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La Panamericana Contextualizing family agriculture in Nicaragua preliminary results on a cross-CRP collaboration

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Page 1: Contextualizing family agriculture in Nicaragua

La Panamericana

Contextualizing family agriculture in Nicaragua

preliminary results on a cross-CRP collaboration

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La Panamericana in a nutshell

Cross-CGIAR: centers & CRP Small funding = flexibility & 6 monthsAiming at: - Improving the local capacity to analyze family

agriculture in Nicaragua- Contextualizing the dynamics and diversity of

family agriculture Approach: systems + local partners + data

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Planned major activities

1. Learning with partners the adoption and dynamics of family agriculture: cases in Nicaragua

2. Building capacity of local orgs. on monitoring, evaluation & strategies: Information Systems

3. Informing better on diversity of family faming and entry points: sub-humid tropics in NI, SV & HN

4. Contextualizing better the dynamics of maize and livestock production in Central America

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1. Dynamics of family agriculture NI

Objective: to learn with local organizations changes in key indicators of targeted populations

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2. Capacity building on IS

Objective: to improve the capacity of local organization to design and use IS for M&E

30 people10 organizations

2 days courseReference guide

DecemberTopics:

IndicatorsSamplingData analysis

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3. Diversity of farming (sub-humid)

Objective: to better inform on the diversity of family agriculture in the sub-humid region

• Focus: self-sufficiency & income

• 5 sites• 4 local organizations• 800 farmers• Short survey (~40min)• Workshops on data• Leaflets to farmers

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3. Diversity: some results

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3. Diversity: some results

Farm size groupsNo.

households %

1<= 2.5 mz Very small 41 26%

2<= 5 mz Small 44 28%

3<=10 mz Medium 32 20%

4> 10 Large 40 26%

Based on farm size, four classesof farm can be identified

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3. Diversity: some results

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25%

50%

75%

100%

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Migrar

Future strategies

Farm size group

Migration & selling family labour would be more common for households with very small and small farms

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4. Dynamics maize & livestock CAC

Objective: to better contextualize maize & livestock production

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Lessons learnt (pers.)

• Capacity building is strongly needed• Information needs to have a stronger role

among partners• Results & efficiency are key, but also process• Cross-CGIAR & collaboration with partners

needs less bureaucracy

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Next steps

• Building a IS to improve & monitor agro-ecology in family agriculture (discussion with SIMAS)

• Linking livelihoods & landscape restoration (planned WLE & Humitropics 2015)

• Improving food & farming systems, nutrition & health in rural Mesoamerica (proposal CIMMYT + ILRI, CIAT & Bioversity)

• Analysis of secondary data + contextualization (in discussion MAIZE)

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Major challenges

1. Restoration & livelihoods; big or small famers

2. Increasing deagrarianizationof rural landscapes

3. Working closely with partners & politics