Work performed and main results achieved during the reporting period (01 June 2017 to 30 November 2021)
• 6 functional MAPs were established, one in each case country with 4-5 members. The total number of MAPs members constituted of farmers’ organization (12), small and medium sized enterprises (3), public sectors (12) and nongovernmental organizations (5).
• A total of 250 lead farmers were directly engaged in cereal-legume diversification demonstration trials and total number of farmers reached were about 40,000 through EASs approaches.
• A total of 285 lead farmers were directly engaged on-farm testing of Brachiaria grass and reached over 20,000 farmers through VKC and PIP extension services. For e.g. in Kenya, 6,000+ livestock farmers are now engaged in cultivation of Brachiaria grass in the project areas and additional 3000 farmers in other parts of Kenya.
• Feeding dairy animals with improved varieties of Brachiaria forage (B. basilisk) has led to an increase milk production by up to 40 percent compared to Rhodes grass.
• Value chain (VC) coordination was enhanced through i) development of local markets linkages provided (for e.g. by National Smallholder Farmers' Association of Malawi for legumes marketing and milk marketing in Kenya by partner KENAFF)
• Key policy pathways for wider implementation of innovative SAIs, IIAs & EASs in the case countries, were discussed through a series of policy dialogue meetings that delivered one policy brief per case country.
• Communication with the project partners and MAPs members in the 6 CC, were ensured through different means for e.g. skype, WhatsApp, telephone, emails, and field visits.
• The final InnovAfrica conference was conducted in Brussels where the European partners met in person with other invited EU officials and project representative from the ongoing H2020 EU-Africa projects. While, the African partners including the SAB, SEAB and MAP members and other invited guests, participated through online mode.
In total:
• 34 deliverables (Reports, Manuals, Venn diagrams, etc) were completed on time
• 10 milestones achieved
• 18 Technical briefs (2 pages technical summary of key reports)
• 12 Policy briefs (2 pages summary)
• 2 Village Knowledge Centres (Kenya and Tanzania)
• Knowledge platform:
http://kp-innovafrica.africabiosciences.org/(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)• Project website: www.innovafrica.eu
• KIPUS data set (Natural/social science related digital data)
