1. Africa Agriculture Science Week
15–20 July 2013, Accra, Ghana
www.iita.orgA member of the CGIAR Consortium
Highlights from
Scientific Partners
N Sanginga
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

2. Africa Agriculture Science Week
15–20 July 2013, Accra, Ghana
www.iita.orgA member of the CGIAR Consortium
 IMF expects Africa to
grow by nearly 6% in
2012 is led by new
Infrastructure and
agriculture.
 Emerging new
leadership
Latest Headlines from Africa
From “The hopeless continent – May 2000” … To “Africa rising – Dec 2011”

3. Africa Agriculture Science Week
15–20 July 2013, Accra, Ghana
www.iita.orgA member of the CGIAR Consortium
Sub-Saharan Challenge
Program for Africa SSA-CP
proposed a new paradigm in 2003
Integrated Agricultural Research for Development
IAR4D

4. Africa Agriculture Science Week
15–20 July 2013, Accra, Ghana
www.iita.orgA member of the CGIAR Consortium
The four
support
pillars of the
SSA-CP
The four
principal
themes of the
SSA-CP
(FARA, 2004)

5. Africa Agriculture Science Week
15–20 July 2013, Accra, Ghana
www.iita.orgA member of the CGIAR Consortium
CGIAR Reforms
 Food security, Poverty, Natural resources, Undernutrition
Impact by 2025
 Increase yield 60%
 Sustain annual growth 0.5 %
 Reduce poverty 15 %

6. Africa Agriculture Science Week
15–20 July 2013, Accra, Ghana
www.iita.orgA member of the CGIAR Consortium
R4D platforms in Action Sites

7. Africa Agriculture Science Week
15–20 July 2013, Accra, Ghana
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•External review in 2011
shows positive results
of SSA-CP in the great
Lake regions

8. Africa Agriculture Science Week
15–20 July 2013, Accra, Ghana
www.iita.orgA member of the CGIAR Consortium
What is the science potential ?
Life Science Revolution – molecular biology
IT revolution – crop management, precision
agriculture
Holistic approach – Sustainable intensification

9. Africa Agriculture Science Week
15–20 July 2013, Accra, Ghana
www.iita.orgA member of the CGIAR Consortium
What are the growth areas?

10. Africa Agriculture Science Week
15–20 July 2013, Accra, Ghana
www.iita.orgA member of the CGIAR Consortium
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Observed
On-farm
Official
On-farm
On-station Commercial
farmers
Grainyield(tha-1
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Zambia
Tanzania
Kenya
Uganda
Ethiopia
Burkina Faso
Niger
Botswana
Zimbabwe
Filling the Yield Gap

11. Africa Agriculture Science Week
15–20 July 2013, Accra, Ghana
www.iita.orgA member of the CGIAR Consortium
Old and degraded soils…
Nutrient depletion in
sub-Saharan Africa
Stoorvogel et al., 1993).

12. Africa Agriculture Science Week
15–20 July 2013, Accra, Ghana
www.iita.orgA member of the CGIAR Consortium
Agriculture without dogmas…

13. Africa Agriculture Science Week
15–20 July 2013, Accra, Ghana
www.iita.orgA member of the CGIAR Consortium
Green Revolution

14. Africa Agriculture Science Week
15–20 July 2013, Accra, Ghana
www.iita.orgA member of the CGIAR Consortium
Restore Soil Fertility in Africa
 AU Fertilizer Summit
recommendation:
from 8 to 50 kg/ha by
2015
 Land degradation
surveillance: a digital
soil map for Africa

15. Africa Agriculture Science Week
15–20 July 2013, Accra, Ghana
www.iita.orgA member of the CGIAR Consortium
Restore
soil fertility
in Africa
More resilient &
productive
crops for Africa
Enabling
environment
market
policies
Food Security - Targets

16. Africa Agriculture Science Week
15–20 July 2013, Accra, Ghana
www.iita.orgA member of the CGIAR Consortium
Reaching the millions?
Best bet technologies
Partnership and Capacity Development
Scaling up, out, down? Missing links?
Research
Capacity
buildingDelivery

17. Africa Agriculture Science Week
15–20 July 2013, Accra, Ghana
www.iita.orgA member of the CGIAR Consortium
Challenges
Technical / Scientific
– Investment balance between
commodity & NRM
– Decaying infrastructure
Partnership
– Policy & institutional arrangements for scaling-up
– Mainstreaming Gender
Funding
– Long-term investment vs. short project

18. Africa Agriculture Science Week
15–20 July 2013, Accra, Ghana
www.iita.orgA member of the CGIAR Consortium
Thank you!