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Management Structure. Program Research Framework Task Force. Program Coordination Team (IITA, ILRI, IFPRI, USAID). Information/data Systems Team (IFPRI). Communications Team (ILRI, USAID). West Africa Project Steering Committee (IITA). Ethiopian Highlands Project
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Management Structure Program Research Framework Task Force Program Coordination Team (IITA, ILRI, IFPRI, USAID) Information/data Systems Team (IFPRI) Communications Team (ILRI, USAID) West Africa Project Steering Committee (IITA) Ethiopian Highlands Project Steering Committee (ILRI) E&SA Project Steering Committee (IITA) FY2012 Activities 1. Program design 2. ‘Quick Start’ projects
Africa RISING Program Purpose and Objectives • Provide pathways out of hunger and poverty for small holder families, particularly for women and children, through sustainably intensified farming systems that sufficiently improve food, nutrition, and income security and conserve or enhance the natural resource base. • Identify demand-driven sustainable intensification options that are socially acceptable, economically feasible, and environmentally sound • Combine and adapt these options to address constraints and exploit opportunities. • Evaluate their effectiveness at multiple scales. • Catalyze ongoing sustainable farm intensification.
Africa RISING Program Outcomes • Whole farm productivity • Natural resource management • Connect to markets & input suppliers • Nutrition and poverty, especially women and children • Economic & environmental resilience
Africa RISING Beyond tradeoffs? • Increase above- and below-ground biomass to improve soil health & system productivity (e.g., fertilizer trees, legumes, N/P fertilization) • Diversification (crop & enterprise) for greater resilience, productivity, and nutrition • Integrating livestock and mechanization into conservation agriculture • Improve water productivity to reduce risk & enhance investment
Africa RISING Other ‘Quick Start’ projects: Examples • East & Southern Africa: “Value chain analysis of grain legumes” • IITA (Lead Center), Dry Grain Pulse CRSP, Sokoine Univ., TZ Ag. Res. Inst., Univ. Malawi, Zambia Ag Res. Inst., SIMLEZA project, Nat’l Smallholder Farmers Assoc.-Malawi, ICRISAT, CIAT • West Africa: “Increased nutritional and economic levels of women & children” • ICRISAT (Lead Center), Peanut CRSP, INTSORMIL CRSP, SANREM CRSP, IER, IITA