Presented by Per Hillbur at the Africa RISING East and Southern Africa annual review and planning meeting, Lilongwe, Malawi, 3-5 September 2013

1. Opportunities for adoption
and institutional innovation
Per Hillbur
Malmö University, Sweden
Africa RISING East and Southern Africa annual review and planning
meeting, Lilongwe, Malawi, 3-5 September 2013

2.  Hillbur, Per (2013) The Africa RISING research
sites in Tanzania. Opportunities and challenges to
sustainable intensification and institutional
innovation. Background paper, July 2013.
 Hillbur, Per (2013) Research on institutional
innovation and scaling issues in Africa RISING.
Draft research plan, August 2013

3. Why does not adoption occur?

4. What is the potential for sustainable
intensification?

5. What has actually changed?

6. Population growth steady
stimulates change
challenges traditional land use patterns
and livelihoods.
 Target: Continue titles and land
certificates process, livestock
integration, ISFM, zero-grazing, etc
Challenge Babati

7. Farm household level >< Field (plot) level >< Landscape level
Target: Land use plans, landscape scale focus, pigeon pea intercropping
Challenge Kiteto

8. Climate change, soil fertility, soil
conservation, labor availability
Targets: Land use
plans, titling, landscape analysis,
post-harvest technologies and
mgmt, drought-resistant varieties,
labour intensification, livestock
integration
Challenge Kongwa

9.  Three functions (Leeuwis and Aarts 2011):
network building
social learning
conflict management
 How do we support ‘socially acceptable
transformation’, e g how can platforms work in a way
that is gender transformative?
R4D platforms

10. Stakeholders by category
Category of
stakeholders
Kongwa/Kiteto Babati
Farmers MVIWATA
Farmers repr
MVIWATA
Farmer repr
Input suppliers Tanseed
TFA
TOSCA
MeruAgro
Minjingu Fertilizer Co
PANNAR, SATEC
Tanseed, TFA, TOSCA
Output
handling and
market support
agents
Kibaigwa market FaidaMali
Virtus Global Ltd
Financial
institutions
SACCOs SACCOs
VICOBA

11. Stakeholdersby category, cont.
Category of
stakeholders
Kongwa/Kiteto Babati
Extension agents Kongwa DC, Kiteto DC,
NAFAKA, Orgut
Babati DC
Babati TownC, Orgut
Research
institutions
CGIAR, ARI Hombolo
NARI, Selian ARI,
IRA/UDSM, SUA
Pasture Res. Centre, UDOM
CGIAR
NARI,
NM–AIST,
Selian ARI
Policy makers Kongwa DC, Kiteto DC
MKURABITA
Babati DC
Babati TownC
Others (NGOs,
donors etc)
CORDS, FARM-Africa
Inades-Formation,
INTSORMIL,
LVIA, SULEDO
USAID, World Vision Intl
FARM-Africa, FIDE
RECODA, TAP, TCCIA,
TechnoServe
USAID, World Vision
Intl

12. “scaling is not simply about copying success; it is also about
enabling high levels of innovation, experimentation, and feedback”
Woodhill, J., Guijt, J., Wegner, L., Sopov, M. (2012). From islands of success to seas of change: a report on scaling inclusive agri-food
markets. Centre for Develop-ment Innovation, Wageningen UR.
Scaling up
Scaling out
Scaling adaptively

13. “scaling is not simply about copying success; it is also about
enabling high levels of innovation, experimentation, and feedback”
Woodhill, J., Guijt, J., Wegner, L., Sopov, M. (2012). From islands of success to seas of change: a report on scaling inclusive agri-food
markets. Centre for Develop-ment Innovation, Wageningen UR.
Scaling up
Scaling out
Scaling
adaptively

14. Three categories of output:
PRODUCTION, INCOME and NUTRITION (The Montpellier Panel 2013)
Support to interventions that target women as beneficiaries, is a
support to higher productivity, improved health and nutrition
status, and good governance
Impact

15. Research/implementation process The case of Africa RISING
Focus Aspect(s) of sustainable intensification
Definition of area Projects sites, field sites, study units
Background Baseline studies, history of area, previous interventions
Trends Which are the current trends (poverty, environmental
degradation, market conditions, etc.) – potential for sustainable
intensification
Stakeholders/actors Include all relevant stakeholders at relevant level to secure
future information flows (R4D platform)
Indirect stakeholders Media, nature, etc
Validation of stakeholders Contribution and benefit patterns
M & E : preliminary level for IDOs, impact
Vision for the area Impact at regional level (ESA) Preliminary formulation of entry
points
Strategy Research logistics, time frame
M & E: internal monitoring of program resources
Work plan Entry points (innovation + target area/group)
Formalizing/signing agreements local – intermediate – (national)

16. Sida strategy for 2013-2019
Swedish International Development Authority. (2012). Bedömningsunderlag för ny samarbetsstrategi med Tanzania 2012-2016. Sida:
Stockholm.
Results Indicators 2012 situation
Improved tenure
security for
smallholders and
large-scale
investors
Number of rural
villages with a local
Land Use Plan
About 10%
Number of rural
households with
certified land rights
About 160 000
out of
8 000 000 (2 %)

17. Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation
africa-rising.net