The IPMS project adopted a participatory market oriented commodity value chain approach to implement Ethiopia's strategy of transforming subsistence agriculture into a more commercial system. The approach involved diagnosing farming systems and marketable commodities in 10 districts, designing interventions for production, agribusiness, and marketing, and building knowledge and capacity. Interventions included awareness campaigns, dairy value chain development, knowledge management through training and documentation, and monitoring and evaluation. The project helped develop more commercially oriented agriculture and alternative input and service delivery systems at the district level while also building capacity at regional and federal levels. Main lessons indicated continuous engagement is needed to further production and support regional/federal systems for inputs, processing, and
7. Policy environment The Ministry started formulating new policies aimed at transforming subsistence agriculture into a more market oriented agricultural system some 10 years ago. This was reflected in the PASDEP for the period 2005-2010.
12. How do you implement such a market oriented strategy?? What should be the approach? Will it be the same as for food security and natural resource management? How do we design/test it?
13. Possible answer to the approach question Adopting a participatory market oriented commodity value chain approach So what does it mean and how does it complement previous approaches Development through field testing and learning
14. Participatory market oriented commodity value chain approach Processing and marketing Agri business ♂ ♀ Production based on improved technologies Research , extension education Farmers ♂ ♀ ♂ ♀ Agri business public sector Inputs /services ♂ ♀
15. KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT Commodity development Project components Interventions Studies and documentation Recommendations for scaling out
17. The process M&E and learning Commodity development Knowledge/skills development Commodity development Knowledge/skills development M&E and learning Diagnosis & planning
18. Role of partners and IPMS Partners are implementing the interventions IPMS acts as: Facilitator: for the introduction of the new approach through technical assistance and finance for partners Partner: for extension and research (studies, documentation, synthesis) activities
48. Methods and tools Follow up visits by service providers Field days Meetings platforms/Woreda Advisory and Learning Committees (formal and informal)