Technical Report Sustainable Intensification of Key Farming Systems in the Sudan and Guinea Savanna of West Africa 01 April to 30 September 2013 Submitted to United States Agency for International Development (USAID) October 2013 Contact Person: Dr Irmgard Hoeschle-Zeledon Project Coordinator
[email protected] The Africa Research In Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation (Africa RISING) program comprises three research-for-development projects supported by the United States Agency for International Development as part of the U.S. government’s Feed the Future initiative. Through action research and development partnerships, Africa RISING will create opportunities for smallholder farm households to move out of hunger and poverty through sustainably intensified farming systems that improve food, nutrition, and income security, particularly for women and children, and conserve or enhance the natural resource base. The three projects are led by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (in West Africa and East and Southern Africa) and the International Livestock Research Institute (in the Ethiopian Highlands). The International Food Policy Research Institute leads an associated project on monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment. This document is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License Contents i Partner’s ii Summary 5 1. Introduction 6 2. Achievements during the reporting period 7 2.1. Research Output 1 (RO1): Situation analysis and program wide synthesis 8 2.2. Research Output 2 (RO2): Integrated systems improvement 9 2.3. Research Output 3 (RO3): Scaling and delivery 11 3. Cross-cutting activities 3.1 Capacity building 4. Meetings and workshops 12 5.