Scaling up biocontrol innovations in Africa

扩大非洲生物防治创新

基本信息

批准号：
EP/T024410/1
负责人：
Steven Sait
金额：
$ 16.27万
依托单位：
University of Leeds
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2020 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FT024410%2F1
关键词：
Scaling up biocontrol innovations Africa

项目摘要

To ensure food security and sustainable livelihoods for a growing population, African agriculture needs to undergo transformational change to increase productivity and resilience to climate change and insect pests. The food system depends on production by millions of smallholder farmers and how to reach them and facilitate farm improvements is a generic challenge and a tremendous opportunity. Our cluster will explore how to improve on-farm innovation, focusing on the biocontrol of crop pests with safe, cheap and environmentally friendly improvements. We will identify the country-dependent context for the adoption of biocontrol innovations, their compatibility with other farming practices, and the potential to advocate for agricultural policy developments in this sector. We will identify the lessons learned where these innovations have been applied successfully and the country-dependent issues that prevent the upscaling of these biocontrol innovations. We will examine ways in which the innovations can be supported in relation to local, district and national agricultural practices and policies.The cluster will explore how to improve uptake of biocontrol practices by farmers and how to optimise knowledge exchange. The cluster will develop farmer-farmer networking and knowledge sharing, building on a successful model developed by NM-AIST, and explore how this can be enhanced using mobile phone technology. This foundation will help to define the research questions and programme of Stage 2.Project goals will be achieved through a synthesis of the current state of knowledge and understanding about biocontrol approaches, their success and limitations and by actively developing communication tools for knowledge exchange. To do this we will engage with farmers and other key stakeholders to co-design appropriate mechanisms for sharing information and empowering farmers. Crucially, we will, from the outset, involve the intended "end-user" in the development of our programme so that new approaches can be co-designed with those benefiting from our research outcomes. Success in delivery of new crop protection solutions is critically dependent on active engagement of potential users throughout the programme. Our project will explore how to gather information from many remote smallholder farms and how to target new technologies to places where they are of maximum benefit.

为了确保人口不断增长的粮食安全和可持续生计，非洲农业需要经历变革性的变革，以提高生产力和对气候变化和虫害的韧性。食品系统取决于数百万小农户的生产以及如何到达它们并促进农场改善是一个通用的挑战和巨大的机会。我们的集群将探索如何改善农场创新，重点关注安全，便宜和环保的改进的作物害虫的生物防治。我们将确定采用生物控制创新，与其他农业实践的兼容性以及倡导该部门农业政策发展的潜力的情况。我们将确定成功应用这些创新的经验教训，以及依赖国家依赖性的问题，这些问题阻止了这些生物控制创新的提高。我们将研究如何支持与地方，地区和国家农业实践和政策相关的创新。该集群将探讨如何改善农民对生物防治实践的吸收以及如何优化知识交换。该集群将在NM-raist开发的成功模型上发展农民农民网络和知识共享，并探索如何使用手机技术来增强这种模型。该基础将有助于定义第2阶段的研究问题和计划。项目目标将通过综合当前的知识状态和对生物学方法的知识状态，其成功和局限性以及积极开发知识交流的交流工具来实现。为此，我们将与农民和其他主要利益相关者互动，以共同设计分享信息和赋予农民权力的适当机制。至关重要的是，从一开始，我们将涉及计划的“最终用户”，以便可以与从我们的研究成果中受益的人共同设计新方法。新的作物保护解决方案的交付成功取决于在整个计划中潜在用户的积极参与。我们的项目将探讨如何从许多偏远的小农场收集信息，以及如何将新技术瞄准其最大收益的地方。