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Strengthening Food Security and Nutrition through Africa RISING Program Initiatives

The Africa RISING Program aims to alleviate hunger and poverty for smallholder families, especially women and children, by promoting sustainably intensified farming systems. This initiative focuses on improving food, nutrition, and income security while conserving natural resources. The program identifies viable options for sustainable intensification, evaluates their effectiveness, and fosters ongoing improvements in farm productivity and resilience. Key projects include value chain analysis and enhancing the nutritional levels of vulnerable populations across East and Southern Africa, and West Africa.

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Strengthening Food Security and Nutrition through Africa RISING Program Initiatives

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  1. Management Structure Program Research Framework Task Force Program Coordination Team (IITA, ILRI, IFPRI, USAID) Information/data Systems Team (IFPRI) Communications Team (ILRI, USAID) West Africa Project Steering Committee (IITA) Ethiopian Highlands Project Steering Committee (ILRI) E&SA Project Steering Committee (IITA) FY2012 Activities 1. Program design 2. ‘Quick Start’ projects

  2. Africa RISING Program Purpose and Objectives • Provide pathways out of hunger and poverty for small holder families, particularly for women and children, through sustainably intensified farming systems that sufficiently improve food, nutrition, and income security and conserve or enhance the natural resource base. • Identify demand-driven sustainable intensification options that are socially acceptable, economically feasible, and environmentally sound • Combine and adapt these options to address constraints and exploit opportunities. • Evaluate their effectiveness at multiple scales. • Catalyze ongoing sustainable farm intensification.

  3. Africa RISING Program Outcomes • Whole farm productivity • Natural resource management • Connect to markets & input suppliers • Nutrition and poverty, especially women and children • Economic & environmental resilience

  4. Africa RISING Beyond tradeoffs? • Increase above- and below-ground biomass to improve soil health & system productivity (e.g., fertilizer trees, legumes, N/P fertilization) • Diversification (crop & enterprise) for greater resilience, productivity, and nutrition • Integrating livestock and mechanization into conservation agriculture • Improve water productivity to reduce risk & enhance investment

  5. Africa RISING Other ‘Quick Start’ projects: Examples • East & Southern Africa: “Value chain analysis of grain legumes” • IITA (Lead Center), Dry Grain Pulse CRSP, Sokoine Univ., TZ Ag. Res. Inst., Univ. Malawi, Zambia Ag Res. Inst., SIMLEZA project, Nat’l Smallholder Farmers Assoc.-Malawi, ICRISAT, CIAT • West Africa: “Increased nutritional and economic levels of women & children” • ICRISAT (Lead Center), Peanut CRSP, INTSORMIL CRSP, SANREM CRSP, IER, IITA

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