Day 1_Session3_TRIPS_WASDS_ILRI - This presentation outlines planned ILRI activities for the CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Systems in the West African Sahel and Dry Savannas.
2. Activities carried out
• Participation in various iIRT/IRT meetings
• Collation of background data on Fakara (one of
the satellite sites for KKM action transect) and
contribution to groundwork report
• Organization of stakeholders’ consultation
meeting in Fakara for the groundwork in April
2012
• Participation in regional inception workshop.
ILRI sponsored 4 participants
• ILRI internal CRP DS meeting in Nairobi on 7
Sept 2012 – planning meeting to coordinate
ILRI’s strategy and to provide updates on ILRI
background work in 3 regions (East and
Southern Africa, West Africa and South Asia)
3. Activities carried out
• Participation in CRP DS West Africa
methodology workshop in Niamey, 17 – 19
September 2012 by ICRISAT
• ILRI internal meeting on assessing the success
of Innovation Platforms, Nairobi Dec 6,7 2012.
All of the actors within ILRI who have worked or
intend to use IP participated. Objectives:
1. Critically examine WHY ILRI uses
innovation platforms in its R4D projects— what
outcomes and outputs have we tried to achieve?
2. How have we evaluated the success and
impact of innovation platforms?
3. What problems have we encountered using
innovation platforms?
4. What have we learned? What do we need
to do differently to achieve the desired outcomes
and impacts through innovation platforms?
4. Activities carried out
• Participation in WAS&DS Planning meeting in
March, 2013
• Contribution to CRP DS for WAS&DS
household survey instruments especially
livestock component
• Participation in CRP DS Launch
Meeting, Amman, Jordan
5. On-going Activities
• Recruitment of a PhD student to work on
Climate Risk and the Effect of Institutional
Arrangements on the Coping Capacity of
Smallholder Agropastoralists in West African
Sahel – University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Objectives of the thesis
- to identify aspects of local institutions that
impact the ability of local livelihoods to cope with
climate variability
- examine how institutional ambiguity among
community institutions, local government, and
national legislation shapes the livelihood security of
different social groups
• Approach
- household surveys, environmental data on
resource variability, social network analysis, and
case studies of local conventions
6. On-going Activities
• Review and synthesis of ILRI long-term (1994 –
2008) systems research activities in
Fakara, southwestern Niger: Learning from the
past - Consultant (Pierre Hiernaux, France) +
AA
• Deliverables
- Database on systems research in Fakara from
1994 till now
- Synthesis report on systems research in Fakara
and in the West African Sahel in general identifying
gaps and recommendations for future research
• Fakara has a rich history of agricultural research
from the late 1980s till now by different institutions
• ILRI Niger in 1990s: multi-disciplinary team of 6
scientists (animal scientist, range
ecologist/agronomist, agric.
economist, geographer/anthropologist, soil
7. Charts of the farming systems research projects
Climate Rural population
Hydric sytems Institutions
Soils Trade markets
Vegetation Household economy
Crop assessments
Crop experiments Livestock
experiments
Livestock
assessments
Rain distribution
radiation
temperatures
CO2, GHG
Water vapor
Ponds
Gullies
Infiltration
Evaporation
Water tables
Boreholes, wells
Geomorphology
Crusts
Soil fertility
Organic
matter
Soil moisture
Soil erosion
Nutrients
Land
cover/landuse Herbaceous
Woody plants
Physiology
Decomposition
Crop growth & yields
Weeds
Yields
Tillage-weeding
Pests parasistes
Fertiliser
Manuring
Associated crop
trials
Fertiliser trial
Corralling trials
Animal traction, Hata
Agroforestry trials
Feed supplements
trials
Transhumance trials
Habanaï trial
Population, herds
Dairy production
Herd mobility
Feed supplementation
Poultry production
Sowing
Harvest conservation
Fallowing
Agroforestry
physiology
Breed tests
Grazing trials
Weight
gains/losses
Reproduction
Run-off/run-
on
Demography Settling
‘Exode’ Mobility
Health
Gender
issues
Education
Cereals
Political parties
Associations
Public policies
Infrastructure & services
Islam
Local government
Market places
Crop inputs
Livestock market
Livesock feeds
Wood & charcoal
Land tenure
Livestock
capitalLabour
Off-farm
activities
Revenue
Expenses
Youth issues
Malnutrition
Custom
dairy
debts
Loans
Remittance
ss
Vulnerabi-
lity
DANTLAIT
ECliS-ANR
INSORMIL
ESCAPE-
ANR
Nutmon-
Nutpast
model
Multi-
agent
model
Projet
Aide à la
Décision
ICRISAT
farming
systems
ILRI-
Habanaï
project
ILRI-Crop-
livestock
system
8. Systematic
Observations
and measures
on sampled sites,
animal, herds,
individuals,
farms…
Process
Mathematical
Modeling (water
Fluxes, vegetation
Growth and
decomposition,
livestock
Production
Monitoring of
state & flows
through
repeated
visits and/or
on-site devices
Farming system
modeling
including
georeferenced &
with participatory
model
building
Physico-chemical
analysis on
samples
(soil, water,
Vegetation, feed,
excretions…)
Mapping with
remote-sensing
tools & building
Geographic
information
systems
Survey through
questionnaires on
agriculture &
husbandry
practices,
socio-economy,
cultural issues &
perceptions
Experiments
In controlled
conditions & in
farmer’s
fields/herds
& farmer’s trials
Habanaï
ILRI
Soil Fertility
management
model
ROSELT
-Sahel
NUTMON-
NUTPAST
model
HAPEX-Sahel
EPSA
T
TROPSOIL
Banizoumbou
observatory
ESCAPE
DANTLAIT
ECLIS
VASA-
ANR
Vulnerability
SLP
INSORMILGround water
in SSA
AMMA-
CATCH
Multi-
agent
model
Projet Aide
à la décision
Hapex GB
AMMA core
core
ILRI crop-
livestock
system
BioCrust-
ANR
JIRCAS
ICRISAT
farming
system
IRD-
Ecology
IRD Soil
sciences
HAPEX-
IRD
agronomy
Desert
Margin
Conflicts
Soil Fertility
management
Chart of the main approaches used by the research projects
in Fakara
9. Planned Activities 2013
• Review of past Systemwide Livestock Program
(SLP) projects on crop-livestock intensification
in West Africa Sahel and Dry Savanna
• Assessment of trade-offs in resource use in the
farming systems - Modelling (FARMSIM &
LIVSIM developed by WUR)
• Vulnerability and risk assessment including
indigenous knowledge on coping strategies
• Analysis of promising crop-livestock value
chains in the action sites
• IP establishment and facilitation to enhance
effective linkages and knowledge exchange
among different actors
10. ILRI staff for WAS&DS
• Augustine Ayantunde – Animal science/NRM
• Sabine Douxchamps (System analyst, to join in
October 2013 and work also on CCAFS)
• ICRISAT/ILRI joint Crop-livestock production
scientist (under recruitment)
• Mohammadou Fadiga – Agricultural
economics, value chains analysis
• Musa Abubakar – Research technician
• Erin Kitchell – PhD student, University of
Wisconsin, Madison (supervisor: Matt Turner)
11. International Livestock Research Institute
Better lives through livestock
Animal agriculture to reduce poverty, hunger and
environmental degradation in developing countries
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