Main achievements of the CLCA project
in the 3 countries
3rd Coordination and Project Closing Meeting (CPCM°
Amman – Jordan
04th – 06th April, 2016
Faiza Djellakh
Coordinator of CLCA project - Algeria
Institut Technique des Grandes Cultures
Component 1: Ex-ante evaluation for CA based
technologies (socio-economic)
4
Socio-Economic Achievements vs activities
Activity
A1
Summary
Activity
Status
Outputs
Collect relevant secondary data
Completed
Secondary data collected
and documented
Design and piloting of household level (farmer)
questionnaires
Completed
Original copy of the
questionnaire
Completed
Translated copies (in
English and French for
Tunisia and Algeria and
English, Tajik and Russian
for Tajikistan)
Completed
Several trainings in each
platform
Completed
Questionnaires tested and
validated
completed
Three databases available
on CD
Development of baseline English (Tajik, Russian, French) translation of
data on farming and tillage questionnaires
practices, crop choices, and
farmer perceptions, in the Recruitment & training of enumerators
target regions. New farm Pre-test questionnaires
surveys will be conducted Actual data collection, entry and cleaning (1164
using a representative
surveys)
random sample of the
• Tunisia: 364
farming community
• Tajikistan: 400
including data on crop • Algeria: 400
residue management, Workshop methodological training
feeding strategies,
• Tajikistan team (2 trainees – 1 female)
resource flow maps for ex- • Algerian team (10 trainees – 7 females)
ante analysis
Preparation of descriptive statistics and reporting
Capacity Building
Completed
Minutes available
12 trainees (8 females)
Completed
Three reports available
(one per each country)
Completed
Two reports completed
Component 1
4
Socio-Economic Achievements vs activities
Activity
Summary
Status
Outputs
A2
The short and long term agronomic benefits of CA options will be
Completed
systematically solicited from farmers, researchers and extension staff
Three reports
available (one per
each country)
A3
An economic evaluation, including a financial risk assessment, will be made of
the CA technologies and tradeoffs that farmers face. This will be based on
comparing farmers who are using CA with those who are not, and controlling
for other factors. Further analysis will be done by simulating the effects CA
adoption on the whole farm resource allocation and income effects
This activity was
deleted during the
2014 technical
annual meeting
A4
Optimal livestock production and CA cropping systems will be determined for
readjusted during
Readjusted/
different farming systems and households under different costs and price Completed the 2014 technical
annual meeting
scenarios and risk coping capabilities
Deleted
This activity was
A5
A6
The adoption of CA technologies will be monitored with follow up surveys and
Completed
constraints and determinants of adoption determined
Identify gendered limitations and advantages that can promote adoption of
conservation agriculture and determine if conservation agriculture will
increase labor burden on women. Survey data and direct interviews of men Completed
and women will provide insights into this important aspect. Recommendations
specific to any negative effects on women will be fed back to the research and
policy
Three reports
available (one per
each country)
Three reports
available (one per
each country)
Component 1
Component 2 : Enhanced crop-livestock integration in CA
through optimized stubble grazing strategies and
increased fodder availability
Planned activities
I.
On-station (Years one and two at Setif and Bourebiaa) and the 30
on-farm stubble grazing experiments (multi-year, 15 initiated in
Year two and an additional 15 initiated in Year three), crop residue
off-take through different grazing strategies will be measured.
II.
Grazing strategies will be evaluated with regard to meeting the
sheep nutritional requirements.
III. The effect of nutrient recycling (urine and fecal excretion) on soil
fertility and crop productivity will be assessed. Too ambitious for
the lifespan of the project.
IV. Fast growing high biomass and quality fodder (shrub) species and
forage legumes will be tested on-station and on-farm for
compatibility with annual crops.
V.
Appropriate feeding strategies will be developed for utilizing these
species in fodder for improving livestock productivity.
Achievements
Stubble grazing trials
On-station
2013
Algeria
1
2014
2
2015
2
Tunisia
1
1
1
Total
2
3
3
Forage grazing trials
On-farm
2013
2014
2015
12
(15
ha)
26
(24
ha)
12
On-station
2013
2014
2015
Alley cropping grazing trials
On-farm
2013
2014
2015
1
1
1
1
1
27
1
1
1
6
(10
ha)
6
On-station
2013
2014
1
2015
1
16
(22
ha)
16
On-farm
2013
2014
2015
5
(ha
)
3 (3
ha)
2 (2
ha)
1
5
Constraints
• Late start of the project in 2013 and late delivery of the non-till
seeders; improvised on-station summer grazing experiments in
Tunisia and Algeria. This deprived the project team from 1 year
comprehensive data;
• CA is new to Tajikistan and therefore the focus was only on
implementation of CA agronomic trials without integration of the
animal component;
• The vis-à-vis in Algeria is ITGC mainly working on cropping activities
with no livestock specialists in their team and no livestock in their
experimental stations;
• Difficulties to implement grazing experiments with farmers on
experimental plots as the measurements are quite labor intensive
and require disciplined farmers; heterogeneity of animal categories
between farms for cross references and comparisons;
• Operating in an unstable political and social environment in a postrevolutionary context in Tunisia.
Component 3 : Site-specific CA technology packages fine-tuned and
disseminated for enhanced farm productivity, resource use
efficiency and profitability
Agronomic
undertaken
PLANNEDactivities
ACTIVITIES
• Algeria
o Weed control with herbicides
o Rotation trials
o Seeding date trials
o Demonstration direct seeding
o Alley cropping trial
• Tunisia
o Determination of optimal wheat seeding rate under CA (on-farm trial)
o Determination of optimal N fertilizer rate for wheat under CA (on-farm trial)
o Determination of optimal N fertilizer rate for wheat under CA (on-station
trial)
o Disease assessment (Tan spot) on wheat under ConvA and CA (on-station
trial)
• Tajikistan
o Irrigated winter wheat and double cropped mung bean
o Rainfed winter chickpea trial
o Planting methods and winter wheat varieties (Irrigated) trial
o Forage legumes and cereal rotation trial
o Alley cropping trial
o Demonstration direct seeding
ACHIEVEMENTS
Country
2013/14
2014/15
Total
Algeria
12 on farm
1 on station
29 on farm
1 on station
43
Tunisia
4 on-farm
2 on-station
16 on farm
2 on station
24
Tajikistan
6 on farm
4 on station
3 on farm
5 on station
18
ACHIEVEMENTS ALGERIA
2013/14
# of farms
2014/15
# of farms
Total
Weed control with herbicides
5
4
9
Rotation trials
2
2
4
Seeding date trials
-
3
3
Introduction to direct seeding
-
17
17
Alley cropping
5
3
8
Activities
Adoption area of conservation agriculture under
IFAD/CLCA project in Tajikistan
Component 4 – Knowledge management and
dissemination of the CLCA in CWANA region
Achievements
• Multidisciplinary approach (agronomist, social scientists, livestock scientists,
forage scientist, etc.)
• Knowledge sharing and dissemination North Africa and Central Asia
• Information on integrated crop-livestock under CA in semi-arid conditions
collected and shared
• IFAD CLCA project was the first to introduce CA, alley cropping in Tajikistan
• Change in policy in Tunisia as CA is taken up as part of the national strategy
• Group training courses: 29 courses benefiting 471 trainees
• Field days: 18 events targeting 1,113 farmers and 2 seminars (>70
participants)
• Students: 5 Ph.D., 4 M.Sc. and 8 undergraduate students
• Media: 2 Movies, 2 TV broadcasting and 1 blog
• Publications: 12 conference papers, 3 manuscript published and 2 in
press/progress
• 10 Flyers, 10 posters, 2 factsheets
• Almost 60 visits were made by ICARDA scientists over the 3 years
• 1 service provider established in Tunisia (Field day on 26 April 2016)
Summary Group Training Courses by Component
500
Number of Events
471
Total # Participants
400
300
232
200
148
77
100
11
0
9
4
Component # 1 Component # 2 Component # 3
5
14
General
29
Total
Group Training Courses by Country
Group Training Courses by Country
140
120
No Participants
115
Female
100
80
70
61
60
42
27
Tunisia
Jordan
Algeria
Tunisia
Tajikistan
Algeria
Jordan
1
3
0
1 0
3
0
0
2
13
Tunisia
4
20
17
Jordan
10
14
Tunisia
5
10
14
Tajikistan
13
26
20
Tajikistan
24
20
40
34
Algeria
40
3
General
FieldField
days days
by country
1200
Number of Field days
1113
Total # Participants
1000
800
600
502
421
400
190
200
0
7
4
Algeria
Tunisia
7
Tajikistan
18
Total
Students Involvement
6
5
Component 3
2
2
2
2
1
Algeria
0
Tunisia
0
0
0
Undergraduate
0
0
Graduate Students
0
Undergraduate
0
Graduate Students
0
Undergraduate
0
1
Tajikistan
0
Graduate Students
3
0
Component 2
4
4
1
Component 1
5
Web Links
Videos (Tajikistan)
o English: http://www.cac-program.org/news/detail/416
o Russian: http://www.cac-program.org/ru/news/detail/417
o Videos section: http://www.cac-program.org/video
Video on Youtube (Algeria)
o Arabic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI254EcfDzs
Blog at ICARDA website (DryWire) (Tunisia) :
o http://www.icarda.org/drywire/issue-3.html#a2
Media: Interviews with farmers
Algeria
Tunisia
Thanks for your attention