Sasakawa-Africa Association/ Sasakawa-Africa Association/ Global 2000Global 2000

SG 2000 Agricultural Program in Africa: SG 2000 Agricultural Program in Africa:

Our Future DirectionsOur Future DirectionsBy By

Christopher Dowswell Christopher Dowswell SAA Executive Director—Programs SAA Executive Director—Programs

Sasakawa Africa AssociationSasakawa Africa Association SAA Vision

A food-secure rural Africa with increasing numbers of prospering smallholder commercial farmers.

SAA Mission

To transform African extension advisory services to address food security among resource-poor farmers and provide greater economic benefit to commercially oriented smallholder farmers from agriculture value chains.______________• SAA Established in 1986 and registered in Geneva, Switzerland, as a Swiss humanitarian NGO. • Offices in Geneva, Tokyo, Addis Ababa, Bamako, Kano and Kampala• Partnership with the Carter Center’s Global 2000 Program, Atlant., Sasakawa-Global 2000 agricultural projects have operated in 15 sub-Saharan countries.

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Guinea

BurkinaFaso

Sudan

Ethiopia

Eritrea

Uganda

Tanzania

Mozambique

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SG 2000 Agricultural SG 2000 Agricultural ProgramProgram

Sasakawa-Global 2000 Sasakawa-Global 2000 Maize Demonstration YieldsMaize Demonstration Yields

Ghana

t/ha

* Primarily using ybrids

Nigeria* Mali/Burkina Faso

Mozambique Uganda Ethiopia* Malawi*0

1

2

3

4

5

6 Demontration Plots

National Average

NetherlandsNetherlandsVietnamVietnam

JapanJapanUKUK

ChinaChinaFranceFrance

BrazilBrazilUSAUSAIndiaIndia

South AfricaSouth AfricaCubaCubaBeninBenin

MalawiMalawiEthiopiaEthiopia

MaliMaliBurkina FasoBurkina Faso

NigeriaNigeriaTanzaniaTanzania

Mozambique Mozambique GuineaGuineaGhanaGhana

UgandaUgandaKg/ha

Source: FAOSTAT, July 2003

0 100 200 300 400

Fertilizer nutrient Fertilizer nutrient consumption per consumption per

hectare of arable hectare of arable land in selected land in selected countries, 2002countries, 2002

500 600

SAA Transformational Thrusts SAA Transformational Thrusts 1. SAA is an evidence-based organization, whose program/project

activities are measurable, scalable, and sustainable.

2. SAA offers a twin-track anti-hunger/anti-poverty strategy

3. In smallholder development work, SAA advances the fullest expression of the value chain.

4. In food security work, SAA give priority to farmers previously marginalized from extension, with primary emphasis on women farmers.

5. SAA focuses on food crops with good caloric and/or nutritive value and relatively low perishability. In livestock our focus is on improving crop/livestock systems.

6. SAA emphasizes development of agricultural extension advisory services where farmers and their organizations assume greater responsibility for directing and financing local operations as a key strategy to assure sustainability.

SAA Staffing Changes SAA Staffing Changes

• About half of the 60 professional staff are new and were hired through a competitive recruitment process.

• A high caliber staff has been recruited that is younger and has a broader range of skill sets, in keeping with the value chain approach.

• A higher degree of gender balance achieved among professional staff; about 40% are female (compared to 10% two years ago).

MARKET= $125/100 kgPRODUCTION POSTHARVEST

CLEANING & STORAGE

PROCESSING

-Rice harvester/reaper- Mechanical thresher-Grain cleaner

-Improved silos -Grain bags

- Milling- Grading

- Grading- Packaging - Group formation & sensitization

Improved: -Seed varieties- Fertilizer use -Weed, insect & pest control

Improved postharvest handling: Timely collection of crops -Reduce labor, especially for women & children

- Minimize storage insects and pest losses- Maintain quality-Clean, debris-free grain for processing

- Collective marketing

+$10 / 100 kg +$35 / 100 kg= $30 / 100 kg +$20 / 100 kg +$30 / 100 kg

The Rice Value Chain

Yields can be increased 2-3 times

Theme 1: Crop Productivity• Establish participatory, smallholder farmer-driven, extension learning platforms.• Move beyond standardized technology packages to offer farmers

more technological options (in terms of cost, outcomes, and associated risks).

• Reach historically underserved smallholders, especially women, who have the greatest “gaps” in productivity information.

• Use of more rigorous and dynamic ME&L systems to monitor and evaluate field testing program data, for use, especially by researchers, but also by other stakeholders.

• Generate a community-based extension model with revenue generation capacity to cover variable costs associated with field demonstration programs.

Theme 2: Postharvest & Agro-processingTheme 2: Postharvest & Agro-processing1. Strengthen extension capacity to demonstrate & provide

training in post-production value-enhancing technologies.

2. Identify, verify, and adapt improved value-adding equipment and storage structures.

3. Strengthen capacity of local fabricators/manufacturers to build and supply recommended postharvest and agro-processing equipment.

4. Support development of networks of private service providers that offer mechanized services to smallholders in postharvest handling and agro-processing processes.

Enterprise Development (Service Delivery & Maintenance)

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Grating Service Provider: Nigeria, Benin & Ghana

Threshing Service Provider: Mali Mobile Rice Mill: Uganda

Threshing Service Provider: Ethiopia

Theme 3: Public-private partnerships and Theme 3: Public-private partnerships and market access for smallholder producersmarket access for smallholder producers

Help private agribusinesses and farmer organizations to build their capacity to assume greater responsibility for technology transfer activities.

Strengthen smallholder farmer associations as economic units to improve capacity to engage in commercial markets for inputs, service provision (inputs, postharvest, agro-processing), add value to basic food crops, and marketing.

Strategic Partnerships Strategic Partnerships

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Policy Makers & Investors

Financial Institutions

Agri Business Enterprises

Theme 4: Human Resource Development • SAA has provided hands-on in-

service training to more than 20,000 extension workers in 15 African countries.

• Learning by doing remains our major pedagogical pillar.

• The Sasakawa Africa Fund for Extension Education (SAFE) program facilitates College and University degrees to mid-career extension officers: 3,000 in 10 countries have benefited from this program.

Theme 5: Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and SharingTheme 5: Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and Sharing

SAA monitors & evaluates its activities in order to:SAA monitors & evaluates its activities in order to:• Get feedback on what is working and what is notGet feedback on what is working and what is not• Provide timely information to staff and partners to:Provide timely information to staff and partners to:

o Guide decisions making for modifications & corrective actionsGuide decisions making for modifications & corrective actionso Promote credibility & confidence to help justify and attract Promote credibility & confidence to help justify and attract

investmentsinvestments

• Assess achievement of outcomesAssess achievement of outcomes• Identify potentially promising practicesIdentify potentially promising practices• Enable evidence-based reporting of progress, results & Enable evidence-based reporting of progress, results &

impacts to policy makers and development practitionersimpacts to policy makers and development practitioners

SAA Investors Private Foundations

This category is major source of funding for SAA., including NF, and new This category is major source of funding for SAA., including NF, and new investors, e.g., BMGF, AGRAinvestors, e.g., BMGF, AGRA National Governments

Ear-marked financial support from partner Ear-marked financial support from partner governments, e.g., the 8 states governments, e.g., the 8 states of northern Nigeria.of northern Nigeria.

Official Development AssistancePartnership & Project support by e.g., IFAD, JICA, WFP-P4P, USAID, CIDAPartnership & Project support by e.g., IFAD, JICA, WFP-P4P, USAID, CIDA

Private Sector Partner with private agribusinesses, large and small, for technical Partner with private agribusinesses, large and small, for technical

backstopping and cost sharing to help support farmer training and backstopping and cost sharing to help support farmer training and demonstration programs of technologies of mutual interest.demonstration programs of technologies of mutual interest. Farmers

Village-based extension workers need to develop a revenue model that Village-based extension workers need to develop a revenue model that permits them to generate sufficient income to cover local operating costs.permits them to generate sufficient income to cover local operating costs.

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