPOs experiencesputting them to good use
Yubak Dhoj o Nepal, Fabian Mkondo oTanzania, and Dr IMO Shamie o SIerra Leone
JuliaDennis,
CABI
JuliaDennis,
CABI
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Q&Awith
MaryLucyHow important is user eedback toknowledge bank development?
User eedback is key in the development o
the Plantwise knowledge bank (KB). It helps
one get both positive and negative critiques
o the contents rom real and intended users.
For example, we learn what they now fnd
useul on the KB, and what other inormation
they would like to see. We can then analyze
these perspectives, and incorporate them in
uture developments.
How did these KB users hear about thewebsite and services?
The users weve interviewed had heard about
the KB mostly through demonstrations by
Plantwise and partners. Others located the
website on their own while browsing and
doing web searches.
How does talking to people about the
knowledge bank help you working in
these services in Kenya?
It helps us understand their needs and identiy
gaps in agricultural inormation. It stimulates
more participation rom stakeholders,
especially agriculture-based institutions, by
identiying content they would like to share,
just as others have done on the KB.
What are the top two benefts o this type
o inormation, or data sharing, with the
knowledge bank?
Data sharing with the KB helps make use o
data that would otherwise be sitting on dusty
shelves! There is also the beneft o publicity
or the institutions sharing data, or example,
having their name attached to pest survey
data and pest images, hosted on the KB or a
global audience.
Tripartite agreement paves wayor Plantwise MyanmarCABI has acilitated cross-partner cooperation
between China and Myanmar, which are
important member countries o CABI, with the
potential to improve crops or millions o armers,
preparing the ground or agricultural development
in the country.
The cooperation statement, signed by Minister
o Agriculture U Myint Hlaing o the Republic o
the Union o Myanmar, Proessor Zhang Lubiao,
Director General o International Collaboration o
the Chinese Academy o Agricultural Sciences
(CAAS), and Plantwise Programme Executive
Ulrich Kuhlmann, represents the exchange o
agricultural and educational resources. For
Myanmars young researchers, extension workers
and armers, it is a new doorway to important
agricultural inormation rom CABI and other
international partners.
As it now stands, the situation or amers in
Myanmar is an urgent one. The agricultural
sector is the back bone o Myanmars economy
as the entire agricultural sector contributes 30% o
its current GDP, reports the Minister o Agriculture.
In addition, 61% o the countrys labour orce is
working in the agricultural sector. Myanmar will
take part in uture extension workshops with
CAAS, student scholarships, act fnding visits,
and the construction o state-o-the-art acilities
or biological research.
Tripartite meeting with representatives o the Ministry o Agriculture, Myanmar,the Chinese Academy o Agricultural Sciences and CABI
Meeting o armers in Myanmar
In Aghanistan, the people make the programmeThere are many pieces that must all into
place to make Plantwise run. CABI-Central
West Asias Muhammad Faheem takes us
through the implementation journey rom the
frst handshake to the frst armer helped.
In 2012, Plantwise was launched in Aghanistan. It
began through a series o successul negotiations
between the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF), the
Directorate o Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock
(DAIL), the Plant Protection & QuarantineDirectorate (PPQD) o the Ministry o Agriculture
Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL), and CABI Central
West Asia (CABI CWA). The frst decision was
where to base Plantwise. It was ftting that such
a landmark system would be inaugurated in the
historic city o Bamyan, in Bamyan province, 150
kilometres west o Kabul.
In order or the plant clinic system to start
eectively, good human resources were vital. The
people who would run these clinics had not only
to possess the appropriate level o experience
and knowledge to run a symptomatic diagnostic
clinic, but also had to ft these new undertakings
into their existing agricultural extension activities.
By April last year, 19 representatives rom our three
national partners were trained by CABIs Julien
Lamontagne-Godwin and mysel, to run ourteenclinics in seven districts o Bamyan and Parwan
province. Since their inception, 700 queries have
been recorded during the 130 clinic sessions
that were held. More than 84 dierent pests,
diseases and health problems were identifed on
25 dierent crops, including wheat, potato and
apple. Through close collaboration with DAIL, and
thanks to the unrelenting support o the Director o
PPQD, its been a particularly exciting year.
The plan or 2013 is extremely encouraging. Well
see urther training o 33 plant doctors to bring
plant clinics to the Baghlan province and Kabul-
a central location o great importance that will
ensure good visibility or Plantwise. This year, we
plan to reach a total o 25 clinics, but progress
is not only in expansion. Plant doctors need
continued diagnostic support, data validationtraining and backstopping through national
linkages. For example, were holding a cluster
meeting this month or plant doctors to meet and
learn rom shared experiences working at the start
o Plantwise in Aghanistan.
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To fnd out more visit www.plantwise.org or contact:
Janny Vos, Strategic Partnerships DirectorT: +31 (0)33 4321 031E: [email protected] www.plantwise.org
LOSE LESS, FEED MORE
Plantwise is supported by:
Putting M&E and Gender at the heart o PlantwiseGender responsiveness, gender disaggregated
baseline studies and theory o change were
some o the key topics addressed in the
week-long training in Wallingord, UK or CABI
sta, including Plantwise project leaders rom
Arica, the Caribbean & Latin America, Asia,
East Asia and Europe. Through discussion o
case studies and group analysis, sta learnedhow to bring the mind-set o gender-aware
monitoring and evaluation (M&E) into all levels
o Plantwise. There are many reasons CABI
and other organizations wish to take a look
at and embed M&E, and the obvious one
is to better report to donors, says INTRAC
workshop acilitator Max Peberdy. However,
this is not the only reason to put M&E and
gender into project planning. Another important
reason, says Peberdy, is to become more
agile, or rather sensitive to a changing world.M&E can enable an organisation to respond
rapidly and eectively to change. Throughout
the course, three universal questions were
asked and discussed widely. Its about a way
o thinking, says Peberdy, asking ourselves
Are we doing what we said we would? Are
we making a dierence? Are we doing the
right thing? These questions aim to bring
greater eectiveness to implementation but
most importantly, M&E training can help build
a ramework or tracking impacts o Plantwisecapacity building within national plant health
systems, a model or current and uture
Plantwise countries.
A win or the uture o oodsecurity in Arica as Plantwisereceives 10 million in EU support
Plantwise has been named the recipient of
a 10 million contribution from the EuropeanCommissions development body (DG
DEVCO-EuropeAid) to boost global food
security, with a particular focus on Africa.
Across nine countries of Sub-Saharan Africa,
Plantwise will become the vehicle to realise
some of the EUs most urgent development
goals- increasing access to food, alleviating
poverty and improving livelihoods. Ghana,
where Plantwise recently held the launch
event, will accompany Zambia, Ethiopia,
Rwanda, Malawi and Burkina Faso as
countries where EU support will help initiate
plant clinics and national-level partnerships.In countries where Plantwise is quickly
growing into nationally-embedded plant
health systems, for example Sierra Leone,
Kenya and Uganda, ECs contribution
will support effective policy making,
strengthening Plantwise globally, and the
establishment of impact assessments.
By building the resources of Plantwise, the EC
demonstrates the importance of timely action
to prepare small holder farmers to respond to
changing agricultural conditions. Trends such
as increased international trade, tourism and
climate change are exacerbating crop loss,hunger and sustainable livelihood problems
by accelerating the spread of plant pests.
Food insecurity is a complex problem
that needs to be tackled through variousmeasures, including measures that
enhance agricultural productivity, says
EC Commissioner for Development Andris
Piebalgs in his address to the European
Parliament. This is why, as the worlds largest
grant donor, we are leading by example.
We are spearheading efforts to encourage
donors worldwide to give appropriate space
to food security and rural development in
their development cooperation.
The EU also recognises that Plantwise aligns
with global targets for development such as the
achievement of Millennium Development Goal(MDG) 1- to halve extreme poverty and hunger,
and MDG 7- to safeguard the environment by
providing knowledge and tools required to
enhance sustainable productivity.
Studies of Plantwise clinics in Bangladesh
and Bolivia have shown that, as a result of
the plant clinics, farmers have increased crop
yields and spent less money on inappropriate
or excessive use of pesticides, increasing their
average household income, protecting local
ecosystems and improving livelihoods where
it is needed most. In partnership with the
EC, these gains will be expanded for farmersacross Africa, a sign of long term commitment
to pest and disease control on the continent.ImageSource:EUobserver.com
Ministry o AgriculturePeoples Republic o China
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