Nutrient-dense beans boost Rwandan livelihoods and diets
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HarvestPlus is working to enrich seeds and livelihoods in Rwanda by promoting the adoption of high iron bean varieties. They have released 10 biofortified bean varieties since 2012 that are higher yielding, drought tolerant, and provide 45% of daily iron needs. Dissemination efforts include selling seeds through agro-dealers, farmer to farmer exchanges, and direct marketing. An impact study found that 29% of bean farming households have grown the beans, 21% were growing them currently, and adoption is increasing over time. HarvestPlus partners with various Rwandan government ministries and organizations to develop sustainable markets and scale up the program.
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Nutrient-dense beans boost Rwandan livelihoods and diets
- 1. HarvestPlus c/o IFPRI 2033 K Street, NW • Washington, DC 20006-1002 USA Tel: 202-862-5600 • Fax: 202-467-4439 HarvestPlus@cgiar.org • www.HarvestPlus.org Enriching Seeds and Livelihoods in Rwanda Going the Last Mile: Accelerating Progress in Food Security and Nutrition Brussels, 14 June 2016 Joseph Mulambu, Rwanda Country Manager HarvestPlus
- 2. Which nutrients, crops, countries? http://bit.ly/HPlusBPI
- 3. • Higher yielding up to 40 – 50% • Drought tolerant • Disease and pest resistant • Provides Iron nutrition: 45% of daily dietary needs • Relatively cook faster than traditional bean varieties Why Adopt High Iron Beans?
- 4. • Ten biofortified bean varieties officially released since 2012 • Intensive dissemination began in March 2012 • Seed Delivery Channels: – Agro-dealers – Farmer to farmer – Direct marketing – Payback system – Seed swap High Iron Beans in Rwanda
- 5. Developing Markets for Long-term Adoption
- 7. Nutrition Education: Cooking Demonstration
- 8. http://bit.ly/EatHealthyBeans Using Mass Media to Create Demand
- 10. Impact Assessment Study of Longer-Term Adoption
- 11. Key Findings • 29% of bean farming households in Rwanda have grown HIBs at least once since they were released in 2012 • 21% of bean farming households were growing a HIB variety in the season that study was conducted • Approximately 54% of households that have grown HIBs have grown them continuously or intermittently over time • Number of “adopters” for all 10 varieties continues to grow each year
- 12. Adoption of High-Iron Beans by District - Since 2012
- 13. Some Key Partners Ministry of Agriculture/RAB Ministry of Health Ministry of Education IMBARAGA Rwanda Farmer Federation Pan Africa Bean Research Alliance (PABRA/CIAT) RISCO, Win-Win Agritech World Food Programme/Purchase for ProgressMinister of Health Agnes Binagwaho, MD, PHD
- 14. Toward a sustainable market-based solution Next Steps: •Scaling up through even more partners in the bean value chain -- private sector, NGOs, and multilaterals •Strengthening seed systems and market linkages •Reaching a critical, sustainable market share for iron beans •Introducing more biofortified crops/micronutrients, e.g., vitamin A maize •Generating/sharing evidence and lessons learned in scaling up, in Rwanda and with other countries
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- I am grateful for the opportunity to participate in this important briefing and to share the field experience of HarvestPlus in scaling up iron beans in Rwanda to reach smallholder farmers.
- I am the Country Manager for the HarvestPlus Program in Rwanda. High-iron beans provide 45% of daily iron needs, or 14% more than regular beans. This is a slide from an interactive web tool that helps determine where specific biofortified crops might have the highest impact on nutritional status, based on national production, consumption and micronutrient deficiency levels. Rwanda ranks #1 globally for iron beans. HarvestPlus is working with partners in other “top 10” bean countries, including Uganda, Burundi and Tanzania.
- Amongst the above seed dissemination channels, seed swap has proven to be more effective in moving bigger seed volumes. Direct marketing provides an opportunity for farmers to interact with our partners and staff to learn more about the biofortified beans.
- Amongst the above seed dissemination channels, seed swap has proven to be more effective in moving bigger seed volumes. Direct marketing provides an opportunity for farmers to interact with our partners and staff to learn more about the biofortified beans.
- Farmers need to know that they can sell their surplus crop in the market and make a PROFIT. This is one of the first questions we are asked when we work with farmers. And we are convinced that marketing must be addressed to ensure long term adoption. While a family ‘might’ keep a biofortified crop in the garden for nutritional benefits, crops become anchored in the agricultural system when farmers have been able to sell – even if it’s a small basin or basket. We continue to see this and are convinced that urban markets must be developed to ensure demand. When there is demand, supply can be systematically built up. In Rwanda, one of the varieties we have introduced has been much higher yielding than existing varieties. This, of course, has made it easier to promote the beans and has encouraged farmers to adopt them. Some of the farmers have sold their surplus to the World Food Program’s initiative to procure food from local farmers in an initiative they call Purchase for Progress.
- One of biofortification’s advantages as a nutrition intervention is that crops can be put directly in the hands of farmers to employ and share with others. Many of these farmers are women, including this farmer in Rwanda, holding beans seeds provided by HarvesPlus.
- HarvestPlus also provides nutrition education to rural farming households through cooking demonstrations to enhance farmers knowledge on how to prepare and eat the biofortified beans.
- Rwandan rap stars made a great music video with an original “iron bean song” that you can find on YouTube—at the link in this slide. We also held very popular concerts around the country to raise awareness about the nutritional benefit of high-iron beans, with full support and even encouragement from the government. (Tell this in your own words!)
- I know this slide is hard to read, but you get the picture of rapid growth across the whole country. As a result of the various delivery channels and promotional campaigns, iron beans are now available in 27 districts in Rwanda (and approximately one-third of all farming households are growing them.
- An impact assessment study was conducted in 2015 to: To determine adoption (and diffusion) rate of HIB after 8 seasons of active dissemination To assess adoption patterns To assess socio-economic and nutrition impacts resulting from HIB adoption (or lack thereof) A listing exercise was conducted with almost 20,000 farm households in 120 villages and 29 out of the 30 districts in the country, to get a precise estimate of HIB adoption thus far
- An impact assessment study was conducted in 2015 to: To determine adoption (and diffusion) rate of HIB after 8 seasons of active dissemination To assess adoption patterns To assess socio-economic and nutrition impacts resulting from HIB adoption (or lack thereof) Preliminary results from a listing survey (conducted as part of the impact assessment study) among almost 20,000 households throughout the country reveal that approximately 29% of bean farming households in Rwanda have grown at least one HIB variety, that HIB varieties have been grown in every district of the country and that they are most popularly grown in the Eastern and Southern provinces of the country. We consider these to be very encouraging results.
- Achieving these results requires many partners, as the earlier value chain slide underscored. Here are just a few of the many active public and private partners working to scale up iron beans in Rwanda.
- But more partners are needed to complete the scale up and begin to work toward the introduction of additional biofortified crops – beyond iron beans and orange sweet potato -- desired by the government of Rwanda and appropriate to current diets and growing patterns.
- In conclusion, I want to thank you all for being here to learn more about how we are improving the health and livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Rwanda. As the program today has well illustrated, together we have an unparalleled window of opportunity to improve nutrition for hundreds of millions of people – in Rwanda and across the world.