1. PICS Next Steps Crop

2. Immediate Next Steps: Follow up on workshop: – Purdue PICS team will compile rapporteur reports and share with participants. – Workshop materials on the PICS Lessons Learned Workshop website. Purdue PICS team will be contacting speakers for approval to post pdfs of the power point slides. – JSPR Guest Editor Larry Murdock will compiling a list of authors proposing manuscripts for the special issue. – All participants communicate thoughts, comments and suggestions to the workshop technical committee.

3. Intermediate Term Next Steps: Before the 2012 Cowpea Harvest Plans for the 2012 cowpea storage season: – PICS bag orders – PICS vendor meetings and meeting with cowpea value chain stakeholders – Media plans – Discussions with large scale buyers (e.g. WFP, NGOs, Food Security Agencies, traders). Short run plans for PICS bag production and distribution in East Africa and Asia JSPR manuscripts written and submitted by July 15. Annual Report/Final report by June 15

4. Longer Term Next Steps Decisions about – Management of PICS trademark? – In West & Central Africa, continuing exclusive PICS distribution agreements for a country or region? – Commercial organization for PICS in “new regions”? – Adapting the PICS technology and business model to new stakeholders (e.g. grain traders, food security organizations, farmers producing for household use). – Participation of the PICS team in new funding opportunities?

5. Long Term Building on the PICS Lessons Learned what should we be doing for: – Supply chain development of other ag inputs (e.g. seed, fertilizer, pesticides, machinery)? – Post harvest handling of food other than grains: Dried fruits & vegetables, nuts, etc.? Dairy products? Meat? – Food processing? – Management of cowpea field pests (e.g. Bt cowpea)

6. Vision for the Future PICS is part of a worldwide movement toward commercial smallholder agriculture Lessons learned in the PICS project are widely applied to ag enterprises far beyond cowpea Skills and experience of “The PICS Family” are applied through the world to improve food security and livelihoods.

7. Comments and Suggestions to: Technical Committee: – Jess Lowenberg-DeBoer – lowenbej@purdue.edulowenbej@purdue.edu – Larry Murdock – murdockl@purdue.edumurdockl@purdue.edu – Dieudonné Baributsa – dbaribut@purdue.edudbaribut@purdue.edu – Tahirou Abdoulaye - T.Abdoulaye@cgiar.orgT.Abdoulaye@cgiar.org – Ibrahim Baoua - baoua.ibrahim@gmail.combaoua.ibrahim@gmail.com Workshop Coordinators: – Katy Ibrahim – kgi@purdue.edukgi@purdue.edu – Heather Fabries – hfabries@purdue.eduhfabries@purdue.edu