‘Improving agriculture-based livelihoods in Central Africa through sustainably increased system productivity to enhance income, nutrition security, and the environment - CIALCA-II’

The List of participants

The meeting programme

Group Photo

Rapporteur's Report

Tuesday 28 October

SESSION I – OPENING

Welcome DG ISABU and introduction of participants

Welcome Attaché Belgian Embassy in Burundi

Welcome DG IRAZ

Welcome Minister of Agriculture and opening of the meeting

SESSION II – PROGRESS WITH CHARACTERIZATION

Program outline – Bernard

Short introduction to the CIALCA projects – Piet, Guy, Bernard

-->IITA project

-->Bioversity project

-->TSBF project

Presentation PRA activities – Bernard

Presentation baseline characterization – Emily

Presentation final legume characterization – Pieter

Presentation final banana characterization – Piet

SESSION III – PROGRESS WITH LEGUME ACTIVITIES

Progress with activities in Rwanda – Ngoga, Aimable

Progress with activities in South-Kivu – Jean-Marie, Kasereka

Progress with activities in Bas-Congo – Lodi, Willy

Progress with process research activities – Pieter

Progress with seed multiplication activities – Jean-Claude

Progress with market-related activities – Eliud

Progress with nutrition activities – Martha

Scaling up and partner involvement – Bernard

CIALCA-I, the NGO perspective – Sylvain

Wednesday 29 October

SESSION IV – PROGRESS WITH BANANA ACTIVITIES

Introduction

Germplasm trials (Guy)

Macro-propagation (Jim)

Extension activities and on-farm trials (Charles/Jules/Jean-Prosper/Roger)

BBTV (Célestin)

Gembloux BBTV work (Jean-Pierre)

Germplasm collection and characterization (Dowiya/Guy)

Fruit peel disease (Walangululu)

AMF x nematode x plant performance (Joyce/Sveta/Edouard/Bernard)

Xanthomonas Wilt (Uwera/Charles/Mary/Guy)

Nutrient cycling (Syldie)

Soil physics (Tony/Piet)

Plant density (Telesphore/Niels/Guy)

Plantain x altitude (Sikyolo/Guy)

Banana-coffee (Anaclet)

UCL banana work (Delvaux/Delstanche/Freyman/Piet)

KUL banana work (Swennen/Placide/Guy)

KUL MSc - Placide Rukundo

KUL ITC work

Conflict x agriculture (Paul/Emily/Piet)

Perceptions of banana chain actors (Julie/Piet)

Economics and Post-Harvest (Emily/Immaculate)

Human nutrition (Beatrice)

SESSION V – IDENTIFICATION OF CIALCA-I PRODUCTS

Working groups per country: Identification of promising CIALCA-I products

Feedback from working groups per country

Thursday 30 October

SESSION VI – CIALCA-II PLANNING

Presentation CIALCA-II proposal - Bernard VanLauwe

Discussion on CIALCA-II proposal

Working groups on vision, communication, and scaling up

Knowledge Dissemination Strategies - Claudine Picq

Feedback from working groups

Dissemination Report

Working groups on science issues and potential PhD/MSc projects

Feedback from working groups

-->Banana and plantain

-->Leguminous crops

-->Nutrition and markets

Working groups on farming systems: integration of bananas and legumes

Feedback from working groups

Compilation - Integration ideas

Friday 31 October

SESSION VII – IMPLEMENTATION AND PRACTICAL ARRANGEMENTS

Feedback from the CCC meeting – Prof Walangululu

Discussion on CCC issues, including reporting, training needs assessment

Regional planning meetings

Any other business

SESSION VIII – CLOSURE