Day 1_Session3_TRIPS_WASDS_CIP - This presentation sets out planned CIP research activities in target action sites across the West African Sahel and Dry Savannas target region

1. CIP WORK SO FAR AND
THOUGHTS ON 2013 AND BEYOND
CRP Dryland Systems meeting,
Kumasi, Ghana
Ted Carey
March August 1-2, 2013

2. What does CIP bring to CRP Dryland
Systems?

3. 2012 Groundwork
• CIP started to engage with CRP Dryland
Systems in W. Africa (March)
• Regional Inception workshop – Ouagadougou
(July)
– New friends, colleagues, and questions
– In Ghana, there was interest in intensification of
pig – crop systems. Sweetpotato fits in well
– Sweetpotato and potato are important or have
potential at many of the benchmark

4. 2012 Groundwork
• Sweetpotato survey done at Ghana Benchmark
sites by CSIR-SARI scientists John Bidzakin and
Kwabena Acheremu
– PRA/RRA (2 villages at Wa, 2 at Tolon-Kumbungu and
2 at Bawku)
– Planting material, markets, pests (weevils) seen as
important
– Gender disaggregated problem tree
• Multiplication work started at same sites
– MOFA and NGO/CBOs partners
– Emphasis on Orange fleshed Cultivars

6. 2012 Other work
• Complementary VC study contracted by B&MGF (end
of 2012, early 2013)
– Ghana, Burkina Faso, Nigeria (Overlap with benchmark
sites in each country). Supposed to do Mali as well, but
didn’t come off.
– Increasingly important commercial crop (5 to 10 years);
interesting potential for animal feed, particularly by larger
producers.
• Dry season multiplication work (enterprise approach)
started at benchmark sites sites in Ghana
– MOFA and NGO/CBOs partners
– Emphasis (perhaps mistakenly, on OFSP)

7. 2012 Groundwork
• Contribution of crop modeling to our work?
• Capacity to study root system architecture in
relation to management (and possibly genetic
improvement)
– Purchase of root scanner and software
– Visit by colleague from Louisiana State U
– Linkage with WASCAL for Ph.D. thesis research
topic

8. June 2013 visit to Soukouraba,
Burkina Faso

9. June 2013 visit to Soukouraba, Burkina Faso

10. 2013 Workplan/thoughts
• CIP will invest for dryland systems in W. Africa.
– Allocating 60K (operational cost) to W. Africa
• Trying to understand how to appropriately
engage in the region, across sites.
– 2013 work will likely be conducted by and with
partners at Ghana action sites, with additional
contributions in Burkina Faso

11. Thank You