BECA Summary

• Summary of comments – BecA-ILRI Hub

  1. Alignment of BecA-ILRI Hub’s Program with CRPs: The alignment is necessary to better serve smallholder farming communities and African NARS in various aspects that includes identification of technology need, resource mobilization, technology development, capacity building, expansion of BecA extended faculties, effective supervision of ABCF Fellows, and dissemination of the technologies.
  2. Strong and functional collaboration between BecA-ILRI Hub and ILRI: A functional collaborations would be highly useful to gather critical mass to conduct research, effective resource mobilization and strong capacity building of African NARS scientists. Joint appointment, joint research team, join research proposal, the common focal person for the program that overlaps between BecA-ILRI Hub and ILRI have been suggested. Some collaboration in these areas has been already taking place and we need to have more and effective collaborations in future.
  3. BecA-ILRI Hub is a huge still quite untapped resource: BecA-ILRI Hub is huge but to be fully tapped resource available within ILRI for other programs and ILRI projects. Therefore, ILRI scientists are encouraged to use “state of the art” biosciences facilities. Similarly, there are some interesting ‘integrated, non-bioscience’ works currently on-going at BecA-ILRI Hub that can be better connected into other ILRI pillar for better outcomes.
  4. Technology scaling up outside East and Central Africa: Research Program at BecA-ILRI Hub generates technologies that are applicable to farmers’ outside Eastern and Central African countries (BecA’s mandate countries). Therefore, working with ILRI closer will help in the scaling up of these technologies (e.g. Brachiaria grasses, Aflatoxins monitoring & detection) across the world.

   

   

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