ICARDA is an international organization undertaking research for development. We provide innovative, science-based solutions for countries across the non-tropical dry areas. Our research aims to reduce poverty and enhance food, water, and nutritional security and environmental health, in the face of global challenges, including climate change.
The project is about improving the adoption of innovative agricultural technologies for the livestock-barley system in semi-arid Tunisia (governorates Zaghouan and Kairouan). As its name tells, it is about shrinking the gap between the innovative technologies developed under research and the amount of adoption of such ones.
Dr. Hloniphani Peter Moyo is a rangeland ecologist with experience in systems analysis research. His research investigates how ecosystems respond to fluctuations in climate over long periods, in addition to utilization and disturbance levels.
Dr. Moyo holds a Ph.D in tree ecophysiology and a master’s degree in rangeland ecology from the University of Fort Hare in South Africa.
Udo Rudiger joined ICARDA’s Tunisia office in 2016 as a CIM expert and innovation specialist, with more than 25 years-experience in development. Rudiger previously worked for the German Development Service in West Africa, and from 2006 until 2015 supported agricultural value chain projects for the International Fertilizer Development Center in Togo and Rwanda. He studied international agriculture at the University of Witzenhausen in Germany, receiving his master’s degree in 1989.
Dr Werner/ Jutta is a Rural Development scientist, with 17 years of experience in (list your main scientific research subjects)
Main scientific research subjects are:
• Development of sustainable agropastoral land use management systems in conflicting environments by means of local use agreements
• Design and implementation of Natural Resource Governance and Rangeland Land Tenure Programs,
• Watershed Development and Adaptation to Climate Change
• Value Chain Development
• Design and Implementation of Rural Development Projects for the International Development Cooperation in Africa, MENA region and Asia
• Designing and Teaching Post Graduate training courses in Rural Development, Natural Resource Management, World Nutrition Economics, Project Planning and Results Based Monitoring
She holds a PhD in Agronomy (summa cum laude) from Humboldt-University Berlin (Germany) and a Master of Arts (MA) in Economics from Technical University Kaiserslautern (Germany)
She serves as a Scientist for Rangeland Management and Rangeland Ecosystem Services
Prior to joining current institution, Dr. Werner was employed for 6 years as a Senior Scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH) where she developed training courses in the fields of rural development, adaptation to climate change, project management and results based monitoring. Further, she was engaged in research and consultancy assignments for ministries and various actors of development cooperation.
During three years, she was a policy adviser at Ministry of Agriculture in Chad and managed the component “natural resources management” of a rural development programme (German International Development Cooperation, GIZ).
Further, she was developing for GIZ a scientific basis in order to determine appropriate measures to implicate pastoralists in sustainable land management projects in dry areas in Morocco.
Dr. Werner has a Postgraduate Certificate in International Development Management from Humboldt University, Berlin (Centre for Advanced Training in Agricultural and Rural development, SLE).
Dr. Werner/Jutta has authored and co-authored more than X peer-reviewed publications, including book chapters, conference papers, etc.
Dr. Jutta Werner has published several policy oriented papers, book chapters and evaluation reports for the German and Swiss Development Cooperation
She is an active member of several scientific and professional associations, such as….European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE)
Her current research interests focus on addressing key issues related to environmental change and/or food security in drylands pastoral and agro-pastoral ecosystems including how management practices, land tenure and governance affect the quality and quantity of these services. Further, her research interests focus on assessments of ecological impacts such as impact of climate change on rangelands.
The goals of this project are: to establish an impact-oriented agricultural services (governmental, private services and NGOs) , to upscale tested results (which will be described in the manual), to improve acess to relevant agricultural services especially for female farmers and eventually to increase agricultural productivity in a sustainable way.
The objective is to address this research gap through developing and testing new and existing models of transferring sustainable technology packages to smallholder farmers.
The scientific interest of the present research proposal is to test new and existing models of technology transfer rigorously and to evaluate them (output 1) . The 700 female and male farmers participating in the experiments will receive specific improvements. Through the different combinations of improved access to inputs, technical information and or market information, according to the respective treatment group, the female and male farmers will be able to reduce their forage costs by improved forage yields and forage production technologies. Further, farmers will be able to increase their income by selling more and better quality lambs through improved sheep production and feeding technologies (Output 2) as well as by reducing their transaction costs through improved access to retailers and a market price information system (Outcome 1). This will lead to increased agricultural productivity within the group of the 700 participating farmers (Goal 4). However, the scientific interest goes far beyond these specific improvements for the farmers directly participating in the research. The aim is to compare adoption, productivity and income (as outcome variables) in order to evaluate the most cost-effective technology transfer options (Output 1). Based on this evaluation a strategy for the Tunisian government is developed on how to increase and facilitate the adoption of innovative agricultural technologies in a cost effective and gender sensitive way (Output2). Based on the results of the evaluation of the RCT experiment a manual, brochures and blogs are elaborated and published. The information of the policy manual will be published on the web as well as the similarity maps that will facilitate scaling to other WANA countries. The results of the RCTs are further published in peer-reviewed journals as well as in policy briefs and presented at conferences and workshops .The strategy developed, the web based manual and the publications will initiate a process of organizational learning and discussions within the CGIAR system, the NARES agencies, within the GIZ agricultural program, the GIZ innovation center and with other development stakeholders on how to organize technology transfer in a more cost-effective way (Outcome 1). Based on the organizational learning process agricultural services (governmental, private services and NGOs) will be able to apply more cost-efficient and results oriented technology transfer strategies (Goal 1). It is also expected to initiate other RCT experiments in other WANA and/or Sub-Saharan Africa countries to test other model components of innovative technologies in order to scale the results (Goal 2). The ultimate goals are to increase smallholder farmers' access to relevant agricultural services and to improve farmers' access (especially female farmers) to innovative technologies (Goal 3). This will increase agricultural productivity and make use of underutilized agricultural potentials (Goal 4) and lead to more stable and higher per capita income for intensifiable households for at least 56,000 indirect beneficiary households within the communities of arid and semi-arid Tunisia. However by scaling the results to the entire WANA region, even more female and male farmers can be reached (CRP 1.1, IDO 2).
Author: Boubaker Dhehibi
Date: 2019-07-01
Author: Boubaker Dhehibi
Date: 2019-04-14
Author: Hloniphani Moyo
Date: 2019-04-14
Author: Udo Rudiger
Date: 2018-11-30
Author: Hala Khawam
Date: 2017-04-01
Author: Quang Bao Le
Date: 2018-12-15
Author: Boubaker Dhehibi
Date: 2018-03-07
Author: Jutta Werner
Date: 2016-08-26
Author: Ileana Diaz
Date: 2017-12-10
Author: Jutta Werner
Date: 2016-08-30
Author: Udo Rudiger
Date: 2016-08-26
Author: Udo Rudiger
Date: 2016-10-20
Author: Udo Rudiger
Date: 2016-11-13
Author: Boubaker Dhehibi
Date: 2019-01-07
Author: Boubaker Dhehibi
Date: 2019-05-27
Author: Udo Rudiger
Date: 2017-03-15
Author: Udo Rudiger
Date: 2018-12-17
Author: Boubaker Dhehibi
Date: 2018-09-18
Author: Boubaker Dhehibi
Date: 2018-09-18
Author: Boubaker Dhehibi
Date: 2019-09-09
