2. Outline
• Global development alliances
– Seed alliances ‐ West Africa Seed Alliance (WASA)
– WASA Goal
• WASA ins0tu0onal framework
• USAID support to WASA
• WASA governance
– The Seeds Project
– ESASA
– Collabora0on with TL II
3. GDA’s Defined
• Global Development Alliances are a market-
based approach to partnerships between the
public and private sectors to address jointly
defined business and development objectives
• Alliances are co-designed, co-funded, and co-
managed by partners so that the risks,
responsibilities, and rewards of partnership are
equally shared
5. WASA Goal
• To establish a sustainable commercial seed industry
capable of ensuring that small‐scale farmers have
affordable, 0mely and reliable access to adapted
gene0cs and traits in high quality seeds and plan0ng
materials;
• playing a leading role in the growth and development
of viable agricultural inputs systems;
• suppor0ng the overall growth of the West Africa
agricultural sector;
• and improving the agricultural enabling environment
6. Ins0tu0onal framework
• Established through a MoU
– Signatories
• USAID West Africa
• Alliance for a Green Revolu0on in Africa (AGRA)
• African Seed Trade Associa0on (AFSTA)
– Monsanto
– Pioneer Hi‐Bred
• Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
7. USAID support
• USAID support to WASA through a Coopera0ve
Agreement with ICRISAT (The Seeds Project)
– USAID West Africa (Regional mission)
• Support to non‐presence countries (Benin, Burkina Faso,
Niger and Togo)
• Bilateral missions (Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, and Senegal)
– ICRISAT has sub‐contracts
• CNFA Inc
• Seed Science Center – Iowa State University (SSC‐ISU)
• Central Advisory Service on Intellectual Property (CAS‐IP)
• The World Vegetable Center (AVRDC)
• Rutgers University
9. WASA Governance
• Steering commiWee
– Signatories to the WASA MoU
• WASA coordinator (under recruitment through AFSTA)
– Execu0ve secretary to the steering commiWee
– Tracks resources commiWed to WASA
– Assists in alliance building
– Monitoring and evalua0on
10. The Seeds Project
• Regional technical team
– Based at CILSS/INSAH in Bamako, Mali
• Chief of Party (Ram SheWy)
• Senior Seed Produc0on Specialist (Edo Lin)
• Senior Agribusiness Specialist (Gino Pelle0er)
• Senior Adviser on Policy and Public Partnership
(Norbert Maroya)
12. Geographic focus
Countries Activities
Ghana Agro-dealer development only
Mali Agro-dealer and seed industry
development
Niger Agro-dealer and seed industry
development (Started 2009)
Nigeria Agro-dealer and seed industry
development
Burkina Faso Agro-dealer and seed industry
development
Senegal Agro-dealer and seed industry
development
Benin/Togo Seed industry development
15 ECOWAS countries + Chad & Seed trade harmonization
Mauritania
13. Components
• Improvement of seed policy enabling environment
• Support to seed systems
• Strengthening of input and output supply chains
• Coordinate with regional bodies
• Support the livestock sector
• Cooperate with other USG Partners
• Undertake environmental examina0on
16. Quaran0ne pests analyzed
Species Total number Number of Number of quarantine
of pests quarantine pests pests for seed trade
analyzed for seed trade with other parts of the
within the region world
Maize 22 5 9
Millet No initial pests list (seeking assistance from ICRISAT)
Sorghum 12 2 5
Rice 12 3 4
Groundnut 12 3 6
Cowpea 22 3 6
Cassava 5 Seeking more information from IITA
Yam 5 Seeking more information from IITA
Potato 24 5 ( by tuber) 18 (by tuber)
Tomato 13 2 3
Onion 18 8 (7 by bulbs ) 10 (7 by bulbs)
TOTAL 145 32 61
18. Focal points for varie0es release
Focal person in
Country the country Organization Status
Service National des Semences, DGPV, Public sector
Burkina Faso Mr Apollinaire ZONGO Burkina Faso representative
Union Nationale des Producteurs Private sector
Mr. Jonas YOGO Semenciers du Burkina Faso (UNPSB) representative
Mr. Dioukamady DIALLO Directeur du Laboratoire de Semences Public sector
Mali (LABOSEM-Sotuba), MAEP representative
Président Association Semencière du Mali Private sector
Mr. Issa Mory DEMBELE (ASSEMA) ; representative
Spécialiste des Semences, Public sector
Niger Mr. KANTA ADO Direction Générale de l'Agriculture representative
Président Association des Producteurs Private sector
Mr. Alzouma SOUNNA Privés de Semences du Niger (APPSN) representative
Registrar Variety release committee of Public sector
Mr. Wasiu T. ODOFIN
Nigeria Nigeria, National Centre for Genetic representative
Resources and Biotechnology
(NACGRAB)
President Seed Association of Nigeria Private sector
Dr. Mathew. O. OMIDIJI (SEEDAN) representative
Chef Division des Semences, Dakar,
Senegal Mr. Amadou Tidiane BA Sénégal Public sector
representative
20. S0mula0ng seed demand
• Need for novel products from plant breeding
1. Public sector (NARS, IARC’s, universi0es, etc)
2. Private sector (commercial seed companies with
their own breeding programs)
• New/introduced materials need to be:
– Evaluated by NARS and private sector simultaneously
– Formally released by Plant Variety Release CommiWee
– Maintained by owner or breeder
• Intellectual property contained in the seed needs to be
managed
22. Quality founda0on seed produc0on in Mali and
Nigeria
Seed Seed production Total
Crops production area in Nigeria
area in Mali
Maize 3 ha 18.5 ha 21.5 ha
Millet 1ha 18 ha 19.0 ha
Sorghum 8ha 16 ha 24.0 ha
Cowpea 5 ha 8 ha 13.0 ha
Rice 7 ha 16.5 ha 23.5 ha
Groundnut - 3.5 ha 3.5 ha
Soya - 11 ha 11.0 ha
TOTAL 24 ha 91.5 ha 115.5 ha
31. Technical Training
• Technical
– Topics include safe use and handling of chemicals &
product knowledge
– Local or regional supply companies lead training
• Ghana: 27
• Mali: 21
• Nigeria: 7
– # par0cipants
• Ghana: 863
• Mali: 181
• Nigeria: 128
32. Business Management Training
• Business Management
– 6 modules
• Managing Working Capital
• Managing Stocks
• Selling and Marke0ng
• Basic Business Record Keeping
• Cos0ng and Pricing
• Managing Business Rela0onships
– Training of commercial Trainers (ToT)
– # ADs trained in Y1 and Y2 (to date)
• Ghana: 182
• Mali: 133
• Nigeria: 248
33. Demand Crea0on: Demonstra0ons and
Field Days
• Demonstra0on Plots • 29 Field Days
– Crop Demonstra0ons of – Demonstra0on of maize
Improved Varie0es and cowpea storage
• Vegetables, maize, (Nigeria, Ghana)
sorghum, millet, rice – Improved wheat seed
– Ghana: 41 (Nigeria)
– Mali: 40 – Improved millet seed
– Nigeria: 33 (Nigeria)
– Niger: 15 – Cowpea post‐harvest
storage techniques
(Nigeria, Ghana)
35. ESASA
• Not yet formalized under a GDA
– Leadership from AFSTA and na0onal seed trade
associa0ons
• Agrodealer development support programs
– Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania
• Seed industry development
– Malawi and Mozambique
• Seed trade harmoniza0on
– SADC
– COMESA
42. Collabora0on with TL II
• Apply learning from TL II in scaling‐out
– Sale of small seed packs through agrodealers
– Decentralized models of seed produc0on
• Increased flow of improved legume varie0es
• Links to output markets
– Fair trade in Malawi and Mozambique
• Variety release and seed cer0fica0on
• Founda0on seed produc0on and marke0ng
