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Innovation Platforms for Technology Adoption
Scaling up Dissemination and Adoption
of Agricultural Technologies using
Innovation Platforms—Lessons from
Eastern and Central Africa
Northern Zone Agricultural Research
and Development Institute
Scaling up Dissemination and Adoption of Agricultural Technologies
using Innovation Platforms—Lessons from Eastern and Central Africa
Innovation Platforms for Technology Adoption
Scaling up Dissemination and Adoption
of Agricultural Technologies using Innovation
Platforms—Lessons from
Eastern and Central Africa
Lydia Kimenye and Margaret McEwan
Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research
in Eastern and Central Africa
2014
Scaling up Dissemination and Adoption of Agricultural Technologies
using Innovation Platforms—Lessons from Eastern and Central Africa
© 2014 Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central
Africa
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Technologies using Innovation Platforms—Lessons from Eastern and Central Africa. ASARECA
(Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa), Entebbe.
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Innovation Platforms for Technology Adoption
Table of Contents
Abbreviations and acronyms.......................................................................................................................... v
Acknowledgements......................................................................................................................................... viii
Foreword......................................................................................................................................................... ix
Introduction............................................................................ 1
1.1 Background to the DONATA project.......................................................................................................... 2
1.2 Organization of the book........................................................................................................................... 3
PART 1: Approach and Processes............................................. 5
2. Innovation Platform for Technology Adoption (IPTA): Approach and Processes...................................... 6
2.1. An innovation system: theoretical contributions.......................................................................... 6
2.2 The IPTAs: initial concepts and approach...................................................................................... 9
2.3 How the crop technologies influence the nature of value chain................................................... 12
2.3.1 The influence of the nutritional characteristics of the crops
on formation of the platforms........................................................................................... 12
2.4 Formation of the IPTAs............................................................................................................................ 13
2.4.1 Drivers influencing IPTA formation..................................................................................... 13
2.4.2 Identification of value chain constraints............................................................................ 14
2.4.3 IPTA composition, governance and management.............................................................. 14
2.5 Uptake pathways..................................................................................................................................... 15
PART II: Country Experiences................................................... 17
Theme 1: Seed Systems....................................................................... 18
Introduction: Key Constraints and Issues in the Seed Systems for QPM and OFSP......................................... 18
Sweet potato Seed Multiplication Systems in Western Kenya: Use of
Innovation Platforms....................................................................................................................................... 21
Clean planting material production and dissemination of orange-fleshed sweet potato varieties in
Southern Ethiopia........................................................................................................................................... 29
The Role of Seed Systems in Improving Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potato Production
and Dissemination: Using the IPTA Approach in the Lake Zone of Tanzania................................................... 35
Quality protein maize (QPM) seed system in Tanzania under DONATA project.............................................. 44
Experiences on use of formal and informal seed system to facilitate increased
access to quality protein maize in Northern Uganda...................................................................................... 52
Theme 2: Grain and Roots Production................................................. 58
Introduction to key constraints and issues in the grain and root production
systems for QPM and OFSP............................................................................................................................. 58
Scaling out technologies for improved production of orange-fleshed sweet potato
under the DONATA project in Kenya............................................................................................................... 60
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Promotion of Orange-fleshed Sweet potato Production and Consumption in Northern
Uganda........................................................................................................................................................... 68
Improved quality protein maize dissemination and production in medium and low
altitude ecologies of Kenya............................................................................................................................ 75
The production of quality protein maize (QPM) grain in the Democratic Republic of
Congo............................................................................................................................................................. 81
Promotion of Quality Protein Maize in Northern Uganda: Experiences in the
Dissemination of New Agricultural Technologies in Africa (DONATA) using Innovation Platforms for
Technology Adoption (IPTA)........................................................................................................................... 86
Theme 3: Product Transformation, Marketing and Income.................. 91
Introduction to how the IPTA approach was used to promote value addition and
marketing of QPM and OFSP for improved incomes...................................................................................... 91
Sweet potato marketing initiatives under innovation platforms in eastern
and central Africa........................................................................................................................................... 93
Marketing of orange-fleshed sweet potato in Kenya under the DONATA project.......................................... 107
Processing and transforming sweet potato into different products: a case for Lira
District, Northern Uganda.............................................................................................................................. 116
Marketing Strategies for Orange-fleshed Sweet potato Products in the Lake
Zone of Tanzania............................................................................................................................................ 120
Identifying markets and potential markets for QPM-based products in Kenya.............................................. 126
QPM Product transformation in Tanzania under DONATA Project................................................................. 132
Theme 4: Nutrition and Health.......................................................... 137
Introduction to the key constraints and issues in nutrition and health for QPM
and OFSP......................................................................................................................................................... 137
Unleashing the potential of OFSP for nutrition and health: experiences from
Northern Uganda........................................................................................................................................... 139
The utilization of Quality Protein Maize and its impact on health in Democratic
Republic of Congo.......................................................................................................................................... 147
Sweet Potato in Rwanda: for Utilization, Health and Incomes under different IPTAs.................................... 156
PART III: Analytical Synthesis................................................. 163
Analytical Synthesis, lessons learned and guiding principles......................................................................... 164
Technical Support to the Platforms................................................................................................................ 180
Emerging guiding principles........................................................................................................................... 184
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Abbreviations and acronyms
ACKWRCCS Anglican Church of Kenya, Western Region Christian Community Services
ACMD African Cassava Mosaic Disease
ADP Area Development Programme (World Vision)
AEASA Agricultural Economist Association of South Africa
AIC African Inland Church
AFANET Aboke Farmer Field School Network
AFRST Agency for Sustainable Rural Transformation
AfDB African Development Bank
AIS Agricultural innovation systems
AKIS Agricultural Knowledge Information Systems
AMPV Projet d’Appui à l’Amelioration de la Production Vegetale
APSKO Association des Producteurs de Semences du Kasai Oriental
APVC Agricultural Product Value Chain
ARD Agricultural Research Development
ARDAP Appropriate Rural Development Agricultural Programmes
ASA Agricultural Seed Agency
ASS Appui au Secteur Semencier
ASARECA Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and
Central Africa
BDS Business Development Services
BMI Body Mass Index
CBO Community Based Organization
CBSD Cassava Brown Streak Disease
CDM Catholic Diocese of Muranga
CENADEFRUC Centre National de Developpement de la femme rurale au Congo
CIMMYT International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
CIP International Potato Centre
CML CIMMYT Maize Line
CGIAR Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research
CGIFD Camkwoki Grassroots Initiative for Development
CREADIS Community Research in Environment and Development Initiatives
CRS Catholic Relief Service
DALDOs District Agricultural and Livestock Development Officers
DED District Executive Director
DETREC Development Training and Research Centre
DRC Democratic Republic of Congo
DONATA Dissemination of New Agricultural Technologies in Africa
ECA Eastern and Central Africa
FARA Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa
FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
FAOSTAT Food and Agricultural Organization Statistics
FCI Farm Concern International
FFS Farmer Field School
FPPM Food Production, Processing and Marketing
FTC Farmer Training Centre
GAP Good Agricultural Practices
GFE Grain and Flour Enterprises
GOK Government of Kenya
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GM Genetically Modified
GMO Genetically Modified Organism
Ha Hectare
HEFO Health Foods
HKI Helen Keller International
IAR4D Integrated Agriculture Research for Development
INERA Institut National pour l’Etude et la Recherche Agronomiques
IP Innovation Platform
IPTA Innovation Platform for Technology Adoption
I.S.E.A Institut Supérieur d’Etudes Agronomiques
ISTM Institut Supérieur des Techniques Medicales
KACE Kenya Agricultural Commodity Exchange
KARI Kenya Agricultural Research Institute
KEPHIS Kenya Plant Health Inspection Service
KH Kenya Hybrid
KHCP Kenya Horticultural Competitiveness Project
KIWAMMU Kikundi cha Wakulimawa Mbegu Muheza
KST Kolping Society of Tanzania
LZARDI Lake Zone Agricultural Research and Development Institutes
M&E Monitoring and Evaluation
MAHUDE Majasio Human Development
MICS: Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey
MNPSCL Mid-North Private Sector Company Limited
MOA Ministry of Agriculture
MoH Ministry of Health
MOU Memorandum of Understanding
MRHP Mwanza Rural Housing Programme
MSME Micro Small and Medium Enterprise Consult
MT Metric Tonne
MMA Medium Mid-Altitude
MNPSCL Mid North private Sector Company Ltd.
MoAL&F Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries
NAAPE Nen Anyim Agro Processor’s Entrepreneur
NARIs National Agricultural Research Institutes
NARO National Agricultural Research organization
NARS National Agricultural Research Stations
NCPB National Cereals and Producer Board
NEHCIP Nabwabini Environmental Health care intervention project
NFFSN Ngetta Farmer Field School Network
NgeZARDI Ngetta Zonal Agricultural Research and Development Institute
NGO Non-Governmental Organisations
OFSP Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potato
OPV Open Pollinated Varieties
PALWECO Programme for Agriculture and Livelihood in Western Communities
PMCA Participatory Market Chain Approach
PRESAR Projet de Réhabilitation du Secteur Agricole et Rural
PS Primary School
PMS Primary Multiplication Site
PSTAD Promotion of Science and Technology for Agricultural Development
PVS Participatory Variety Selection
QDS Quality Declared Seed
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QPM Quality Protein Maize
RAB Rwanda Agriculture Board
RAILS Regional Agricultural Information and Learning Systems
RDA Recommended Daily Allowance
REFSO Rural Energy and Food Security Organization
RUCEC Rural Community Empowerment Centre
RFA Radio Free Africa
RTNC Radio Télévision Nationale du Congo
SENASEM Service National des Semences
SIDO Small Industry Development Organization
SLEM Support to Local Economy in Mwanza
SMS Secondary Multiplication Sites
SPVD Sweet Potato Virus Disease
SROs Sub-regional Research Organizations
SSACP Sub-Saharan Africa Challenge Programme
TAHEA Tanzania Home Economics Association
TBS Tanzania Bureau of Standards
TCRS Tanzania Catholic Refugee Services
TFDA Tanzania Food and Drug Authority
TMS Tertiary Multiplication Sites
TOSCI: Tanzania Official Seed Certification Institute
ToT Trainers of Trainers
TRAC-MINISANTE Treatment and Research on Aids, Malaria, Tuberculosis and other
epidemics
URCS Uganda Red Cross Society
URCSL Uganda Red Cross Society Lira Branch
USAID United States of America International Development
VC Value Chains
VITA Vitamin A for Africa
VAD Vitamin A Deficiency
WHO World Health Organization
WS Western Seed
WV World Vision
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Acknowledgements
This publication is an output of a joint effort between the Association for Strengthening Agricultural
Research in Eastern (ASARECA), scientists from the National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS) and
their local partners from six countries: Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda
and Uganda, and others from the International Potato Centre (CIP) and the International Maize and Wheat
Improvement Centre (CIMMYT) who provided technical backstopping inputs to the NARS teams. The publication
would not have been possible without their inputs and support from several other individuals and organizations.
The authors deeply appreciate the coordination and administrative support from the ASARECA Secretariat,
which led to the successful implementation of the DONATA project and documentation of the experiences
and lessons presented in this book. Special thanks go to Dr Lydia Kimenye, Programme Manager, Knowledge
Management and Upscaling (KMUS), for her technical guidance and leadership throughout the implementation
of the project and production of the book. Many thanks to the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA)
for the coordination and technical support provided throughout implementation of DONATA. Especially, the
authors are grateful for the elaboration and insights on the IPTA approach, which they gained during regional
experience sharing events convened by FARA.
The authors are deeply indebted to the stakeholders, farmers and other value chain actors engaged in the
orange-fleshed sweet potato and quality protein maize commodities, NGOs, schools, health and nutrition
centres among other actors from the various IPTAs who provided information including testimonies shared
during platform experience-sharing events and through other channels. They are very grateful to Dr. Geoffrey
Tusiime who guided the authors in the early stages of developing the countries’ papers through internal reviews.
Many thanks go to Barry Pound, a Visiting Fellow, University of Greenwich (Natural Resources Institute), UK for
an excellent review of the book. They are grateful for the editorial support by Nichola Knight. However, the
authors bear full responsibility for the content.
DONATA is part of the broader Africa-wide project known as the “Promotion of Science and Technology for
Agricultural Development (PSTAD)”, which was supported by the African Development Bank (AfDB). The book
has been produced with funding from the AfDB and administered through FARA. The contents of this document
are the sole responsibility of ASARECA and her implementing partners and can in no way be taken to reflect the
views of the AfDB.
Lydia Kimenye
Programme Manager, Knowledge Management and Upscaling, ASARECA
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