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Presented by Fentahun Mengistu (EIAR) at the ILRI@40 Livestock and sustainable food and nutrition security workshop, Addis Ababa, 7 November 2014
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Sustainable Intensification of small-scale agriculture: How to ensure food and nutritional
security?
Fentahun Mengistu (EIAR)
ILRI@40 Livestock and sustainable food and nutrition security
workshop
Addis Ababa, 7 November 2014
Challenges
• Human population growth represents higher demand for food
• Increase in livestock population represents greater pressure on land
• Limited land availability for agricultural production• Land fragmentation• Many of the areas are already degraded• Climate change• African governments agreed to enable smallholder
farms to continue providing a large proportion of the food required by the population.
How and where…….Potential Interventions
• Should tackle inefficiencies at farm and other nodes of the value chains
• Farm level:
– Better integration of crop/livestock / agroforestry components
– Enhanced use of the so-called “wastes”
– Check if available technologies help to increase productivity, not affecting negatively the environment.
How and where…….Potential Interventions
• Beyond the farm gate
– Promote collective action (access to technology innovations, services and markets) to increase competitiveness
– Value addition (including the development of new products)
– Role of policies and partnerships to enable the adoption and scaling up of technology innovations
– Contribute to the rehabilitation of degraded lands
Opportunities for Innovative Research
Emphasis on:– Climate smart innovations (i.e., adaptation to stress)– Better understanding of local/indigenous knowledge.– Enhancing crop livestock-interactions (i.e., more efficient
use of crop residues, manure as fertilizer, biogas production).
– Use of biotechnology options (i.e., animal genotypes, vaccines, etc.)
– Complementarity between basic and applied action research
– How to address gender issues– Options for establishing mechanisms for the valuation and
payment for environmental services
Complementarity with pother key issues
• Environmental issues clearly identified in previous slides
• The smart identification of options for increasing productivity should result not only on sustainable nutritional security, but also improve economic well-being.
• Improved nutritional security will contribute to healthy lives
• Intensification could increase the risk of introduction and susceptibility for infectious diseases