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General information
| Innovation ID | 652 |
| Version ID | 507 |
| Innovation Title | Integrated and adaptive delivery system for climate-resilient common bean varieties |
| Innovation description | To adapt to pandemic-related challenges affecting delivery of common bean technology, two innovative solutions were implemented: (1) a farmer service center (FSC) managed by trained core farmer entrepreneurs, and (2) capitalizing on digital tools to sustain bean value chains. The FSC model empowers a mobilizer group trained to provide extension services (inputs+ information) within bean corridors. Digitalization of bean value chains helped data gathering and research, farmer access to technical information, and digital payment solutions. |
| Reporting Staff | Jean Claude Rubyogo (ABC) |
| Year (Reporting) | 2020 |
| Reporting status | Approved |
| Innovation Type | Research and Communication Methodologies and Tools |
Stage reached
| Stage of Innovation | Stage 4: uptake by next user |
| Year (Stage) | 2020 |
| Stage Description | This innovation has been implemented and adopted by farmer groups, NARS partners, and other implementing partners to sustain unhampered delivery of new common bean technologies + technical support, and relevant adaptive technologies in the bean value chain in Burundi, DR Congo, Kenya, and Tanzania. |
| Next User Organization | NARES/NARS,CBOs (Community based organizations) and farmers' groups |
| Has a lead organization | yes |
| Lead Organization | Alliance Bioversity International-International Center for Tropical Agriculture |
| Top 5 contributors | Pan-Africa Bean Research Alliance |
Contributions and mapping
| All partners | |
| Main CRP | CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals |
| Flagship project | FP6-Common Beans for Markets and Nutrition |
| Cluster | 6.4-Common Beans for Markets and Nutrition CoA 4 |
| Other CRPs-Flagships-Clusters |
Scope
| Geographic scope | National |
| Regions | |
| Countries | Burundi,Democratic Republic of the Congo,Kenya,United Republic of Tanzania |
Targeted outcomes
| Main Sub-IDO | Increased household coping capacity to cope with shocks |
| Other Sub-IDO | Increased access to productive assets, including natural resources |
| Other Sub-IDO | Increased availability of diverse nutrient-rich foods |
Evidences
| Evidences | Bundling inputs and agricultural extension services in a gender equitable manner to increases bean production in the lower Rift of Kenya -. (2020, September 23). https://www.pabra-africa.org/bundling-inputs-and-agricultural-extension-services-in-a-gender-equitable-increases-bean-production-in-the-lower-rift-of-kenya/ [https://www.pabra-africa.org/bundling-inputs-and-agricultural-extension-services-in-a-gender-equitable-increases-bean-production-in-the-lower-rift-of-kenya/] Capitalizing on digital tools to sustain bean production, trade and consumption amidst COVID-19 -. (2020, August 17). https://www.pabra-africa.org/capitalizing-on-digital-tools-to-sustain-bean-production-trade-and-consumption-amidst-covid-19/ [https://www.pabra-africa.org/capitalizing-on-digital-tools-to-sustain-bean-production-trade-and-consumption-amidst-covid-19/] |
Linked Elements
| Milestones | 7077-175-35223 - Researchers developed four multi-stakeholder bean business platforms with partners using the corridor model to support trade.
7077-175-35224 - Capacity training completed with partners with 750 male and female entrepreneurs and farmers. 7101-175-35433 - 9,000 tons of seed of climate-resilient bean varieties produced and disseminated by partners. |
| Outcome Impact Case | Climbing bean technology that upscaling from Rwanda increases availability of nutrient-dense food among 90,000 families as it conquers bigger share of bean area in Burundi https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766.1/aef5b4 |
| Policy |