FOLLOW UP INNOVATE PLANTAIN MEETING 15-

Innovate Plantain website - http://banana-networks.org/innovate-plantain/

Priority assessment web site - http://www.promusa.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=65

MusaNet web site - http://www.promusa.org/tiki-index.php?page=MusaNet

CIALCA website - http://www.cialca.org/ CIALCA Videos - http://www.youtube.com/cialcaafrica (English) http://www.youtube.com/cialcaafrique (Français)

Theme Within one month Within six months By 2015 Innovate Send report on results of Innovate plantain Plantain workshop to list of experts and meeting stakeholders within your country – each country representative results Presentations from meeting available on Innovate Plantain web site – Claudine Cropping Presentations available on Innovate plantain First Draft proposal by 15 January ready for systems website by 25 Nov - Claudine circulation to workshop participants other intensification scientists IITA, Bioversity, CIRAD – Thierry/Charles Workshop report by 20 Dec – proposal Claudine/Thierry Inputs received from workshop participants and other scientists by 15 Feb

Draft for submission to RTB by 1 March – Thierry/Charles

Theme Within one month Within six months By 2015 Priority Identify the office within your country which Results of report announced through Innovate assessment supplies banana and plantain production Plantain web site – Charles/Claudine data to FAO – each country representative report to Inge Van den Bergh Review results of priority assessment report – (i.vandenbergh@.org) Each country representative

Send out table to be completed on the applicability of research options to conditions in the major production zones to each country representative – Charles

Genetic Minimum descriptors document sent by Methods to document ethnobotanical resources email to country representatives – information on cultivars compiled – Emmanuel Thierry/Beloved/Emmanuel – and made available electronically – Claudine List of banana germplasm collections in West and Central Africa updated – Emmanuel and Report on Guadeloupe workshop on banana country representatives – and placed on descriptors to country representatives – Innovate plantain web site - Claudine Emmanuel

Article on plantain diversity in Congo basin Each country posts one unusual cultivar and circulated to country representative – Guy ethnobotanical use – country representative Blomme Report circulated on CNS plantain (RCI) activities Summary on plantain collections, contacts and future plans - ??? and possible travel strategies to link Central Congo collections to Innovate Plantain MusaNet representative – Guy Blomme to Emmanuel and DR Congo scientists (INERA, UNIKIS, UNIKIN)

Theme Within one month Within six months By 2015 BBTV Contact national phytosanitary office to Organize regional workshop to prepare proposal enquire about the status of risk assessment on regional approach for BBTV awareness, of BBTV and general knowledge about BBTV quarantine, containment and capacity building – distribution and threat to – each CORAF/NCS/CARBAP country representative Make available documents from workshops on Website address for CIALCA web site BBTV BBTV in late January (community and farmer training materials – Guy Blomme learning and experimentation on the recovery of BBTV affected banana areas) and February Make copy of concept note by CARBAP/NCS- (laboratory techniques and clean seed strategies – NCOS on BBTV available for general Lava/Charles/Marie-Line

knowledge among CRP RTB BBTV group and Make available tools for Pest Risk Assessment, other interested Innovate Plantain partners surveillance and mapping on BBTV generated by – Adiko Amoncho/Pierre-Michel Loubana the RTB pest risk assessment grant – Guy/Lava

Program training for interested countries on BBTV to build capacity on surveillance, public awareness, quarantine, epidemiology, etc (materials from RTB BBTV could be adapted for this training - NCS Climate Identify name of national agency or office Ensure that weather variability is included in the change which addresses climate change adaptation cropping systems draft proposal – Charles/Thierry planning for agriculture and summarize the as well as others who comment on the draft type of information which would be useful to proposal; make the incorporation of banana among the agricultural planning approach – national country representative;

Complete table and graph on climate change and past variability for points in Guinea, DR Congo, which were not included in the presentation – Charles/German Theme Within one month Within six months By 2015 Banana Provide mapping guide to contacts mapping participating in Innovate Plantain workshop – Côte d’Ivoire (Taori), Congo Brazzaville (Simon), Cameroon (Pierre Michel), Gabon (Ndong), DRC (Germaine, Patrick, Benoit) Regional web Add Gabon and Congo Brazzaville to the list Complete biographical information, link to site of countries on Innovate Plantain web site – organization and photo for regional network Claudine website – country representatives;

Add photos to Musarama and make link to country representative web page – country representatives with support from Claudine/Leila;

Propose photos for Innovate Plantain web site – country representatives;

Explore possible links between NCOS knowledge management and Innovate Plantain web site – NCS delegate and Claudine Task force to NCS contact with other task force members Proposed plan of work for task force to identify Innovate develop to verify leadership role and propose – Innovate Plantain responsibilities, mechanisms, Plantain with details of role governance, objectives on short and medium role as RTB (Bioversity/IITA/CIRAD) consult term – NCS innovation of Innovate internally about membership in task force – platform Plantain in Charles consult with Lava and Thierry Draft document developed by task force bridging West and describing role of Innovate Plantain – NCS leading CORAF, NCS, Central Africa Other proposed members of task force verify task force with CARBAP, Nigeria, DR Congo, CARBAP, RTB willingness to collaborate in developing CORAF and RTB and national proposal for Innovate Plantain role - programs of message to NCS (Adiko) by NIHORT, CARBAP, plantain in INERA, RTB WCA Bridging approach of InnovatePlantain see presentation by Dr Sangaré in the meeting documents

Proposed members:  NCS/CNRA – coordinator/facilitator/leader

 CARBAP – regional center of excellence

 CORAF – umbrella organization providing institutional context for networking and innovation approach

 RTB – Bioversity, IITA and CIRAD

 Nigeria/NIHORT – representing country programs in West Africa

 DRC/INERA – representation of country programs in Central Africa

Functions to be considered for Innovate Plantain with a regional perspective  Lobbying and advocacy for plantain research and development investments

 Promotion of innovation perspective and approach through platform

 Coordination, animation among diverse entities NCOS WAAP platform – CARBAP regional center of excellence – RTB multi- country projects

 Resource mobilization

 Capacity building