Africa College International
Food Security, Health and
Impact Knowledge Brokering
Conference
Conference Guide
22nd to 24th June
Devonshire Hall, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Supported by
www.africacollege.leeds.ac.uk
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Welcome
We would like to welcome you to Leeds and the first Africa College international
conference.
The focus of the conference is on increasing the impact of research results on peoples’
lives by improving their food security and health. We believe this is one of the biggest
challenges facing the world. It is truly a global challenge and not one for the
developing world alone.
Globally, around a billion people are going hungry with another billion suffering
from the hidden hunger of malnutrition. At the same time a further billion are overconsuming. In sub-Saharan Africa about a third of the population suffers from
chronic hunger. Food prices are currently higher than the 2008 food price spike,
and the poor and most vulnerable are affected the most.
To achieve a food secure world in the face of climate change and feeding a
population of 9 billion by 2050 will be one of society's greatest, and toughest,
goals. Solutions will be complex and will require fundamental change in policies
and the global food system, and actions by many including researchers.
The results of research can, and must, play a part in providing these solutions .
Yet too often research results are not used to maximise their impact on
improving policies, developing better technologies, and benefiting peoples’
lives. Excellence in research and science needs to be accompanied by excellence
in impact.
The Africa College partners, the University of Leeds, the International Institute for
Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology
(ICIPE) have designed the conference to help us determine how research can be
better at helping delivering solutions to these challenges and make an impact.
We would like to thanks the sponsors of the conference, the Biotechnology and
Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), the UK Collaborative on Development
Sciences (UK CDS) and the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Co-operation
(CTA) for their support and to acknowledge the UK Government’s Higher Education
Innovation Funding that have helped make this conference possible.
David Howlett
Executive Director
Africa College
Tim Benton
Chair
Africa College
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Contents
Welcome ................................................................................................................................................. 3
Conference Objectives ............................................................................................................................ 5
Africa College partnership ...................................................................................................................... 6
2011 Behrens Lecture ............................................................................................................................. 7
Conference room layout ......................................................................................................................... 8
Conference programme at a glance ....................................................................................................... 9
Daily Programme for Wednesday 22nd June ......................................................................................... 10
Daily Programme for Thursday 23rd June.............................................................................................. 12
Daily Programme for Friday 24th June................................................................................................... 14
Plenary Sessions .................................................................................................................................... 16
Biographies of Plenary speakers ........................................................................................................... 17
Summary of Parallel Workshops ........................................................................................................... 19
I. How can integrating agriculture and transport research enhance food security and reduce post
harvest losses? ...................................................................................................................................... 22
II. What are the lessons on best practice from the from the BBSRC Excellence with Impact
Competition? ........................................................................................................................................ 24
III. How can reinventing agriculture with trees improve food security and livelihoods? ..................... 26
IV. How can impact be enhanced by better understanding of value chains and farmer organisations?
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V: How integrating Research with Development in sub-Saharan Africa for Food Security has helped
to deliver impact? The case of Sub-Saharan African Challenge Programme ....................................... 30
VI: How can research impact be delivered through working with the private sector? ........................ 32
VII: How can Climate knowledge help to achieve impacts on Food and Water Security, and Health? 34
VIII: How can a holistic approach to food, nutrition and health deliver impact? ................................. 36
IX: How plant science research can be translated into impact on food security? ................................ 37
X: How can mycotoxin research make an impact on food safety and health policy? .......................... 39
XI: Communicating for impact - Making the most of the media .......................................................... 41
XII: How can understanding the management of ecosystem services and the application of science to
real world problems make an impact? ................................................................................................. 42
Knowledge exchange sessions programme and abstracts ................................................................... 44
Posters and abstracts ............................................................................................................................ 54
Logistics ................................................................................................................................................. 62
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Conference Objectives
The goal of this conference is to demonstrate and share lessons on how to translate research results
into impact on food security and human health in sub-Saharan Africa. It has two objectives:
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To determine how the results of basic science and inter-disciplinary research lead to impact on
food security and human health.
To explore how partnerships between research and development organisations deliver
innovation and impact.
To help achieve these three central questions will be asked throughout the conference:
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What impacts have been achieved from the use of research results?
How were these impacts achieved?
What lessons are there for researchers and users of research to increase the impact of research?
Expected outputs and outcomes
The conference is setting out to deliver both outputs, in terms of documentation of best practice,
and outcomes, in terms of building partnerships and sharing of knowledge and understanding, which
will lead to increased impact on people living in sub-Saharan Africa.
Best practice: Presentations, posters and the results of the Africa College competition on impact will
be used to identify and document best practices. This will include policy and technical briefs, and a
“proceedings” of the conference.
Knowledge and understanding: By sharing lessons and participating in parallel sessions and learning
events, delegates are expected to increase their personal understanding of impact and how they can
- in different ways - maximise this impact.
New and enhanced partnerships: The conference is open to all those interested in achieving impact including researchers as well as people and organisations (including NGOs, farmers organisations
and private sector) who help translate this research into impact. We want to use this conference to
help strengthen existing partnerships and build new ones between British, European, African and
international organisations (research and users) including the centres of the CGIAR - Consultative
Group on International Agriculture Research.
Format of the conference
The conference has six elements:
Plenary Sessions: with presentations from leading African, British and European scientists and
research users setting out the challenges to be addressed.
Knowledge exchange open space sessions: an opportunity for participants to share experiences with
small groups of delegates in a 30 minute sessions.
Thematic workshops: to focus on how impact has been achieved in different thematic areas.
Poster sessions: to highlight the work of delegates and their organisations.
Exhibition stands: for organisations to display and share their experiences.
Behrens Lecture and Award Ceremony: Professor Monty Jones will deliver the Behrens lecture, and
take part in announcing winners of the Africa College Competition on impact.
Alongside these elements there will opportunities for informal networking over meals and breaks.
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Africa College partnership
Africa College, a partnership between the University of Leeds, African and international research
organisations, is working to translate research results from biological, health, nutritional, ecological,
climate and social sciences into impact on food security, nutrition and health in sub-Saharan Africa.
The Africa College partners are the Faculties of Biological Sciences, Environment and Medicine and
Health at the University of Leeds, the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and the
International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE).
The College partners are applying scientific research to tackle the challenges of food security and
human health in order to provide solutions for improving the lives of millions. We believe that by
building new and innovative partnerships we will help translate research into solutions that will
benefit people in Africa. To achieve this we are:
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Applying our bioscience expertise to generate technologies that help farmers and their
communities.
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Developing interdisciplinary research on sustainable agriculture, health and nutrition focused on
the problems of food security and health.
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Increasing uptake of new solutions by combining basic and applied research outputs with
capacity-building activities.
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Using our research to inform evidence-based policies on sustainable agriculture and food
security.
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Helping build the research capacity of African research organisations.
For more details of the work of Africa College please go to www.AfricaCollege.leeds.ac.uk.
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2011 Behrens Lecture
Professor Monty Jones, the Executive Secretary of Forum for
Agriculture Research Africa (FARA) will give the Behrens Lecture on
Thursday 23rd June at 6:30pm in the Clothworkers Concert Hall on
the main University of Leeds campus.
The Behrens lectures were established in 1937 by the widow of
Major Clive Behrens, a noted farmer in Yorkshire, through an
endowment to establish a visiting Lectureship "on any subject
germane and of importance to the practice of Agriculture in the
widest acceptation of the term".
Professor Jones was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone. He obtained a
B.Sc. in Agriculture from Njala University College, University of
Sierra Leone in 1974, followed by an M.Sc. in Plant Genetic
Resources (1979) and a Ph.D. in Plant Biology (1983) from the
University of Birmingham.
Professor Jones began working at WARDA (West Africa Rice Development Agency) in 1975, moving
to their main research centre in Cote d'Ivoire in 1991. There, he led the team that successfully
crossed the Asian and African rice species (Oryza sativa and Oryza glaberrima), producing the highyielding NERICA varieties.
In 2002, Jones was appointed the Executive Secretary of FARA where he oversees efforts to improve
regional agricultural research in Africa, with the goals of improving food security, reducing poverty
and increasing economic growth. He is Chair of the Global Forum for Agriculture Research, and is a
Board member of AGRA (Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa).
In 2004, Jones won the World Food Prize for his work on NERICA, and in 2007, he was listed among
Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World.
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Conference room layout
(not to scale)
Cumberland Road
NB The main bedroom accommodation blocks for the conference are this side of the road
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Conference programme at a glance
Tuesday 21st June
O730-0830: Breakfast for PAEPARD
meeting delegates and early arrivals
Wednesday 22nd June
O730-0830: Breakfast and informal networking
0800: Registration Opens
Posters and stands can be put up from 08:00 until 09:45
0900 – 1000: Tea and coffee available in exhibition stands
and posters area.
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2.
Pre-conference meetings:
PAEPARD (Evans Room)
Food and Transport (Byford
Room)
1000 – 1145: Opening
Chair: Paula Bramel, Deputy Director General, IITA
Welcome - Tim Benton, Africa College
How can research and innovation address the global food
security challenge? - Bob Watson, Defra
How can we deliver impact on food security and human
health through partnerships? - Lindiwe Sibanda, FANRPAN
How can agriculture research and innovation make an
impact on peoples’ lives? - Akin Adesina, AGRA
Introduction to the conference and knowledge exchange
open space sessions – Samantha Wade
1145-1200: Tea and coffee - Served in exhibition marquee
Thursday 23rd June
O715-0830: Breakfast and informal networking,
registration opens at 8am for new arrivals
0845 – 1045: Food Security: Global Challenges
Chair: Dr Christian Borgemeister, Director General, ICIPE
The challenge of providing a sustainable food supply for the
future in the UK which is not at the detriment to Africa’s
food security - Tim Lang, City University, London
Promoting an inter-sectoral approach to food security Nicolas Bricas, CIRAD
What do researchers need to do differently to make an
impact on food security - Molly Jahn, University of
Madison-Wisconsin
How research can help people adapt to current and future
climate change? - Dennis Garrity, Director General, ICRAF
Introduction to the day – Samantha Wade
1045-1315: 2nd round of parallel workshops
(tea and Coffee served in workshop rooms)
IV. Value chains
V. Integrating
VI. Working with
and farmers
Research with
the private
organisations
Development
sector
Room: Fenton
Room: JCR
Room: Evans
Friday 24th June
O715-0830: Breakfast and informal networking,
registration opens at 8am for new arrivals
0845 – 1030: Solutions from research
Chair: David Howlett, Executive Director, Africa College
Push-pull: How science-led discoveries can change the lives
of the rural poor in Africa - Dr Christian Borgemeister,
Director General, ICIPE
From food vulnerability to nutritional (in)security - Dr
Jacques Berger, IRD
Future Challenges: Landscape ecology and climate
change – Professor Tim Benton, University of Leeds
Introduction to the day – Samantha Wade
1030-1300: 4th round of parallel workshops
(tea and Coffee served in workshop rooms)
X. Mycotoxin
XI. Making the
XII. Ecosystems
research and
most of the
and impact
food safety
media
Room: JCR
Room: Evans
Room: Fenton
1200-1300: First round of knowledge exchange sessions
1300-1400: Buffet Lunch - Devonshire Dining Room
1400-1630: 1st round of parallel workshops
I. Food and
II. Lessons on
III. Reinventing
transport
impact
agriculture
Room: JCR
Room: Evans
Room: Fenton
1300-1400: Buffet Lunch – Devonshire Dining Room
1315-1415: Buffet Lunch – Devonshire Dining Room
1415-1630: 3rd round of parallel workshops
(tea and Coffee served in workshop rooms)
VII. Climate, food VIII. Food, health IX. Plant Sciences
and water
and nutrition
and food
Room: JCR
Room: Fenton
security
Room: Evans
1600 to 1830: Registration
Posters and stands can be set up.
Meeting for all chairs, rapporteurs and
workshop speakers in the Junior Common
Room
1830-2030: Year of Forests: Agroforestry
Exhibition and reception – Devonshire Hall
1630-1700: Tea and Coffee- Served in exhibition marquee
1630-1715: Poster session and Yorkshire High Tea –
Exhibition marquee
1700 -1745: Plenary: Highlights from workshops I-III
1715-1800: Plenary: highlights from workshops IV-IX
1745-1915: Second round of knowledge exchange sessions
1930-2100: Conference dinner - Devonshire Hall
1800: Buses leave Devonshire Hall for Great Hall
1830-2100: Behrens lecture - Professor Monty Jones
Reception, Great Hall, University of Leeds
2100: Buses leave for Devonshire Hall
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1400-1600: Final Plenary:
Highlights from the Workshops X - XII
Conference summary – David Howlett
Discussion
What do we need to do now to make an impact – Monty
Jones and panellists - QA and discussion
Closing and Farewell
1600-1645: Tea and Coffee (Served in lobby or cloisters if
weather fine)
1645-1800: Opportunity for further side meetings and
knowledge exchange sessions.
Posters and stands can be removed.
Daily Programme for Wednesday 22nd June
0730 0830
0845 1000
1000
1145 1200
12001230
1230 1300
1300 1400
Breakfast and informal networking
Registration - Posters and stands can be put up from 08:00 until 09:45. Tea and coffee available in exhibition stands and posters area from 0900 for early arrivals.
Opening
Chair: Paula Bramel, Deputy Director General, IITA
 Welcome and objectives of the conference – Professor Tim Benton, Africa College and University of Leeds
 How can research and innovation address the global food security challenge? - Professor Bob Watson, Chief Scientist, Defra
 How can we deliver impact on food security and human health through partnerships? - Dr Lindiwe Sibanda, CEO, Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN)
 How can agriculture research and innovation make an impact on peoples’ lives? - Dr Akin Adesina, Vice President, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)
 Introduction to the conference and knowledge exchange/workshop sessions – Samantha Wade, Conference Facilitator
Tea and coffee - Served in poster and exhibition stands area
First round of knowledge exchange open space sessions
Byford Room
Kirkby Room
1. Sleepwalking into global
3. Introducing the CGIAR
famine - Benny Dembitzer,
Climate Change Agriculture
Ethical Events
and Food Security Programme
- Andy Challinor, University of
Leeds and James Kinyangi, Int.
Livestock Research Institute
2. Cassava value chain
development in West Africa:
partnership and innovations
that worked - Onadipe O.O,
IITA, Nigeria
4. Overview of CGIAR
Integrated Systems for the
Humid Tropics Research
Program – Paula Bramel, IITA
Evans Room
5. Contributing to food
security through agricultural
research: lessons from the
National Agricultural Research
Organisation (NARO) in
Uganda - Emily Twinamasiko,
NARO
6. Strengthening university
capacity for promoting,
facilitating and teaching rural
innovation processes - Justus
Ombati Moturi, Egerton
University, Kenya
Buffet Lunch and Networking - Devonshire Dining Room
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Fenton Room
7. Making seed value chains
work: the role of researchers
and farmer organisations in
seed sector development Jenny Rafanomezana, Self
Help Africa
Belfield Room
9. Community based
technology transfer centres to
support food production for
food security - Isaac Akinyele,
Food Basket Foundation
International, Nigeria
JCR
11. The Leeds –Madagascar
health link - Anne
Chamberlain, Rehab Medicine,
University of Leeds
8. What is the role of research
in value chain interventions
for improved food security?
Evidence from Mozambique,
Uganda & Ghana - Lorenz
Probst, University of Natural
Resources and Life Sciences,
Vienna
10. Foundations for Farming:
A broad based farming
initiative in rural Zimbabwe Mbongeni Ngulube, The
Global Native
12. The overuse of pesticides
and fertilisers - mixed
methods social research on a
chemical process, with
positive impact pathways for
human health - Jean David
and Wendy Olsen, University
of Manchester
1400 1630
1630 1700
1700 1745
17451815
18151845
1845 1915
1930 2100
Workshop I: How can integrating agriculture and transport
research enhance food security and reduce post harvest
losses?
Chair: Frances Hodgson, Institute for Transport Studies,
University of Leeds
Rapporteur: Gina Porter, University of Durham
Room: JCR
 Introduction to issues - Frances Hodgson, University of Leeds
 Transport, food security and the MDGs - Africa's need for
action- Margaret Grieco, Napier University, Edinburgh
 Marketing and mobility: an everyday practice - Agnes Laima,
ZANAMACA, Zambia
 Markets and transport in delivering food security - Fatima
Ademu, Usman Dan Fodio University, Nigeria
 Discussion on future strategy to promote integrated
mobility and agriculture research.
 Thoughts on future research needs and directions - Jeff
Turner, University of Leeds
Workshop II: What are the lessons on best practice from the
BBSRC Excellence with Impact (EWI) Competition?
Chair: David Howlett, Africa College
Rapporteur: Kerrie Farrar, Aberystwyth University
Room: Evans
 Why impact is important and lessons from the EWI
competition - Adam Staines, Biotechnology and Biological
Sciences Research Council
 Achieving culture change to deliver impact – Kerrie Farrar,
Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences
(IBERS), Aberystwyth University
 How Africa College is working to build partnerships and use
inter-disciplinary research to make an impact. Tim Benton,
Africa College, University of Leeds
 Discussion in groups on identifying best practices for
achieving impact
 Summary on the main elements to achieving culture change
to deliver impact - David Howlett, Africa College
Workshop III: How reinventing agriculture with trees can
improve food security and livelihoods?
Chair: Tony Simons, World Agroforestry Centre
Rapporteur: to be confirmed
Room: Fenton
 Brief introduction and interventions from audience on
expectations and priorities.
 Key extension approaches for achieving impact from research.
The example of the uptake of fodder shrubs and fertiliser
trees in East and Southern Africa - Steve Franzel, ICRAF
 Impacts on food security and health with fruit tree
domestication in West Africa -Ann Degrande, ICRAF
 The role of land tenure and investments in agroforestry - Mike
Norton-Griffiths, ICRAF
 General discussion on presentations
 Panel on partnerships, role of trees in agricultural landscapes,
and M&E and impact assessment required
Tea and Coffee (Served in poster and exhibition stands area)
Highlights from the Workshops
Chair: Paula Bramel, IITA
 How can Integrating agriculture and transport research enhance food security and reduce post harvest losses? – Gina Porter
 What were the lessons on best practice from the BBSRC Excellence with Impact (EWI) Competition? – Kerrie Farrar
 How reinventing agriculture with trees can improve food security and livelihoods? – to be confirmed
 Questions and discussion
Second round of knowledge exchange sessions
Byford Room
Kirkby Room
Evans Room
Fenton Room
13. Information from the front 15. Strategy for international
17. Impact of IAR4D on food
19. The Global Food Security
line: Building a vigilance and
partnership building - Michael security - Moses Tenywa,
Programme – Riaz Bhunnoo,
predictive system for pest
Abberton, Aberystwyth
Makerere University
Biotechnology and Biological
management - Philip
University
Agricultural Research
Sciences Research Council
Abrahams, CABI
Institute, Uganda
(BBSRC)
14. Harnessing global research 16. Crops for the Future: a
18. Livelihood diversification
20. Addressing household
alliance for regional food
new body for research and
among smallholders in the
food insecurity and
security: case study of
promotion of underutilised
drier savanna of West Africa:
malnutrition in a low-income
AfricaRice - Samuel Igbatayo,
crop species - Presidor
Potential impact and roles of
rural community: A case study
Igbinedion University, Nigeria
Kendabi, University of
partners on IAR4D Innovation
from South Africa - WH
Nottingham
Platforms. - Luke Olarinde
Oldewage-Theron and AA Egal
Open space
Open space
Open space
Open space
Conference dinner - Devonshire Hall dining room
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Belfield Room
21. Salinity and Food Security:
The Case of Three Food
Systems in South-Western
Bangladesh - Khandaker
Munim, University of Leeds
22. Increasing community
awareness and utilization of
indigenous grains to improve
nutrition security and
livelihoods in Botswana and
Namibia - Linley ChiwonaKarltun, Swedish University of
Agricultural Sciences
JCR
23. The Political Economy of
Agricultural Policy in Africa –
Colin Poulton, SOAS
Open space
Open space
24. Implications of jointly
developed market policies on
market participation levels
and food security indices in
Zimbabwe - Shephard Siziba,
University of Zimbabwe
Daily Programme for Thursday 23rd June
0715 0830
0845 1045
Breakfast and informal networking, registration opens at 8am for new arrivals
Food Security: Global Challenges
Chair: Christian Borgemeister, Director General, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology ICIPE
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What happened yesterday - Christian Borgemeister
The challenge of providing a sustainable food supply for the future in the UK which is not at the detriment to Africa’s food security - Professor Tim Lang, City University London
Promoting an inter-sectoral approach to food security - Dr Nicolas Bricas, CIRAD
What do researchers need to differently to make an impact on food security - Professor Molly Jahn, Special Advisor to the Chancellor and Provost for Sustainability Sciences, the University of
Madison-Wisconsin
 How research can help people adapt to current and future climate change? – Dr Dennis Garrity, Director-General, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)
 Introduction to the day – Sam Wade, Conference Facilitator
1045 - Tea and Coffee will be served in workshop rooms
1315
Workshop IV: How can impact be enhanced by better
understanding of value chains and farmer organisations?
Chair: Anne Tallontire, University of Leeds
Rapporteur: Linda Shaw, Cooperative College, Manchester
Room: Fenton
 Introduction - Anne Tallontire
 Co-operatives and organisational development - Beatrice
Okeyo, Swedish Cooperative Centre, Kenya
 Farmer organisations as research partners - Chris Penrose
Buckley, Twin Trading
 The challenges and opportunities of working with other value
chain actors - Bill Vorley, IIED
 Q&A and small group discussions
 Feedback and Summary - Linda Shaw, Cooperative College
1315 1400
1415 1630
Workshop V: How integrating Research with Development in
sub Saharan Africa for Food Security has helped to deliver
impact? The case of Sub-Saharan African Challenge Program
Chair: Robin Buruchara, Regional Coordinator for Africa, CIAT
Rapporteur: Fatunbi A. Oluwole, FARA
Room: JCR
 The Concept of Integrated Agricultural Research for
Development (IAR4D) and the Crave for Agricultural
Development in Africa - Adewale Adekunle, FARA
 Analysis of Rice Innovation Platform Processes towards
Achieving Greater Impacts on Food Security and Improved
Smallholder Livelihoods in Northern Guinea Savannah of
Nigeria - Constant Dangbegnon, IFDC
 Economic Impacts of IAR4D in Sahel Savanna of West Africa Ayanwale Adeolu, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria
 Impact of adoption of improved crop varieties on food
security: Evidence from adoption of improved crops varieties
in Lake Kivu Pilot Learning Site - Joachin Binam, FARA
 An Evaluation of Innovation Platforms Processes and
Outcomes: A Case Of The Zimbabwe, Malawi And
Mozambique Pilot Learning Site - Kefasi Nyikadhozi, FARA
 Learning for Change: The impact of Capacity Building in
IAR4D on NARO in Uganda - Richard Hawkins, ICRA
 General comments and wrap up
Workshop VI: How can impact be delivered through working
with the private sector?
Chair: Dr Akin Adesina, Vice President, Alliance for a Green
Revolution in Africa (AGRA)
Rapporteur: Sally Whiteman, University of Leeds
Room: Evans
 Introduction
 Public-Private Partnership for Harnessing the Benefits of
Agricultural Technology Innovations in Africa – Jacob
Mignouna, AATF
 The GALVmed experience: developing effective partnerships
to make an impact - Steve Sloan, GALVmed
 An academic’s experience of working with large business tbc
– Tim Benton, University of Leeds
 Perspective from the private sector on how research can
make an impact (both in commercial terms and in public
good and CSR terms – Katie Knaggs, IPL Ltd (to be
confirmed)
 Group discussions
 Summary on working with the private sector - Akin Adesina
and Sally Whiteman
Workshop VIII: How can a holistic approach to food, nutrition
and health deliver impact?
Chair: Michelle Holdsworth, IRD
Workshop IX: How can plant science research be translated
into impact on food security?
Chair: Paula Bramel, IITA
Buffet Lunch and networking– Devonshire Dining Room
Workshop VII: How can Climate knowledge help to achieve
impacts on food and water security, and health?
Chair: Peter Knippertz, University of Leeds
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Rapporteur: Luuk Fleskens, University of Leeds
Room: JCR
 Climate and weather research: priorities for the Met Office
on the impacts in Africa – Daniel Bloomfield, Met Office
 Making the most of both pure and applied research to link
climate food and health: lessons from EQUIP and CCAFS Andy Challinor, University of Leeds and CCAFS
 The ESCAPE programme: an inter-disciplinary study on
vulnerability, resilience and adaptation of rural societies in
Africa to environmental changes - Benjamin Sultan, LOCEAN
 All’s well that ends well: rainwater harvesting research in
Tanzania - John Gowing, Newcastle University
 Linking research with operational practice in West Africa:
achievements and lessons learned from the experience of
AMMA - Jan Polcher
 Discussion
1630 1715
1715 1800
1800
1830 2100
Rapporteur: to be confirmed
Room: Fenton
 Sustainable Nutrition Research for Africa in the Years to
come- ideas from the SUNRAY - Patrick Kolsteren, Ghent
University and the Institute of Tropical Medicine
 The Ecohealth Project and participatory approaches to food
security interventions - Joyce Kinabo, Sokoine University of
Agriculture, Tanzania
 Impact of a food voucher programme in West Africa to
improve food security - Mathilde Savy, IRD
 Micronutrient fortification strategies for improving food
security in Africa – OO Onadipe, IITA
 Group discussion: what lessons are there to better integrate
nutrition research with broader environmental and societal
issues?
 Feedback and Summary
Poster session – all authors of posters are requested to stand by their posters to discuss them with conference delegates
Yorkshire High Tea (sandwiches, cakes, tea and coffee) will be served in the poster area
Highlights from Today’s Workshops
Chair: Dr Christian Borgemeister, Director General, ICIPE
 How can impact be enhanced by better understanding of value chains and farmer organisations? - Linda Shaw, Cooperative College
 How integrating Research with Development in sub Saharan Africa for Food Security has helped to deliver impact? - Fatunbi A. Oluwole, FARA
 How can impact be delivered through working with the private sector? – Sally Whiteman, University of Leeds
 How can Climate knowledge help to achieve impacts on food and water security, and health? - Luuk Fleskens, University of Leeds
 How can a holistic approach to food, nutrition and health deliver impact? To be confirmed
 How can plant science research be translated into impact on food security? Howard Atkinson, University of Leeds
 Questions and discussion
Buses leave Devonshire Hall for Great Hall
Behrens lecture - Professor Monty Jones,
Great Hall, University of Leeds
Reception
Clothworkers Courtyard or Refectory depending upon weather
2100
Rapporteur: Howard Atkinson, University of Leeds
Room: Evans
 Delivering nematode resistant bananas to enhance food
security in Africa – Howard Atkinson, University of Leeds
 The role of nematode resistant rice in enhancing food
security in India – Peter Urwin, University of Leeds
 Improving crop variety choices of marginal farmers of the
rainfed areas in Ethiopia - Daljit Singh Virk, CARIAD, Bangor
University, Wales
 Managing Cassava Brown Streak in East Africa: The
experience of the Great Lakes Cassava Initiative – Julian
Smith, Food and Environment Research Agency
 QA and group discussion
 Feedback and summary
Buses leave Great Hall for Devonshire Hall
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Daily Programme for Friday 24th June
0715 0830
0845 1030
Breakfast and informal networking, registration opens at 8am for new arrivals
Solutions from research
Chair: David Howlett, Executive Director, Africa College
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1030 1300
1300 1400
What happened yesterday – David Howlett
Push-pull: How science-led discoveries can change the lives of the rural poor in Africa- Dr Christian Borgemeister, Director General, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE)
From food vulnerability to nutritional (in)security - Dr Jacques Berger, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)
Future Challenges: Landscape ecology and climate change – Professor Tim Benton, University of Leeds
Introduction to the day – Sam Wade
Tea and Coffee will be served in workshop rooms
Workshop X How can mycotoxin research make an impact on
food safety and policy?
Chairs: Yun Yun Gong, University of Leeds and Gordon
Shephard, MRC, South Africa
Rapporteurs: Dr Gordon Shephard, MRC, South Africa and Dr
Ningtao Mao, PVAC, Leeds
Room: Evans
 Mycotoxin Exposure Assessment in Africa - Gordon
Shephard, Medical Research Council, South Africa
 Status of aflatoxin contamination of foodstuff in Uganda Archileo N. Kaaya, Makerere University, Uganda
 Strategies to reduce exposure of Fumonisins from
Complementary Foods In Rural Tanzania - Martin Kimanya,
Tanzania Food and Drugs Authority
 EFSA Contam Panel: How it Carries Out Risk Assessments on
Contaminants Mari Eskola, European Food Safety Authority
 Mycotoxin risk assessment in China - Fengqin Li, CDC China
 How climate forecasting and models can contribute to
improved food safety – Andy Challinor, University of Leeds
 Group discussion
 Summary
Workshop XI: Communicating for impact – making the most of
the media
Room: Fenton
This two and half hour interactive workshop, led by Susanna
Thorp (Director of WRENmedia), is all about communication
and media skills and aims to improve ability to communicate
with impact.
The objective of the workshop is to understand that the aim of
communication is to be clear and concise, to be memorable,
and to have confidence (in getting research messages across to
lay audience).
Buffet Lunch – Devonshire Dining Room
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Workshop XII: How can understanding the management of
ecosystem services make an impact on real world problems?
Chair: Christian Borgemeister, ICIPE
Rapporteur: Steven Sait, University of Leeds
Room: JCR
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Opening remarks from Christian Borgemeister
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Ecosystem services provided by biological control agents
for improving food security and livelihoods: some
examples from Africa - Sunday Ekesi, ICIPE
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Development of innovative vector and disease control
technologies for enhancing livestock productivity and
improvement of food security - Rajinder Saini, ICIPE
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The diverse scenarios of malaria and mosquito research at
ICIPE: competencies and opportunities - Richard
Mukabana, ICIPE
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Harnessing Pollination Services for Improved Agricultural
Production and Livelihoods in Africa - Mary Gikungu,
National Museums of Kenya
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The Convention on Biological Diversity, the Nagoya
Protocol and food security - Fabian Haas, ICIPE
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Discussion
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Summary and wrap up - Christian Borgemeister, ICIPE
1400 1600
Final Plenary – Chair Tim Benton
Highlights from Today’s Workshops
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How can mycotoxin research make an impact on food safety and policy? – Gordon Shephard, Medical Research Council, South Africa
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Communicating for impact – making the most of the media – Susanna Thorp, Wrenmedia
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How can understanding the management of ecosystem services make an impact on real world problems? – Steve Sait, University of Leeds
Conference Summary and Main Messages– David Howlett, Africa College
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Discussion
What do we need to do now to increase our impact?
Final Address - Professor Monty Jones
Panel discussion and QA - Monty Jones, Akin Adesina, Lindiwe Sibanda, Laurence Cockcroft, and David Howlett (to be confirmed)
Closing and Farewell
1600 1645
1645 –
1800
Tea and Coffee - Served in lobby (or cloisters if weather fine)
Opportunity for further side meetings and knowledge exchange sessions.
Posters and stands can be removed from 1645
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Plenary Sessions
During the conference, plenary sessions will be held with presentations from keynote speakers who
will share their different perspectives on why and how research can increase its impact on food
security, nutrition and human health to introduce the themes and questions of the conference. At
the end of each day plenary sessions will be held for feedback on the on the outcomes of the parallel
workshops.
I. Welcome and opening
The goal of this conference is to demonstrate and share lessons on how to translate research results
into impact on food security and human health in sub-Saharan Africa. The aim of the first plenary is
to set out the major challenges and on how the results of basic science and inter-disciplinary
research lead to impact on food security and human health, and the role of partnerships in
delivering innovation and impact. The welcome and opening plenary will address three questions:
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How can research and innovation address the global food security challenge?
How can we deliver impact on food security and human health through partnerships?
How agriculture research and innovation make an impact on peoples lives?
II. Food Security: Global Challenges
Achieving a food secure world is one of today’s and tomorrow’s biggest challenges for developed
and developing countries. Solutions to this will be many and varied. It will mean working in different
ways and for solutions that are sustainable and trade offs are recognised. This plenary will explore
these challenges and on how research can help deliver these solutions. It will address three
questions:
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How can we provide a sustainable food supply for developing and developed countries?
How can an inter-sectoral and inter disciplinary approach help deliver food security?
What do we (researchers and users of research) need to do differently to achieve sustainable
solutions to food security?
III. Solutions from Research
There are already good examples of using research to make a difference to peoples lives. This
session will look at examples of using the results of agriculture research, and the opportunities of
link agriculture and nutrition to increase the impacts of human health. It will address three
questions:
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How science-lead discoveries can change the lives of the rural poor in Africa?
How research can help people adapt to current and future climate change?
How can addressing nutrition and agriculture together increase the impact of research?
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Biographies of Plenary speakers
Professor Bob Watson is the Chief Scientific Advisor at UK Department for
Environment and Rural affairs (Defra), and a former Chief Scientist and Director
for Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development at the World Bank.
Prior to joining the Bank he was Associate Director for Environment in the Office
of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President. Before
this he was Director of the Science Division and Chief Scientist for the Office of
Mission to Planet Earth at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. He
has been the Director of: the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for
Development and Co-chair the Board of Directors of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. From
1997 to 2002, he Chaired the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Professor Monty Jones is the Executive Director, Forum for Agriculture Research
in Africa (FARA) where he oversees efforts to improve regional agricultural
research in Africa, with the goals of improving food security, reducing poverty and
increasing economic growth. He is Chair of the Global Forum for Agriculture
Research (GFAR), and is a Board member of AGRA (Alliance for a Green Revolution
in Africa). In 2004, he won the World Food Prize for his work on NERICA (New Rice
varieties for Africa), and in 2007 he was named by Time Magazine's 100 Most
Influential People in The World.
Dr. Jacques Berger is Director of research in the French Institute of Research for
Development (IRD) and director of the research unit "Prevention of malnutrition
and associated pathologies". He has worked in Africa, South America and Asia on
intervention strategies to control micronutrient deficiencies, especially iron
deficiency, and to improve nutritional status of groups at risk such as women in
childbearing age, infants and young children. He is in charge of student training at
the Universities of Paris VI and Montpellier II). Since 2006 he has been the cochairman of the UN Working Group “Micronutrients” of the Standing Committee of Nutrition.
Dr Akinwumi “Akin” Adesina is the vice president of the Alliance for a Green
Revolution in Africa. Prior to this he was the associate director of food and
security at the Rockefeller Foundation. Before this he held senior positions in the
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), including as a
principal economist and social science research coordinator for the International
Institute of Tropical Agriculture, principal economist and coordinator for West
Africa, and assistant principal economist for the International Crops Research
Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics. In 2005, he received the “Outstanding Black
Agricultural Economist Award” from the American Agricultural Economics Association.
Dr Nicolas Bricas is researcher at the CIRAD (Agricultural Research for
Development), working in Montpellier (France). He specializes in food security
policies and projects. Its main areas of research include the effects of
urbanization on food habits in Africa and Asia and the role of small scale food
processing enterprises in food security and poverty alleviation in Sub-Saharan
Africa. He holds degrees in agricultural economics and development economics,
and in sociology and anthropology of food at the University of Paris. He has
worked for several years in Sub-Saharan and Northern Africa.
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Dr Lindiwe Majele Sibanda is the CEO of the Food, Agriculture and Natural
Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN). She is coordinating policy
research and advocacy programs in 14 southern African countries, aimed at
making Africa a food-secure region. Her portfolio includes policy research and
advocacy work on food policies, agricultural productivity, natural resources and
environment, and the impact of HIV/ Aids on agriculture and food security in
southern Africa. In 2009, Dr Sibanda led the "No-Agriculture, No-Deal" global
campaign and mobilised African civil society organisations to push for the inclusion of agriculture in
the United Nations Framework for Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC) negotiations.
Dr Christian Borgemeister, is the Director General of the International Centre of
Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), a 40 years old pan-African research Centre
headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. He has worked extensively in tropical Africa,
Latin America and South-East Asia. From 1992 to the end of 1997 he worked for
the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) on the integrated control
of an invasive storage pest in Africa. Between 1998 and 2005 he was a faculty
member of Justus-Liebig University Giessen and Leibniz University Hannover.
Prof. Molly Jahn is based in the Laboratory of Genetics and Department of Agronomy
and Special Advisor to the Chancellor and Provost for Sustainability Sciences, the
University of Madison-Wisconsin. She has had a distinguished research career in
plant genetics, genomics and plant breeding of vegetable crops focusing on
molecular genetics of disease resistance and quality traits. Her research groups at
Madison and Cornell produced crop varieties now grown commercially on six
continents. She has served on a number of boards and advisory groups including
the World Vegetable Center, and she founded and directed the Public Seed Initiative and the Organic
Seed Partnership. She was Deputy Under Secretary and Acting Undersecretary in the mission area of
Research, Education and Economics at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Prof. Tim Lang holds the chair in Food Policy at City University, London. In 2006,
he was appointed Natural Resources and Land Use Commissioner on the UK’s
Sustainable Development Commission. He is advisor to the World Health
Organisation, and has been a special advisor to four House of Commons Select
Committee inquiries on food standards, globalisation and obesity, and to the
Foresight Obesity programme. He is a member of the Royal Institute of Int.
Affairs (Chatham House) 'Food Supply in the 21st Century' Working Party. In
1999-2005 he was Chair of Sustain, the NGO alliance, of which he was a founder
member. He has been a Trustee of Friends of the Earth and Secretary of the Public Health Alliance.
Dr Dennis Garrity is Director General of the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)
based in Nairobi, Kenya. He is also currently serving as the Chair of the CGIAR
Inter-Centre Working Group on Climate Change. Prior to this he was the
Regional Coordinator of the ICRAF Southeast Asia Programme, based in Bogor,
Indonesia. He created the regional programme, and led the systems
improvement research in the region to develop and evaluate agroforestry
alternatives to slash-and-burn agriculture. He worked extensively on the
development of conservation-oriented agroforestry systems for sloping
uplands. He has been active in the development of institutional innovations related to farmer-led
organizations in sustainable agriculture and natural resources management.
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Summary of Parallel Workshops
The conference is using parallel workshops to consider impact in different thematic areas, and to
share experiences and to identify best practice and on how to enhance the impact of research on
food security and human health. The format of each workshop varies to meet its specific objectives.
These include invited speakers presenting their experiences in relation to achieving impact, panel
and facilitated discussions. The main messages from each workshop will be reported back to plenary
sessions. Twelve workshops are planned:
1. How can integrating agriculture and transport research enhance food security and reduce post
harvest losses?
Significant impact can be generated by greater dialogue and interchange between the agriculture
and transport sectors in Africa and this conference theme will further that process. There is currently
increasing policy focus on agricultural growth amongst small-scale farmers in Africa, for its
connections to sustainable economic development, improving food security and enhancing human
health. There is also a recognition that a number of challenges need to be overcome in order to
deliver gains in agricultural productivity by small-scale farmers to supply local and national markets.
One of the most significant challenges is in improving physical accessibility of rural African
communities to local and national markets, and help reduce post harvest losses. The session will
share knowledge and build capacity on impact practices, development policies and practices.
2. What are the lessons on best practice from the BBSRC Excellence with Impact Competition?
This session will share the best practices from the competitors in the BBSRC Excellence with Impact
competition. This was a two year competition amongst British Universities. The session will include
speakers from BBSRC and some of the Universities in the competition, and on what they did and
learnt on help to increase the impact of their research.
3. How reinventing agriculture with trees can improve food security and livelihoods?
The rural landscape is changing, but not fast enough for the growing food demand, pressures on
natural resources and uncertainties associated with climate change. Taking a simple sectoral
approach to these problems is not enough. An inter-disciplinary approach is needed. This session will
look at how biophysical and socio-economic research undertaken on the role of trees in agricultural
landscapes, is achieving results. The challenge is now to go beyond “proof of concept” to “proof of
application” to achieve impact at scale. The session will also look at partnership and engagement
required from national institutes, academia, NGOs, CBOs, rural advisory services, private sector and
farmers that is crucial to the success and speed of impact.
4. How can impact be enhanced by better understanding of value chains and farmer
organisations?
The session will explore how working with value chain actors can enhance research impact through
better understanding of the dynamics of value chains and how farmers and farmers’ organizations
are integrated in these chains; through value chain engagement as a pathway to impact. It will also
identify examples of good practice in value chain development involving small farmers (and other
actors in the rural economy) which aim to enhance food security outcomes and livelihood impacts.
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5. How integrating research with development in sub Saharan Africa for food security, has helped
deliver impact?
The SSA CP is an initiative of the Consultative Group on International Agriculture Research (CGIAR)
managed by FARA (Forum for Agriculture Research in Africa). Started in 2004, the aim of the SSA-CP
is to increase the impact of agricultural research and development to improve rural livelihoods,
increase food security, and achieve the sustainable natural resource management in Sub-Saharan
Africa. This session will share the lessons from SSA-CP projects in Lake Kivu in Eastern and Central
Africa, Kano-Katsina-Maradi in West Africa, and Zimbabwe-Malawi-Mozambique in Southern Africa.
6. How can research organisations work effectively with the private sector to deliver impact?
The session will explore how working with the private sector can enhance research impact through
better understanding of the research sensitive needs and priorities of business. The session will also
identify examples of good practice where researchers have worked with private industry to deliver
impact.
7. How a holistic approach to food, nutrition and health can deliver impact?
The session will compare and contrast approaches to improve nutrient adequacy in lower income
context, with a focus on how these approaches fit into the bigger picture with respect to food
security and climate change. Presenters must explicitly discuss impact, and take a holistic point-ofview of how their research/topic intersects with other issues such as agriculture, food transport and
storage, water, and livelihoods.
8. How linking Climate, Food, Water, and Health Disciplines can achieve impact?
The session aims to bring together those working on key climate drivers, notably rainfall, with those
working on impacts. The aims are yo communicate to the “Food, health and impacts” community
the critical research themes in climate and severe weather, of relevance to Africa. In addition there
will be particular emphasis on the “high-impact weather” dimension of climate research for Africa,
and to exchange information on current best practice and innovation in the use of climate data in
decision-making for health and food security, and its associated impact.
9. How can basic research on plant sciences be translated into impact on food security?
Climate change adds more uncertainty, particularly for subsistence or small holding farmers. Sub
Saharan Africa (SSA) is one of the regions most at risk from climate change and already has the
lowest per capita food production. The ‘green revolution’ of the 1960s and 70s which allowed much
of Asia to feed its expanding population and grow its way out of extreme poverty did not benefit SSA
to the same extent. SSA’s problems are complex, as are the solutions to them. Political stability,
investment in infrastructure, health and education are important. However, at the most basic level
providing African farmers with enough to eat and a surplus to sell will allow them to invest in their
own future and that of their country through improved health and education of the next generation.
This session will present examples of how science has been used to improve crops to abiotic and
biotic stresses, and will identify what lessons can be drawn from these experiences on how we can
increase the impact of research results from biological sciences.
10. How can mycotoxin research make an impact on food safety and policy?
The session will discuss recent research development in mycotoxin area, including the exposure
evaluations in various populations and the human health consequences; the impact on mycotoxin
risk by environment changes. We will highlight the research on post-harvest intervention on
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mycotoxin reduction and its importance on agriculture and health. Recently developed intervention
approaches will be elaborated in the session to stimulate further ideas and collaborations on
mycotoxin control.
11. Communicating for impact – making the most of the media
To be effective, communication must be clear, concise and memorable, and specifically targeted to
the interests and needs of the audience. This interactive session aims to improve ability to
communicate with impact, giving participants a chance to:
 Share lessons for communication success
 Understand what the media needs and expects from the research community
 Learn essential techniques for article writing and radio interviews
12. How understanding the management of ecosystem services and the application of science to
real world problems can make an impact?
The theme of this session will focus on examples where fundamental science, such as chemical
ecology, pollination and insect pest-parasitoid ecology, have led to changes in the way farmers
manage their land or to the take up of novel management practices in small holder farming
communities. We will highlight the routes and best practice that lead to real impacts, but also
emphasise where we can/need to do better. For example, the extent to which ecosystem services
(and disservices) needs management at landscape scales, which would involve the co-operation of
many farmers, and how to address gender issues.
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Workshop Programmes
I. How can integrating agriculture and transport research enhance food
security and reduce post harvest losses?
Wednesday 22 June 2011, 14.00 – 16.30
Organiser: Frances Hodgson, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds
Summary
Significant impact can be generated by greater dialogue and interchange between the agriculture
and transport sectors in Africa and this conference theme will further that process. There is currently
increasing policy focus on agricultural growth amongst small-scale farmers in Africa, for its
connections to sustainable economic development, improving food security and enhancing human
health. There is also a recognition that a number of challenges need to be overcome in order to
deliver gains in agricultural productivity by small-scale farmers to supply local and national markets.
One of the most significant challenges is in improving physical accessibility of rural African
communities to local and national markets, and help reduce post harvest losses. The session will
share knowledge and build capacity on impact practices, development policies and practices.
Workshop objectives
The objectives of this session are:
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To share knowledge and build capacity on the impact of research, practices and development
policies.
How important is mobility in our understanding of food security and what impact is mobility
research such as that undertaken under the post-harvest crop research programme having on
food security policy?
How have small-scale improvements in transport provision for farmers and traders been
informed by impact assessments?
What strategies can be adopted to promote integrated mobility and agriculture research and
increase its impact on food security policy?
Workshop speakers and short biographies
Frances Hodgson, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds. UK. Is
the workshop chair. Frances is a sociologist and transport planner by training. She specialises in the
interaction of transport policy, travel practices and quality of life in Europe and the developing
world.
Gina Porter, Senior Research Fellow, Dept of Anthropology, University of Durham, UK. (Rapporteur)
Gina has many years experience and has published widely on the gendered social practices around
agriculture, mobility and markets, particularly in West Africa.
Margaret Grieco, Professor of Transport & Society, Transport Research Institute, Napier University,
Edinburgh, UK. Professor Grieco has published widely on the interaction between the social
scientific understanding of mobility in developing countries and its interaction with development
policy.
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Agnes Laima, Treasurer, Zambia National Marketeers Credit Association (ZANAMACA), Zambia.
Agnes is the Treasurer for the largest association of market traders in Zambia. She is also a wellestablished market trader, specialising in selling a range of goods at the main market in Lusaka,
Zambia.
Fatima Ademu, Usman Dan Fodio University, Nigeria: Markets, traditions and livestock. Fatima is a
highly experienced academic specialising in sociology of markets, institutions and social practices in
North Nigeria.
Jeff Turner, Visiting Lecturer, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds. Jeff has over 20
years experience of researching the interaction between transport and development policy in
developing countries, particularly Africa.
Workshop programme
Chair:
Rapporteur:
14:00
14:15
14:35
14:55
15:15-15:45
15:45
16:15
16.30
Frances Hodgson, Institute for Transport, University of Leeds
Gina Porter, University of Durham
Introduction to issues: Frances Hodgson, Institute for Transport, University of Leeds
Transport, food security and the MDGs – Africa’s need for action: Prof Margaret
Grieco, Napier University, Edinburgh
Marketing and mobility: an everyday practice: Agnes Laima, ZANAMACA, Zambia
Markets and transport in delivering food security: Dr Fatima Ademu, Usman Dan
Fodio University, Nigeria
Tea and Coffee Available
Plenary Discussion: future strategy to promote integrated mobility and agriculture
research and increase its impact on food security policy
Thoughts on future research needs and directions. Jeff Turner, Visiting Lecturer,
University of Leeds
End of session
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II. What are the lessons on best practice from the from the BBSRC Excellence
with Impact Competition?
Wednesday 22 June 2011, 14.00 – 16.30
Organisers: David Howlett, Africa College, University of Leeds and Kerrie Farrar, Institute of
Biological, Environmental & Rural Sciences (IBERS), Aberystwyth University
Summary
This session will share the best practices from the competitors in the BBSRC Excellence with Impact
competition (EWI). This was a two year competition amongst British Universities. The session will
include speakers from some of the Universities in the competition, and on what they did and learnt
on help to increase the impact of their research.
Workshop objectives
BBSRC Excellence with Impact competition was run over two years and to acknowledge university
departments that are most active in embedding a culture that recognises the importance of
economic and social impact alongside excellent research. Two prizes were awarded for:
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The department that had been most effective in introducing a significant culture change, which
values impact as well as research excellence.
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The department that best demonstrated the delivery of economic and social impact over the
period.
The objective for this session is for Africa College and the winner of the “Greatest culture change”
IBERS (University of Aberystwyth) to share what they did do help excellence in science into impact.
More details on the Excellence with Impact competition and what the 19 university departments
taking part did can be found at www.bbsrc.ac.uk/business/impact-incentive/excellence-impact.aspx.
Workshop speakers
David Howlett (workshop chair) is the Executive Director of the Africa College partnership and a
visiting senior research fellow in climate change and agriculture at the University of Leeds. He is
currently working with research scientists across different faculties to increase the impact of their
research, and working to turn research results into evidence to inform agriculture and climate
change policies. Before joining Leeds, David worked for the British Government’s Department for
International Development (DFID) on food and climate change policies and attended last year’s
climate change meeting in Copenhagen. Prior to this he was in DFID’s Research and Evidence
Division where he was the head of the agriculture research team and worked extensively with
African research organisations.
Adam Staines is the Agri-food Science Policy Manager at BBSRC, the primary research council for
funding the non-medical biosciences, and the largest UK public funder for agri-food research. Adam
is the science contact at BBSRC for agri-food, with responsibilities ranging across crop science, food
borne disease, livestock production, and agri-ecosystems research. In addition to his duties at BBSRC
Adam has been working with the Government’s Chief Scientific Advisor’s team in the Government
Office for Science to develop and implement the UK cross-government’s joint food research and
innovation strategy. In the recent BBSRC Excellence with Impact award scheme Adam was the BBSRC
Office lead for both Stirling Aquaculture Department and Dundee College of Life Sciences, one of the
winners of the competition.
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Kerrie Farrar is a research fellow at the Institute of Biological, Environmental & Rural Sciences
(IBERS), Aberystwyth University. Kerrie graduated in 1996 with a Plant Sciences degree from the
University of Edinburgh. She obtained a PhD in Plant Molecular Biology from the University of
Durham and spent three years (2000-2003) at Aberystwyth University. She has worked at
IGER/IBERS since January 2004 and started as an Institute Career Path Fellow there on July 1st 2007.
She worked on the BBSRC Excellence with Impact for which IBERS won first prize on culture change,
and is leading on investing this prize to increase the impact of research at IBERS.
Tim Benton is Professor of Population Ecology in the Institute of Integrative and Comparative Biology
(IICB) at the University of Leeds. His PhD was on the behaviour and ecology of scorpions, after which
he worked on Pacific biogeography, aphid behavioural ecology before moving into population
dynamics. His main work involves looking at the way that variation in the environment causes
variation in life-histories and thus variation in population dynamics. He works with models and
model systems (soil mites and farmland ecology), within an evolutionary and conservation
framework. He was Director of the IICB from 2005 to July 2007 and Pro-Dean for Research from
August 2007 to March 2011.
Workshop programme
The presentations from IBERS and Africa College will be used to highlight the challenges they faced
in achieving culture change to deliver impact and what they did, and are doing, to meet these
challenges. The sessions will provide lessons for researchers on how they think and plan for culture
change to help translate research results into impact.
Chair:
Rapporteur(s):
Time
14.00-14.15
14.15 – 14.30
14.30 – 14.50
14.50 – 15.10
15.10 – 16.15
16.15 – 16.30
David Howlett
Kerrie Farrar
Details
Welcome and introductions
Why impact is important and lessons from the EWI competition - Dr Adam Staines,
BBSRC
Achieving culture change to deliver impact – Kerrie Farrar, Institute of Biological,
Environmental & Rural Sciences (IBERS), Aberystwyth University
How Africa College is working to build partnerships and use inter-disciplinary
research to make an impact. Tim Benton, Africa College, University of Leeds
Q&A and then discussion in groups on identifying best practices for achieving
impact
Summary on the main elements to achieving culture change to deliver impact David Howlett, Africa College, University of Leeds
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III. How can reinventing agriculture with trees improve food security and
livelihoods?
Wednesday 22 June 2011, 14.00 – 16.30 in the Fenton Room
Organisers: Tony Simons and Paul Stapleton, World Agroforestry Centre, Nairobi
Summary
The rural landscape is changing, but not fast enough for the growing food demand, pressures on
natural resources and uncertainties associated with climate change. Taking a simple sectoral
approach to these problems is not enough. An inter-disciplinary approach is needed. This session will
look at how biophysical and socio-economic research undertaken on the role of trees in agricultural
landscapes, is achieving results. The challenge is now to go beyond “proof of concept” to “proof of
application” to achieve impact at scale. The session will also look at partnership and engagement
required from national institutes, academia, NGOs, CBOs, rural advisory services, private sector and
farmers that is crucial to the success and speed of impact.
Workshop objectives
The four objectives of this session are:
1. To highlight examples with fruit, fertiliser, fodder and other trees in Africa where knowledge
generation, dissemination and utilisation have been successful in creating positive impact on
small-holders
2. To present experiences from Public Private Partnerships in agroforestry where often in terms of
needs for impact creation the “what” dimension is clear but the “how” dimension is unclear.
3. To explore better ways to connect advances in agricultural productivity with trees in maintaining
or enhancing the natural resources in rural landscapes.
4. To identify lessons for researchers and users of research to increase the impact of biophysical
and socio-economic research on the role of trees in agricultural landscapes
Workshop speakers
Steven Franzel is an agricultural economist and leads the World Agroforestry Centre’s research on
tree product marketing and extension. His main areas of research include smallholder farming
systems, extension approaches, adoption of innovations, marketing and participatory research. He
has worked at ICRAF since 1991; previous positions were with the World Bank in Ethiopia, the
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT) in Kenya, and Development
Alternatives, Inc. in the US. Steve has twenty years of experience living and working in Africa. He
holds a PhD in agricultural economics from Michigan State University, USA, and his publications
include 6 books and over 70 refereed articles. Steve is a US citizen and resides in Orlando, Florida.
Ann Degrande holds a PhD in Applied Biological Sciences from Belgium. She specialises in
socioeconomic research on tree domestication and on processes of scaling up agroforestry systems
and developing training needs assessments and training material related to agroforestry
technologies. She has over 15 years experience at ICRAF from various aspects of tropical
agroforestry systems and engaging with private sector. Ann has been coordinating several research
for development projects, among which “Increasing benefits from agroforestry tree products for
smallholders in West and Central Africa”, focusing on linking farmers to markets and developing
farmer enterprises and “Promoting Rural Innovation through Participatory Tree Domestication”
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aimed at bringing about economic and social changes in rural communities as a result of the
adoption of agroforestry.
Mike Norton-Griffiths completed his doctoral studies at Oxford before spending five years in
Tanzania designing and implemented the Serengeti Ecological Monitoring Programme. He then
moved to Kenya to found an environmental consulting group, EcoSystems Ltd. (ESL). At ESL, Mike
undertook integrated land use surveys, environment monitoring and impact assessments, rural
development, wildlife management, and natural resource databases. He has completed projects and
consultancy work in 25 countries in eastern, western and southern Africa, the Middle East and South
America. He has also worked for IUCN, UNEP/ GEMS/UNITAR Africa Programme, Harvard Institute
for International Development, Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment
(CSERGE) in University College, London.
Workshop programme
Chair:
Rapporteur:
Time
1400-1415
1415-1430
1430-1445
1445-1500
1500-1515
1515-1550
1550-1610
1610-1630
Tony Simons
Alan Grainger
Details
Brief introduction and interventions from audience on expectations/priorities
Key extension approaches for achieving impact from research. The example of the
uptake of fodder shrubs in East Africa - Steve Franzel, Charles Wambugu and
Josephine Kirui
Rural Resource Centres Transform Lives and Landscapes through Participatory
Tree Domestication in West and Central Africa. - Anne Degrande, Bwama Meyi M,
Caspa R, Dibwe D, Asaah E, Biloso A, Okwu C and Tchoundjeu Z
The role of land tenure and investments in agroforestry. - Mike Norton-Griffiths
Q&A
Participants buzz in small table groups to react to presentations and dialogue on:
 Partnerships
 Role of trees in agricultural landscapes
 M&E and impact assessment required
Feedback from participants groups on recommendations to take to plenary
 Priority follow-ups required
 Identification of useful resources, practices, knowledge
 Knowledge and capacity gaps
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IV. How can impact be enhanced by better understanding of value chains and
farmer organisations?
Thursday 23 June 2011, 10.45 – 13.15
Organisers: Anne Tallontire, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds
Summary
The session will explore how working with value chain actors can enhance research impact through
better understanding of the dynamics of value chains and how farmers and farmers’ organizations
are integrated in these chains; through value chain engagement as a pathway to impact. It will also
identify examples of good practice in value chain development involving small farmers (and other
actors in the rural economy) which aim to enhance food security outcomes and livelihood impacts.
Workshop objectives
The objectives of this session are:
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
To share lessons on working with co-operatives and farmer organisations in sharing knowledge
and research – in terms of what impacts have been achieved to date? And how have these
impacts been achieved?
To identify lessons for researchers and users of research on how to better engage with value
chain actors to enhance the impact of research
Workshop speakers
Anne Tallontire is Senior Lecturer in Business, Environment and Corporate Responsibility in the
School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds. She is a specialist on corporate social
responsibility with respect to development, particularly on ethical and fair trade and the use of
private standards. She has recently led a ESRC-DFID research project- The Governance Implications
of Private Standards Initiatives in Agri-Food Chains. She is a member of the Development Studies
Association and is co-convenor of the Study Group on Business and Development. Her work has
largely been in the context of food and agriculture, but has extended to jewellery and handicrafts.
Linda Shaw is Vice Principal and Head of Research at the Co-operative College in Manchester and has
recently led a research and policy programme into co-operatives and international development
with a focus on trade, co-operative governance and education funded by the UK Department for
International Development. She has worked closely with co-operatives and co-operative educational
organisations across Africa and with the ILO.
Beatrice Okeyo works for the Swedish Cooperative Centre (SCC) in Kenya and managed the
Community Empowerment and Enterprise Development through Co-operatives (CEEDCo) project
that ended in December 2009. The project focused on improving the incomes of men, women and
youth belonging to co-operatives and other farmers’ organizations.
Bill Vorley is Principal Researcher, Sustainable Markets Group at the International Institute for
Environment and Development (IIED) with expertise in agrifood systems, agribusiness,
supermarkets, trade and agriculture. His most recent research is on small-scale farmer access to
dynamic markets including work on farmer agency and also new business models for sustainable
development.
Chris Penrose Buckley is head of the Producer Partnership Programme at Twin, a producer-owned
membership organisation dedicated to developing the fair trade supply chain for coffee, nuts, cocoa,
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sugar and fruit farmers. Twin is active in supporting the development of UK and global networks of
alternative trade organisations (ATOs) and small producers.
Workshop programme
Presenters will be asked to give examples of how they have worked with farmer organisations in the
context of agricultural value chains. The presentations will highlight the particular challenges and
benefits in terms of the research process and enhancing the impact of research and provide lessons
for researchers on how they may engage with farmer organizations.
Chair:
Rapporteurs:
Time
10.45-10.50
10.50-11.00
11.00 – 11.20
11.20-11.35
11.35-11.50
11.50-12.05
12.05-12.20
12.20-12.45
12.45-13.o0
13.00-13.15
Anne Tallontire
Linda Shaw
Details
Introduction - Anne Tallontire
Collect coffee/ tea
Speaker, tbc.
Co-operatives and organisational development - Beatrice Okeyo
Farmer organisations as research partners - Chris Penrose Buckley, Twin
The challenges and opportunities of working with other value chain actors - Bill
Vorley, IIED
Q&A and set up for small group discussion
Small group discussions based on the following questions:
1. What are the implications of the presentations and their findings?
2. What are the challenges?
3. What are the recommendations for enhanced research impact through
engagement with value chain actors?
Feedback from groups and Q&A
Sum-up and response on working with co-operatives Linda Shaw
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V: How integrating Research with Development in sub-Saharan Africa for
Food Security has helped to deliver impact? The case of Sub-Saharan African
Challenge Programme
Thursday 23 June 2011, 10.45 – 13.15
Organisers: Dr. Adewale A. Adekunle and Dr. Fatunbi A. Oluwole FARA
Summary
The Sub-Saharan African Challenge Programme SSA-CP) is an initiative of the Consultative Group on
International Agriculture Research (CGIAR) managed by FARA (Forum for Agriculture Research in
Africa). Started in 2004, the aim of the SSA-CP is to increase the impact of agricultural research and
development to improve rural livelihoods, increase food security, and achieve the sustainable
natural resource management in Sub-Saharan Africa. The SSA CP is implementing the “Integrated
Agricultural Research for Development” (IAR4D) concept, which addressed the major shortcomings
of the linear approach to ARD. The IAR4D approach created an innovation platform where all
stakeholders along a specific commodity or system of production interact to identify constraints and
jointly develop solutions that yield the desired benefits to all stakeholders on the platform, when
this is achieved; the solution is termed an innovation. The SSA CP activities have been implemented
in the last three years in eight countries of Sub Saharan Africa, with the aim of making a proof or not
of the IAR4D concept. The program has generated substantial innovations and series of lessons on
the systemic for conduct of ARD to ensure high impact of research such that food security is ensured
by reducing poverty. The lessons from this program will be shared in this session. The expected
outcome of this session is the provision of adequate information to the participants on the systemic
for the implementation of the innovation system approach (IAR4D) for conduct of ARD in sub
Saharan Africa.
Objectives
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
To share concrete experiences of the SSA CP on how integrating research with development
through innovation platforms can lead to greater impact on food security in Africa
To share knowledge on the systemic for impact generation on the IAR4D innovation platform.
To draw lessons learnt for consideration of researchers, development practitioners, policy
makers, and donors on the promotion of agricultural research for development for impact,
improved food security and health in Africa
Programme
The SSA CP parallel workshop will have two parts with three presentations each; each presenter will
have ten minutes. After which a discussant will give a summary and raise useful point for discussion.
The focus for each part of the workshop is:
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
Overview, establishment and operationalization of IAR4D innovation platforms.
The effects of the implementation of IAR4D concept on the livelihood of all stakeholders along
the value chains of commodities in the Pilot learning site of SSA CP.
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Robin Buruchara, Regional Coordinator for Africa, CIAT
Chair:
Rapporteurs: Fatunbi A. Oluwole, FARA
Time
Details
10:45
Introduction - Dr. Robin Buruchara
Part 1: Overview, establishment and operationalization of IAR4D innovation platforms
10:55
The Concept of Integrated Agricultural Research for Development (IAR4D) and the
Crave for Agricultural Development in Africa - Prof Adewale Adekunle
11:05
Analysis of Rice Innovation Platform Processes towards Achieving Greater Impacts
on Food Security and Improved Smallholder Livelihoods in Northern Guinea
Savannah of Nigeria - Dr. Constant Dangbegnon
11:20
Economic impacts of integrated agricultural research for development in Sahel
Savanna of Nigeria - Prof. Ayanwale Adeolu
11:25
Discussion and comments
Part 2: The effects of the implementation of IAR4D concept on the livelihood of stakeholders
along the commodities value chains in the SSA CP Pilot learning sites
11:45
Impact of adoption of improved crop varieties on food security: Evidence from
adoption of improved crops varieties in Lake Kivu Pilot Learning Site (PLS)- Dr.
Joachin Binam
11:55
An Evaluation of Innovation Platforms Processes and Outcomes: A Case Of The
Zimbabwe, Malawi And Mozambique Pilot Learning Site - Dr. Kefasi Nyikadhozi
12:05
Learning for Change: The Impact of Capacity Building in Integrated Research for
Development on NARO in Uganda - Dr Richard Hawkins
12:15
Discussion and comments
12:35-1315 General comments and wrap up
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VI: How can research impact be delivered through working with the private
sector?
Thursday 23rd June 2011, 10.45 – 13.15
Organisers: Laurence Hogg, Faraday and Sally Whiteman, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of
Leeds
Summary
The session will explore how working with the private sector can enhance research impact through
better understanding of the research sensitive needs and priorities of business. The session will also
identify examples of good practice where researchers have worked with private industry to deliver
impact.
Workshop objectives
The objectives of this session are:



To share lessons on working with the private sector in sharing knowledge and research.
To reflect on the roles that private sector may play in the research process.
To identify lessons for better engagement with the private sector to improve the impact of
research.
Workshop speakers
Jacob Mignouna is Acting Executive Director and Director of Technical Operations at the African
Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF). He is a molecular biologist/biotechnologist with an MSc
degree in chemical engineering and a Phd in molecular biology and genetics, from the Catholic
University of Louvain, Belgium. He worked as a chemical engineer with Oleofina and then as a
research scientist-biotechnologist with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and
with the Institute for Genomic Diversity, Cornell University as a visiting research fellow. Before
joining AATF, Jacob served as Research Associate Professor of Biotechnology and co-Director of
USAID Farmer to Farmer program in east Africa at Virginia State University. He also worked as
Biosafety Consultant for the USAID Program for Biosafety Systems at the International Food Policy
Research Institute (IFPRI).
Steve Sloan is Chief Executive Officer of GALVmed. GALVmed, a charity and public-private
partnership is protecting livestock and saving human lives and livelihoods, by making livestock
vaccines, diagnostics and medicines accessible and affordable to the millions in developing countries
for whom livestock is a lifeline. Before joining GALVmed Steve worked in UK and global consultancy
and the voluntary sector management. He was VSO Country Director in Papua New Guinea, and
worked with Young Offenders for over for 17 years. In March 2009, he was named the Emerging
Director of 2008 by the Institute of Directors of Scotland.
Katie Knaggs is a Senior Technologist at International Produce (IPL) Ltd. IPL was formed 6 years ago
and is now one of the leading Fresh Produce importers in the UK managing all fruit categories. It was
created in 2004 and in October 2009 was purchased by Asda, part of the world’s largest retailer WalMart.
Tim Benton is Professor of Population Ecology in the Institute of Integrative and Comparative Biology
(IICB) at the University of Leeds. His PhD was on the behaviour and ecology of scorpions, after which
he worked on Pacific biogeography, aphid behavioural ecology before moving into population
dynamics. His main work involves looking at the way that variation in the environment causes
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variation in life-histories and thus variation in population dynamics. He works with models and
model systems (soil mites and farmland ecology), within an evolutionary and conservation
framework. He was Director of the IICB from 2005 to July 2007 and Pro-Dean for Research from
August 2007 to March 2011.
Workshop programme
Speakers will be asked to give examples of how they have worked with the private sector. The
presentations will highlight the particular challenges and benefits in terms of the research process
and enhancing the impact of research. The sessions will provide lessons for researchers on how they
may engage with the private sector.
Chair:
Rapporteur:
Time
10.45
11.00
11.15
11.30
11.45
12.00
12.45
13.00 -1315
Dr Akin Adesina, Vice President, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)
Sally Whiteman, University of Leeds
Details
Introduction – context to working with the private sector – understanding private
sector priorities and approaches; pre-competitive vs competitive research and
development; confidentiality; working in developing countries – corporate social
responsibility vs competitive advantage. To be advised
Public-Private Partnership for Harnessing the Benefits of Agricultural Technology
Innovations in Africa - Douwehan (J. D.H.) Mignouna, AATF
The GALVmed experience: Developing effective partnerships to make an impact.
Steve Sloan, Chief Executive, GALVmed
An academic’s experience of working with large business Tim Benton, University of
Leeds.
Perspective from the private sector on how research can make an impact (both in
commercial terms and in public good and CSR terms – Katie Knaggs, IPL Ltd (to be
confirmed)
Small group discussions based on the following questions:
1. What role can the private sector play in the research process? Think about the
selection and prioritisation of topics for research and how research inputs are used in
different contexts.
2. What are the implications of the presentations and their findings for your work?
3. What are the challenges?
4. What recommendations do you have for better engagement with the private
sector to enhance the impact of research?
Feedback from groups and Q&A
Sum-up and response from chair/rapporteur on working with the private sector
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VII: How can Climate knowledge help to achieve impacts on Food and Water
Security, and Health?
Thursday 23 June 2011, 14.15 – 16.30
Organisers: Doug Parker, Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science, and Andy Challinor
Summary
The session aims to bring together those working on key climate drivers, notably rainfall, with those
working on impacts. It aims to communicate to the “Food, health and impacts” community the
critical research themes in climate and severe weather, of relevance to Africa. In particular it aims to
emphasise the “high-impact weather” dimension of climate research for Africa, and to exchange
information on current best practice and innovation in the use of climate data in decision-making for
health and food security, and its associated impact.
Workshop objectives
The objectives of this session are:
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

To bring together those working on key climate drivers, notably rainfall, with those working on
impacts. To communicate to the “Food, health and impacts” community the critical research
themes in climate and severe weather, of relevance to Africa. In particular to emphasise the
“high-impact weather” dimension of climate research for Africa.
To link the results of recent research in the AMMA programme with new programmes such as
CCAFS.
To exchange information on current best practice and innovation in the use of climate data in
decision-making for health and food security, and its associated impact.
To help to build/sustain the UK / European / African community concerned with these issues,
and to identify priorities for this community.
Outcomes
We expect the session to contribute to the following outcomes:

Appreciation of the state of the art in application of climate information to African impacts, from
some key European / African collaborations.

Key statements about the direction of climate research in relation to African impact, from the
leaders in the field in the UK.

Opportunity to contribute to discussion on priorities for the future.

Opportunity to network with leading scientists in this area.
Workshop speakers
Jan Polcher is Directeur de Recherche at the CNRS and has been working on land surface
parametrizations within the climate modelling group of LMD for the last 20 years. His main field of
interest has been the sensitivity of tropical climates to land surface processes and their interactions
with climate change predictions. He has coordinated the and AMMA (FP6) project and has been a PI
on many national and European projects. In all these projects Jan focussed on the transition of
knowledge on climate variability and change to the community analysing its impacts on society.
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Andy Challinor is a Professor of Climate Impacts at the University of Leeds. His research focuses
principally on using climate modelling and process studies to understand food production and food
security, treatments of uncertainty and managing risk, and climate-resilient pathways and
adaptation. Andy is the PI of the NERC EQUIP consortium and Theme Leader for ‘Adaptation
pathways under progressive climate change’ – one of four themes of international programme on
Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). He is also Research Director for the
University of Leeds Africa College Partnership and Lead Author on the ‘Food Production Systems and
Food Security’ chapter of the forthcoming Fifth Assessment report of the IPCC.
Benjamin Sultan is an IRD researcher based in LOCEAN. His background by Ph.D. is environmental
sciences. For 10 years, he has worked on the African climate and its impact on societies (agriculture,
health) and has published more than 35 international peered reviewed papers in various
agronomical, medicine and climate journals, focusing on the dynamics of the West African Monsoon
and its impacts on agriculture and health. Since 2008, Benjamin Sultan heads a team involving 14
researchers in LOCEAN dedicated on interactions between climate and society. He has actively
contributed to past EU projects dedicated to predictability and variability of monsoons, and the
agricultural and hydrological impacts of climate change. He has been recently strongly involved in
the AMMA project both on climate and impacts work. He is PI of REGYNA, a French project funded
by GIS-CES (CNRS, CEA, ADEME) between 2008 and 2011, which aims to quantify the impact of
climate change on agriculture and hydrology in Africa and South America. Since the end of 2010, he
is PI of ESCAPE, a French project devoted to environmental and social changes in West Africa.
John Gowing is a reader at the School of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, University of
Newcastle. He has worked on irrigation in advanced agricultural systems and developing countries;
sustainable development, particularly management of land and water; food security in water-scarce
conditions; and rainwater harvesting systems and watershed management.
Workshop programme
Chair:
Rapporteur(s):
14.15
14.25
14.40
14.55
15.10
15.25
15.35
15.50
16.20
16.30
Peter Knippertz, School of Earth and Environment
Luuk Fleskens, School of Earth and Environment
Introduction by session chair
Climate and weather research: priorities for the Met Office on the impacts in
Africa - Dan Bloomfield, UK Met Office
Making the most of both pure and applied research to link climate food and
health: lessons from EQUIP and CCAFS - Andy Challinor, University of Leeds
The ESCAPE programme: an inter-disciplinary study on vulnerability, resilience and
adaptation of rural societies in Africa to environmental changes - Benjamin Sultan:
Tea
All’s well that ends well: rainwater harvesting research in Tanzania - John Gowing,
University of Newcastle
Linking research with operational practice in West Africa: achievements and
lessons learned from the experience of AMMA - Jan Polcher
Discussion
Concluding remarks
End of session
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VIII: How can a holistic approach to food, nutrition and health deliver
impact?
Thursday 23 June 2011, 14.15 – 16.30
Organisers: Dr Michelle Holdsworth, UMR NUTRIPASS, Institut de Recherche pour le DéveloppementIRD, and Dr Darren Dahly, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Leeds
Summary
The session will compare and contrast approaches to improve nutrient adequacy in lower income
contexts, with a focus on how these approaches fit into the bigger picture with respect to the four
dimensions of food security, i.e. on what food is available, accessible, utilisable and stable.
Presenters will discuss impact, and take a holistic point-of-view of how their topic intersects with
broader underlying causes of malnutrition including environmental or societal issues such as
agriculture, climate change, economic development and livelihoods, the food system, health, land
and water resources, migration and urbanisation. Inter-disciplinary research in the field is still in its
infancy and this session will yield ideas for areas of collaborative research.
Workshop objectives
The objectives of this session are:

What impacts on nutrition and health have been achieved from the use of research results?

How were these impacts achieved?

What lessons are there for researchers and users of research to increase the impact of nutritionrelated research?
Workshop programme
Chair:
Rapporteur(s):
Time
1415-1435
1435-1455
1455-1515
1515-1535
1535-1600
1600-1630
Dr Michelle Holdsworth
To be advised
Details
Sustainable Nutrition Research for Africa in the Years to come- ideas from the
SUNRAY - Patrick Kolsteren, Ghent University and the Institute of Tropical
Medicine
The Ecohealth Project and participatory approaches to food security
interventions - Joyce Kinabo, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania
Impact of a food voucher programme in West Africa to improve food security Mathilde Savy, IRD
Micronutrient fortification strategies for improving food security in Africa – OO
Onadipe, IITA
Small group discussion: what lessons are there to better integrate nutrition
research with broader environmental and societal issues?
Feedback from small group discussion
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IX: How plant science research can be translated into impact on food
security?
Thursday 23 June 2011, 14.15 – 16.30 in the Evans Room
Organisers: David Howlett, Africa College, University of Leeds
Summary
The world population is predicted to exceed 9 billion by 2050. In 2010 about 925 million people are
hungry and many more food-insecure. At the same time the natural resources upon which
agriculture depends such as water, land and ecosystems services are being depleted and degraded.
Climate change adds more uncertainty, particularly for subsistence or small holding farmers. Sub
Saharan Africa (SSA) is one of the regions most at risk from climate change and already has the
lowest per capita food production. The ‘green revolution’ of the 1960s and 70s which allowed much
of Asia to feed its expanding population and grow its way out of extreme poverty did not benefit SSA
to the same extent.
SSA’s problems are complex, as are the solutions to them. Political stability, investment in
infrastructure, health and education are important. However, at the most basic level providing
African farmers with enough to eat and a surplus to sell will allow them to invest in their own future
and that of their country through improved health and education of the next generation.
Many African staple crops have not benefitted from breeding programmes seen for other crops (e.g.
wheat), and fertilisers and pesticides are either unavailable or unaffordable. Improved seeds and
practices can improve yield dramatically and transform African agriculture, especially where this is
combined with traditional and ecological approaches. Plant science can help develop new crop
varieties that have better: yields; disease and pest resistance; water use and drought tolerance;
nutritional content; and, storage quality.
Workshop objectives
The objectives for this session are:


To present how basic science can be used to improve crops to abiotic and biotic stresses
To identify what lessons can be drawn from these experiences on how we can increase the
impact of research results from biological sciences.
Workshop speakers and short biographies
Howard Atkinson is Emeritus Professor of Nematology at The University of Leeds. His research
interests range from fundamental research in plant/nematode interactions to defining opportunities
for novel nematode control. His research in plant biotechnology spans from development of novel
approaches for nematode control to evaluating both their efficacy and environmental impact. The
main crops the research is directed at are potato in UK, rice in India and banana plus plantain in
Africa. He has benefited from a wide range of international research collaborations including those
with IITA, The National Agricultural Research Laboratories, Uganda, and The Indian National
Agricultural Institute. He was awarded the Research Medal of the Royal Agricultural Society of
England in 1995 and has been awarded over 100 research grants from diverse sources including UK
research councils and government, The EU, USAID, charities and industry in UK, EU and USA. His
publication list involves over 120 original research articles plus 28 review articles, book chapters and
books and 9 patent fillings.
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Peter Urwin, University of Leeds
Daljit Singh Virk, is a Senior Research Fellow, Plant Breeding and Participatory Crop Improvement
and a lecturer at the University of Bangor.
Julian Smith has 20 years experience in agriculture and international development. As a plant
bacteriologist and molecular biologist, Julian has focused on the more technical research side of
R4D, with crops as varied as potato to banana to coconut and cassava, and in countries of East Africa
mainly, but also South America and Asia. Since moving from CABI to the Food and Environment
Research Agency (FERA) in 2005, a particular interest has been in promoting investment in crop pest
‘outbreak prevention better than cure’ interventions.
Workshop programme
Chair:
Rapporteur(s):
Time
14.15 – 1420
14.20-14.40
14.40-15.00
15.00 -15.20
15.20 -15.40
15.40 – 16.25
1625 - 1630
Paula Bramel, IITA
Howard Atkinson, University of Leeds
1415 – 1630
Details
Introduction
Delivering nematode resistant bananas to enhance food security in Africa Howard J. Atkinson, Hugh Roderick, Wilberforce Tushemereirwe and Leena
Tripathi - University of Leeds, NARO and IITA
The role of nematode resistant rice in enhancing food security in India – Peter
Urwin, University of Leeds
Improving crop variety choices of marginal farmers of the rainfed areas in Ethiopia
- Daljit Singh Virk, CARIAD, Bangor University, Wales
Managing Cassava Brown Streak in East Africa: The experience of the Great Lakes
Cassava Initiative - Smith, J., Macarthur, R., Weekes, R., Tomlinson, T. Adams I,
Boonham, N, Walsh S., Peters D., Reeder R, Lamontagne-Godwin, J, Food and
Environment Research Agency
QA and group discussion
Summary – TBC
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X: How can mycotoxin research make an impact on food safety and health policy?
Friday 24 June 2011, 10.30-13.00
Organiser: Yun Yun Gong, Leeds Institute of Genetics, Health and Therapeutics (LIGHT)
Summary
The session will discuss recent research developments in the mycotoxins area, including exposure
evaluations in various populations, the human health consequences of exposure and the impact of
environmental changes on mycotoxins risk. In addition, we will consider how the research makes an
impact on public awareness, mycotoxin regulations and policies. We will highlight the research into
post-harvest intervention to reduce mycotoxins and the importance of this research for agriculture
and health. Recently developed intervention approaches will be elaborated on to stimulate further
ideas and collaborations for mycotoxins control.
Workshop objectives
The objectives of this session are:
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
To determine what impacts have been achieved by the research into the links between
mycotoxin exposure and health effects, and mycotoxin contamination of human and animal
food/feed and economic losses.
To identify how the impact of research was achieved (eg by collaborative interdisciplinary
research and networking between scientists, regulators and policy makers).
To determine how to improve the impact of research into mycotoxins by identifying approaches
to promote the incorporation of research findings into public awareness, regulation and policy.
Workshop speakers
Dr Gordon Shephard is the Chief Specialist Scientist, Programme on Mycotoxins and Experimental
Carcinogenesis, Medical Research Council, South Africa. Gordon is an internationally renowned
mycotoxins scientist. He developed the fumonisins detection method and has conducted mycotoxins
fieldwork in the former Transkei region of the Eastern Cape Province. He has been appointed as
General Referee for mycotoxins and topic advisor for aflatoxins for AOAC International and
mycotoxins experts for WHO/JECFA. His research interests are the occurrence of mycotoxins and
phycotoxins in human food and water supplies and animal feeds and the toxicological effects and
biochemical mechanisms of action of such toxins, with particular reference to Fusarium mycotoxins
and microcystin cyanotoxins (algal toxins).
Dr Martin Kimanya is the Scientific Manager of Food Evaluation, Tanzania Food and Drugs Authority.
He has a PhD degree in Applied Biological Sciences specialised on Public Health and Human Nutrition
from Ghent University. He is currently the head of the Risk Analysis department and is leading
mycotoxins research in Tanzania FDA. His research is to evaluate mycotoxins contamination in maize
(the staple food in Tanzania) and maize based complementary foods and to understand the level of
mycotoxins exposure in the Tanzania population. His recent study showed that exposure to
fumonisins is inversely associated with linear child growth. He is a part-time tutor at the Muhimbili
University of Health and Allied Science.
Dr. Archileo N. Kaaya is Associate Professor and Head, Department of Food Technology and
Nutrition, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala –
Uganda. He is a mycotoxicology specialist having researched on aflatoxins in foodstuff in Uganda for
12 years. He has published widely in this area and supervised 6 postgraduate students. He is
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currently the Country Coordinator of the USAID-funded Peanut CRSP Project on Improving the
health and livelihood of people of East Africa by addressing aflatoxin and gender-related constraints
in peanut production, processing and marketing. He has worked with rural communities of Uganda
to enhance awareness and management strategies of aflatoxins in foodstuffs.
Professor Fengqin Li is Director of the Department of surveillance program and risk assessment,
China CDC. Li has a PhD degree in food contaminants management. She is a leading mycotoxins
scientist in China, and she has extensive experience in mycotoxins contamination and exposure
evaluation.
Dr. Mari Eskola is a Scientific Officer, Deputy Head of Unit, Unit on Contaminants, European Food
Safety Authority (EFSA), Parma, Italy. Dr Eskola has a PhD degree in food chemistry. At EFSA she
supports the Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain to carry out risk assessment on
contaminants. Currently she is co-ordinating several EFSA working groups on various mycotoxins in
order to conduct risk assessments on the mycotoxins.
Andy Challinor is Professor of Climate Impacts at the University of Leeds. His research focuses on
using climate modelling and process studies to understand food production and food security,
treatments of uncertainty and managing risk, and climate-resilient pathways and adaptation. Andy is
the PI of the NERC EQUIP consortium and Theme Leader for ‘Adaptation pathways under progressive
climate change’ – one of four themes of international programme on Climate Change, Agriculture
and Food Security. He is Research Director of the Africa College Partnership and Lead Author on the
‘Food Production Systems and Food Security’ chapter of the Fifth Assessment report of the IPCC.
Dr Yun Yun Gong: Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine and Health. She is leading the Mycotoxins
Research Group in LIGHT. She has conducted many epidemiology studies on mycotoxins health risk.
Her research demonstrates: 1. Chronic exposure to aflatoxins through diet could possibly damage
child growth. 2. Easy, simple community based intervention to reduce mycotoxins (aflatoxins and
fumonisins) can be effective and locally acceptable. 3. Development and validation of fumonisins
biomarker allow epidemiology study to evaluate the toxins’ health risk.
Dr Ningtao Mao, Senior Lecturer, School of Design
Workshop programme
Chair:
Rapporteur(s):
Time
10.30-10.40
10.50-11.10
11.10-11.30
11.30-11.50
11.50-12.10
12.10-12.30
12.30-13.00
Dr Yun Yun Gong, FMH, Leeds & Dr Gordon Shephard, MRC, South Africa
Dr Gordon Shephard, MRC, South Africa and Dr Ningtao Mao, PVAC, Leeds
Details (title of presentation, name of speaker, or summary of activity etc)
Dr Gordon Shephard – Opening remarks: Mycotoxin exposure assessment in Africa
Dr Archileo Kaaya -Status of aflatoxin contamination of foodstuff in Uganda
Dr Martin Kimanya -Strategies to reduce exposure of fumonisins from
complementary food in rural Tanzania
Dr Mari Eskola -EFSA CONTAM PANEL: How it carries out risk assessments on food
contaminants
Prof Fengqin Li – Mycotoxin risk assessment in China
Prof Andy Challinor: How climate forecasting and models can contribute to
improved food safety
Dr Gong, Dr Shephard and Dr Mao lead discussion - Mycotoxins and human
health: what the research tell us, what can we do to reduce the risk
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XI: Communicating for impact - Making the most of the media
Friday 24 June 2011, 10.30 – 13.00
Organiser: Susanna Thorp, WRENmedia
Summary
To be effective, communication must be clear, concise and memorable, and specifically targeted to
the interests and needs of the audience. This two hour interactive session is all about
communication and media skills and aims to improve ability to communicate with impact.
Workshop objectives
The objective of session is to understand that the aim of communication is to be clear and concise,
to be memorable, and to have confidence (in getting research messages across to lay audience).
Workshop speakers and short biographies
Susanna Thorp is Director of WRENmedia, a company with over 20 years experience and known for
its multi-media communication products that raise the profile of agriculture and rural livelihoods.
Among its flagship products are the on-line magazine New Agriculturist (www.new-ag.info) and
Agfax, a monthly radio service to Africa (www.agfax.net).
Susanna is currently editor of New Agriculturist, and is involved in training and mentoring
WRENmedia’s network of southern correspondents. Susanna has also been involved in
communications consultancy in East Africa supporting policy makers, researchers and journalists to
collaborate in new ways.
Workshop programme
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Getting to know one another and to learn from each other’s experiences
Interacting with the media and how it can be improved
The trouble with… (journalists/researchers). Identifying weaknesses in science
communication and how it can be improved
How to create impact when communicating
Preparing for an interview
Telling the story – how to get your message across
Expected Outputs
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Tips for how to make the most of the media
Ideas for how to communicate with impact
Mapping out key messages
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XII: How can understanding the management of ecosystem services and the
application of science to real world problems make an impact?
Friday 24 June, 10.30 – 13.00
Organisers: Steve Sait, Institute of Integrative and Comparative Biology, Leeds & Sunday Ekesi, ICIPE
Summary
The theme of this session will focus on examples where fundamental science, such as chemical
ecology, pollination and insect pest ecology, have resulted in changes in the way farmers manage
their land or have led to the take up of novel management practices in small holder farming
communities. Using case studies, we will specifically highlight the routes and best practice that lead
to real impacts, but also emphasise the challenges that lie ahead and where we can or will need to
do better in order to generate impact. For example, the extent to which ecosystem services (and
disservices) needs management at landscape scales, which would involve the co-operation of many
farmers, and how climate change may impact on farmers at multiple levels.
Workshop objectives
The objectives of this session are:
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Explore how different ecosystem services have a key role to play in sustainable agriculture and
food security.
Use of case studies to illustrate how fundamental science has led to impact on livelihoods.
Determine the range of different impacts that science can have and to ask what is the impact
and for whom?
Make recommendations on how researchers can improve the impact of fundamental science on
the way farmers manage their land.
Workshop speakers and short biographies
Sunday Ekesi, is Principal Scientist at ICIPE. He obtained his PhD degree from Ahmadu Bello
University, Nigeria and was a Rothamsted International Fellow in the in 2003. His research interests
are integrated pest management of arthropod pests of horticulture. He is currently leading a continentwide initiative on Fruit Flies that threatens production and export of fruits and vegetables. He sits on
various international advisory and consultancy panels for the FAO, IAEA, WB and regional projects
on various fruit fly related issues and is a member of entomological and professional societies.
Mary Gikungu is Senior Scientist and Head of the Centre for Bee Biology and Pollination, National
Museums of Kenya. She holds a PhD in Natural science and Mathematics from the University of
Bonn. She is a world authority in Bee Systematics (Hymenoptera) and its applications. She has
spearheaded Bee Taxonomy and Pollination Ecology training programmes for sustainable
development in East Africa. She has coordinated research activities on pollination ecology for
international projects such BIOTA-East funded by Germany government for several years.
Fabian Haas is the Head of the ICIPE Biosystematic Support Unit. He obtained his PhD degree from
the Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena. He joined the State Museum for Natural History in Stuttgart,
Germany in 2003, where he worked as the National Focal Point for the Global Taxonomy Initiative of
the Convention on Biological Diversity. He joined icipe in 2006 and has developed his interest in
biodiversity and its monitoring, as well as the effects of CBD on the free exchange of biocontrol
agents used to combat pests and invasive alien species in tropical regions.
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Richard Mukabana obtained his Phd from Wageningen University in Production Ecology and
Resource Conservation. His research was on why certain humans are preferred over others by host
seeking mosquitoes. He returned to the University of Nairobi as lecturer where he taught in the
areas of Medical Protozoology, Epidemiology and Statistics. Alongside his teaching he performed
research as a visiting scientist at icipe, working on community empowerment for malaria control,
mosquito mass rearing, mosquito olfaction and fungus for malaria control. He moved into icipe in
January 2011. His current research is on mosquito attractants and repellents, associations between
public health and ecohealth, integrated vector management and community social mobilization.
Rajinder Saini is a Principal Scientist and Head of Animal Health Division at ICIPE. He obtained his
PhD from the University of Wales in 1983 and undertook his post-doctoral research for USDA in
Gainesville Florida. His specialisation is in insect behaviour and chemical ecology. He has over 30
years of working on tsetse, and he is currently coordinating an EC funded project on evaluation of
tsetse repellents and an IFAD funded project on development of innovative animal health packages.
He is an FAO Advisory Coordinator and a member of the steering committee for the Programme
Against African Trypanosomosis, a member of the African Union’s International Scientific Council for
Trypanosomosis Research and Control, and member of WHO expert panel for trypanosomosis.
Workshop programme
Chair:
Rapporteur:
Time
10.30
10.35
10.45
10.55
11.05
11.20
11.30
11.40–13.00
Prof. Christian Borgemeister
Dr. Steven Sait
Details
Opening remarks from Christian Borgemeister
Case Study 1: Ecosystem services provided by biological control agents for improving
food security and livelihoods: some examples from Africa (Sunday Ekesi, ICIPE)
Case Study 2: Development of innovative vector and disease control technologies for
enhancing livestock productivity and improvement of food security. (Rajinder Saini,
ICIPE)
Case Study 3: The diverse scenarios of malaria and mosquito research at ICIPE:
competencies and opportunities (Richard Mukabana, ICIPE)
Tea/coffee
Case Study 4: Harnessing Pollination Services for Improved Agricultural Production
and Livelihoods in Africa (Mary Gikungu, NMK)
Case Study 5: The Convention on Biological Diversity, the Nagoya Protocol and food
security (Fabian Haas, ICIPE)
Open discussion – chaired by Christian Borgemeister
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Knowledge exchange sessions programme and abstracts
Knowledge exchange sessions have been designed to provide an opportunity for conference
delegates to share knowledge and experiences during 30 minute sessions. Most sessions have
already been allocated but we have kept some open spaces. On the first day of the conference there
will be an opportunity for delegates to offer presentations to fill these slots.
There will be two rounds of knowledge exchange sessions with presentations being made in
different rooms in parallel with delegates free to choose which session to join.
All presenters have been asked to tailor their talks to the theme of the conference and should aim to
share and exchange knowledge and ideas in relation to one, or all, of the three questions:
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What impact was achieved from the use of research results and who benefited from this
impact?
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How this impact was achieved, who did what and when, and what was crucial to its success?
For example role of partnerships and inter-disciplinary research.
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What lessons are there for researchers and users of research results in increasing the impact
of research on food security, nutrition and human health?
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Knowledge Exchange session programme – Wednesday 22nd June
Time
Byford Room
Kirkby Room
First round of knowledge exchange open space sessions
12001. Sleepwalking into global
3. Introducing the CGIAR
1230
famine - Benny Dembitzer,
Climate Change Agriculture
Ethical Events
and Food Security Programme
- Andy Challinor, University of
Leeds and James Kinyangi, Int.
Livestock Research Institute
1230 1300
2. Cassava value chain
development in West Africa:
partnership and innovations
that worked - Onadipe O.O,
IITA, Nigeria
4. Overview of CGIAR
Integrated Systems for the
Humid Tropics Research
Program – Paula Bramel, IITA
Second round of knowledge exchange open space sessions
174513. Information from the
15. Strategy for international
1815
front line: Building a vigilance
partnership building - Michael
and predictive system for pest Abberton, Aberystwyth
management - Philip
University
Abrahams, CABI
18151845
1845 1915
Junior Common Room (JCR)
Evans Room
Fenton Room
Belfield Room
5. Contributing to food
security through agricultural
research: lessons from the
National Agricultural
Research Organisation
(NARO) in Uganda - Emily
Twinamasiko, NARO
6. Strengthening university
capacity for promoting,
facilitating and teaching rural
innovation processes - Justus
Ombati Moturi, Egerton
University, Kenya
7. Making seed value chains
work: the role of researchers
and farmer organisations in
seed sector development Jenny Rafanomezana, Self
Help Africa
9. Community based
technology transfer centres to
support food production for
food security - Isaac Akinyele,
Food Basket Foundation
International, Nigeria
11. The Leeds –Madagascar
health link - Anne
Chamberlain, Rehab
Medicine, University of Leeds
8. What is the role of research
in value chain interventions
for improved food security?
Evidence from Mozambique,
Uganda & Ghana - Lorenz
Probst, University of Natural
Resources and Life Sciences,
Vienna
10. Foundations for Farming:
A broad based farming
initiative in rural Zimbabwe Mbongeni Ngulube, The
Global Native
12. The overuse of pesticides
and fertilisers - mixed
methods social research on a
chemical process, with
positive impact pathways for
human health - Jean David
and Wendy Olsen, University
of Manchester
17. Impact of IAR4D on food
security - Moses Tenywa,
Makerere University
Agricultural Research
Institute, Uganda
19. The Global Food Security
Programme – Riaz Bhunnoo,
Biotechnology and Biological
Sciences Research Council
(BBSRC)
21. Salinity and Food Security:
The Case of Three Food
Systems in South-Western
Bangladesh - Khandaker
Munim, University of Leeds
23. The Political Economy of
Agricultural Policy in Africa –
Colin Poulton, Centre for
Development, Environment
and Policy, SOAS
24. Implications of jointly
developed market policies on
market participation levels
and food security indices in
Zimbabwe - Shephard Siziba,
University of Zimbabwe
14. Harnessing global
research alliance for regional
food security: case study of
AfricaRice - Samuel Igbatayo,
Igbinedion University, Nigeria
16. Crops for the Future: a
new body for research and
promotion of underutilised
crop species - Presidor
Kendabi, University of
Nottingham
18. Livelihood diversification
among smallholders in the
drier savanna of West Africa:
Potential impact and roles of
partners on IAR4D Innovation
Platforms. - Luke Olarinde
20. Addressing household
food insecurity and
malnutrition in a low-income
rural community: A case
study from South Africa - WH
Oldewage-Theron and AA
Egal
22. Increasing community
awareness and utilization of
indigenous grains to improve
nutrition security and
livelihoods in Botswana and
Namibia - Linley ChiwonaKarltun, Swedish University of
Agricultural Sciences
Open space
Open space
Open space
Open space
Open space
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Open space
1. Sleepwalking into global famine
Benny Dembitzer, Ethical Events Ltd
1200-1230, Byford Room
The author will outline why, in his view, the world is leading to a perfect storm caused by climate
change, population increase, urbanisation, reduction in food supplies from some traditional
exporters, demand for biofuels, rise in the price of oil and therefore in fertilisers, speculation, lack of
land planning capacity, and misguided globalisation of food products.
2. Cassava value chain development in West Africa: partnership and innovations that
worked
Onadipe O., Sanni, L., Alenkhe, E. Ilona, P, Iyangbe, C., Davis-Musaggy, M. and Dixon, A, IITA, Nigeria
1230-1300, Byford Room
The impact of cassava value chain development has not just been to expand utilization of the crop
but also to improve livelihood of the key players especially in the rural communities. This duo benefit
is usually achieved through enhanced productivity and capacities of the key players involved. The
Common Fund for Commodities (CFC)- West Africa project focused on this people-oriented approach
to improve the livelihood of rural farmers and processors in three selected countries in West Africa,
namely Benin Republic, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. This is by agreeing to fund the three - year’s
intervention project, Cassava Value Chain Development in West Africa with the aim of creating
enabling environment for key players in the rural areas, thus increasing their productivity and
enhancing their livelihoods. This was achieved through partnership with national organizations and
institutions in the three selected countries.
3. Introducing the Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security Programme
Andy Challinor, University of Leeds and James Kinyangi, International Livestock Research Institute
1200-1230, Kirkby Room
Introduction to the work of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food
Security (CCAFS) is a 10-year research initiative launched by the Consultative Group on International
Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and the Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP). CCAFS seeks to
overcome the threats to agriculture and food security in a changing climate, exploring new ways of
helping vulnerable rural communities adjust to global changes in climate.
4. Overview of CGIAR Integrated Systems for the Humid Tropics Research Program
Paula Bramel, IITA
1230-1300, Kirkby Room
The Consultative Group in International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) is undergoing a major change
process, which in the near future will see its Center operations implemented through a number of
CGIAR Research Programs. These are aimed to better coordinate Research for Development (R4D)
efforts, enhance efficiencies, and encourage cooperation and collaboration with a focus on effective
partnerships to achieve more development impacts. The Humidtropics stands for R4D partnerships
that impact people’s lives. Dr Bramel will provide an overview of the proposed program that fosters
integrated agricultural production systems for the poor and vulnerable in the humid tropics.
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5. Contributing to Food Security through Agricultural Research: Lessons from the National
Agricultural Research Organisation in Uganda
Emily Twinamasiko, National Agricultural Research Organisation, Uganda
1200-1230, Evans Room
The National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO) in Uganda like most research systems NARO
has used different methods and strategies to increase technology uptake and achieve proportionate
impact from the technologies. NARO’s results have caused impacts in food security and household
incomes. Studies have shown that investment in Agricultural research pulls more people out of
poverty than investments in health, education and roads. Impacts, attributed to higher yields and
consumer preference resulted from new crop varieties, specifically maize, potato, groundnuts, sweet
potato, and sorghum. Other impacts also resulted from small scale water management technologies,
aquaculture management and smallholder dairy feed management technologies. These impacts
were achieved through combined strategies, in particular participatory priority setting, decentralised
service delivery, thematic research approach and multi-stakeholder involvement. NARO has learnt
that access to good seed, institutional capacity for action research and facilitating multi-stakeholder
innovations are critical for research results to cause impact. Involvement of private sector increases
opportunities for technology commercialisation. There is need for policies that will enhance
utilisation of local products that result from increased yields.
6. Strengthening university capacity for promoting, facilitating and teaching rural
innovation processes
Justus Ombati Moturi, Egerton University, Kenya
1230-1300, Evans Room
The project sought to form "communities of practice" of teaching and managerial staff in 4
universities in Kenya. That is capacitated to: actively improve teaching practice, facilitate rural
innovation processes, and develop teaching programmes in rural innovation. The direct beneficiaries
of the project were the teaching staff of the participating universities, their students. The final
beneficiaries will be the rural populations who will be better served by more able professional
organizations and service providers. It is expected that consolidated core groups in each
participating university will emerge that can promote and strengthen institutional capacities in
interactive learning, systemic thinking and the facilitation of rural innovation processes.
7. Making seed value chains work: the role of researchers and farmer organisations in
integrated seed sector development
Jenny Rafanomezana, Self Help Africa, Shrewsbury, UK
1200-1230, Fenton Room
The importance of improved seeds for increasing agricultural productivity and food security in Africa
is widely recognised. This paper shares progress made in developing an integrated seed sector
approach through a multi-stakeholder process that is taking place in context of the African Union’s
African Seed and Biotechnology Programme (ASBP) in collaboration with Wageningen University and
Self Help Africa. It looks in particular at the way researcher institutes and farmer organisations (seed
grower associations, seed multiplication cooperatives/union) have worked together in Ethiopia and
Zambia. Outcome is illustrated in terms of increase in availability of improved seed and increases in
crop production and productivity. Impact on farmers’ incomes and food security and implications for
integrating formal and informal seed sectors are analysed.
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8. What is the role of research in value chain interventions for improved food security?
Evidence from Mozambique, Uganda and Ghana
Lorenz Probst, Bella Nyamukure, Michael Hauser. CDR - Centre for Development Research, BOKU University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
1230-1300, Fenton Room
The role of agricultural research in value chain interventions for improved food security is often
multi-faceted and not clearly defined. Looking at cases from Mozambique, Uganda and Ghana, we
ask: What type of research is needed to achieve sustainable income and food security outcomes? To
answer this question, we develop a set of indicators to characterize research-led value chain
interventions; these indicators help us to single out factors relevant for making an impact. We argue
that mechanisms to transfer process ownership from initiating researchers to other stakeholders can
and must be implemented in all project phases. This may demand that research lets go of the initial
strategic rationality of the process. Evidence of adaptation of process objectives in a negotiation
process can be a signal that process ownership has been successfully transferred.
9. Community based technology transfer centres to support food production for food security
Isaac Akinyele, Food Basket Foundation International, Nigeria
1200-1230, Belfield Room
Use of participatory on farm adaptive research techniques to support food production for food
security was implemented in 8 clusters formed in 3LGAs of Oyo State, Nigeria. Each cluster consisted
of 15 small holder farmers with 0.5.hectares of land the clusters were located in communities and
formed using participatory approaches. FBFI facilitated the process. They were trained on the use of
new technologies for food production, farmer field days were conducted with farmers visiting each
other’s farms while post harvest technologies were introduced. Farmer income increased and post
harvest losses were decreased. Multi stakeholder meetings were held to expose the farmers to
recent research.
10. Foundations for Farming: A broad based farming initiative in rural Zimbabwe.
Mbongeni Ngulube, The Global Native, Leeds and Zimbabwe
1230-1300, Belfield Room
In Sub Saharan Africa (SSA), and Zimbabwe in particular, the concept of food security is not isolated
from the basic concept of development, this work marches hand in hand and in the postcolonial
period, development has been for most SSA nations “the most important reason for state [building]”
(Gupta,1997) along with promises of modernity. Through various state agents as well as NGO´s and
other local and international institutions, various development techniques have been repeatedly
experimented on SSA populations with varying results, leaning mostly towards failure. Most
projects, including but not limited to food security, seem to move along quite well in the presence of
the implementing agent but once these projects close, most communities revert to their previous
state if not worse. Agriculture in particular automatically became a development yardstick of choice
and its state revealed the nation’s underdevelopment, “if its GNP depends on agriculture and most
of its workforce is employed in farms, then a nation is said to be underdeveloped” (Gupta, 1997).
This paper will focus on the research (result) / implementation nexus using the work of Foundations
for Farming, our Zimbabwean based partner organisation.
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11. The Leeds –Madagascar health link
Anne Chamberlain, Rehab Medicine, University of Leeds
1200-1230, Junior Common Room
This has been formally established between the Leeds Teaching Hospitals (with help from staff of the
Leeds University) and The Ministry of Health, the University Hospital of Antananarivo, and the
University of Antananarivo, Madagascar. Programmes are underway in Ophthalmology,
Rehabilitation and Nursing. These include our staff training in Madagascar some 3 times a year for 23 weeks and return visits. Generic needs are emerging such as the need for enhanced abilities in
teaching, knowledge of the theory of this and the need for management training to enhance the
running of a department.
12. The Overuse of Pesticides and Fertilisers - Mixed Methods Social Research on a
Chemical Process, With Positive Impact Pathways for Human Health
Jean David and Wendy Olsen, University of Manchester
1230-1300, Junior Common Room
In this paper we report on research about the overuse and misuse of pesticides and fertiliser in a
small-scale arable farming context. We report first on a mixed-methods study of 229 farm-unit
surveys along with 38 farmer interviews and key informants. Our findings first include a model of the
causes of misuse of chemicals. Different farmers’ usage patterns follow different pathways of
information, experience, and judgement; practices are differentiated and we take practices as a
topic suited to the sociology of farming. In the next section we report on the prevalence of chemical
misuse among the sample farmers. Surprisingly high levels of overuse in particular were discovered.
Nearly all the same farmers avoided overusing chemicals on their own plots for household
subsistence, indicating an underlying awareness of health implications of chemical overuse.
‘Misuse and overuse of pesticides are often observed in the developing countries…A clear
understanding of farmers’ knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding pesticide use is the first step
toward understanding the reasons for overuse of pesticides by farmers’.
Pesticide overuse and fertiliser overuse are similar both in their use as agrochemicals and also in the
pathways leading to overuse as revealed by this study. In particular our fourth section deals with
information sources used by farmers. First we report the frequency of use of different
information/extension sources. Then, using qualitative interpretation, we report on the causes of
overuse. Qualitative findings of this investigation highlighted the limitations of the quantitative
findings. They also suggest several policy implications arising from the different overuse pathways
and farmers’ reasoning strategies. The analysis of farmers’ practices is a rich area for further
research that can impact positively on human health via sustainable small-scale arable farming.
13. Information from the front line: Building a vigilance and predictive system for pest
management
Philip Abrahams, CABI, Wallingford, UK
1745-1815, Byford Room
An alliance of partners has formed to create a support network for farmers and extensionists in the
developing world, whose geo-specific observations of pest distribution and movement populates a
knowledge bank ultimately capable of providing predictive maps of pest distribution. The
programme – Plantwise – is described: national plant healthcare systems operate in 15 countries,
with more schemes planned by 2014. Clinics, run by trained plant doctors, act as a vigilance guard
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detecting and defending against plant pest and diseases. The Knowledge Bank displays pest reports
alongside partners’ data to help researchers understand what could be the factors affecting
distribution changes.
14 Harnessing global research alliance for regional food security: case study of AfricaRice
Samuel Igbatayo, Igbinedion University, Nigeria
1815-1845 Byford Room
AfricaRice is a Pan African research centre with a mission to mitigate poverty and catalyze food
security through research, development and partnership activities. The centre has succeeded in
deploying novel technologies to produce high-yielding rice varieties known as New Rice for Africa,
NERICA. Its collaborative effort with leading research institutions in Europe, Japan and the United
States, has yielded positive results, including drought tolerance and ‘durable’ resistance to diseases
and pests. Recent increases in Africa’s rice production are attributed to sustained activities of
AfricaRice, in a trend that has reduced imports of rice and transformed rural livelihoods in African
countries.
15. Strategy for international partnership building
Michael Abberton and Wayne Powell, IBERS, Aberystwyth University, Wales
1745-1815, Kirkby Room
At the Institute for Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS), Aberystwyth University, we
have recently developed a strategy for developing our role in meeting the global challenges of food
and energy security. This emphasises partnership building with institutions in developing countries
with a strong focus on Sub –Saharan Africa. These institutes will be Universities, NGOs, National
Research Institutes, CGIAR centres and other stakeholders (e.g. seed companies). The strategy is
based on areas where IBERS has comparative advantage and critical mass: plant breeding, ruminant
science and biorenewables. It also encompasses training, particular at the postgraduate level.
16. Crops for the Future: a new international body for research and promotion of
underutilised crop species
Presidor Kendabi and Sean Mayes, University of Nottingham
1815-1845, Kirkby Room
Underutilised, orphan or neglected crops are labels applied to plant species that are indigenous,
rather than non-native or adapted introductions, and often form a complex part of the culture and
practice of the people who grow them. A recently established independent body ‘Crops for the
Future’ (CFF) is hosted in Malaysia jointly by Bioversity International and the University of
Nottingham, Malaysia Campus (UNMC). CFF has a world-wide remit, combining expertise in
research, advocacy and outreach to form an alliance to evaluate the potential of underutilised crops
from genetics to social acceptance. The talk will describe the aims of CFF and progress on
establishing research activities.
17. Impact of IAR4D on food security
Moses Tenywa, Makerere University Agricultural Research Institute, Uganda
1745-1815, Evans Room
This paper highlights success in addressing household food security at community level through
Innovation Platforms (IPs). The IAR4D approach was used to mobilize multi-stakeholders to form IPs
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around commodity value chains and linking the IPs to markets for guaranteeing better prices, access
to credits for inputs (e.g. improved seed, fertilizers) and sustainable NRM. Three cases of value
chains (Potato in Gataraga-Rwanda, Potato and Maize in Chahi, Kisoro-Uganda) demonstrate the
success of IAR4D to stimulate uptake and use of science and technology to increase productivity. The
lesson is to strengthen social value chains at community level to address household food security.
18. Livelihood diversification among smallholders in the drier savanna of West Africa:
Potential impact and roles of partners on IAR4D Innovation Platforms.
Luke Olarinde, Joachim Binam, Jemimah Njuki, Adewale Adekunle and Alphonse Emechebe, Forum
for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), Nigeria
1815-1845, Evans Room
This paper investigated the diversified livelihood activities of the smallholders in the SSA CP
subproject of the KKM PLS vis-à-vis the partnership arrangements in the IAR4D’s innovation
platforms. This is with a view to determining the impacts that diversification has on livelihoods and
the correlation between the roles of the partners involved in the innovation platforms and the
delivery of sustainable livelihoods to the smallholders. Findings indicate significant potential impacts
of diversification on livelihood outcomes, but the roles of the principal partners need to be
strengthened to ensure the delivery of consistent and sustainable livelihoods to the smallholders.
19. The Global Food Security Programme
Riaz Bhunnoo, BBSRC, UK
1745-1815, Fenton Room
The UK’s main public funders of food-related research and training are working together through the
Global Food Security programme. The programme aims to help meet the challenge of providing the
world’s growing population with a sustainable and secure supply of safe, nutritious and affordable
food. That food will need to be produced and supplied from less land and with lower inputs, and in
the context of global climate change, other environmental changes and declining resources. The
programme aims to provide evidence to enable food producers and processors, retailers, consumers
and government to respond to and manage the challenges facing the UK and global food systems.
20. Addressing household food insecurity and malnutrition in a low-income rural
community: A case study from South Africa
WH Oldewage-Theron and AA Egal
1815-1845, Fenton Room
A cross-sectional baseline survey found poverty, household food insecurity, poor nutrition
knowledge and dietary intake behaviour in children aged 6-13 years old and their caregivers in a
rural community in South Africa. The objective was thus to plan and implement a community
participatory project with appropriate food and nutrition intervention studies (nutrition education,
vegetable gardening, skills training) to address malnutrition in children through improved household
food security. Results of the nutrition education programmes showed improved nutrition
knowledge, but no significant change in dietary intake behaviour. The gardening programme should
contribute to reduce household food insecurity. More results will be reported.
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21. Salinity and Food Security: The Case of Three Food Systems in South-Western
Bangladesh
Khandaker M. A. Munim; Evan D. G. Fraser; Mette Termansen; Emma L. Tompkins, Sustainability
Research Institute, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds
1745-1815, Belfield Room
South-western Bangladesh’s agriculture is vulnerable to salinity intrusion and this is expected to
worsen under climate change. This research aims to assess how salinity affects food security in
three food systems: a rice based food system, a shrimp based food system and a hybrid food system
that is a combination of rice and shrimp. Based on a questionnaire survey of 385 households and
five focus group discussions, results demonstrate that the cropping pattern practised in each food
system is more important at affecting household food security than the degree of exposure to
salinity intrusion.
22. Increasing community awareness and utilization of indigenous grains to improve
nutrition security and livelihoods in Botswana and Namibia
Linley Chiwona-Karltun, Jose Jackson Malete, Khola Mogotsi, Edward Mabaya , Percy
Chimwamurombe,and Martha Kandawa-Schultz, Swedish Univeristy of Agricultural Sciences
1815-1845, Belfield Room
This R&D project is establishing with rural communities in Botswana and Namibia knowledge
networks and skills to improve the cultivation, processing and marketing of the hitherto
underutilized morama beans. The Morama bean (Tylosema esculentum) is an oilseed legume species
containing phytochemicals with potential health-promoting properties. It has high levels of quality
protein (30-39%), fat 48%, source of antioxidants and can be used as edible oils. Morama provides
opportunities for producing novel products for global Markets. Agribusiness is forecasted to be one
of the key areas that will drive growth in Africa especially as the middle class demands more
upmarket foodstuffs.
23. The Political Economy of Agricultural Policy in Africa
Colin Poulton, Centre for Development, Environment and Policy, SOAS
1815-1845, Junior Common Room
The state, in its multiple manifestations, is a key player in efforts to achieve food security and
agricultural development, through the maintenance of political stability, its responsibility for
macroeconomic and sectoral policies, investment in infrastructure, investment incentives for (and
regulation of) the private sector as well as direct involvement in delivery of some goods and services.
Development practice often assumes that the state exists to further some “public interest”, then is
confronted by its failure to do this. This session reports on work undertaken by Future Agricultures
Consortium in eight African countries that seeks to understand how political factors drive state
incentives for agricultural performance and policy making.
24. Implications of jointly developed market policies on market participation levels and
food security indices in Zimbabwe
Shephard Siziba, University of Zimbabwe
1815-1845, Junior Common Room
The biggest challenge of getting agriculture moving in most sub-Saharan African countries is getting
the right mix of agricultural marketing policies. Market exchange of commodities which is the
cornerstone of income generation and wealth creation has great potential to unlock economic
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growth and reduce poverty. This is the case for most of the citizens in the SSA countries who depend
on selling agricultural products for cash income. In recent times, the need to develop an efficient
agricultural market to harness the economic potential of the smallholder farmers in the region has
been identified. Efforts at this have witnessed complete paradigm swings from heavy government
intervention in the 1970s to the market liberalism associated with the economic structural
adjustment programmes of the 1980s. The interventionist approaches proved inefficient as they
were associated with price distortions and unsustainable as marketing boards heavily drained the
fiscus. Market reforms under liberalism only managed to semi-open the market environment. This
paradigm premised on neo-classical economics that assumes perfect market conditions and zero
transaction cost proved inadequate in most SSA conditions where imperfections and high
transaction costs are the harsh reality. Further, because of various reasons, the private sector has
not responded to fill the vacuum left by streamlining of government boards. Agricultural markets
remain thin and underdeveloped because of constraints imposed by poorly developed physical
infrastructure, poor legal environment for enforcement of contracts, and information asymmetries.
Resultantly farmers still fail to sell their outputs at remunerative prices and to access improved
technologies hence the low levels of productivity and unabated poverty. Integrated Agricultural
Research for Development (IAR4D) concept is an inclusive and interactive approach for agricultural
research and development in Africa. The IAR4D concept creates the innovation platforms, which
comprise of all necessary stakeholders along a commodity or system of production value chain. The
stakeholders, on this platform interact with one another to jointly identify problems, develop
solutions and implement the solutions and refined the solutions until it yields benefits for all the
actors on the platform. Potentially, because IAR4D concept invites action from all the stakeholders,
viz., private sector practitioners, policy makers, farmers, researchers, extension agents, credit
providers, end users etc. depending on the nature of development problem to be solved, thus it is
expected to foster rural development. This paper seeks to empirically test whether jointly developed
market policies under the IAR4D paradigm can generate agricultural marketing solutions and set the
agricultural sector on the growth path. The paper measures impact of the market solutions
developed under IAR4D on the incident of market participation and food security. The paper adopts
the Average Treatment Effect to isolate and attribute impact. A case study of Zimbabwe, which was
one of the SSA Challenge programme’s trial sites for IAR4D is presented.
25. Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN): opportunities and innovation
in research
Natasha Grist, CDKN and Overseas Development Institute
Time and room to be advised
Dr Natasha Grist, Head of Research at CDKN, will outline the work of the Climate and Development
Knowledge Network during its first year of operations. CDKN is a rapidly growing network, currently
with £67m over 5 years, focussed on partnering with developing country governments to shift
towards integrating climate change into considerations and policies. With a focus on the research
element that is a central pillar to the CDKN, Natasha will discuss the initial shape of research to date
and outline the first successful research call projects and innovation fund projects announced in June
2011. Much initial research commissioned has responded to high demand on agriculture and climate
compatible development. Natasha is particularly interested to hear from this group about: cutting
edge research on agriculture, food security and health; research gaps; capacity building challenges
amongst African scientists; and the challenges faced by researchers in dialogues and partnership
with government policy makers.
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Posters and abstracts
Posters have been invited from conference delegates that are in keeping with the conference
objectives and providing answers to one, or all, of the following three questions:
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What impact was achieved from the use of research results and who benefitted from this
impact?
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How was this impact achieved, who did what and when?
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What was crucial to this success and what lessons are there for increasing the impact of research
on food security, nutrition and human health?
All posters are on display in the conference marquee and authors are asked to stand by their posters
on Thursday 23rd June from 1630 to 1715. A list of poster and abstracts is given in the following
pages.
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List of posters
1. The development of stingless bee culture in Ghana - Kwame Aidoo, University of Cape Coast, Ghana
2. Management of pollination services for food security, human nutrition and health - Kwame Aidoo,
University of Cape Coast, Ghana
3. The Effect of climate change on the productivity of livestock and adaptation strategies in Ghana Christopher Antwi, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana
4. Increasing health and food security in Uganda through an Integrated Nutrition Information system Sarah Ngalombi, Ministry of Health, Uganda
5. Striving for higher impacts in agricultural research and development in West Africa - Balkisu Swarray,
Young Green Women Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone
6. Crop monitoring for food security in the Sahel - Papa Oumar Dieye, AGRHYMET Regional Centre,
CILSS, Niger
7. Training program in food security for CILSS and West African countries - Papa Oumar Dieye,
AGRHYMET Regional Centre, CILSS, Niger
8. Soy gardening as strategy to address household food insecurity and malnutrition in a rural
community in South Africa - AA Egal and WH Oldewage-Theron
9. The link between Climate Change and Food Security at Household to Community Scales - James
Kinyangi, International Livestock Research Institute, Kenya
10. The effect of temperature and day length on the concentration of fatty acids and organic acids in
leaves of portulaca oleracea - Hannah Oduro, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Ghana
11. Household Food Insecurity and Hunger among Households in Sidama District, Southern Ethiopia Nigatu Regassa, Barbara J Stoecker, Hawassa University, Ethiopia
12. Innovative drying systems in West Africa: multi-stakeholder approaches - Sanni, L.O., Alenkhe, E.B.
Onadipe O.O, Tarawali, G., and Dixon, A.G.O., IITA, Nigeria
13. Ricebean (Vigna umbellata) - a potential new grain legume for Africa? - Daljit Singh Virk, CARIAD,
Bangor University, Wales
14. CAPACITATE East Africa: developing capacity for molecular and Client-Oriented Breeding in Uganda,
Kenya and through the region - Daljit Singh Virk, CARIAD, Bangor University, Wales
15. Farmer-preferred technology for improved food security in Eritrea - Daljit Singh Virk, CARIAD,
Bangor University, Wales
16. Resistant starch fractions in some plantain-based traditional Nigerian foods - Ebun-Oluwa Oladele,
School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds
17. Immuno-analysis of cyanogenic glycosides in food plants - Islamiyat Bolarinwa, School of Food
Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds
18. Gatsby Plants – addressing Africa’s needs by raising the profile of plant science education - Celia
Knight, Aurora Levesley, Gatsby Plants, Centre for Plant Sciences, University of Leeds
19. A Participatory Impact Assessment of IAR4D activities in the Sudan Savannah Zone of Nigeria Alpha Yaya Kamara, IITA, Nigeria
20. How to Establish a Functional Innovation Platform for High Impact from Agricultural Research Oluwole Fatunbi, Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa, Ghana
21. Engagement of policy makers on IAR4D innovation platforms: Implications for technology adoption
and impact on smallholder farmers - Bangali S.E, Fatunbi A.O and Adekunle A.A, Forum for Agricultural
Research in Africa, Ghana
22. Enabling policy environment and agricultural productivity enhancing technologies in Rwanda
through innovation platforms - Josaphat Mugabo, Rwanda Agricultural Research Institute, Rwanda
23. Title to be added - Femke Van Der Lee
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Posters abstracts
1. The development of stingless bee culture in Ghana
Kwame Aidoo, University of Cape Coast, Ghana
Effective pollination results in increased food security and improved livelihoods. Many bees,
including stingless bees pollinate 70 -80% flowering plants resulting in quantity fruits, vegetables and
seeds. Pollination services have been provided by managed apis melifera and wild pollinators whose
populations are declining due to pests and diseases and others related to intensive agriculture.
Biodiversity conservation and food production have suffered as a consequence. Stingless bees
therefore became suitable alternatives for managed pollination in both agricultural and natural
landscapes. The development of stingless beekeeping for sustaining human livelihood (pollination
and hive products) in Ghana is described with pictures.
2. Management of pollination services for food security, human nutrition and health
Kwame Aidoo, University of Cape Coast, Ghana
Pollination is key to biodiversity conservation, food security and human health. The role of animal
pollinators, especially bees in pollination of agricultural crops (fruits and vegetables offering quality
nutrition) is discussed. Pollination is key service to horticultural production and contributes to yields
(quality and quantity). Agricultural production systems must rely on important ecosystem services
provided by biodiversity, such as nutrient cycling, pest regulation and pollination for the healthy
functioning of agricultural ecosystem. This ensures sustainability of agriculture as it intensifies to
meet growing demands for food. Two farmer collaborative research and extension pollination
projects in Ghana are described.
3. Effect of climate change on the productivity of livestock and adaptation strategies in Ghana
Christopher Antwi, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana
Livestock supports the livelihoods of 10.2 million people; however its production is affected by
climate change. Notable among them is expansion of Harmattan season resulting in drought which is
reported to cause a 50% yield reduction by the year 2080. Decline in ground water will affect the
quantity and quality of pasture for livestock. The projected rise in temperature and unpredictable
rainfall may result in the expansion of vector-borne diseases in livestock. Successful adaptation
strategies such as breeding for indigenous breeds that have co-evolved with the harsh climatic
conditions must be accomplished in an attempt to reducing impacts on livelihoods.
4. Increasing health and food security in Uganda through an integrated nutrition
information system
Sarah Ngalombi, Ministry of Health, Uganda
Uganda is in the process of improving the monitoring and evaluation of nutrition interventions
through the promotion of a multi-sectoral Uganda Integrated Nutrition Information System (UINIS).
The main objectives of UINIS are to strengthen national capacity to provide reliable, timely,
integrated (health, food security, water, sanitation and hygiene) and accurate nutrition information
that can be appropriately used to design and implement targeted policies and effective programs.
The implementation strategy of UINIS is through strengthening the collection, processing,
dissemination and use of nutrition information.
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5. Striving for higher impacts in agricultural research and development in West Africa
Balkisu Swarray, Young Green Women Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone
Over the years, substantial investments in agricultural research have been made in sub-Saharan
Africa. The few studies on returns from to research investments show impressive returns that are
comparable to those achieved in developed countries. However, problems such as recurrent hunger,
poverty, food insecurity and natural resource degradation continue to plague the region.
Agricultural development arena is changing rapidly toward non-linear innovation systems of complex
actor networks and multiple sources of innovations characterized by dynamic and iterative learning
processes that constantly inform, renew and advance the state of the systems.
Most actors and institutions are not linked effectively often from imaginary boundaries created by
prescribed mandates and parochial interests. While more investments in research and development
are required for the region, it is becoming increasingly difficult to justify them in the wake of
competing needs and in the face of shrinking national budgets. The few impact assessments that
have been carried out in the region have been incidental and not linked to the research planning
cycle implying that lessons from previous research efforts are not used when planning for
subsequent research and development efforts. We are proposing impact orientation which implies
in part tracking impact to the attainment of institutional and overall development goals. This calls in
part for impact assessment to be made an integral part of planning, monitoring and evaluation along
with appreciation of the impact chain and actors involved in the innovation process to demonstrate
relevance to development goals and thus justify funding.
6. Crop monitoring for food security in the Sahel
Papa Oumar Dieye, AGRHYMET Regional Centre, CILSS, Niger
In the face of the tragedies caused by the major droughts of 1973 and 1985, AGRHYMET Regional
Centre and its development partners set up information producing systems for the purposes of
prediction and prevention as part of the management of food security and natural resource
management. The crop monitoring for food security strategy developed by AGRHYMET is mainly
based on Early Warning and Food Crisis Prevention. Its activities focus on: Monitoring the progress
of sowing and crop performance, Monitoring the locust situation, Monitoring crop water
requirement satisfaction, Yield forecasting, Identifying risk zones, Joint pre-harvest assessments..
7. Training program in food security for CILSS and West African countries
Papa Oumar Dieye, AGRHYMET Regional Centre, CILSS, Niger
In the field of training, the programs AGRHYMET are perfectly in line with the new visions of political
decision makers, technical and financial partners and stakeholders concerned with the search for
relevant and sustainable solutions in food security. From 1975 to 2010, the AGRHYMET Regional
Centre has trained 1002 higher technicians, engineers and master degree working in ministries, NonGovernmental Organizations, development projects and the private sector.
8. Soy gardening as strategy to address household food insecurity and malnutrition in a
rural community in South Africa
AA Egal and WH Oldewage-Theron
A cross-sectional baseline survey found poverty, household food insecurity, and protein-energy
malnutrition in children aged 6-13 years old in a rural community in South Africa. The objective of
this study was thus to plan and implement a community participatory soy and vegetable gardening
project to address malnutrition in children through improved household food security. Results of the
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baseline survey showed lack of knowledge about the use of soy in the diet. A soy training and
gardening programme was implemented in 142 purposively selected households. Results showed an
improved knowledge and interest in soy. More results will be reported.
9. The link between Climate Change and Food Security at Household to Community Scales
James Kinyangi, International Livestock Research Institute, Kenya
Understanding how to support those vulnerable to food security is imperative given expected
changes in climate and food security. This study highlights the results of household linkages between
climate change, agriculture and food security in four countries in East Africa. Results from 419
households across 35 villages suggest that, while most communities rely on their own farms for
food, they mobilize alternative livelihoods during the dry and pre-harvest seasons. These findings
reveal differences in food availability patterns thus emphasizing that local priorities should be
addressed when developing climate change response strategies.
10. The effect of temperature and day length on the concentration of fatty acids and
organic acids in leaves of portulaca oleracea
Hannah Oduro, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Ghana
Puslane (Portulaca oleracea) has been identified for cultivation as a food crop since its identification
as an exceptionally rich source of bioprotective substances (α-linolenic acid, linoleic acid,
antioxidants, vitamins) which are considered essential for growth, development and disease
prevention. Many studies have been conducted to show the effect of different plant nutrition on
both crop production as well as the nutritional value of the plant. Little is known about the suitable
temperature and day length conditions for optimizing the nutritional value of the plant i.e. greater
fatty acids concentrations and lesser organic acids, and improving upon its agronomic potentials.
The aim of this poster is to determine the effect of temperature and day length on the concentration
of fatty acid and organic acid in leaves of purslane and its influence on crop production.
11. Household food insecurity and hunger among households in Sidama District, S. Ethiopia
Nigatu Regassa, Barbara J Stoecker, Hawassa University, Ethiopia
This study examined the level of household food accessibility/entitlement and hunger in one of the
most populous zones in Southern Ethiopia, the Sidama Zone. The study used primary data from 1094
households located in ten kebeles (the smallest administrative district) with a child under twenty
four months selected through the multi stage probability sampling technique. The level of food
accessibility was measured with both the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) and
Household Hunger Scale (HHS), developed by the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance. The
HFIAS set of questions, designed to be used cross culturally, revealed that only 17.7% of the
households were food secured. The percentage of households who were mild, moderately and
severely food insecure was 6.8, 27.7 and 47.8 respectively. Similarly, using the three frequency
questions from HHS, it was found that 29.0 and 5.6% of the households fall in the moderate and
severe household hunger category. In view of further examining the possible effects of selected
explanatory variables on the dependent variables (i.e. level of food insecurity and hunger), multivariate statistical technique was used. The findings of the multivariate analysis showed that there
are six variables explaining the variations in the status of household food inaccessibility and hunger.
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12. Innovative drying systems in West Africa: multi-stakeholder approaches
Sanni, L.O., Alenkhe, E.B. Onadipe O.O, Tarawali, G., and Dixon, A.G.O., IITA, Nigeria
University-research institutes-industry interactions on sustainable cassava development in Africa
recorded adoptable innovative drying systems. An efficient flash drying system for SMEs involved
active contributions from universities, research institutes, national fabricators and agro-based
industries. An automatic roaster was introduced to CFC-West African cassava processing enterprises.
Solving deforestation issue gave birth to installation of CFC-WA pilot solar-drum heated hybrid dryer
in Hounvi, Benin Republic. Results showed that beneficiaries are using it to dry various agricultural
commodities and reportedly suitable with potential for adoption in other countries within the
region. This paper shares the approaches employed with these innovations with active multistakeholder contributions.
13. Ricebean (Vigna umbellata) - a potential new grain legume for Africa?
Daljit Singh Virk, CARIAD, Bangor University, Wales
Ricebean is cultivated by subsistence farmers in hill areas of S and SE Asia. It is grown as an intercrop
or a mixed crop with maize in lower areas, or as a sole crop on the uplands as a grain legume, fodder
or green manure. It receives almost no inputs, and is often grown on residual fertility and moisture
and in marginal, exhausted soils. Outputs from the FP6 project FOSRIN show it could make
important contributions to mixed subsistence farming systems, and has important nutritional
characteristics for improved diets and food security in marginal areas of Africa.
14. CAPACITATE East Africa: developing capacity for molecular and Client-Oriented
Breeding in Uganda, Kenya and through the region
Daljit Singh Virk, CARIAD, Bangor University, Wales
CAPACITATE E Africa is a partnership between universities in Uganda, Kenya and UK to improve
capacity to produce well-adapted, improved, farmer-acceptable crop varieties and enhanced food
security. It focuses on participatory and client-oriented breeding, and using molecular marker
technology to augment breeding programmes, by a broader network of partners. We aim for
strengthened curricula, operational client-oriented breeding programmes, increased capacity for
molecular breeding, and scientists trained in project management and scientific writing. The project
provides workshops and mentoring in these areas and in networking, hands-on experience of
molecular markers for specific crops, and awareness rising for policy makers.
15. Farmer-preferred technology for improved food security in Eritrea
Daljit Singh Virk, CARIAD, Bangor University, Wales
In a newly started EU project in Eritrea we shall try to improve the food security through provision of
a range of farmer focussed actions in plant breeding, agronomy and seed production and
dissemination. A consortium of national agricultural research institute, ministry of agricultural and
NGO partner will identify, through farmers, and widely disseminate better adapted crop varieties,
set up community-based seed production system, and identify and popularise low-risk but simple
agronomic interventions. Along with baselines studies, hundreds of farmer-field trials are being
conducted in the main season 2011 using mother-baby designs.
16. Resistant starch fractions in some plantain-based traditional Nigerian foods
Ebun-Oluwa Oladele, School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds
Recent studies have identified different starch fractions of immense health benefits based on their
rates of digestion. The nutritional quality of starch is however dependent on the state of the starch
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and processing. In the present study, we present the levels of resistant starch (RS) based on in vitro
studies on some traditional foods made from plantain. In the unprocessed ripe and unripe plantain
samples, RS levels dropped from 32.9% and 61.7% to a minimum of 3.7% and 8.2% respectively, in
foods made from them. The presence of RS in the diet offers the advantage of not contributing to
increase in postprandial blood glucose and may be important in diabetes management.
17. Immuno-analysis of cyanogenic glycosides in food plants
Islamiyat Bolarinwa, School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds
Cyanogenic food plants are economically important plants, consumed by millions of people around
the world. However, cyanide poisoning deriving from cyanogenic glycosides in the plants has been
responsible for serious illness and death in both children and adults. One of the major contributing
factors to cyanide poisoning is the consumption of insufficiently processed plants coupled with the
lack of effective detection methods for cyanogenic glycosides. Available methods for the detection
of cyanogenic glycosides are non-specific, involve the use of toxic chemical reagents and expensive.
A cheap, rapid and specific immunoassay technique was developed for the detection and
quantification of cyanogenic glycosides in food plants.
18. Gatsby Plants: addressing Africa’s needs by raising the profile of plant science education
Celia Knight, Aurora Levesley, Gatsby Plants, Centre for Plant Sciences, University of Leeds
The Gatsby Plants project, http://www.gatsbyplants.leeds.ac.uk, through an annual undergraduate
summer school and an on-line teaching resource, has established a framework to inspire
undergraduates to follow plant science research that holds potential solutions to Africa’s needs.
Student feedback from the summer schools is overwhelmingly positive and many have been inspired
into selecting plant science through their University studies and beyond. On-line lectures are popular
and offer a valuable route to disseminate food security and health issues further. Continued
development of these resources will ensure a pipeline of future plant science researchers.
19. A Participatory impact assessment of IAR4D activities in the Sudan Savannah zone of Nigeria
Alpha Yaya Kamara, IITA, Nigeria
Activities in the Sudan Savanna (SS) sub project of the SSA-CP were launched by IITA in collaboration
with Kano and Katsina States Agricultural Extension Services in February 2008, working with partners
in four Local Government Areas (LGAs in Kano and Katsina States. The SS Innovation Platforms (IPS)
have now completed the third PREA cycle, over three cropping seasons in the 20 communities in
which they have been working. This report details a participatory assessment (PASS) of the SS IPs
and the extent to which potential innovations have been identified, developed and put into use.
20. How to establish a functional innovation platform for high impact from agricultural research
Oluwole Fatunbi, Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa, Ghana
Agriculture plays an important role to assure food and nutritional security, reduced poverty and
sustainable livelihood in Africa. But Africa agriculture remains underdeveloped despite the huge
investment in research efforts towards its growth, this was due to the way Agricultural Research and
Development (ARD) activities are carried out. The Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA)
developed the Integrated Agricultural Research for Development (IAR4D) concept to implement the
innovation system approach in ARD. The IAR4D concept is implemented on an Innovation Platform
(IP), where all stakeholders along the commodity value chain congregate and interact to evaluate
the problems and device solution. This paper gives step by step guideline on how to establish
innovation platform for ARD in order to ensure impact from research.
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21. Engagement of policy makers on IAR4D innovation platforms: Implications for
technology adoption and impact on smallholder farmers
Bangali S.E, Fatunbi A.O and Adekunle A.A, Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa, Ghana
Agricultural Research for Development (ARD) is regarded by policy makers as a long term endeavor
that does not yield short term impacts. ARD is therefore increasingly under pressure to deliver. This
paper discusses the role of non–technological factors (policy) in agricultural research and
development that changes this perception. The IAR4D concept through its operational innovation
platform avails the opportunity for all the stakeholders to interact and identify problems affecting
the productivity of a specific commodity or system of production, generate solutions to the
problems, implement the solution options and evaluate the outcomes until an innovation is
generated that create impacts on the lives of smallholder stakeholders. The implementation of the
IAR4D concept has been proven from the research conducted during the research periods of SSA CP
proof of concept. Results from the data analyzed from the 36 innovation platforms in the 8 countries
shows that IAR4D concept has a huge potential to rapidly reduce rural poverty through increased
agricultural productivity than any other conventional method so far.
22. Enabling policy environment and agricultural productivity enhancing technologies in
Rwanda through innovation platforms
Josaphat Mugabo, Rwanda Agricultural Research Institute, Rwanda
A policy enabling environment in Rwanda has favored the formation and operationalization of
innovation platforms (IPs) and has been catalyzing a rapid uptake of productivity and value addition
technologies. Smallholder farmers are improving milk yield through feeding animals with newly
introduced fodder species (from 3-4 to 7 liters per cow); have increased potato yield (6 to 20 tons
per hectare) due to improved technologies (combination of mineral and organic fertilizers, pests and
disease control, planting on lines) and have access to niche markets in Kigali. The introduction of
high value crop (passion fruits and chili) is on a good track.
23. Practical experiences from agricultural commodity projects
Femke Van Der Lee, KIT Development Policy & Practice
Projects that focus on agricultural commodities are a common approach to economic development.
By improving the production, processing or marketing of a commodity, such projects aim to alleviate
poverty and address food security among farmers and small-scale traders and processors, as well as
benefiting the wider economy. But how should such projects be designed and implemented?.
Managers of different projects came together in a Writeshop in Kenya to discuss lessons from their
projects. These represented a mix of commodities – from sorghum to shrimp – in Africa, Asia and
Latin America. Eight questions were asked:
1. Choices: How to design simple solutions when problems are complex?
2. Responsibility: How to share responsibilities between public, private and producer organisations?
3. Participation: How to ensure stakeholder participation at the different stages of a project?
4. Flexibility: How to engineer flexibility into the project design?
5. Dependency: How to spend grant funds without creating project dependency?
6. Sustainability: How to ensure lasting effects of temporary activities?
7. Market: How to make the best use of market opportunities?
8. Impact: How to ensure a positive impact on poverty?
The managers combined their practical experiences to answer these questions and together draw
lessons. This has led to a book. This poster will summarise these lessons.
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Logistics
I. Venue and accommodation
The conference is being held at the Devonshire Hall.
II. Registration
Delegates can register for the conference on Tuesday 21st June from 4pm, and daily from
8am from 22nd to 24th June. Registration will take place in the foyer outside the main dining
room.
III. Internet access
All delegates will be provided with a user name and password to access the internet using
the Devonshire wireless network during the conference.
IV Meals
Breakfast and lunch will be served in the Devonshire Hall dining, as will the conference
dinner on Thursday 22nd June.
V Recreational
There are tennis courts at the Devonshire that are available for the use of conference
delegates. There is also a snooker room above the JCR. The Devonshire Hall bar will be open
in the evenings. For those interested in a walk the Dales Way is at the end of Cumberland
Road where there is a small wood.
VI Leeds and Yorkshire
Leeds has much to offer and we have provided details on Leeds and Yorkshire attractions in
the conference bag.
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