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Plums are appreciated for fresh consumption and also for dehydration and processing in the different forms (jams, compotes, jellies, candied fruits, frozen fruits, liqueurs, brandy, etc.) [6].
Plums are the fruits with the highest nutritional value, having a high content in carbohydrates, minerals, and vitamins that stimulate the body’s health [3, 7].
Fresh fruits contain sugar (16–20%), proteins (0.7%), lipids (0.28%), pectins and tanoid substances, etc. Dehydrated fruits have a high content in sugar in competition with figs and jujube (Table 1).
Water content % | Pectic substances (%) | Fat substances (%) | Carbohydrates (%) | Calories | ||||||
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Flesh fruits | 87 | 0.7 | 0.28 | 16-20 | 75 | |||||
Dehydrated fruits | 28 | 2.1 | 0.6 | 65-70 | 255 | |||||
A | B1 | B2 | B6 | C | Ca | P | Fe | Na | K | |
Flesh fruits | 350 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.5 | 10 | 12 | 18 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 170 |
Dehydrated fruits | 1600 | 0.09 | 0.17 | 0.2 | 3.0 | 51 | 79 | 3.9 | 8.0 | 604 |
Chemical composition of plums.
Recent studies at Tuft University, Boston, have shown that dehydrated plums have the highest antioxidants content, contributing to the neutralization of free radicals and thus to the prevention of cancer.
The therapeutic and prophylactic value of plums has been known since ancient times; they have alkalizing, mineralizing, laxative, diuretic actions.
Plum genetics and breeding have been reviewed over time by different specialists: Cullinan (1937), Weinberger (1975), Ramming and Cociu (1991), Okie and Weinberger [8], Okie and Ramming [9], Okie and Hancock (2008), Hartmann and Neumuller (2009), Neumuller (2010), Topp et al. [5], Butac et al. [10], Milosevic and Milosevic [3]. During the time, in the plum breeding programs, these researchers change different knowledge, breeding techniques, biological material, etc.
Currently the world area planted with plum is 2,619,471 ha, which is up from the 1980s. Of the continents, the largest plum growing are Asia (2,125,006 ha) and Europe (353,919 ha) (Figure 1).
Production share of plums and sloes by region: average 1994–2017. Source: [
The situation in the countries is as follows: China 1,987,284 ha; Serbia, 72,024 ha; Romania, 66,680 ha; and the USA. 25,500 ha (Table 2).
World/country | Surface (ha) | Production (thousand tons) |
---|---|---|
Asia | 2,125,006 | 8201 |
Europe | 353,919 | 2199 |
SUA | 25,500 | 423 |
China | 1,713,600 | 5664 |
Romania | 66,680 | 434 |
Serbia | 72,024 | 330 |
Turkey | 21,385 | 292 |
France | 16,958 | 205 |
Italy | 12,676 | 207 |
Ukraine | 18,000 | 200 |
Spain | 15.199 | 172 |
Russian Federation | 36,442 | 146 |
Republic of Korea | 7495 | 83 |
Republic of Moldova | 15,955 | 76 |
Bosnia Herzegovina | 38,081 | 74 |
Poland | 14,344 | 58 |
Bulgaria | 6805 | 49 |
Hungary | 7980 | 43 |
Germany | 4191 | 24 |
United Kingdom | 640 | 13 |
Area and production of plums in the world and in major growing countries.
In the world production, plum has about 2%, practically a modest place. As a temperate species, it still occupies the fourth place, after the apple, pear and peach, in this area. Plum production increased to 11,758,135 tons in 2017 (Figure 2). Due to the main contribution to this growth, Asia has practically become the largest producer of plums (8201 million tons, respectively, 69.75% of the world production), followed by Europe (2199 million tons, respectively, 18.70% of the world production), the USA (423 million tons), etc. (Table 2). It should be noted that while the average plum yield in Asia increased, the one in Europe has decreased by 5%.
Production/yield quantities of plums and sloes in the world (total): 1994–2017. Source: [
According to data reported in December 2019 by FAO Yearbook, the largest producing countries (in thousand tons) are China (6804), Romania (434), the USA (423), Serbia (330), Turkey (292), Italy (207), France (205), Ukraine (200), Spain (172), the Russian Federation (146), the Republic of Korea (83), the Republic of Moldova (76), Bosnia and Herzegovina (74), Poland (58), Hungary (43), Bulgaria (49), and Germany (24) (Table 2).
China is the country with the fastest development in the plum production, but the major producers of plums, from
Plums belong to the genus
Species | Common name | Origin | Chromosome number | Subspecies/varieties |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Cherry plum, Myrobalan | West Asia, Balkans (Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece), Caucasus | 16 (24, 32, 48) | ||
Italian plum | Italy, Serbia | 16 | – | |
Garden plum, European plum | Europe, West Asia | 48 | – | |
Bullace, damson, mirabelle, reineclaude (gage plum) | Europa, West Asia | 48 | ||
Taurus plum | Asia | 16 | – | |
Japanese (Chinese) plum | China | 16 (32) | – | |
Apricot plum, Simon plum | North China | 16 | ||
Blackthorn, sloe | Europa, North Africa, West Asia | 32 (16, 24, 48) | – | |
Ussurian (Manchurian) plum | China | 16 | – | |
Common wild plum | East USA, to the Rocky Mountains | 16 | ||
Chickasaw plum | USA (New Jersey to the Florida); Illinois, Texas | 16 | ||
Hortulan plum | USA (Kentucky, Tennessee to the Iowa, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana); Alabama | 16 | ||
Beach plum | USA (Virginia) | 16 | ||
Big-tree plum | USA, Mexico | 16 | ||
Wild Goose plum | USA (Texas, Ohio, Kentucky) | 16 | – | |
Canadian plum | Canada, USA | 16 |
Plum has a large spreading area. According to Vavilov’s research, there are three spreading centers for plum species: Euro-Asian, North American, and East Asian [13].
In the Euro-Asian center, the following species are present:
In the North American center which starts from the Gulf of Mexico and the West coast of the USA to Canada in the North, the following species are spreading:
The third center, East Asian, includes the following species:
From this large diversity, the most important species in commercial orchards are European or domestic plum (
The European plum is the most important plum in Europe, but it is also grown on other continents. The origin place of this species is Caucasus Mountains near the Caspian Sea [3]. These species grown in cooler areas can be divided into several groups considering the fruit characters: plumes, prunes, greengages or reineclaudes and mirabelles [16].
Crane and Lawrence [17] suggested that
For European plum, the plum fruits are round to oval, in different sizes and colors; the flesh is juicy, soft, and mostly clingstone; and the ripening time is earlier than those of prunes, but there are also some exceptions [16].
Japanese plum has its origins in China (Yangtze River Basin), but for about 2000 years, it has been cultivated in Japan [1]. This species grew in warmer areas. It was imported to California in North America by Hough in 1870. The famous plum breeder Luther Burbank started his breeding in 1875 using all species available and produced thousands of seedlings and selected a lot of varieties [16]. The fruits are various, mostly large and firm with yellow base color overlaid by red and purple, very attractive, designated for the fresh market [1, 14].
Breeding new plum cultivars needs to anticipate the future requirements from the growers, market, and consumers.
A large number of breeding programs are developed in many countries from Europe (Table 4). Some of plum breeding programs have been reduced or stopped in the countries where production has declined or funding is no longer available. At the same time, some breeding programs became more private with less public funding [22].
Country | Breeding centers | Breeder | Objectives |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
Romania | Research Institute for Fruit Growing, Pitesti Fruit Growing Research Station, Valcea Research Station for Fruit Growing, Bistrita | M. Butac M. Botu I. Zagrai | - Improvement of old cvs. Tuleu gras, Grase romanesti, Vinete romanesti - Fruit quality - PPV resistance - Ripening season extension - Self-fertility |
Serbia | Fruit Research Institute, Cacak Faculty of Agronomy, Cacak | N. Milosevič I. Glisič T. Milosevič | - Improvement of old cv. Pozegača - Fruit size and quality - Ripening time - Resistance to PPV - Productivity |
Germany | University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart Hochschule Geisenheim University | W. Hartmann M. Neumuller H. Jacob | - Fruit quality - PPV resistance by hypersensitivity |
France | INRA, Bordeaux | R. Bernhard R. Renaud | - Fruit quality - PPV resistance by transgenic plants |
Italy | University of Bologna University of Firenze University of Forli Private program | S. Sansavini E. Bellini V. Nancetti A. Liverani | Japanese and European plum breeding program: - Fruit quality - Fresh consumption - Resistance to PPV |
United Kingdom | East Malling Research Station, Kent | K. Tobutt R. Jones T. Laxton | - Late blooming - Frost resistance - PPV resistance |
Bulgaria | Fruit Growing Institute, Dryanovo Fruit Growing Institute, Troyan Fruit Growing Institute, Kyustendil Fruit Growing Institute, Plovdiv | V. Bozhkova A. Zhivondov | - Late blooming - Extended ripening period - Fruit quality - Resistance to PPV |
Latvia | Latvia State Institute of Fruit Growing, Dobele | E. Kaufmane I. Gravite L Ikase | - Winter hardiness - Low vigor - Precocity - Fruit quality - Self-fertility - Early ripening |
Belarus | Institute for Fruit Growing, Minsk | Z. Kazlouskaya V.A. Matveev M. Vasiljeva | - Fruit quality - Frost resistance |
Republic of Moldova | Research Institute for Horticulture and Alimentary Technologies, Chisinau | M. Pintea, A. Juraveli | - Frost resistance - Fruit quality |
Czech Republic | Research and Breeding Institute of Pomology, Holovousy | J. Blazek | - Fruit quality - Sharka tolerance |
Poland | Research Institute of Horticulture, Skierniewice | T. Jakubowski E. Zurawicz J. Dominikowski E. Rozpara Z. Grzyb J. Szymanski | - Fruit quality - Productivity - PPV resistance |
Russia | North-Caucasus Zonal Horticulture and Viticulture Research Institute, Krasnodar Krymsk Experiment Breeding Station, Krymsk Far East Experiment Station, Pavlovsk, St. Petersburg Maicop Experiment Station Krasnodar Region Volgograd Experiment Station, Krasnoslobodsk | R. S. Zaremuk E. M. Alekhina G. Eremin | - Winter hardiness - Fruit quality - Productivity |
Sweden | University of Agricultural Sciences, Balsgard | I. Hjalmarsson, V. Trajkovski | - Short period of vegetation - Fruit quality |
Norway | Ullensvang Research Centre Division Njos, Lofthus | S.H. Hjeltnes | - Fruit quality - Good storage |
Hungary | Research and Extension Centre for Fruit Growing, Ujfeherto | T. Lakatos | - Fruit quality - Processing |
The breeding objectives are general and specific. The general objectives include the following:
Productivity
Fruit quality
Disease resistance, especially to plum pox virus.
The special objectives concern the following (Table 3):
Late blooming and frost resistance in United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Moldova, and Belarus
Winter hardiness in Latvia, Belarus, Moldova, Russia, Sweden, and Norway
Short period of vegetation in Sweden
Good storage in Norway
Extended ripening period in Bulgaria and Romania
Self-fertility in Latvia and Romania
Eighty percent of all breeding activities are carried on by
There are several breeding methods:
Conventional methods:
Selection
Hybridization
Mutagenesis
Biotechnological methods:
In vitro cells and tissue culture
Induction of somaclonal variations
Somatic hybridization
Genetic engineering
Conventional breeding methods are still largely used in the majority plum breeding programs, and the most important of these are intra and interspecific hybridization and open pollination. These methods contributed in a substantially way to modify the genetic structure of quantitative traits of new plum cultivars and rootstocks [3, 10, 20, 28].
Intraspecific hybridization steps are parents’ choice according to the breeding objectives, isolation and emasculation of flowers from the mother parent, collecting pollen from father parent, artificial pollination, control of fruits set, pick up of hybrids fruits, extracting the hybrids stones, and cultivation of seedlings.
Out of artificial sexual hybridization, several variants have been utilized: simple crossing, double crossing, pyramid type crossing, recessive crossing (back cross), and diallel crossing [29].
Between 1950 and 2000, most plum varieties have been created by intraspecific simple crossing (A × B): ‘Stanley’ (‘d‘Agen’ × ‘Grand Duke’) in the USA; ‘Valor’ (‘Imperial Epineuse’ × ‘Grand Duke’) in Canada; ‘Čačanska Lepotica’ (‘Wagenheim’ × ‘Pozegača’), ‘Krina’ (‘Wagenheim’ × ‘Italian Plum’) in Serbia; ‘Jojo’ (‘Ortenauer’ × ‘Stanley’) in Germany; ‘Centenar’ (‘Tuleu gras’ × ‘Early Rivers’) and ‘Roman’ (‘Tuleu gras’ × ‘Early Rivers’) in Romania, etc. [2, 29].
Using double crossing, in Romania, the ‘Valcean’ plum cultivar was obtained [‘H8-12’ (‘Renclod Althan’ × ‘Wilhelmina Spath’) × ‘H 5-23’ (‘Renclod Althan’ × ‘Early Rivers’)] [2, 29].
In the last 25 years, the pyramidal type cross [(A × B) × C] was more utilized.
Thus, in Romania, using this type of crossing, several varieties were registered: ‘Minerva,’ ‘Sarmatic,’ ‘Pitestean’ [‘Tuleu timpuriu’ (‘Tuleu gras’ × ‘Early Rivers’) × ‘Early Rivers’] [2, 29].
In the last years, the interest for obtaining complex genotypes has increased, and for this reason, the interspecific hybridizations have been used.
Initially, interspecific hybridization was used to improve plum rootstocks. Thus, the plum rootstock ‘Ishtara’ is a complex interspecific hybrid between
Within the European FP 7 project, a breeding program for the creation of rootstocks with resistance to plum pox virus was carried out. Thus, at the Technical University of Munich, the ‘Dospina 235’ (
In Romania, there were crossed varieties belonging to the
Hybridization between diploid species (
In recent years, fruits of plum hybrids obtained from interspecific crosses have appeared on the world market:
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Regarding clonal selections, these have been done into the old plum orchard from Romania with ‘Vinete romanesti’ cv., and the following clones were obtained: ‘Vinete românești 300,’ ‘Vinete românești 303,’ and ‘Vinete românești 4.’ Clonal selections produced also several rootstocks: ‘Oteșani 8,’ ‘Oteșani 11,’ and ‘Voinești B’ [7, 29].
Mutagenesis was applied also in Romania on buds and seeds, using gamma radiations (Co−60) and X-rays (Roentgen). For examples, the Romanian plum cultivars ‘Alina’ and ‘Tita’ have been obtained through irradiation of ‘Tuleu gras’ seeds with X-rays [19, 29].
In recent years, genetic engineering and biotechnologies have an important role in plum breeding.
Thus, in vitro culture techniques are used to obtain rootstocks virus free. Also, the protocol for pollination and fertilization in vitro of some plum varieties was elaborated during the many years of investigations. For pollination in vitro, it is important to take the non-pollinated flowers at the stage of ovule receptivity for pollen tube. The ovules of ‘Sweet Common Prune’ were pollinated with pollen of ‘Stanley.’ Excised ovules were placed on white medium with 15% of sucrose and pollinated with pollen extracted from anthers. The fertilized ovules should be cultivated in the test tubes, in complete darkness, at a temperature of 25°C, for 60 days. After 7 days, percentage of growing embryos was determined [33, 34, 35].
Embryo culture is used to create varieties with very early ripening. Results in this direction had Gercheva and Zhivondov [36] taking immature embryos from the ‘Burmosa’ (
Molecular markers have a wide range of possible applications in plum breeding using markers such as RAPD and AFLPs [5]. In plum, gene transfer was applied especially for resistance to plum pox virus in order to create plum cultivars resistant to PPV. The PPV-CP (coat protein) gene was isolated, sequenced, cloned, and used for
Germplasm collections are a major source of plant genetic diversity, which have an effect to improve crop. Collection, conservation, and evaluation of plant genetic resources are the most important conditions for breeding program. Plant breeders use these genetic resources in hybrid combinations because they are looking for new traits to be included into new varieties [1, 2, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47].
The existing ex situ collections can be a source of genes potentially useful as material in breeding work or sources of cultivars for a sustainable production.
In Europe there are a lot of plum genetic resources preserved in ex situ collections from about 30 countries.
A large number of plum accessions (estimated to be 4500) are kept in Russia and adjacent states, in four experimental stations located in different climatic conditions coordinated by Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry, Saint Petersburg. From this total, 2325 accessions (about 1600 original Russian cultivars) belong to
Other European countries that have a large number of plum accessions are Belgium (616), Hungary (579), France (555), Italy (506), Bulgaria (377), the United Kingdom (380), Switzerland (326), Nordic countries (324), the Czech Republic (276), Portugal (263), Serbia (249), Turkey (232), Latvia (223), Germany (165), etc. [48, 49].
In Romania there are plum collections in two centers: RIFG Pitesti and UCv-SCDP Valcea. Ex situ conservation of accessions is done by different methods: conservation in the field collections (at RIFG Pitesti and UCv-SCDP Vâlcea), conservation in plastic containers, and cryoconservation, at −196°C, in liquid nitrogen (at UCv-SCDP Valcea) [50, 51, 52, 53]. The plum cultivar collection at RIFG Pitesti, established in 1997, includes 550 accessions, and the plum rootstock collection, established in 2009, includes 92 accessions. The plum collections at SCDP Vâlcea, established in 1989, 1993, and 1996, include 361 accessions (species, cultivars, and rootstocks). So, from the total of 1003 accessions (cultivars and rootstocks), 34 are species and interspecific hybrids, 407 are local cultivars, 476 are foreign cultivars and rootstocks, and 86 are other genotypes (biotypes, hybrids, mutants, etc.). Most of the accessions belong to
The observations and measurements in ex situ collections were done according to the IBPGR
Most of these genetic resources have been evaluated and included in a European
From the ex situ collections, local varieties are very valuable, and many of them are characterized with good adaptability to environmental factors, high productivity, high resistance to pests and diseases, and fruits rich in nutrients necessary for human nutrition and different diets [54, 55].
The observations and determinations carried out over the years in the germplasm collections have revealed potential genitors with valuable traits for achieving the objectives from plum breeding programs.
The only efficient way to fight against this virus is to develop resistant or tolerant cultivars. The following can be used as a gene source for the resistance to plum pox virus (Sharka): ‘Popesti,’ ‘Vieneze,’ ‘Roman,’ ‘Cisnadie,’ ‘Lachi,’ ‘Alina,’ ‘Ungurești,’ ‘Cioraști de Prahova,’ ‘Flora,’ ‘Negre de Saru,’ ‘Negre de Bilcești,’ ‘Krimska,’ ‘Peche,’ ‘Chabat,’ ‘Hüttner,’ ‘Belle de Liege,’ ‘Kirke,’ ‘Marry Mather,’ ‘Giant plum,’ and ‘Condata’ [53].
In Germany, at Hohenheim University, Stuttgart, Professor Hartmann achieved very good results on the PPV resistance line, surprisingly, by using the ‘Stanley’ variety as a parent. An “absolute resistance” through hypersensitivity (HR—hypersensitive reaction) was identified in the ‘Jojo’ variety obtained from the cross between the ‘Ortenauer’ and ‘Stanley’ varieties [16, 68].
Zagrai et al. [42] showed that transgenic plants, with incorporated coatprotein (CP) genes, through mediation with the bacterium Agrobacterium tumefaciens, confer protection against Sharka [42]. A transgenic clone, C5 (named ‘Honeysweet’), was also studied under the conditions of different countries from Europe, remaining free of PPV after years of testing [42].
A large number of breeding programs are developed in different countries from Europe. Some of the plum breeding programs have been reduced or stopped in the countries where production has declined or funding is no longer available. At the same time, some breeding programs became more private with less public funding [10, 22].
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Adaptation to climate change by small-scale farmers is considered an important part for the climate solution agenda [1, 2]. This is specially the case in the Sahel where food security is tenuous and becoming more so due to rising temperatures and more episodic precipitation [3, 4]. Awareness of this situation is not new, and several farming technologies were identified and modified that allow rural households to cope with increased risks through reliance upon improved crop varieties, more efficient water harvesting, protection of soil quality and participation in well planned, systems-level improvements to their agro-ecosystems [5]. Indeed, isolated cases of successes are documented and used as the basis of designing larger, subregional projects [6] intended for the joint purpose of increasing food and nutrition security in ways that constitute climate action by legions of small-scale farming households [7, 8].
All rural development projects require inclusive and active participation by the public and private sectors, and the client farmers themselves, because local organizations acting through public works and as customers of proven production inputs represent a complete package toward change. Rural development projects are often financed by sovereign loans from International Financial Institutions (IFIs). It is the design and implementation of these projects that prove difficult. In some cases, countries receiving sovereign country loans rely upon suboptimal, existing technologies and are reluctant to involve what they perceive as overly expensive international partners. In other cases, it is not the technologies that are flawed, but rather the manner that they are bundled as solutions, because effective interventions seldom require only one new technology but rather balanced sets of accompanying production inputs and innovative practices [9]. In yet other cases, it is not the solutions that are inadequate, but rather their manner of deployment, often in expectation of too rapid adoption [10]. Complicating this arena is the growing recognition that small-scale farming households are both victims of climate change yet offer the means to effect corrective actions when offered the opportunity and incentive to do so [1].
Dryland farming is the dominant mode of livelihood across the Sudano-Sahelian zone of Africa, a transition zone about 400–600 km wide that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean in Senegal to the Red Sea in Djibouti and Indian Ocean in Somalia [11]. Climate-smart solutions and modernization of technologies are critical to improving agriculture in the zone. The Sahel is home to a population of about 110 million persons, the majority of whom rely upon agriculture through the cultivation of about 30 million ha. Landscapes are flat to gently undulating and rainfall at theses latitudes is concentrated in a single growing season between June and September, with a total annual precipitation of only 150–600 mm that is often deposited by only a few heavy storms. Daytime temperatures often exceed 40°C. The natural vegetation ranges from semi-desert in the north to woody grassland in the south. Millet is widely grown in the Sahel and Sudanese zones, but so too is sorghum and maize. New varieties of wheat can be grown too, particularly during the cooler months [12]. Semi-nomadic pastoralism is widely practiced and overgrazing has led to extensive land degradation and desertification. Rice cultivation is possible in some areas, most notably the valleys of major rivers, and represents an important crop in household diets and livelihoods. The adjoined Sudanese Zone receives greater rainfall (600–1200 mm per year) but is confined to a 2–3 month window and its farmers are faced with similar challenges to crop production as their neighbors in the Sahel [5].
Agricultural production in the Sahel is perilous because of severe and cyclical droughts [13]. Other soil limitations exist due to low water-holding and nutrient retention capacities and soils are often sandy and acidic [14]. Because of their unfavorable soil physical properties and low nutrient reserves, soils of the African drylands present a challenge to farmers [15]. Clearly, farmers in the Sahel are acutely aware of drought as a chronic risk and are prepared to adjust their cropping strategies accordingly. Population densities in the agricultural areas remain relatively low, with 0.5–1.5 ha available per capita. Land availability alone does not assure rural prosperity in the Sahel owing to the poor crop productivity resulting from low rainfall and chronic risk of drought. Despite the severe conditions experienced by farmers in the Sahel, large opportunities are available for employing improved soil and water management technologies, including those important to climate actions [5].
The Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation Program (TAAT) deploys proven technologies to African farmers, including those in the Sahel. TAAT arose as a joint effort of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) and is a crucial component of the latter’s Feed Africa Strategy [10]. It is organized around 15 “Compacts” that represent priorities and partnerships to achieve food security in Africa and advance its role in global agricultural trade [16]. TAAT operates a Regional Technology Delivery Infrastructure that offers a menu of tested and proven food production technologies for nine priority commodities to program partners and stakeholders. These technologies are bundled into “technology toolkits” [17] that are included within country projects and deployed through extension campaigns. These technologies include improved crop varieties, seed systems innovations, accompanying soil fertility and pest managements, harvest and postharvest handling, digital applications, and value addition processes [18], providing Regional Public Goods that attract broad public interest and recognizable benefits. TAAT offers a unique collaborative platform where government, international donors, private actors, and nonstate actors committed to advancing transformative agricultural technologies connect with those who need them most, particularly within programs addressing agricultural production and rural development. It offers a mechanism for the development community to buy into proven technical advances [19]. This paper describes how TAAT’s technologies are of benefit to the Sahel and how they may be better integrated within climate action efforts.
Solutions are available that assist farmers in the Sahel to increase productivity and achieve food security while also being able to tackle environmental challenges posed by drought, land degradation, and climate change. The solutions are based on greater access to proven technologies that remain under-recognized, inadequately delivered or too difficult to access. Once mobilized, however, key technologies may be bundled into toolkits offering solutions to those seeking to modernize and transform dryland agriculture by combining improved crop varieties, more effective water conservation practices and proven approaches for soil fertility management [9, 17]. Cereal improvement in the Sahel focuses upon millet, sorghum, maize, and wheat that are both drought- and heat-tolerant [20]. Better water management achieves water storage from contour bunds, water harvesting within zaï pits, diversion of seasonal floods, and small-scale irrigation schemes [21, 22]. Practices for integrated soil fertility management involve rotation with legumes, fertilizer micro-dosing, strategic timing of nitrogen application and effective use of organic resources [14]. Larger-scale impacts are achieved through transition from open fields to agroforestry parklands, improved rangeland management and other climate actions specifically targeted to semiarid agro-ecologies. It is essential that these technologies become incorporated into larger rural development projects, but first they must be readily understood by development planners, extension supervisors, and business persons seeking to enhance the lives and livelihoods of farmers. The Sahel is one of the areas of the world that is unfairly penalized by industrial polluters in developed countries, and the impacts of climate change it suffers are not of its own making. Inclusion of these technologies into rural development projects, including those financed with sovereign loans from International Financial Institutions, and embedding them into country-level climate actions serve to correct this disparity.
TAAT offers 17 technologies useful to both rural development and climate action (see Table 1). These technologies are grouped according to their relationship to improved field crop varieties (four crops), better management of water resources (four technologies), relationship to integrated soil fertility management (four technologies), and possibilities for system-level improvement (five technologies). Not considered among these technologies is rice (
Technology objective | TAAT holder1 | Approach | Mechanism |
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Improved pearl millet | ICRISAT | Conventional breeding | Community-based seed production |
Improved Sorghum | ICRISAT | Conventional breeding | |
Drought-tolerant maize | AATF/IITA | Conventional breeding | Commercial hybridization |
Heat-tolerant wheat | ICARDA | Conventional breeding | Public-private partnership |
Bund walls | IFDC | Soil & water conservation | Community-based action |
Zaï pits | IFDC | Soil & water conservation | Farmer action |
Spate irrigation | IWMI | Seasonal water harvesting | Community-based action |
Small-scale irrigation | IWMI | Year-round cultivation | Commercial suppliers |
Fertilizer micro-dosing | IFDC | Better fertilizer placement | Extension information |
Strategic timing of N | IFDC | Improved fertilizer timing | Extension information |
Inoculation and BNF | IITA | Symbiotic N fixation | Commercial suppliers |
Organic resource management | IITA | Farmer-available resource | Farmer action |
Control insect invasions | IITA | Combat episodic pests | Public project leadership |
Overcoming | AATF/IITA | Eliminate soil infestation | Public project leadership |
Transition to parklands | IITA | Agroforestry intervention | Public project leadership |
Improved range management | ILRI | Combat land degradation | Public project leadership |
Local biogas | Clearinghouse | Alternative rural energy | Commercial suppliers |
A summary of TAAT’s 17 climate-smart dryland technologies.
TAAT lead partner organization (see TAAT website https://taat-africa.org).
These technologies relate to four cereal crops with unrealized potential in the Sahel: millet, sorghum, maize, and wheat.
Pearl millet (
Sorghum (
Considerable gains in maize (
The trait of heat tolerance is now incorporated into improved varieties of wheat (
These technologies relate to different forms of water management, including the design of small-scale irrigation systems.
Bunds refer to a micro-catchment technique where low raised walls are arranged in specific patterns on farmlands to collect and conserve water and to reduce soil erosion and gully formation [26]. Bund walls are constructed with soil and/or rock, either by hand or tractor. Designs of bund walls are adjusted to local conditions and sociocultural contexts, but the two main types are contour bunds (or contour ridges) and semicircular bunds (or half-moons). Contour bunds are suitable for uniformly sloping terrains with even runoff, and the retaining walls can stretch hundreds of meters across landscapes. Semicircular bunds operate in a more localized manner [21]. Installing contour bunds can increase grain yields of sorghum by 80% and maize by 300% compared to traditional land management without micro-catchment. Community works that stabilize slopes and better harness seasonal rainfall by constructing and reinforcing bunds are an important element of agricultural development projects in the Sahel.
Micro-catchment approaches to water harvesting in the Sahel include planting pits, locally known as zaï [15]. Zaï pits also rehabilitate crusted and degraded lands. These structures are made by digging shallow basins of 20–40 cm diameter and 10–20 cm deep into the soil. The pits are prepared during the dry season by farmers allowing the shallow holes to collect water, wind-driven soil particles, and plant debris [5]. Moisture becomes collected inside and below the pits that also serve as localized targets for soil fertility improvement. The technique can improve millet and sorghum production by 60–90% depending on precipitation and soil fertility. When properly managed, these pits become a permanent feature of the field that collects off-season or early rainfall.
Exploiting water from rivers and streams during the rainy season to fill channels and direct them to adjacent fields by construction of spates is a strategic small-scale irrigation system. Spate is an ancient approach but under some circumstances, it remains relevant today [5]. This system diverts water from normally dry riverbeds at the onset of seasonal rains and directs it to croplands, converting them into seasonal flood plains. Community consensus assures equitable distribution of these floodwaters, including those further downstream that also rely upon the same water. Managing floodwater is inherently difficult because of the power they hold, but the rewards to managing these waters in arid and semiarid areas are great, and for this reason, the opportunity exists in public support of spate irrigation as a localized civil engineering challenge.
Irrigation assures that the water requirements of crops are met and the development of community-based irrigation schemes is an essential component of agricultural development in the Sahel [5]. Irrigation consists of two phases, the first where water is diverted from its source and delivered to the vicinity of croplands, and the second where it is applied to fields in a scheduled and calculated manner. Application strategies vary with the volumes, quality, and pressure of water delivery and may be grouped into flood, furrow, sprinkler, and drip irrigation. Irrigation presents a key solution to addressing present and future crop production constrains due to the effects of climate change on weather patterns. Within the context of practical rural development, a focus upon small-scale irrigation schemes in addition to larger, more centralized schemes should be considered.
These technologies relate to more efficient use of mineral fertilizers, maximizing symbiotic biological nitrogen fixation and improved use of farmer-available organic resources.
Fertilizer micro-dosing is based on the application of small amounts of mineral fertilizer in a shallow hole about 5 cm away from the crop stem [15]. Micro-dosing is as simple as applying one bottle cap filled with 3–5 g of fertilizer to each planting hole and is best combined with the addition of organic materials, particularly composts and manures. The total amount of fertilizer used in micro-dosing can vary significantly depending on the planting density, ranging from 50 to 100 kg of fertilizer per ha. This addition results in healthier crops that are better able to counteract mid- and late-season drought as a means to adapt to increased climate variability. A well-timed dose of fertilizer results in increased crop yields ranging from 40% to 120%, providing high returns to modest investment. The micro-dosing technique significantly increases the use efficiency of nutrients and water, particularly when combined with other climate-smart practices such as zaï pits [5].
The key to achieving high crop yields and maintaining soil fertility is to apply the right fertilizers at the correct rate and time. Too often, timing is ill considered, particularly in relation to nitrogen (N) topdressing of field crops. Typically, N fertilizer is added to soils once or twice over the season, first as a pre-plant addition and second as a single topdressing, but more frequent and smaller doses are more efficient [27]. The basic principle of this approach is to apply a small quantity of N at planting and progressively add moderate amounts as topdressing during periods with sufficient rainfall when plant nutrient demand is largest. Farmers can top-dress N using readily accessible types of fertilizers such as urea and calcium ammonium nitrate, and the total application rate is based on yield targets and regional recommendations [5]. In some cases, N can be added just prior to, and worked into the soil during weeding, resulting in more efficient combined field operations.
Legumes are very important to the rainfed cropping systems of the Sahel, particularly cowpea (
A majority of soils in the Sahel are characterized by low water holding capacity and limited availability of plant nutrients because of their low clay and high sand content [15]. Farmers across these cereal-based drylands must better manage organic resources in ways that optimize limited rainfall and costly inputs of mineral fertilizer [13]. The maintenance of soil organic matter and carbon stocks is strongly determined by the amount of crop residues available for addition to soils and the competing need for livestock feed and stalks as cooking fuel and building material. Mulches that cover soil surfaces greatly reduce soil erosion, runoff, and evaporation, leading to about 70% increased cereal harvest. Incorporating fresh plant materials or animal manure is another option to compensate for unfavorable soil physical properties. At the same time, mineral fertilizers applied in conjunction with organic resources have greater nutrient use efficiencies. These examples of Integrated Soil Fertility Management illustrate the need for farmers to make best and balanced use of crop residues and other available organic resources [14].
Several systems improvements result in more resilient agricultural landscapes and are best implemented at the community or landscape levels including the control of insect invasions, elimination of parasitic striga, introduction of trees to open croplands, improvement to rotationally grazed lands, and the local production of biogas.
The Sahel is characterized by major invasions of insect pests such as the yellow desert locust (
The invasion of fall armyworm across cereal croplands throughout Africa, including the Sahel, also represents a major threat to food security [30]. TAAT offers a rapid response kit consisting of a custom-built cargo tuktuk, power sprayers, safety equipment, commercially recommended pesticides, farmer information, and communication materials [5]. Early control of armyworm is also achieved through maize seed treatment with Syngenta’s FORTENZA DUO, offering protection to maize crops up to 4 weeks after germination. Authorities in countries worst affected by fall armyworm are encouraging all maize seed producers to treat their seed with this product.
Striga is a parasitic weed-attacking cereal and other grass and invading cropland of the Sahel. The damage inflicted by striga begins underground where its roots enter the host, feeding on its nutrients and moisture and releasing toxins into the plant causing twisted, discolored, and stunted growth [31]. After feeding below ground for 4–5 weeks, a fast-maturing shoot emerges that produces attractive spikes of violet (
The agricultural community has responded by developing several new approaches to striga control. These approaches involve crop resistance to systemic herbicides, striga-tolerant cereal varieties, and striga suppression by nonhosts and trap cropping [32]. Farmers must become aware that striga infestation is a solvable problem and gain experience in the use of breakthrough technologies. Local and national authorities must fully recognize the threat posed by striga and prioritize efforts to overcome it within rural development agendas. By attacking this plant parasite through a combination of approaches, it is now a solvable problem and offers an important element of comprehensive rural development packages wherever this parasitic weed occurs.
Great potential for agricultural transformation exists through the conversion of open-field cropping to agroforestry parkland [33]. These parklands appear as well-spaced trees that protect the soil and contribute to soil fertility renewal. Because of these benefits, the crops that grow near or below these trees often perform better than those in an open field. Parklands also sequester significantly greater carbon stocks than open croplands in a way that mitigates emissions of greenhouse gasses. These increased carbon stocks may be 20 or 40 MT C per ha greater than that retained by open cropland and hold potential to sequester carbon into deeper soil horizons [34]. The agroforestry parklands that appear in the cultivated drylands are often the result of clearing trees rather than planting them, and this creates difficulty in carbon accounting, but when open cropland is purposefully transitioned to agroforestry parkland, the carbon gains are clear and attributable to the efforts from tree planting and protection [5].
Afforestation of open croplands is best practiced at the community level because of the demand for quality tree seedlings, the need to plant them at scale, and the collective responsibility to protect them until these trees are well established. Transitioning from degrading open cropland to productive agroforestry parkland should be considered within agricultural development efforts as sound from both the food security and climate action perspectives, noting that success also involves capacity development at the community and extension advisory levels.
Raising livestock is a critical enterprise across the Sahel but overgrazing has resulted in extensive land degradation [35]. Cattle, sheep, and goats are regarded as assets among pastoralists living in areas too dry for reliable farming, and strategies are available to improve the grazing and forages that these lands provide. Water harvesting technologies presented in this paper may be practiced on noncultivated lands planted with improved grasses and browse species, particularly near watering holes where animals are likely to concentrate during the dry season. Stover and stubble of cereal fields are grazed following the harvest of millet, sorghum, and maize, and these lands are then fertilized by the manure that is deposited. While this system is robust as long as rotational intervals are of sufficient length, these systems begin to degrade if cropping becomes to frequent. One means to strengthen the crop-livestock system is to improve these rotational pastures using either annual or perennial grasses. These grasses not only provide feed for livestock, but they provide ground cover that resists wind and water erosion.
Improved rangeland management falls into four general categories that are best applied in packages. Agronomic measures are associated with annual crops in a rotational sequence and are impermanent and of short duration. Vegetative measures involve the use of perennial grasses, shrubs, or trees and are of longer-term duration. Structural measures reduce erosion and capture water and may result in a permanent change in landscape. Management measures involve a fundamental change in land use and may be directed through policy intervention [35]. Improved rangeland management is best conducted at the community level where lands are collectively managed. This participation reduces the risks of conflicts between farming and livestock that often lead to larger social misunderstandings.
This technology refers to the production of combustible gas within small-scale digesters at the household level. It is based on the utilization of plant and animal residues as organic wastes that are decomposed in anaerobic tanks, forming methane and a digested slurry byproduct useful as an organic fertilizer and soil amendment [36]. Gasses rise and collect through an outlet for burning as cooking fuel and the sediments sink into sludge for later collection. Gasses may be produced in a variety of vessels located above- or belowground. These reactors may be fashioned from metal tanks, built from concrete, or purchased as complete units. Attraction to this technology is growing across the Sahel because of its socioeconomic and environmental benefits, and it has a proven ability to improve the lives of rural households that would otherwise burn wood and charcoal, or cook using purchased kerosene [5]. The diversification of energy supply creates economic opportunity to those who build and equip these digesters, and it reduces local air pollution and deforestation due to firewood collection and charcoal making, and increases sequestration of carbon into soils amended with the digested organic sludge. Carbon sequestration is also achieved by the substitution of renewable energy production from methane as compared to reliance upon fossil fuels. Biogas generation is best considered among a suite of rural development options that are designed to educate stakeholders and supply the hardware and infrastructure it requires [37].
Table 2 presents findings for millet and sorghum from the TAAT Program in seven countries of the Sahel [18]. ICRISAT coordinated this effort based on the delivery of “technology toolkits” through national programs. Millet and sorghum yields were improved by 133% and 140%, respectively, and reached nearly 84,000 households managing about 124,000 ha and leading to the increased production of 199,000 MT of grain worth US $42 million. Individual households greatly benefited in terms of food security, and the average increase income from participating in the technology delivery effort was about US $504 (calculated as a weighted average from Table 2). Activities involved 16 partnerships and delivered 1391 MT of improved certified seed. The right technologies taken to scale can deliver benefits to partnering farming communities that rely upon millet and sorghum as a staple crop.
Parameter | Millet | Sorghum | Units |
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Average increased productivity | 1.00 | 1.75 | MT dw increase ha−1 |
Yield improvement over baseline | 133% | 140% | MT increase/MT baseline |
Number of technology adopters | 12,403 | 71,217 | Households adopting technologies |
Innovation coverage | 23,765 | 100,098 | Total ha |
Total increased production | 23,765 | 175,172 | MT on harvest weight basis |
Total increase value | 4,515,361 | 37,662,005 | Value of increased production in US$ |
Average adoption area | 1.92 | 1.41 | ha household−1 |
Increased food supply | 1.92 | 2.46 | MT hh−1 yr−1 |
Increased revenue per household | $364 | $529 | Total return US$ hh−1 yr−1 |
Benefits from adopting improved technologies for millet and sorghum in the Sahel between 2018 and 2020.
Investment in TAAT technologies results in economic gain across a wider selection of commodities as well. Table 3 provides information on the increased yields of five cereal crops (rice, wheat, maize, sorghum, and millet), increased cost of production and economic returns to that investment. The average increased productivity was 1.3 MT ha−1 worth US $333 resulting from $136 increased investment, mostly as fertilizers. This results in an average increased value of US $197, ranging from $85 (for millet) and $299 for rice. Note that except for rice, these crops were grown under rainfed conditions. The partial benefit to cost ratio ranges between 1.8:1 (for millet) and 3.2:1 (for maize), suggesting that economic returns are solid but not spectacular.
Commodity | Units | Rice | Wheat | Maize | Sorghum | Millet | Mean (± SEM) |
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Increased productivity | MT ha−1 | 1.2 | 1.9 | 0.7 | 1.7 | 1.0 | 1.31 ± 0.19 |
Increased fertilizer cost | US $ ha−1 | 91 | 200 | 69 | 146 | 103 | 122 ± 20 |
Total increased cost | US $ ha−1 | 153 | 203 | 73 | 148 | 105 | 136 ± 19 |
Increased crop value | US $ ha−1 | 452 | 418 | 231 | 376 | 190 | 333 ± 44 |
Increased partial net return | US $ ha−1 | 299 | 215 | 158 | 229 | 85 | 197 ± 30 |
Partial benefit: cost ratio | US $ US $−1 | 2.95 | 2.06 | 3.17 | 2.55 | 1.81 | 2.51 ± 0.22 |
Economic returns to technology investment in cereals based on TAAT toolkit packages (2018–2020).
Table 4 shows projections of carbon sequestration resulting from TAAT interventions to cereal production including system gains, values, and household contributions. These projections are based on reports of increased yield, coverage, numbers of adopters (see Table 2), and assumptions concerning biomass, moisture content, Harvest Index, crop carbon content, CO2e:crop C ratio, planning horizons, and the price of CO2e. This approximation allows for the estimation of realizable gains of CO2e associated with increased biomass and residual benefits in terms of CO2e gain per ha and as total average gain per project-year and household [18]. Realizable gains were achieved based on increased focus upon climate-smart field practices and products within the technology toolkits employed by participating farmers and development projects. This approach results in estimated CO2e gains averaging 4.4 MT ha−1 across these five cereals and a total of 2.1 million MT of CO2e per year worth about US $65 million. When the number of adopters is considered, this amounts to per capita emissions reductions of 1.5 MT CO2e per household per year, similar to the targets established by Branca et al. [38] and Lipper et al. [39]. This analysis is incomplete, as it does not take into account carbon losses from other farming practices; rather it focuses on peak seasonal increases.
TAAT commodity compact | Increased system CO2e | Annual increased CO2e1 | Value of annual increase in CO2e2 | Annual reduction per adopter3 |
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(MT ha−1) | MT y−1 | $ y−1 × 106 | MT CO2e y−1 | |
Rice | 1.06 | 186,882 | 4.1 | 0.08 |
Wheat | 2.92 | 1,753,606 | 38.6 | 1.9 |
Maize | 3.1 | 869.284 | 19.1 | 1.5 |
Millet | 5.71 | 22,611 | 0.5 | 1.8 |
Sorghum | 9.27 | 154,668 | 3.4 | 2.2 |
Total ( | 2,118,636 | 65.7 |
Estimated carbon offsets from the adoption of TAAT technologies by African cereal producers (based on [18]).
The feasibility of organizing small-scale African farmers into a force devoted to carbon sequestration is an exciting opportunity, but one that does not greatly benefit individual climate-smart practitioners from the standpoint of direct financial benefit as their gains are worth only $16 household per year at current prices of CO2e. The benefits of climate-smart technologies are perhaps better advanced in terms of improved livelihood and agricultural resource quality and then factored in terms of realizing national commitments at the landscape level; rather than presented to farmers as an income generating opportunity.
The TAAT Clearinghouse is developing a conceptual and mathematical model useful in understanding and managing agricultural transformation in Africa. This model has both qualitative and quantitative features.
These realms are based on the roles and responsibilities of three interacting driving sectors: policy, markets, and farmers. It assumes that policies drive public works and rural development programs, markets determine the scope and appeal of commercial products and related investments, and farmers undertake individual and local collective actions. When these roles are depicted along three triangular coordinates, a conceptual model emerges that contains different transformational realms, many of them widely recognized. Grassroots actions occur where farmers dominate adoption processes (Figure 1), commerce is conducted where businesses buy and sell agricultural technologies, and government-led parastatal operations exist where government controls agricultural opportunities and trade. Other familiar blended realms exist including agricultural extension, public-private partnerships, and farmer-commercial alliances (e.g. out-grower networks). At the center of these activities, we identify complex alliances, where all three drivers meet on equal terms to pioneer progressive change. Each of these seven realms is briefly described.
Rural development realms resulting from policy-, market-, and farmer-driven interests.
Grassroots actions (
Business-led development (
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Agricultural extension (
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Progressive complex alliances (
Successful partnership within rural development programs striving for agricultural transformation, particularly within the realm of progressive complex alliances, requires effective communications between sectors (Figure 2). Between farming communities and the public sector, these communications involve advocacy on behalf of agricultural producers and their workers, and effective response from agricultural extension services. This dual mechanism ensures that public investment in advisory services is demand-driven. Unfortunately, rural communities often find it difficult to express their needs, and those that do so on their behalf may behave opportunistically. At the same time, public agricultural extension services are too often understaffed and under-resourced, yet it is this communication that can lead to more efficient performance by extension specialists and project designers.
Key interactions between the public, private, and farming sectors that relate to the design and implementation of rural development projects.
Communication between farming communities and the private sector is more direct. Businesses stream input products through agrodealer networks to farming communities and later purchase their surpluses through buyers. Accompanying these input products is information about them that is intended to achieve or maintain various competitive advantages. Farmer feedback on the availability, efficacy, and affordability of these input products is mainly felt in terms of seasonal purchases. At the same time, businesses seek direct feedback from potential customers to guide their selection of product lines and advertising campaigns. One difficulty in this dual mechanism is the inability of poorer farmers to purchase the full suite of recommended input products proven to maximize their production. There is also the risk that unless accompanying technologies are properly bundled, the returns to any one technology may be disappointing. This communication mechanism can lead to alliances between farmers and businesses in terms of bulk purchase of production inputs and better coordinated marketing of produce.
Interactions between the private and public sector are focused on regulatory approval of products and steering financial incentives, often in ways designed to maximize profits or taxation and that often bypass farming communities. Nonetheless, the opportunities for co-investment into modernizing technologies through these dealings are enormous and can lead to the formulation of needed public-private partnerships that indirectly benefit farmers. One risk of this dialog, however, is where haphazard or opportunistic privatization may result in parastatal inefficiencies being replaced with private sector excesses.
Clearly, the optimal situation is where tripartite communication leads to the design and successful implementation of rural development projects that engage and benefit all three parties: rural communities, the private sector, and government (Figure 2). These complex alliances require problem-solving with clear agreement of which difficulties exist, how to merge possible solutions within everyone’s best interests, and how different options most appealing to those different interests may be blended or pursued simultaneously. From the programmatic perspective, it is also important to establish how resulting activities may be accurately and continuously monitored within the context of contingencies and corrective adjustment. This level of communication as it relates to the deployment of modernizing agricultural technologies in Africa has proven to be no easy matter.
Technologies may be positioned within the agricultural transformation triangle assuming that the relative importance of the three different drivers can be assigned (Figure 3). This positioning is based on the relative importance of each driver in the deployment of technologies and development outcomes, recognizing that all of them must ultimately be acceptable to rural households to become widely adopted, whether as technology customers or management practitioners. This approach, applied to the 17 technologies appearing in Table 1, results in clusters of technologies including those that are mainly achieved through grassroots efforts (upper center), or by private sector investment (lower left). Note that the positioning of new cereal varieties depends largely on whether they are hybridized or open pollinated, as the latter allows for community-based and farmers-own seed production. Also note that systems-level changes (e.g. containment of insect invasions, elimination of
Selected climate-smart technologies important to the Sahel as positioned within the Agricultural Transformation Triangle.
Substantial if not ample investment in the agriculture of the Sahel occurs (Table 5). Researchers at the Policy Analysis and Research Group at of Evans School of Public Policy and Governance (University of Washington) recently compiled data from three major International Financial Institutions (The World Bank, the African Development Bank, and the International Fund for Agricultural Development) to provide insights into the “Investment Landscape” in Africa [40]. The database contains all investments in 46 sub-Saharan African countries from the three IFIs as of May 2021 and includes “active” or “implementation” projects, loans, grants, or other financial investments [40]. To make funding by country more comparable, investments were annualized by dividing the total financial commitment per project by the number of years of implementation. Codes were applied that allowed summation for Sahelian countries including Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, and South Sudan, but not those with a small portion falling within the Sahel (e.g. Benin, Cameroon, and Nigeria). Annual investment in agricultural development across all of sub-Saharan Africa totaled US $6.24 billion in 2019, with 11% of it (=$0.68 billion) directed to the Sahel. This amount is proportionate in terms of population (±0.3%) and represents 20.1% of total IFI investment. Considering the importance of agriculture in the Sahel, this percentage seems somewhat low.
IFI annualized investment | Sahel | All sub-Saharan Africa | Percentage (%) |
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In smallholder agriculture | $590,213,920 | $3,408,245,800 | 17.3 |
In rural infrastructure and commercialization | $92,362,308 | $2,834,768,443 | 3.3 |
In agriculture as a sector | $682,576,228 | $6,243,014,242 | 10.9 |
Into all development | $3,393,963,264 | $28,331,013,684 | 12.0 |
Population (2019) | 111,121,173 | 1,045,204,638 | 10.6 |
Per capita investment | $30.54 | $27.11 | 112.7 |
Cultivated lands (ha) | 41,883,700 | 226,540,000 | 18.5 |
Per ha investment | $16.30 | $27.56 | 59.1 |
Annual investment in African agriculture and natural resource management by three major International Financial Institutions: The African Development Bank, The World Bank, and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (based on EPAR1).
Evans School of Public Policy and Governance (EPAR), University of Washington (Project #411).
Overall, the per capita annual investment from the three IFS in the Sahel zone is about $30. What can be done with this resource and how may it best be leveraged toward greater benefit? Table 3 suggests that the cost of modernizing Sahelian farming is about $136 per ha, so these funds are only sufficient for improved production on only 0.22 ha on a household basis. This intervention results in an additional 288 kg food production and revenues worth $73. These modest gains can lead to substantial improvement in lives. If 50% of the funds earmarked to smallholder agriculture in the Sahel (about $295 million, calculated from Table 5) was directed to the delivery of TAAT cereal technologies, this is sufficient to “jump start” improved production across 2.17 million ha (calculated from Tables 3 and 5) resulting in 2.8 million additional tons of cereal and profits of over $560 million per year from improved agriculture. A similar analysis may be performed based on funds directed to cultivated lands rather than households (Table 5). About $16.30 per ha is invested by IFIs in the Sahel, considerably less than the average across sub-Saharan Africa. This level of investment is sufficient to modernize production on 0.34 ha, producing about 445 kg of additional cereal, leading to a huge improvement in food security (calculated from Tables 3 and 5).
These same gains would lead to an estimated additional 3.3 million MT of sequestered CO2e across the Sahel worth $71 million (calculated from Table 4), assuming that buyers for that offset due to climate adaptation can be found. One complication, however, is that the costs of directly quantifying carbon offsets on a smallholder farm may well be greater than the value of those offsets themselves ($33 calculated from Table 4). Clearly, potential exists for combined agricultural development and climate action given the current level of development investment, and the challenge is to better realize these gains so that even more investment will follow.
Modernizing technologies literally bring scientific breakthroughs to life in ways that reduce risks and better manage cause-to-effect relationships. Technology transfer determines how this modernization occurs as a process involving a wide assortment of stakeholders from government, the private sector, financial institutions, and research, civil, and educational institutions [41]. This process intends to work on behalf of both the holders of technologies and those who stand to benefit from them most. In the case of climate action through the deployment of agricultural technologies, these users are primarily land managers directed toward larger global needs through practical self-interest, mainly acquisition of more secure harvests and greater protection of farm resources. Policies may set the stage for change, but ultimately environmental gains are achieved through combinations of purchased inputs and improved management practice, with each category representing a different type of technology holder. Input delivery is largely the concern of the private sector in terms of commercial distribution; and management practices are influenced by agricultural service providers, including public extension. Change is quickest when the two work in conjunction, and this forms both a challenge and opportunity to the design of rural development projects.
Two large regional programs of the African Development Bank are well positioned to benefit from the technologies and deployment approaches described in this chapter, The Programme for Integrated Development and Adaptation to Climate Change in the Niger Basin (PIDACC [6]) and The Horn of Africa Project. PIDACC is funded through the Niger River Authority and TAAT is one of its funded partners. It covers nine countries in the Niger River Basin: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Cote D’Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Niger, and Nigeria. Its activities include climate-smart technologies related to rice, maize, wheat, as well as soil and water management applied at the field, household, and landscape levels. It operates under the premise that farmers who adopt and exchange improved crop varieties, proactively manage pest outbreaks, better utilize water resources, and maintain soil fertility are in a much stronger position to secure food and income for their families and protect their agricultural resource base.
Horn of Africa is an AfDB regional project at an advanced stage of preparation. Its partner countries will deploy proven, climate-smart agriculture technologies across Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, and Sudan from 2022 to 2028. The objective of the project is to build resilient food and nutrition insecurity and climate change response, engage women and youth, and reinforce peace and security across the Horn of Africa. Specifically, it aims to (1) improve agro-sylvo-pastoral productivity, (2) increase incomes from that production, and (3) enhance the adaptive capacity of the populations to better prepare for and manage climate risks. Clearly, the right technologies, including those featured in this chapter, are required to achieve these goals. AfDB is also leveraging co-financing from major climate funds in ways that can impact upon UNFCCC Nationally Determined Commitments.
There is a strong relationship between dryland soil and water management technologies available to small-scale farmers and the need for climate action in the Sahel and elsewhere [19]. Within the context of risk reduction, many of the technologies appearing in this chapter are intended to adapt to climate extremes, particularly higher temperatures, moderate drought, and erratic and intense rainfall. These adaptive technologies are particularly important at the field and household level. Farmers that better capture rainfall or protect their cropland soils from wind and water erosion are better able to feed their families. The same is true for communities that adopt and exchange improved seed of open pollinated cereals such as millet and sorghum. In this way, adaptation to climate extremes offers a “drawdown” of greenhouse gasses that are accumulating in the atmosphere.
The most direct mitigative effects are to increase standing biomass and to manage that biomass in ways that become sequestered into soil organic matter and woody biomass. This is readily feasible using improved soil and water management practices across large areas of land over sufficient times to realize these gains. In general, about 50% of increased productivity is carbon and a small proportion of that enters the soil as residues for longer-term retention. One means to greatly increase standing biomass is to move from rainfed to irrigated agriculture, and another is to rehabilitate lands that are degraded and overgrazed. It is possible to combine adaptive and mitigative technologies as when bunds intended to capture water and reduce erosion are planted with perennial vegetation. Also, the same contour structures used to protect croplands may be constructed in adjacent rangeland to assist in the re-establishment of native vegetation. At the same time, carbon gains in rangelands must be weighed against the increased livestock carrying capacity and the methane they release through digestion.
Substantial opportunity for carbon gains across landscapes exists through the steady transition from open-field cultivation to managed parklands, often through the introduction of economically useful trees. The agroforestry techniques to achieve this transition are well described. Re-vegetation has a transnational dimension through the ambitious Great Green Wall for the Sahel and Sahara Initiative to act as a barrier to further desertification [42]. Another proactive mitigation response occurs through bio-digestion in terms of fossil fuel replacement. One huge advantage of mitigation over adaptation is that quantified carbon gains may then be offered for sale and traded with polluters as a condition of their continued emissions. Another is that they can be applied to the Nationally Determined Contributions of countries within climate agreements [43]. Ultimately, rural development projects and climate actions must be viewed as one and the same.
Information on these technologies described in this paper was provided by TAAT Compact and Enabler Leaders: Dougbedji Fatondji from ICRISAT for millet and sorghum, Zewdie Bishaw from ICARDA for wheat, Jonga Munyaradzi from AATF for maize, Sander Zwart from IWMI for water management, and Jean Ekwe Dossa from IFDC. Olanrewaju Eniola Olamide graciously provided assistance in formatting this document. The TAAT Clearinghouse is supported through a project of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the accompanying TAAT Program is funded by the African Development Fund of the African Development Bank. The “Investment Landscape” database of the University of Washington described in Section 6 is also a funded development of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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