Mali Work Packages

1. Mali Work Packages

2. Platforms Models (WP3 and WP4) Landscape/Watershed Region Farm 3 ID Enabling Conditions Farm 2 Food diversity study Policy Farm 1 Typologies/ Tailoring interventions People Local conventions FEAST Nutrition Field schools Economic analysis of activities Trees Livestock Market Irrigation Gardens Market price studies Agroforestry trials Water sources Irrigated vegetables Manure mgt traction Crop Fields Crop trials ISFM Rainy season vegetables dual-purpose crops feeding trials Water and land Management practices Climate (rainfall) Grazing Itineraries Land Use Change Fallow food storage/postharvest Infrastructure Storage Biomass Assessments Pasture/forest

3. WP1: Community Mobilization • 9. Work Package Objectives • Analyze the social and biophysical context within which the R4DPs will operate • Conduct a stakeholder analysis to analyze existing stakeholders and their interest • Identify and map the existing stakeholders, their interactions and potential roles in the R4DP, to complement existing resources and provide baseline information on the R4DP site that will be influenced by the presence of R4D platform  • Identification of the entry point of focus for each platform to be established • Identify and validate different stakeholders and their potential roles in the R4DP / IP  • Develop an operational plan, including monitoring and evaluation tools to monitor progress, draw lessons, exchange information and identify dissemination opportunities, governance and maintenance guidelines for the R4DP / IP

4. Work Package 1 • 10. Expected outputs • A scoping report delineating the social, biophysical and institutional baseline situation under which the platforms will operate available. • At least five functional R4D platforms put in place and active  • Improved knowledge and awareness of integrated innovation as well as improved level of interaction and networking among different partners. •  Comments: •  Make sure we’re clear on the definitions of R4D platforms/innovation platforms • We have changed the workplan to refer to “R4D platforms” throughout

5. Work Package 2: Nutrition • 9. Work Package Objectives: • Develop and refine training modules based on existing materials to improve farm household nutrition • Link nutrition knowledge and practices to dietary and crop and tree diversity and farm productivity. • Monitor behavior change related to child feeding • Depending on commitment and availability, work package leader will come from AVRDC or ICRAF

6. Work Package 2 • 10. Expected outputs • Women and men understand nutritional benefits of locally available resources and how to use them. • Production and consumption of the population in target villages is diversified as a result of improved nutrition knowledge. • Effective methods for nutrition training and communication developed • Food Systems Characterization  completed: Frequency, quantity and quality of consumption of various types of food. • Comment: Crop diversity studies should be connected to other work packages and IFPRI study

7. Work Package 3: NRM • 9. Work Package Objectives • Evaluate the effectiveness of land and water management technologies to improve biophysical characteristics and farm productivity. • Monitor and model biophysical changes at field to watershed level as functions of land and water management interventions, and develop integrated solutions for the existing challenges of farming practices. • Document strengths and weaknesses of existing local conventions in the project sites and identify technical, institutional and policy options to strengthen them including building the capacity of key stakeholders. • Analyze immediate and long-term causes of conflict over natural resource use and identify options to reduce conflicts and associated problems. • Document transhumant practices and the local perceptions on benefits and constraints of transhumance and the effects on natural resource management in the study sites • Evaluate productivity and management of common resources such as pasture and forest • Determine interactions between intensification at the farm household level, at the village level and the interaction with the environment

8. Work Package 3 • 10. Expected outputs • Information is available on productivity and management of grazing resources. • Existing local conventions on natural resource management are identified, described and strengthened. • Integrated technologies for natural resources management are identified and tested. • Interactions between farm-scale intensification and village level land use and productivity are modeled

9. WP4: Farm Productivity and Profitability • 9. Work package objectives • A. Evaluate the added advantage of combinations of intensification options at the field scale in terms of agronomical and economic efficiency in crop, tree and vegetable farm system components • B. Determine the added advantage of combinations of intensification options and changes in the configuration of farm system components in terms of farm system biophysical and economic efficiency. • C. Monitor the evolution of agricultural input and output prices and identify opportunities and constraints for the production and marketing of products by farmers and farmers’ cooperatives in the Africa RISING villages.

10. WP4 Objectives, cont. • D. Evaluate the impact of participatory varietal testing in combination with improved crop management options on the demand for and sales of agricultural inputs and seeds of improved varieties of a range of crops (vegetables, field crops and tree seeds/seedlings/grafts ). • E. Facilitate access to knowledge and information about markets, options, integrated innovations and inputs for sustainable intensification in order to encourage adoption. • F. Strengthen the capacities of local stakeholders (farmers, extension and research staff…) in evaluating and testing sustainable innovation options associated with farm system components. • These objectives should be linked with R4D platforms

11. Work Package 4 • 10. Expected outputs • Integrated options to intensify and increase efficiency of farming system components and whole farm systems available. • Information about monthly market prices of livestock, crop and tree products and yearly basic household characteristics available • Estimates of farm efficiency (economic and agronomic) of different configurations of farm systems components and farm development scenarios available. • Stakeholders’ capacity in evaluating and testing sustainable innovation options associated with farm system components is strengthened. • Identify activities around capacity building output—not currently included in workplan

12. Next Steps • Identify under each activity the links to other activities • Example: Activity 1.1.2: Mapping of grazing itineraries • “Information will be shared between this activity and activity 2.2.3 (Documentation of Transhumance Practices) to create a fuller picture of pasture utilization in the targeted villages. This information will help people make informed decisions about use of pasture resources. Thus information from this activity can contribute to reinforcing local conventions and complements activities 2.1 and 2.2” • Work package leaders to revise work package documents by Feb 10th