Transcript PICS Next Steps Crop Immediate Next Steps: • Follow up on workshop: – Purdue PICS team will compile rapporteur reports and share with participants. – Workshop.

PICS
Next Steps
Crop
Immediate Next Steps:
• Follow up on workshop:
– Purdue PICS team will compile rapporteur reports and
share with participants.
– Workshop materials on the PICS Lessons Learned
Workshop website. Purdue PICS team will be
contacting speakers for approval to post pdfs of the
power point slides.
– JSPR Guest Editor Larry Murdock will compiling a
list of authors proposing manuscripts for the special
issue.
– All participants communicate thoughts, comments and
suggestions to the workshop technical committee.
Intermediate Term Next Steps:
Before the 2012 Cowpea Harvest
• Plans for the 2012 cowpea storage season:
– PICS bag orders
– PICS vendor meetings and meeting with cowpea value
chain stakeholders
– Media plans
– Discussions with large scale buyers (e.g. WFP, NGOs,
Food Security Agencies, traders).
• Short run plans for PICS bag production and
distribution in East Africa and Asia
• JSPR manuscripts written and submitted by July 15.
• Annual Report/Final report by June 15
Longer Term Next Steps
• Decisions about
– Management of PICS trademark?
– In West & Central Africa, continuing exclusive PICS
distribution agreements for a country or region?
– Commercial organization for PICS in “new regions”?
– Adapting the PICS technology and business model to
new stakeholders (e.g. grain traders, food security
organizations, farmers producing for household use).
– Participation of the PICS team in new funding
opportunities?
Long Term
• Building on the PICS Lessons Learned what
should we be doing for:
– Supply chain development of other ag inputs (e.g.
seed, fertilizer, pesticides, machinery)?
– Post harvest handling of food other than grains:
• Dried fruits & vegetables, nuts, etc.?
• Dairy products?
• Meat?
– Food processing?
– Management of cowpea field pests (e.g. Bt cowpea)
Vision for the Future
• PICS is part of a worldwide movement toward
commercial smallholder agriculture
• Lessons learned in the PICS project are widely
applied to ag enterprises far beyond cowpea
• Skills and experience of “The PICS Family”
are applied through the world to improve food
security and livelihoods.
Comments and Suggestions to:
• Technical Committee:
– Jess Lowenberg-DeBoer – [email protected]
– Larry Murdock – [email protected]
– Dieudonné Baributsa – [email protected]
– Tahirou Abdoulaye - [email protected]
– Ibrahim Baoua - [email protected]
• Workshop Coordinators:
– Katy Ibrahim – [email protected]
– Heather Fabries – [email protected]