Transcript Stammbaum der BLE

Activities in the frame of rural development
and foodsecurity - Federal Office for
Agriculture and Food (BLE)
Sentinel-2 Preparatory Symposium, 25.03.2012
Henning Knipschild, BLE,
BLE – Federal Office for Agriculture and Food - Germany
PG 530 “Global Food Security and International Cooperation”
Rural development and foodsecurity
General farm information
Intercropping Crop rotation
66%
Total croped
area (ha)
55%
1,15
Cows
Goats
1,4
2,1
Farm Animals
Number
The BLE – Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food
within the area of BMELV - Federal Ministry of Food,
Agriculture and Consumer Protection
Inter-institutional
German working group
on foodsecurity
Higher Federal
Authorities
Separate Legal
Institutes
Federal Research
Institutes
Separate Legal
Research Institutes
etc.
Allocation
Recipients
etc.
Selected activities of the division
„International Cooperation and Global Food Security”
 data availability
Bottlenecks
 data accessability
1. Research and knowledge transfer
& dialogue with target groups
2. Statistics networks
3. Centre for German
Geodata management at BLE
1.1. ARD - Agricultural Research
for Development - definitions
 ARD was defined as Agricultural Research generating
knowledge to trigger Development (i.e. in countries of the
South).
 This definition also accounts for the fact that research, which
is funded through ARD programmes, but does not contribute
towards development and production in the South, may not
meet the demand of the ARD definition and the MDGs.
1.2. ERA-ARD – Research coordination
 ERA-ARD is an ERA-NET, i.e. a European
coordination instrument .
 Maximizing the EU contribution to achieving the
Millennium Development Goals.
2012: Austria, Belgium, France,
Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland and
Turkey publish a call in support of ARD:
“Improving rural livelihoods in SubSaharan Africa: Sustainable and
climate-smart intensification of
agricultural production”
Drivers and mechanisms in
EU Programmes (2006)
Group
Type of funding
mechanisms
Support to IARCs
1) EU policy
driven
programmes:
Support to NARCs
2) Knowledge
Calls for EU led
driven
research
programmes:
Drivers - Initiating
Organisations
Ministries of Foreign
Affaires and
Cooperation
Ministries of Agriculture
Programmes
(%)
29
47
18
Ministries of Science
and Education
20
20
Grants and fellowships
3) Southern
centred
programmes
University partnerships
and courses
Calls for DC led
research
Ministries of Foreign
Affaires and
Cooperation, Ministries
of Science and
Education, Foundations
[i] ERA-ARDI: 2006, Descriptive synthesis of ARD Programmes, BLE (DE)
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1.3. Research dialogue
Cooperational projects between
FARA and BLE in Knowledge
Management:
 dialogue among actors e.g.
African scientists, policy makers,
extension workers
 in close cooperation with the
subregional research fora
ASARECA, SACD, CORAF
eRails: the African portal on Agriculture
www.erails.net
Actors publish their research-blog
www.erails.net
Question & Answer Service (QAS)
www.runetwork.org
• Farmers publish
QUESTIONS via
internet
• demand driven
Information &
Knowledge
Management
• information need
assessment
• mapping farming
practices
Question & Answer Service (QAS)
www.runetwork.org
Demand driven & tailored information service
Information
offer
Producer/
Information
client
Filter
• Information
not filtered &
packaged
• information
dissemination
not scalable
Question
Extension / NGO /
Farmers Assoc.
FARMER
Local
level
Expert
Information needs and interests: some
some results from the QAS in Uganda
Farmers‘ interests: questions classified according to product group
The Voucher System:
Concepts to fund demand driven KM
Supply driven versus demand driven.
Subsidy of Supply
Financing agency
Subsidy of Demand
Financing agency
Service provider
Target group
Target group
Service provider
Legend
Flow of funds
Information flow
Products of interest (for RS) ?
 Farmers provide data for household survey.
 farming practice of single farmer is known.
 geographic position of farmer is registered with a
GIS camera.
 agroecological zone is characterized by expert .
 archives with answers are provided (printouts in
folders) .
 radio programmes in local languages provide
summaries.
 local people are trained to participate.
 15 SSA countries
2. Joint research and data appraisal
Information
system:
shared data,
harmonized
algorithm, joint
road map
 Statisticians and scientists
jointly work on network
platforms on the internet
 the platforms support
experts to collect and
classify information
 GIS interfaces allow
management of distributed
data
 the database calculates
jointly developed algorithms
 data is openly accessible
www.aphlis.net
Postharvest losses
Country : Kenya
Province : Coast
Climate : Semi-arid climate (BSh)
Year : 2007
Crop : Maize
RESIMAO – official market
information system of the CEDEAO
3. Centre for geodata management at BLE
 BLE manages data for crisis decisions at German level
How can information contribute to
improved rural development ?
In the words of the Agricultural
Innovation System (AIS, Worldbank)…
INTEGRATION & NETWORKING & OWNERSHIP
• An innovation system is a network of
organizations and individuals bringing new products and
new processes into economic use.
• Locating agricultural research within an AIS is a
means of heightening the performance of research systems
through improved articulation with demand, more effective
institutional partnerships and better market integration.
Scale up to local level?
Demand driven & tailored information service
EO in
cooperation with
Food security
Statistics and
Research
Information
client
Filter
dialogue
RS data transfer
Data on farmers
and information needs
Scale up to local level?
Demand driven & tailored information service
 Open Source
EO in
cooperation
with Food
security
Statistics
 joint framework (like in the Integrated Food
Security Phase Classification (IPC). Shared
definition for the levels of intervention.
 joint „warning“ to policy and scientists
(like AMIS, IPC).
 information packaged for different clients.
Outcome of CFS Monitoring Food Security:
 short messages for policy makers (e.g.
countrybreefs foodsecurity)
 capacity development for partners in
SSA
Scale up to local level?
Demand driven & tailored information service
EO in
cooperation
with Food
security
Statistics
 Funding into Agriculture for Development is
on the agenda and funding seems available.
 But: the financial crisis causes instability
in many institutions.
 Maybe this is the time to come up with a
road map for EO in support of rural
development
Extrapolation for rural development ?
EO in
cooperation
with Food
security
Statistics
 a combination of data from RS and
statistics provide a basis for extrapolation.
 data on farming practices complement
RS information.
Thank you!
Henning Knipschild
PG 530 - International Cooperation and
Global Food Security
Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE)
Deichmanns Aue 29, 53179 Bonn, Germany
Telefon: +49 (0)228 6845-3538
E-Mail: [email protected]
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