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Alfred Dixon, Director of Development\nand Delivery giving his presentation<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\nLe\u00a0IITA<\/u>\u00a0Development and Delivery Office gave an outline of new generation scaling activities and projects that it is implementing to ensure the actualization of the IITA transformation agenda across sub-Saharan Africa. These were highlighted on the opening day of the 2018 P4D Week which took place between 26 and 30 November.\n\nIn his presentation on \u201cInstitutionalizing scaling out of technologies and knowledge at IITA to ensure sustainability,\u201d Director of Development and Delivery,\u00a0Alfred Dixon<\/u>, noted some of the problems facing scalability of technologies. He stressed the importance of development of technologies and their delivery to the end-users as \u201cproject execution is incomplete until we have ensured that farmers will adopt them.\u201d\n\nThere is also the need to improve and adapt the technologies over different iterations and make provision for expansion and scaled-out adoption, as technology will go nowhere without the markets, Dixon elaborated.\n\nHe noted that IITA had in the past delivered over 70% of\u00a0CGIAR\u2019s<\/u>\u00a0impact in sub-Saharan Africa but also called for continued commitment from all because without research and delivery there will never be transformation of African agriculture.\n\nDixon cited multiple examples of projects and interventions that IITA had been involved in over the years that although successful, did not provide the framework for continuous scalability and sustainability after the projects ended. Situations like these mean that Africa continues to have a high food import bill, currently at US$35 billion. And if the right steps are not taken, this could increase to US$110 billion by 2025. He stated that in Africa, this means \u201cwe would be exporting jobs to other countries instead of creating jobs in sub-Saharan Africa and that is not going to help African economic growth.\u201d\n\nIn a joint presentation, IITA Principal Investigator, Sustainable Weed Management Technologies for Cassava Systems in Nigeria,\u00a0Friday Ekeleme<\/u>\u00a0and Communication & Knowledge Exchange Expert\u00a0Godwin Atser<\/u>\u00a0spoke on the journey from technology and knowledge generation to scaling out using the cassava weed management project as a case study. They concluded that sustainability is about profit and that the actors in the private sector will only join hands in partnership with R4D organizations like IITA when they see that the technology is profitable, echoing the earlier point made about the necessity of markets to the development, delivery, and sustainable scaling of technologies.\n\nIn their presentation, Head of IITA Abuja Station,\u00a0Gbassey Tarawali<\/u>\u00a0and Head of IITA Onne Station,\u00a0Richardson Okechukwu,<\/u>\u00a0emphasized the need to align with government initiatives to achieve success in the outscaling of improved technologies and knowledge. They highlighted how multiple CGIAR centers and P4D scientists worked with the Nigerian government and institutions to revolutionize Nigerian agriculture. They concluded that ensuring the buy-in of government and policy makers to technologies will facilitate not only the scaling of these technologies but also the sustainability of the initiatives.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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