GOAL: Enhanced food and nutritional security, improved livelihoods of rural communities and agricultural sector growth in the countries of West Asia and North Africa (WANA) in the face of increasing climatic variability and change

PURPOSE: Deliver pro-poor scientific and technological innovations to increase and stabilize the productivity of wheat and food legume based production systems in the dry areas of WANA

8 countries of WANA region directly involved :(Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, Turkey)Different components are considered1. Seed component (seed delivery system)2. Technology dissemination3. Socio-economic surveys and studies4. Backup research for technologies development and adjustement5. Capacity Development

Seed Delivery Systems

1. Wheat and faba bean seed system study (policy, variety release, seed production and market, quality assurance, seed value chain) was conducted in Morocco and report will be discussed with stakeholders in Open Workshop organized in the Agriculture Fair of Meknes in 2015

2. Communities based seed enterprises/groups targeting mainly food legumes are established: 5 mobile seed cleaning and processing units were provided to serve 5 farmers communities Morocco (Merchouch), Tunisia (Boussalem), Sudan (Eddamer, Hudeiba), Algeria (Constantine) and Jordan (Maru region)

3. Several varieties of food legume and wheat were recently released by NARS. They are increased by the project for dissemination

Seed Delivery Systems

Clean treated seed

Original seed before processing

Crops Number of Varieties Increased

Amount of breeder and Pre-Basic seeds produced (T)++

Durum wheat 15 27.7Bread wheat 14 258.9Chickpea 19 382Faba bean 18 73.7Lentil 17 19.2Total* 83 761.7

Breeder and pre-basic seed increase in 2013/14 within ICARDA-EU-IFAD Project

475 tons of 53 varieties of faba bean, chickpea and lentil produced with NARS partners and will be increased and distributed to

farmers for dissemination in 2014/15

53 FL var. 475 T

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2013 & 2014 data showed an average increase of around 21% in yield of farmers applying recommended package (RP).Adoption survey done in 2014 on 700 farmers showed that :

-Farmers applying recommended package saved 2670 EP/ha (370 USD/ha)-24 % of surveyed farmers adopted the FB variety GIZA 843 (tolerant to orobanche)-Net margins of farmers applying RP is 540 USD/ha higher than farmers following TP

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Performance of Chickpea improved varieties with recommended package in Sudan in 2013/14 (Gezira state)

For chickpea data of 2013 and 2014 showed that the Yield is doubled in demonstration fields applying improved package with substantial increase in net benefit

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Many programs have released varieties applying participatory approach involving farmers mainly in food legumes:

In 2013:- 2 faba bean varieties (Shendi and Merowe) in Sudan- 1 chickpea variety (Rebha) in Tunisia

In 2014:- 4 chickpea varieties (FLIP03-59C, FLIP03-50C,

FLIP01-37C and FLIP01-6C) in Sudan

Several other wheat and food legumes lines are selected for further testing in Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, Jordan

Participatory Variety Selection

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Socio – Economic Studies

Work is in progress • Around 1300 farmers surveyed in Morocco in 2013• Around 700 farmers surveyed in Egypt in 2013 and 2014• The other countries conducted a survey in the project regions in 2014

• Gender survey is conducted in Morocco in 2014

Type of training

Numbers Nb of direct Beneficiaries

Countries

FFS 19 FFS

Around 2000 direct beneficiaries

Egy, Sud,Tun, Leb, Mor, Tur

In-Country Courses

15 in 6 countries

Around 365 participants

Egy, Sud, Alg,Leb, Mor, Tur

Field days 370 Around 6100 participants

Alg, Egy, Jor, Leb, Mor, Sud, Tun, Tur

Total Around 8500

Training activities achieved by NARS partners in 2013/14 season

FFS In Sudan

Capacity Development

Electronic newsletter of the projectH.E. Dr. Lassad Lachaal, Tunisia’s Minister of Agriculture, talking to farmers and research staff and to media

Governor of Al Sharkia (Egypt) visiting one the project farmer

President of ARC Sudan talk to media about the project achievements

Linkages and Seed

Morocco: successful collaboration, links and synergy between OCPF initiative on Food Legumes with EU-IFAD, CRP-GL and CRP-DS; 3 seed machines support seed activities of the three projects. Sudan: need more collaboration between ICARDA-EU-IFAD and FS. Seed processing machine will be based in ARC Sudan (Hudeiba Research Station) and modalities of its use would be under the leadership of the Union of Farmers.

Algeria: ITGC will provide the seed machine to a small leader farmer (Constantine) hoping that this could drive more interest and investments from policy makers.

Tunisia: seed machine would be made available for a community of small farmers based in Boussalem that would facilitate access to agriculture inputs and services for the members (presently, farmers associated with the ICARDA- EU-IFAD, FS and CA projects).

Jordan: the seed machine will be managed by an NGO in the North of Jordan near Maru station of NCARE that would take care of servicing small farmers of the project target area.

IFAD Developmental ProjectsMorocco: Agricultural Value Chain Development Programme in the Mountain Zones of Taza ProvinceRural Development Project in the Eastern Middle Atlas MountainsTunisia: Agropastoral Development and Local InitiativesIntegrated Agricultural Development Project in the Governorate of Siliana (Phase II)Egypt: Promotion of Rural Incomes through Market Enhancement ProjectOn-Farm Irrigation Development Project in the OldlandsUpper Egypt Rural Development ProjectWest Noubaria Rural Development ProjectSudan: Seeds Development ProgrammeButana Integrated Rural Development ProjectJordan: Agricultural Resource Management Project - Phase IITurkey: Murat River Watershed Development ProjectArdahan-Kars-Artvin Development ProjectDiyarbakir, Batman and Siirt Development Project

Ideas for future collaboration with IFAD

• Integrate feed legumes and livestock: develop integrated innovation platforms for small holder farms to add value (community label products) of farm products.

• Scale-out the use of faba bean small seed to feed cattle (commonly used in North Africa to improve the quality of meat) and develop labeled products (particularly in Sudan). (ICARDA has selected several improved lines with low level of tannins that can improve the digestibility of FB).

• Scale-up and Scale-out the raised bed mode of sowing of faba bean initiated in 2013/14 in few demonstration fields in Egypt in EU-IFAD and CRP DS to cover more area in Egypt and Sudan since it gave a promising results (most of faba bean demonstration fields will be conducted under raised bed in 2014/15 within EU-IFAD in Egypt). • Establish new community based seed enterprises targeting mainly food and feed

legumes and providing them access to new varieties.• Adapt legislation to favour small seed enterprise and farmer produced and marketed seeds

• Disseminate the new varieties of FL mainly selected through PSV (Sudan, Morocco, Jordan, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt). • Extend CA in different countries for small holder farmers in

appropriate area by using low cost seeders through the IP• Use new CA on-farm platforms in Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia, Algeria

and Morocco created by ICARDA- EU-IFAD and other projects to monitor the advantages of CA.• Use new IPM options to reduce yield losses due to diseases and pest

such as seed dressing with new efficient chemicals.• Develop, improve and disseminate the machineries adapted to

small holder farmers of food and feed legumes (raised bed planter, pesticides sprayers, direct seeders, threshers, …)

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