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

African Agriculture Technology Platform (AATP): Presentation to Horizon2020 Preparation Meeting. Piers Bocock CGIAR Consortium Director of KM & Communication October 31 2013. The Challenge.

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

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  1. African Agriculture Technology Platform (AATP): Presentation to Horizon2020 Preparation Meeting Piers Bocock CGIAR Consortium Director of KM & Communication October 31 2013

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

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

  4. 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

  5. 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.

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

  7. The Process, from Country Selection to the Technology Scaling Plan

  8. VIPIDEAS: COMPONENTWHICH 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.

  9. VIPIDEAS: COMPONENTWHAT 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.org agrilinks.org erails.net

  10. VIPIDEAS: COMPONENTARE 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

  11. VIPIDEAS: COMPONENTWHICH MARKET TO GO FOR BUYING/SELLING? Up-to-date aggregation of agricultural input/product market price information of local, nearby markets. amitsa.org ratin.net/tanzania

  12. VIPIDEAS: COMPONENTWHAT’S HAPPENING:WEATHER, LANDUSE, PESTS awhere.com High-resolution, site-specific, remotely sensed information to help optimizing agricultural management practice decisions. earthengine.google.org rusttracker.cimmyt.org

  13. VIPIDEASCOMMINUCATION 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

  14. 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

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