¨…building a good marketplace can arise whenever there are desirable but underused resources that take too much time to find and transfer¨ A. Roth Nobel Prize Winner

A partnership to foster agricultural research and innovation for development

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Rationale Agriculture: vital for Africa, LAC and Brazil KM/KS: similarities among Africa, LAC, and Brazil Government policies supporting S-S cooperation Agricultural growth in Brazil was supported by R&D New players (BRICs) and ODA world order 4

Collaborative Projects Pillars Policy Dialogue KM/KS Collaborative Projects

Policy Dialogue Ministers meeting in 2010 Ministers meeting in 2011 Fora 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2015 FARA Science Week 2010, 2016

Policy Dialogue

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Collaborative Projects Thematic areas Productivity Enhancing Technologies Natural Resource Management Improvements Policy, Institutional, and Market Strengthening, and Knowledge Management Smallholder and Poverty-Alleviation Targeted Technologies

Collaborative Projects Matchmaking Projects: max $80,000.00 / 2 years Innovation; competencies; project objectives and design; potential impacts; sustainability; growth potential (scaling up and replicability)

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Results 2010-2016 Total: 793

Projects: 64

Technologies, Products & Services Specific Knowledge Generated Expressive outputs 42 completed projects in 11 countries in Africa and 5 countries in LAC   2010 - 2016 Examples Technologies, Products & Services 174 Technology for development of biopesticide for African agriculture A new cowpea line Specific Knowledge Generated 96 Level of soil and groundwater pesticide contamination in Togo Events Organized 106 International Course: Cassava Witches’ Broom Disease: Diagnosis methods and alternatives for the Integrated management of the disease Publications 129 Book on "Facilitating local level dairy innovation platform for smallholders in Kenya" Experts Trained 2191 Training of 80 farmers on queen bee rearing techniques Germplasm Exchange Species / Breeds Accessions/Samples Recipient Countries Napier grass, cotton, peanut, coffee, cowpea, cassava, pepper, bean and tomato 1116 AFR: Cameroon, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda and Tanzania LAC: French Guyana, Colombia and Bolivia

MKTPlace and the SDGs 1. no poverty 2. zero hunger 3. good health and well-being 4. quality education 5. gender equality 6. clean water and sanitation 7. affordable and clean energy 8. decent work and economic growth 9. industry, innovation and infrastructure 10. reduced inequalities 11. sustainable cities and communities 12. responsible consumption and production 13. climate action 14. life below water 15. life on land 16. peace, justice and strong institutions 17. partnerships for the goals  

Monitoring and Evaluation

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Building On the Successes of the Marketplace Next Steps M-BoSs Building On the Successes of the Marketplace 22

Specific Goals To allow for long-term institutional cooperation, building on the success of peer-to-peer collaboration (MKTPlace) To broaden national and regional partnership To create environment for interaction among stakeholders, including the private sector To pave the way to markets

Strategy Partnership (FARA, B&MGF, DFID and Embrapa, with support from Funarbe) Size of projects: up to 3 years, US$ 300,000-700,000 US$ 8,400,000.00 US$ 5,700,000.00 (in-kind)

1st Call for Proposals March-August, 2016 Pre-Proposal Submission Current Status   1st Call for Proposals March-August, 2016 Pre-Proposal Submission 21 pre-proposals, 11 countries, 15 Embrapa Units (7 multicountry pre-proposals) Selected Projects 6 proposals selected, 8 countries, 6 Embrapa Units (4 multicountry projects) Project start February, 2017

Selected Proposals Integrated systems for smallholders (Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda) Integrated soil fertility management (Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda) Community-based goat breeding (Ethiopia, Tanzania) Millet sourdough and extruded snacks (Ghana, Nigeria, Benin) Honey production for food security (Ethiopia) Rhizobia nitrogen fixation in cowpea (Ghana)

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