tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26060146834949341452024-03-06T21:02:54.766+01:00SARD-SC BLOGSupport to Agricultural Research for Development of Strategic Crops in AfricaAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17875909687982808740noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606014683494934145.post-31154782835990493902015-07-27T12:16:00.000+01:002015-07-27T12:16:25.726+01:00Success Story: Cassava Planting Material Distribution and testimonials from farmers<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;">1. Initial
situation:</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"> The variety named Sawasawa the most popular and
the most common in the Ruzizi plain appreciated by farmers, had lost its performances
(resistance to diseases, pests and higher efficiency) and became very sensitive
to brown streak of cassava without leaving the slightest chance to farmers to
harvest usable roots.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;">The situation is critical and rapid intervention
has been indispensable in order to overcome this crisis which would lead to a
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Testimony of Ms. Mado from Bwegera:</b><span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;">“For over ten years now, cassava farmers from
the Ruzizi plain mainly used the variety <b>Sawasawa</b>
and no one could complain against the yield and resistance to diseases and
pests that offered this variety. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">However, in 2012 this variety lost its
performance and became very sensitive to the </span><b style="font-size: 12pt;">brown streak of cassava</b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> that made its roots unsuitable. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Abandoned to their fate, farmers had no more choices
and were forced to resort to the local varieties and those from everywhere
which unfortunately were still more susceptible to diseases and pests than
Sawasawa”</span></i></div>
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sake of bringing a palliative solution to this scourge, a series of training of
farmers on “<b>management of pests and
diseases and the rapid multiplication of healthy cassava cuttings</b>” was
organized before the distribution of healthy cuttings of the improved variety (<b>Nabana</b>) was done in December 2014 in
the Ruzizi plain (Kamanyola, Katogota, Luvungi, Bwegera, Kiringye, Luberizi,
Sange, Runingu and Kiliba). </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">More than 850 farmers benefited from this new
planting material, among them are those who participated in one of the
trainings on management of cassava cultivation organized by IITA through the
SARD-SC project. Each beneficiary received 125ML that can cover an area of 625m</span><sup style="text-align: justify;">2</sup><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">
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visiting the fields of cuttings of the beneficiary farmers, we were impressed
not only by the state of the fields but also and especially by the good
testimonies of farmers among which Ms. Vumilia of Luvungi said <i>“We thank IITA
through its project SARD-SC for assisting us with this new planting material. We
were at the point of abandoning the cultivation of cassava due to lack of
variety that can resist to the famous brown streak disease”.</i> <b>Ms. Zuwena of Runingu who sees the real
Business in the sale of cuttings</b> also said <i>“With this new material that we
call <b>Nabana</b> which means <b>the mother of children,</b> we hope again
to resume life normally. The fact that I am among the primary beneficiaries of
these cuttings here at home, is a great salvation for me and for my family,
because cuttings of this variety are very well-sought after by NGOs. It is now
or never that I must take this opportunity to implement all the knowledge
gained on quick healthy cuttings propagation and make a real source of income
to meet the needs of my family".</i></span></div>
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for the future of the beneficiaries:</b> the departure fields set up by farmers
from the received cuttings were regarded as fields of cassava production and
not as fields for the propagation of cuttings. Later on, they realized that
they could have enough material for planting to cover their needs from their
small fields as witnessed by <b>Mzee Adji</b>
, the head of the Muslim community in Luberizi. He said <i>“as the needs are huge,
I would do the coppicing (phased cut of cuttings) instead of permanently
harvest the field to have roots, this will allow me to have more material to cultivate
more space in less time”.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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farmers in the middle, which had not benefited from this planting during the
first distribution, because at 6MAP there are already some people who envy my
field and come to steal the cuttings, I regret this</i>, he added in conclusion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Aharoni; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;">Mrs.
Mastaki exchanging her observation during the last field day on May 30, 2015</span></i></td></tr>
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of Miti and also a member of the Association called APSKA, which was invited to
attend a field day organized by the SARD-SC Project IITA in February 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Attracted by the Intercropping culture system,
she went to apply the system at home. She says: <i>"I had cultivated 1.2
hectares of cassava in pure culture with all that this includes as maintenance
work in the first months. When I participated in the field day, I understood that
it was possible to capitalize on the space between two rows of cassava. I had
already planted with spacings of 1m x 1m. After weeding, I added 2 bean rows
between 2 cassava lines".</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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good cassava cultural practices. Hence she was able to take care of the cassava
in mono-cropping. She added by saying, "<i>this association has significantly
reduced the number of weeding while the bean was cultivated. I just collected
846kg of beans that I never had and which I will use to buy myself a motorcycle
and give to my son (19 years) to earn some money during the holidays in order to
pay fees enrollment for himself and his four brothers. "</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Note that a motorcycle assigned to public
transportation daily pays $ 8-10 / day. This boy is going to work for 3 months
and will generate about $ 700-900 during this period. This is enough for meeting the education needs
of 5 children in public schools in the village. <i>"Another part will be used
to purchase a few ruminants for breeding,"</i> she added.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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when Ms. Mastaki was asked about her impression for SARD-SC project, she said,
<i>"SARD-SC iishi sawa laki"</i>; to say that SARD-SC live longer as the
lake.</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17875909687982808740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606014683494934145.post-59785302925723383282015-05-27T13:05:00.001+01:002015-05-27T13:05:32.324+01:00Addressing the gender deficit in wheat production<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; font-family: myriad_proregular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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Considering gender issues in technology dissemination is equally important – this process needs to respond adequately to gender specific limitations, roles, and opportunities to help increase adoption and impact. </div>
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Acknowledging this, SARD-SC (Wheat) recently held a workshop in Sudan – an effort to ensure the initiative gives gender issues the highest priority, and the needs and requirements of women producers are adequately reflected in on-going activities. </div>
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Reflecting the initiative’s multi-disciplinary nature, the workshop brought together some 50 participants from 12 countries, including wheat breeders, socio-economists, agronomists, and monitoring and evaluation specialists – in addition to gender experts. </div>
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Discussions focused on opportunities for integrating gender into the projects’ three main components: generating agricultural technologies and innovations; the sustainable dissemination and adoption of agricultural technologies and innovation; and capacity strengthening. </div>
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Other issues were also highlighted: strengthening the role of women in postharvest and processing; access to technologies and innovations in different cultural and social contexts; the limited number of female extension agents – and the difficulty this presents in terms of promoting and disseminating new innovations to women farmers; and land ownership, overwhelmingly dominated by men. </div>
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Solutions to these problems were discussed and potential interventions identified. These included sensitizing male extension agents on the importance of involving women in their knowledge and technology dissemination strategies, and a focus on land management rather than land ownership, which would help create a space for women's inclusion. In many countries across sub-Saharan Africa some areas of land are jointly managed by women and men; while others are managed by men or women exclusively such as kitchen gardens.</div>
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The demonstration of wheat varieties and related technologies on joint plots - rather than plots managed exclsuively by men - would therefore benefit both men and women and allow for the dissemination of technologies to both. </div>
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The workshop also provided an opportunity to reflect on the status of women farmers across some of the countries where SARD-SC is working, and included presentations on experiences in <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/ICARDA/gender-in-sardsc-wheat-sudan?related=1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sudan</a>, <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/ICARDA/gender-in-sardsc-nigeria?related=1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Nigeria</a>, <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/ICARDA/gender-in-wheat-seed-production-in-kenya-by-nyakwara-to-sudan" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Kenya</a></strong>, and <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/ICARDA/gender-in-sardsc-ethiopia" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ethiopia</a></strong>. </div>
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The presentations provided an update on SARD-SC impacts. In Sudan, where 43 percent of participants are female, women have been successfully incorporated into value-additional activities, for instance. Similar achievements have also been accomplished in Nigeria, where women have initiated small-scale enterprises to produce bread and other baked goods. </div>
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Click <a href="http://sard-sc.org/addressing-gender-deficit-wheat-production/"><b>here</b></a> to read more.</div>
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The IITA Management has commended the SARD-SC project, funded
by the African Development Bank (AfDB), for its highly satisfactory
implementation of all aspects of the project and the meaningful
impact the commodity value chains are making in the lives of the
targeted project beneficiaries. Dr Nteranya Sanginga, the Director
General led the management team comprising of Mr Kwame
Akuffo-Akuto- Deputy Director General of Corporate Services, Dr. Yiva
Hillbur – Deputy Director General of Research for Development and Mr
Omoshalewa Sholola – Director of Finance, at the recent internal
evaluation of the project conducted on Tuesday 21,April, 2015.<br />
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Dr Sanginga said he was delighted that the project was on
track, and of the achievements so far recorded since its
inception in 2012. “I am quite impressed by what you have achieved so
far in terms of new varietal commodities, technology disseminated, value
addition to commodities and how they are changing lives, generating
income and employment for the people,” he said.<br />
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The evaluation was conducted, according to the Director
General, in order to have an update of the progress the SARD-SC
project was making in the areas of technology dissemination,
preparation for the Mid Term Review (MTR), and financial standing of the
project and to discuss possible solutions to any implementation
challenges. The DG said: “ The SARD-SC project is very important, not
because it has a huge budget but in terms of the impact it is
designed to have on the productivity of and income from the value
chains of the commodities you work with and the lives of the
people. This is a project which allows us to assess the impact
of some of our mandate crops –Cassava, rice, maize and wheat- and in
places it is executed. It is one project that helps to maintain
strong IITA relationships with the AFDB.<br />
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The evaluation exercise started with Dr. Chrys Akem, Project
Coordinator, presenting an overview of the activities and
achievements of the project on cassava, maize, rice and wheat value
chains. He went on to highlight their impacts on the livelihoods of many
in the project target countries. His presentation also highlighted new
varietal development of the 4 target commodities and their dissemination
to farmers and farmer groups. He also spoke of the project’s
distribution of better quality cassava stems to farmers, improvements
in mechanization of production systems for all the commodities, and
infrastructural development with the building of cassava processing
centers in DR Congo, Tanzania, Zambia and Sierra Leone. He pointed out
how the establishment of these processing centers has led to new
products development (confectionery baked with cassava flour) hitherto
unknown in some of these countries. Consequently, it has fostered a
strong sense of community engagement for all in the communities,
especially the women populace. Included in his presentation was an
update on the procurement and financial status of the project.<br />
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Dr. Akem intimated the management that the project activities have
been aligned with IITA Refreshed Strategy in the areas of: Increase
food security and availability; Increased profitability of food
products and Sustainability of natural resource management. It was not
all a rosy picture for the project, as he revealed some of the
challenges the Project Management Unit contends with in areas of
procurement and financial disbursement, while also pointing out the
opportunities that the project has going forward as it takes on its MTR
review.<br />
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The DG commended Dr. Akem for “a very comprehensive presentation.”
He urged the project team to ensure they used the forth coming MTR
as an opportunity to input their recommendations into the Bank’s
final documents. Thereafter, members of the management team took turns
at making comments and asking pertinent questions for clarifications
from the project coordinator and members of his team on seemingly grey
areas of the presentation. Mr. Sholola commended the team for
effective financial management and controls while Mr. Akuffo – Akotto
advised the project team to ensure the sustainability of the
structures built in the SARD-SC project areas. Dr Hillbur
encouraged the project team to continue with strong linkages with other
institutional projects.<br />
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