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The Feed the Future Innovation Labs for Collaborative Research (formerly CRSP) held their Council meeting “Examining Opportunities for Linkages in Collaborative Research, Technology Dissemination, and Human and Institutional Capacity Development” in Dar es Salaam and Morogoro, Tanzania between Monday, March 4 and Friday, March 8.
This meeting provided an opportunity for USAID staff members from the Bureau for Food Security in Washington as well as mission staff from USAID/Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Mozambique to join their agricultural research and development partners to discuss existing programs and future directions for advancing efforts along the research to development continuum.
In addition to representatives from the Innovation Labs, other participants included current and potential partners such as national and regional agricultural research organizations, CGIAR researchers, Africa RISING collaborators, NGOs, and the private sector. Strategies and opportunities for collaborating with U.S. university-led Innovation Labs to implement and disseminate agricultural technologies and strengthen human and institutional capacity while directly addressing Feed the Future research priorities was the central theme of the meetings.
Presentations were given by the Innovation Labs and their partners on their activities in the East Africa region as well as by the other groups of participants. Links to these presentations are provided below and are listed in the order they were given. Additional meeting materials are also available.
Monday, March 4
Introductory Presentations
- USAID Agricultural Programs: Feed the Future Food Security Innovation Center and USAID’s Agricultural Research Strategy
Saharah Moon Chapotin, USAID Bureau for Food Security - Core Traits and Comparative Strengths of the Feed the Future Innovation Labs for Collaborative Research
Irvin Widders (Pulse), Michigan State University - USAID Mission to Tanzania: FTF Strategy and Partnerships
Mary Hobbs, USAID/Tanzania
USAID Activities in East And Southern Africa
- Feed the Future Food Security Innovation Center: Linking Research to Accelerate Outcomes for the Field
Vern Long, USAID Bureau of Food Security - Feed the Future Uganda Research and Innovation Laboratories (CRSPs)
Simon Byabagambi, USAID/Uganda - Examining Opportunities for Linkages in Collaborative Research, Technology, and Human and Institutional Capacity Building, West Africa Presentation
Candace Buzzard, USAID/West Africa - Ethiopia FTF Strategy Overview
Semachew Kassahun, USAID/Ethiopia - Mozambique FTF Strategy Overview
Paula Pimentel, USAID/Mozambique
Tuesday, March 5
Overview of Monday’s Discussion
- Key Messages from Monday’s Meeting in Dar es Salaam
Elizabeth Mitcham (Horticulture), University of California – Davis - Emerging Issues in the Agricultural Sector Implications to Successful Implementation of Feed the Future
David Nyange, USAID/Tanzania
USAID Partners
- Innovative Agricultural Research Initiative (iAGRI)
David Kraybill, Innovative Agricultural Research Initiative (iAGRI), Ohio State University and Sokoine University - Tuboreshe Chakula: The FTF Processing and Consumption Project
Neema Mrema, Agro-Processing Project - Tanzania Agriculture Productivity Program (TAPP) Overview
Stephen Mruma, TAPP (horticulture) - Irrigation & Rural Roads Infrastructure Project (IRRIP2) Project Overview
Chris Hall, Irrigation Component Leader - NAFAKA Staples Value Chain Activity
Harriet Odembi, NAFAKA Project
The Feed the Future Collaborative Research Innovation Labs: Research, Capacity Building and Outreach in Tanzania and the Region
- Collaborative Research on Grain Legumes
Irvin Widders (Pulse), Michigan State University - Collaborative Research on AquaFish
Sebastian Chenyambuga (AquaFish), Sokoine University of Agriculture - Collaborative Research on Horticulture
Elizabeth Mitcham, (Horticulture), University of California – Davis - Collaborative Research on Sorghum, Millet and Other Grains (INTSORMIL)
Curtis Weller, (INTSORMIL), University of Nebraska – Lincoln - Collaborative Research on Peanuts
Steve Brown (Peanut), University of Georgia - Collaborative Research on Assets and Market Access (BASIS AMA)
Tara Steinmetz (BASIS AMA), University of California – Davis - Collaborative Research on Nutrition
Shibani Ghosh (Global Nutrition), Tufts University - Collaborative Research on Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM)
Keith Moore (SANREM), Virginia Tech - Collaborative Research on Integrated Pest Management
R. Muniappan (IPM), Virginia Tech - Collaborative Research on Adapting Livestock Systems to Climate Change
Richard Bowen (Livestock-Climate Change), Colorado State University
USAID Regional Partners
- AVRDC in Vegetable Crops Research and Development in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)World Veg in Africa
Fekadu Fufa Dinssa, AVRDC – The World Vegetable Center, Regional Center for Africa - ASARECA Priorities and Operational Mechanisms
Jean Ndikumana, ASARECA (East and Central Africa) - Centre for Coordination of Agricultural Research and Development for Southern Africa
Timothy Simalenga, CCARDESA (Southern Africa) - ICRAF Research Program in Tanzania
Anthony A. Kimaro, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Tanzania - AGRA Transforming African Agriculture
Fred Muhhuku, AGRA - CIAT in Africa: Research areas and opportunities of collaborating research
Jean Claude Rubyogo, CIAT-Africa - ICRISAT in East and Southern Africa
Patrick Okori, ICRISAT Malawi
Wednesday, March 6
Strategies for Scaling Up Technologies
- Scaling Technologies
John Bowman, USAID Bureau for Food Security - Open Space discussion on “Scaling up Technologies”
Facilitator: Deborah Rubin, co-Director, Cultural Practice LLC
The Feed the Future Collaborative Research Innovation Lab Approach to Building Human Resources and Institutional Capacity
- Collaborative Research on Horticulture: Building Capacity in Postharvest Technologies for Fruits and Vegetables
N. Nenguwo, AVRDC – The World Vegetable Center, Arusha, Tanzania
Pendo Bigambo, National food Security Department, Ministry of Agriculture Food Security and Cooperatives, Government of Tanzania - Collaborative Research on Grain Legumes: Experiences Working With the Pulse CRSP
Theobald C.E. Mosha, Sokoine University of Agriculture - Collaborative Research on Integrated Pest Management : Institutional Capacity Building in Ethiopia
Kassahun Zewdie (IPM) - Collaborative Research on Horticulture : Survey of African Indigenous Vegetable (AIV) Production and Marketing Tanzania
Don Lotter, St. John’s University of Tanzania - Collaborative Research on Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management: Development and Transfer of Conservation Agriculture Production Systems (CAPS) for Smallholder Farms in Eastern Uganda and Western Kenya
Dominic Ngosia (SANREM), Kenya - Collaborative Research on Peanuts: The Peanut CRSP Breeding Program in Uganda 10 Years of Progress
David Okello Kalule, National Semi-Arid Resources Research Institute, Uganda - Collaborative Research on Adapting Livestock Systems to Climate Change: Strengthening Tanzanian Livestock Health & Human Nutrition
Christopher Gustafson, University of California – Davis
Thursday, March 7
Linking Agriculture and Nutrition
- Nutrition of Women and Children in Tanzania
Theobald C.E. Mosha, Sokoine University of Agriculture - Linking Nutrition-Health-Agriculture Centers of Excellence
Shibani Ghosh (Nutrition), Tufts University
Climate Change and Natural Resource Management
- Health for Animals and Livelihood Improvement (HALI) Project
Liz Van Wormer, University of California – Davis
Meeting Agendas
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