1. SAA – Theme 1: Crop productivity enhancement A. Oswald, Nairobi, 29.06.2011

2. Goal: Sustainably increase productivity of small-scale farmers and improve their livelihoods Objective: Demonstrating to farmers new and improved technologies for crop production Improvingknowledge and skillsoffarmers Approach: Developing capacities of NAES Implementation of Farmer Learning Platforms Involvementof international and national researchinstitutions Involvementofotherstakeholders

3. Farmer Learning Platform: Capacity building: - extensionagents - lead/hostfarmers and communitybasedfacilitators - farmers - womenfarmers and otherunder-servedgroups Field demonstrations - Technology Option Plots (TOP) - Women AssistedDemonstrations (WAD) - Community Variety Plots (CVP) - Production Test Plots (PTP)

4. Farmer Learning Platform: 1. Planning sessions with NAES – national, regional, district level - selectionofregions and communities - selectionof NAES counterparts and EAs involved 2. Meeting SAA, EAs, farmers - introduction and needsassessment - technologyoptions - selectionoftechnologies, hostfarmers, CBFs 3. Input distribution

6. diversify contents;

7. use adequate tools;1 pre-season training of EAs by SAA – 2 day technologies, management, agronomic concepts, implementation of demonstrations, 1 pre-season training of farmers by EAs – 1 day technologies, management, agronomic concepts, implementation of demonstrations, Visits of EA to train and back-stop farmers during the growth period EA supervises TOP / WAD implementation and application of technology 1 mid-season training of EAs by SAA – 1 day 1 mid-season and training of farmers by EAs – 0.5-1 day Field days, exchange visits Evaluation of harvest, farmers and EAs Feed-back of SAA to EAs and farmers

8. Field demonstration plots for 1 FLP: 1 TOP - 2-3 WADs 1 CVP 500 m² Farmer‘s medium highpracticelevellevel 1000 m² medium level 800 – 1200 m² 4 cropswith 4 varietieseach

9. Farmer Learning Platform: PTP farmer - earlyadoptersofpartorcompletetechnologypackage - usetheirownresources - back-up and trainingby EAs or CBFs

10. TOP and WAD yields Uganda Ethiopia

11. Regional coverage in 2010:

12. Problems: - low ration of EAs to farming households - infrastructure and accessibility - input supply, accessibility and costs - EA motivation, turn-over rate, education - researchsupport - sustainability and scalability

13. Collaboration – research support - low-input technologies (effective 1st year) - fertilizer efficiency – fertility management - varieties - yield, resistance, nutritional quality - seed quality - pest & diseasecontrol - inputprovisionschemes - training, trainingmethods and trainingmaterials