1. Building Sustainable Rice Data and Information System in Africa
Aliou Diagne
Program Leader & Impact Assessment Economist
Policy and Impact Assessment Program
Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice)
CARD 2nd Group Countries NRDS Development Workshop
Cotonou, Benin
5 - 9 July, 2010 1

2. Outline Background Project objectives
Institutional arrangements and implementation
Countries’ survey designs and data
Progress to date
Preliminary Results
Perspectives 2

3. Background
1. December 2007 Consultative Workshop on “Fostering the Exchange of Statistical Data and Information on the Rice Economies of AfricaRice Member States»
2. Follow up on the December 2007 Workshop recommendations:
Establishment of National consultative framework for rice data harmonization in pilot countries (Burkina Faso, Cote d’ Ivoire, Niger, Nigeria, and Senegal),
Joint publications of rice data and information.
3. Implementation of a Regional Strategy for rice data and information: Emergency Rice Data System.

4. Emergency Rice Data System for Sub Saharan Africa
The project works with NARES partners in the 21 CARD candidate countries:
- Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, DR Congo, Guinea, Madagascar, Mali, Rwanda, Senegal, Togo, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Uganda
The project addresses the need for better quality rice data in all of the 21 CARD candidate countries to support the implementation and monitoring of national rice development strategies,

5. Emergency Rice Data System for Sub Saharan Africa
Project Objectives:
Strengthen the capacity of national agricultural statisticians and NARS scientists on best practices on agricultural survey design, sampling methodology for rice data collection and statistical analysis and publication,
2. Harmonize rice data collection methodologies,
3. Collect, process, analyze and publish updated Nationally representative rice statistical data in 21 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa,
4. Publish policy briefs based on these data.

6. Organization and Implementation of Project Activities
Implemented the same way in all the 21 countries,
Executed jointly by the NARS and the NASS,
Designed to build a close and durable collaboration between the NARS and the NASS in each country to ensure the regularity of data collection,
Responsibilities of each of the two national partners have been clearly delineated and assigned with the corresponding budgets to manage.

7. Organization and Implementation of Project Activities
Overall In-country project coordination by the National Agricultural Research Institute (NARS).
Design of the survey, data collection and processing by the National Agricultural Statistical Service (NASS).
Questionnaire adaptation and training of enumerators are the joint responsibility of both partners (NARS rice researchers and NASS statisticians).
Data analysis and publication are also a joint responsibility of both national partners.

8. Organization and Implementation of Project Activities
Overall project coordination by AfricaRice: Two regional coordinators hired.
Preparation of harmonized draft data collection tools, tabulation plans and reports outline (English and French)
Technical support and backstopping to country teams by AfricaRice
Cross-country data analysis and synthesis by AfricaRice
Organization of regional launching and Methodological workshops.

9. The Launching Workshops: Outcomes
In total, 45 participants attended these two launching workshops including an expert statistician from AfDB and a M&E consultant of CARD -- Only Mozambique was not represented,
In general, each country was represented by a NARS agricultural economist and a statistician from the NASS
Existing country data collection systems and sampling and the draft of proposed harmonized rice data collection tools were reviewed
Countries Actions plans and Budgets were developed and administrative and organizational issues related to the country survey implementations 9

10. AfricaRice-AfDB joint Training Workshop on the Methodology of crop-specific Surveys
Outputs
Countries presented their data collection methodology and shared with participants their experiences
Two experts statisticians consultants reviewed and commented on the various methodologies used by countries
survey design options for collecting nationally representative detailed crop-specific data were reviewed
A technical report (in French and English) was written by the consultants to serve as a guide for future crop-specific surveys. 10

11. Survey design and data collected11

12. Survey design and data collected
Sampling Method and Sample Size
COUNTRIES
SAMPLING METHOD
SAMPLE SIZE
1. Benin
Sampling at 2 levels
1255
2. Burkina Faso
760
3. Cameroon
1200
4. Côte d’Ivoire
3 325
5. The Gambia
370
6. Ghana
1120
7. Guinea
1085
8. Kenya
572
9. Liberia
Sampling at 3 levels
1500
10. Madagascar
1606
11. Mali
2 495

13. Survey design and data collected
Sampling Method and Sample Size
Countries
Sampling Method
Sample Size
12. Mozambique
Sampling at 2 levels
492
13. Nigeria
10,500
14. Central African Republic
2140
15. Democratic Republic of Congo
848
16. Rwanda
395
17. Senegal
1863
18. Sierra Leone
1300
19. Tanzania
Sampling at 4 levels
1050
20. Togo
727
21. Uganda
1537

14. Type of Information Collected
NARS scientists’ (country/province level):
Main rice growing ecologies (areas and constraints)
Main biophysical and socio-economic constraints in rice production in the country
Information on improved rice varieties in the country
Village level
Main rice growing ecologies (areas, varieties, and yield)
Main biotic and abiotic stresses (+frequency, area affected and yield losses)
Socioeconomics constraints (access to key input, post harvest, product market etc.)
Inventory and characteristics of all varieties in the village
Village infrastructures and wages for different agric. tasks

15. …Type of Information Collected
Farmer/household level:
Knowledge and experience of main biotic and abiotic stresses (+frequency, area affected and yield losses)
Socioeconomics constraints (access to key input, post harvest, product market etc.)
Knowledge and cultivation of village varieties
Seed access and management by variety (availability, source and transaction)
Rice area cultivated, production and sale by variety
Land allocation and input used for all crops
Assets (non-productive, agricultural, livestock, etc..)
Food and non-food expenditures
Access to communication (Radio, TV and mobile)

16. Project implementation: Progress to date16

17. Project Implementation: Progress to date
In-country project coordination units established with two focal points by country (1 NARS & 1 NASS) by July 2009
Signing of MoUs between AfricaRice and all NARES completed in August 2009
Transfer of funds completed for all participating countries in September 2009.
2 Stata 11 single-user licenses for data analysis purchased and shipped to each country in August 2009
Data collection completed in almost all countries by February 2010
Almost all country draft final reports sent to Africa by April 30, 2010 17

18. Project Implementation: Progress to date
Status of country reports and databases
S/N
COUNTRY
REPORT SENT TO AFRICARICE
DATABASE SENT TO AFRICARICE 1
Benin
Yes
Yes, all modules 2
Burkina-Faso 3
Cameroon 4
Côte d'Ivoire 5
The Gambia
Yes, except questionnaire for scientist 6
Ghana
Yes, except Complementary and Scientist Questionnaires 7
Guinea
Only Producer Questionnaire 8
Kenya
Yes, except Complementary questionnaire 9
Liberia No 10
Madagascar
Yes, except scientist questionnaire

19. Project Implementation: Progress to date
Status of country reports and databases
S/N
Country
Report sent to AfricaRice
Databases sent to AfricaRice 11
Mali
Yes No 12
Mozambique 13
Nigeria
Only part of Producer Questionnaire 14
Central African Republic
Yes, all modules 15
Democratic Republic of Congo 16
Rwanda 17
Senegal
Only producer questionnaire 18
Sierra Leone
Yes, except scientist questionnaire 19
Tanzania 20
Togo 21
Uganda

20. Technical assistance provided by AfricaRice
Development of Standardized questionnaires and Review of countries’ adapted questionnaires
Development of the enumerator guide, reporting format along with a tabulation plan (in French and English)
Development of countries’ data entry templates (for countries using Access)
Provision of Stata program codes to produce the tables and conduct some of the statistical analyses
Field monitoring missions to the various countries 20

21. Preliminary Survey Results21

22. Distribution of Rice Farming Households’ Heads by Gender and Age
18 countries: Benin, Burkina-Faso, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, DRC, RCA, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo 22

23. Distribution of heads of rice farming households by marital status
16 countries: Benin, Burkina-Faso, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, Nigeria, DRC, RCA, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo 23

24. Proportion of farmers by field size
11 countries: Benin, Burkina-Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Madagascar, DRC, RCA, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo 24

25. Rice Yield by Ecology: All varieties
From village level
9 countries: Benin, Burkina-Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Madagascar, RCA, DRC, Rwanda, Togo 25

26. Rice Yield by Ecology: All varieties
Irrigated
Upland
Upland with suppl. irrigation
Lowland
Mangrove
All ecologies
Benin
2.6
1.7
1.4
2.9
2.2
Burkina-Faso
2.7
2.3
4.4
2.5
Cameroon
1.6
2.8
3.0
Côte d'Ivoire
Gambia
Ghana
4.8
2.0
3.8
3.4
Guinea
Kenya
Liberia
Madagascar
2.1
1.2
1.3
Mali
Mozambique
Nigeria
RCA
1.1
0.4
RDC
1.5
1.0
Rwanda
6.3
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Tanzania
Togo
1.8
Uganda
All countries
3.2
1.9 26

27. Average Rice Yield in All Ecologies
From village level
9 countries: Benin, Burkina-Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Madagascar, RCA, DRC, Rwanda, Togo 27

28. Rice Yield by Variety: All ecologies
From village level
5 countries: Benin, Madagascar, DRC, Senegal, Togo 28

29. Knowledge and use of rice varieties by farming communities
8 countries: Benin, Cameroon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, DRC, Rwanda 29

30. Major constraints in irrigated ecology
7 countries: Benin, Burkina-Faso, Cameroon, Madagascar, RCA, DRC, Rwanda 30

31. Major constraints in upland ecology
6 countries: Benin, Burkina-Faso, Madagascar, DRC, RCA, Sierra Leone 31

32. Major constraints in upland with supplementary irrigation ecology
5 countries: Benin, Burkina-Faso, Cameroon, DRC, RCA 32

33. Major constraints in lowland ecology
6 countries: Benin, Burkina-Faso, Cameroon, Madagascar, RCA, DRC 33

34. Major constraints in mangrove ecology
4 countries: Benin, Burkina, RCA, Sierra Leone 34

35. Perspectives
Further revision and update of Country and Synthesis reports – Final reports due end of September 2010
Support to country teams to conduct in-depth analysis of data collected to:
Update the NRDS data and conduct ex-ante impact analysis,
Conduct rice research priority settings
Analyze competitiveness of local rice production
Publish papers and policy briefs
Publication of data in Google Map and analysis of aggregated data by AfricaRice
Build on the partnership established by this project and continue the work started for the next five years

36. Thank you