N2Africa - Putting nitrogen fixation to

work for smallholder farmers in Africa

Promoting legumes for food, feed and seed in

Ethiopia: N2Africa’s public-private partnerships

Transforming value chains to benefit smallholders

ILRI-N2Africa

Box 5689 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ● +251 11617 2200/25/33/35

ilri.org ● n2africa.org ● n2africa-Ethiopia.wikispaces.com

N2Africa project is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

N2Africa is a large scale, science-based “research-in-development”

project, launched in Ethiopia in January 2014.

Vision of success: Build sustainable, long-term partnerships to

enable smallholder farmers to benefit from symbiotic N2-fixation by

grain legumes through effective production technologies including

inoculants and fertilizers.

Target four regions (30 woredas), four legumes

The legacy will be a strong national expertise in grain legume

production and N2-fixation research and development.

Introduction

Public-private partnerships (PPP)

• N2Africa has designed and developed public-private

partnerships (PPP) as an approach and mode of project

implementation

• The four pillars to ensure long-term sustainability: knowledge

transfer, legume technology dissemination, efficient input

supply chains and access to markets

Potential partners in the legume value chain mapped during

2014-2015, and 19 were organized into 7 PPPs.

• North cluster: Chickpea seed and grain

• South cluster: Common bean seed and grain

• Central cluster: Chickpea seed and grain

• South-east cluster: Chickpea seed and grain

• Chewaka cluster: Soybean seed and grain

• Jimma cluster: Soybean utilization and nutrition

• Pawe cluster: Soybean as animal feed

Pawe cluster PPP model on soybean as animal feed

N2Africa-Ethiopia partners

Mama Union & AKF with the

active involvement of ILRI-

N2Africa & EIAR-PARC signed

contractual agreement and

supplying 3000qt of soybean

with reasonable price.

Target Legumes

Faba bean

Chickpea

Haricot bean

Soybean

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FTDG: Farmers Technology

Dissemination Group

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Demonstration

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Soil fertility maintenance & reduced input cost

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Effect of Inoculation and P on Grain Yield of Chickpea (Arerti variety) on farmers plots (Damot Gale, SNNPR, Ethiopia)

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Stakeholders’ capacity development on improved legume technologies, agribusiness, gender

mainstreaming, legume value addition and nutrition

Bulking and pulling marketable surplus, strengthening collective marketing, linking with lead firms & stimulate home consumption

as alternative

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Delivery of proven legume technologies, organizing technology promotional

and dissemination campaigns

Input demand information and delivery (Seed, inoculant, fertilizer,

agronomic and business support services)

Cross Cutting Issues: Gender Mainstreaming and Enhancing Agriculture-Nutrition Linkage

• Strengthen the PPPs.

• Strengthen technology dissemination, adaptation and market

access to ensure farmers’ benefits.

• Improve inoculants quality control along the input supply chain.

• Support rhizobiology research and identification of factors for non-

responsive soils.

• Use legumes to intensify crop-livestock systems.

Ways forward

M & E

D&D

Research

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Attribution 4.0 International Licence. March 2016