Transcript Research and capacity building building in CSA in Ethiopia Concept

Research and capacity building
building in CSA in Ethiopia
Concept note submitted to NORHED
Alemayehu Chala
Outline
• NORHED call
• The concept note
NORHED call
• What is NORHED?
• Program goal
– Education and research capacity in the LMIC
• The call for seed funding
– October, 2012
– Submission deadline: November 5, 2012
NORHED call cont.
Sub programs
– Education and Training
– Health
– Natural Resource Management, Climate Change
and Environment
– Democratic and Economic Governance
– Humanities, Culture, Media and Communication
– Capacity Development in South Sudan
The concept note
• Research and capacity building in CSA in
Ethiopia
– By HU and UMB
– Also MU, Elobeid research station
• Sub program
– Natural resources and climate change
– Education and training
Background
Ethiopia
18 major and 49 sub agroecological zones
Various crops and animals
EARO, 1999
Total crop production (2008/09)
Total crop production (2010/11)
17.12 million tones on 12.4 million
ha (11.3% of total area)
22.5 million tones on 13.5 million ha
Very low productivity
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Current policy trends
Ensuring food and nutritional security + improving income
– Strengthening agriculture
– Promoting sustainable use of natural resources
Transformation of agricultural sector
Commercial
oriented
Subsistence
High value produce
Diversification
Native genetic resources
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Challenges
• Biophysical
– The resource base
– Crop and animal productivity
– Technology
– Climate
• Social, market and institutional
The CSA project
• One possible solution
– Sustainable increases in agriculture productivity
– Adapt agriculture (increases resilience) to climate
change
– Reduces/removes greenhouse gases from the
atmosphere
• In line with the government policy
Objectives
• Identify communities’ vulnerabilities and response to
CC
• Identify biophysical, social and economic constraints
• Develop crop and livestock systems in line with the
concept of CSA
• Assess how trees be integrated into the system
• Disseminate technologies
• Build capacity
• Gender issues in CSA
Activities
• Research
• Extension
• Capacity building
– Procurement
– Training
Expected results
• Effect of CC at micro level elucidated and communities’
responses ascertained
• Core crop and livestock production systems and their role in
CSA will be described and documented
• Ecologically compatible and economically profitable crop and
livestock system will be developed
• Promising land use and/or agroforestry systems in CSA
systems identified.
• Policy implications will be drawn and policy briefs will be
presented to decision makers.
• Gender equity in teaching, research and education promoted.
Expected results cont.
• Packages of climate smart agriculture prepared, piloted and
scaled up.
• The teaching, research and outreach capacity of participating
institutions improved.
• Graduate studies in climate smart agriculture will be launched
at Hawassa University.
• At least 30 scientific papers will be published in peer reviewed
journals and proceedings.