00:30:58 Kristina Hallez: Hi Everyone - Kristina Hallez here, Center for Effective Global Action at UC Berkeley 00:31:03 Clarissa Perkins: Clarissa Perkins - KDLT, Bixal 00:31:04 Edouard Nizeyimana: Hi Ed Nizeyimana, Retiree interested/and following Agrilinks. 00:31:04 Paradzayi Hodzonge: Good afternoon, Good morning, Good evening depending o her you are in the world. I am Paradzayi Hodzonge from Environment Africa Zimbabwe 00:31:19 Sovannarith Chea: Evening! Sovannarith from Cambodia 00:31:19 Joseph Ashong: Joseph joining from Ghana 00:31:21 Juan Carlo Intriago Zambrano: Hi everyone. This is Juan Carlo from IDH (Netherlands) 00:31:25 Ahlam Fakhar: Ahlam Fakhar - AUI, Morocco 00:31:31 Alex Russell: Alex Russell, Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk & Resilience. Happy to join everyone! 00:31:34 Maria Andrawis: Hi everyone, I'm Maria from the Salvation Army World Services Office 00:31:35 Malika Bounfour: Hello everyone 00:31:37 Dick Tinsley: Dick Tinsley, Colorado State University, on my 80th birthday 00:31:39 Coco Lim: hi all, coco lim, acumen based in nyc (also a ucsb alum) 00:31:46 andrew Banda: Hi everyone. I am Andrew Banda of Agribusiness Management Training and Consultancy Services in Zambia. 00:31:50 Janet Micheni: Hello everyone, joining from Nairobi. Kenya. 00:32:16 Alex Russell: Happy birthday Dick! 00:32:22 Christopher Shore: Christopher Shore, World Vision, based in southern California 00:32:23 Nick Okerlund: Hi everyone! Nick Okerlund, Project Specialist at ACDI/VOCA. Joining from Washington, DC 00:32:24 Sophie Javers: Sophie Javers, Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience. Welcome everyone! Thanks for joining us today 00:32:25 Carl Wahl: Carl Wahl, USAID/BHA Sr. Ag. Advisor - Happy Birthday Dr. Tinsley 00:32:34 Robertson Khataza: Hello. I am Robertson Khataza from the Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Malawi 00:32:40 Lucy Silas: Lucy Fulgence from SNV Zambia 00:32:41 Michelle Langefeld: Michelle Langefeld from BiOWiSH Technologies. Hi Andrew B! 00:32:44 Grace Miringa: Hello, Grace Ng'endo Miringa joining from Nairobi , Kenya 00:32:47 Aniceto's Galaxy A21s: Hi everyone, I'm Aniceto Matias, from Mozambique 00:32:50 Yusuf Yusuf: Hello everyone. I am Yusuf Yusuf from Portland, Maine. U.S. 00:32:51 KISHAN PKV: Kishan PKV from IRMA, India. Hello everyone. 00:32:58 Teshome Gelana: Hi everyone, I am joining from Ethiopia. I'm working for World Vision. 00:33:13 Tammy Boger: Tammy Boger, USAID/BHA, Washington DC. 00:33:13 Robert Kolbila: Hello, my name is Robert, and I am joining from Mississippi State University. 00:33:22 Yurika Namihira: Hello all, I am a psychologist and PhD student joining from Japan 00:33:50 Barclay Obrien: Gidday. I am Clay from World Vision Australia. 00:33:57 Marianne Benet: Marianne Benet from RTI International (based out of NYC). Happy Birthday, Dr Tinsley! 00:34:07 Christine Nyanga: Hi. I am Christine Nyanga, Joining from Zambia, Innovations for Poverty Action 00:34:13 andrew Banda: Hi Michelle 00:34:18 MICHAEL R CARTER: Good day, everyone. This is Michael Carter from University of California, Davis and the MRR Innovation Lab 00:34:25 Tricia Peterson: Hi! Tricia Peterson from Samaritan's Purse. 00:34:50 Moges Tufa Adinew: Hello all! I am Moges Tufa PhD student in Development Economics and joining from Ethiopia, Addis Ababa University. 00:35:13 Grace Gitu: hello all. Am Grace Gitu from African Farmer Needs at Farm Level(AFNEED), Kenya 00:35:36 Leon Bora uzima: Hello, Leon Bor uzima from Mercy Corps DRC 00:35:44 Seollee Park: Hello! Seollee Park from Washington State University. 00:36:39 Md. Masud Rana: Hi everyone. Rana Md. Masud, PhD candidate from Niigata University, japan. Have a good day. 00:37:34 George Okundi: Greetings to all from Kenya 00:38:02 Gray Tembo: Greetings from Zambia. 00:38:33 Chris Czerwonka: Hello everyone 👋 Chris Czerwonka here from Mosabi https://mosabi.co – based in Sierra Leone but connecting today from The Gambia. 00:39:35 Michael Saltz: Greetings everyone! Reminder to use the Q&A chat box if you have any questions about the presentation. 00:49:04 Jan Twarowski: Jan T. Twarowski, Sr. VP at Sheladia Associates and UC Davis alumnus. Very logical thesis with practical implications. Thank you. 00:55:52 Carl Wahl: Sounds a bit like envelope stuffing for budgeting 00:56:50 Andrea Bohn: Very much so, Carl! And banks like Ally are facilitating doing this 'electronically' by encouraging clients to split up their monthly income (or savings) into "subaccounts" 00:58:11 Eva Christensen: @Carl, I was thinking the same thing!! 01:00:04 Carl Wahl: HI EVA!!! 01:00:13 Eva Christensen: :) 01:04:13 Rebeca Gomes: Hello everyonePlease, We can have a recorded meeting 01:04:35 Sophie Javers: Yes, Rebeca, a recording will be shared 01:04:53 Rebeca Gomes: Rebeca Gomes from Mozambique rebecagloria@gmail.com 01:04:57 Michael Saltz: Yes, we will be uploading the event recording to the Agrilinks YouTube. 01:05:14 Michael Saltz: We will send everyone links to the recording and the full slide deck. 01:05:28 Glenn Lines: Great. Thanks! 01:05:37 Rebeca Gomes: Thanks very much 01:08:21 CHRISPINE MUKUKA MWAMBA: Thank you for the recording because network is not stable here. 01:10:22 Dick Tinsley: CSU recently sponsored an International Symposium in which I made a presentation on Reflections over 50+ years of assisting smallholder communities. As usual the presentation is more on factual accuracy than political correctness. It does cover a lot of my concern for dietary energy balance and how essential it to enhance access to contract mechanization to meet food security. The link to the presentation writeup is: https://agsci.colostate.edu/smallholderagriculture/wp-content/uploads/sites/77/2023/03/Reflections.pdf 01:14:50 Naglaa Arafa: Thank you Dick Tinsley! 01:16:34 Carl Wahl: I wish Dr. Stephen Cole was on the line - he wrote his dissertation and a few papers on the stress that farmers engaged in ganyu (piecework) experienced and how that stress affected female farmers in particular. Relief of that stress is key for the increase in better farming. If you don't believe me, eat one small cassava tuber per day for a week and try to plan beyond your next meal :/ 01:21:02 Edouard Nizeyimana: Thanks Carl. This is fully aligned with outcomes of the discussions in the food systems summit in Sept 2021, particularly under action track 5 on "stress, vulnerabilities and Resilience". 01:22:04 CHRISPINE MUKUKA MWAMBA: That is the reason stressed farmers do not perform exemplary well in terms of productivity. Leverage during production months will drive small and rural farmers to some better sustainability. 01:22:58 Matteo Ravà: Very very interesting thanks for the wonderful presentation I need to jump on a different meeting, looking forward to the recording to check the final discussion. 01:23:40 Carl Wahl: One sad example was the total disappearance of the Katanino National Forest north of Kapiri Mposhi in 2015 - 2016. 01:25:13 Gray Tembo: Is this research paper available to us? 01:27:53 CHRISPINE MUKUKA MWAMBA: Kelsey, thank you for this presentation. It has been so wonderfully done . Keep up the good work. 01:28:05 Teshome Gelana: This is a great job and we need to see similar practices in Ethiopia! thank you for the good efforts. 01:29:18 Pallavi Bharadwaj: Hope that this could be scaled to the entire region and then the continent in future. Thank you for this insightful presentation. 01:30:21 Olivia Agbenyega: Has a similar study been carried out in Ghana in West Africa? 01:31:20 Rebeca Gomes: There are opportunities for those are affected by Cyclone Freddy? because my cooperative suffered the disaster of cyclone Freddy. We have 900 hectares of land we use to produce cereals and vegetables in Namaacha Ditrict in Mozambique? rebecagloria@gmail.com Agrarian Cooperative COOPAMIM 01:31:32 Andrea Bohn: Well, but the intervention is not without cost 01:32:18 Andrea Bohn: You did invest in providing the budgeting tool and the labels for the bags and it costs money to reach many households 01:32:31 Carl Wahl: +1 Andrea 01:35:40 Dick Tinsley: Without access to mechanization it is physically impossible to meet domestic food security. You just can not manually establish enough land in a sufficiently timely manner to produce enough maize to meet basic metabolism let alone do a full day of field work requiring 300 kcal/hr or 4000 kcal/day. 01:35:59 Eva Christensen: We're already reaching many HHs with interventions like VSLA/SILC and similar savings and lending groups, this intervention seems an excellent add-on to these types of approaches to improve impact 01:37:34 Carl Wahl: I think also recognizing that Zambian agriculture is (similar to Malawi, Zim, and Eswatini) politically, culturally, economically and historically heavily focused on maize production. If you look up the coat of arms / national seal of Zambia, it has a maize cob in the middle of the compartment. 01:37:37 Carl Wahl: +1 Eva 01:38:37 Paradzayi Hodzonge: Yes Dick you are right, mechanisation is critical for production and it does not need to be large scale but small scale labour saving and efficient 01:40:42 Eva Christensen: @Dick, you just illustrated why maize should never be our sole focus crop, haha. Low nutrition, high requirements to grow--we need more vegetables, more animal-based products (if only yogurts, cheeses, eggs, etc.). Many of these countries grow maize now because it's what they were forced to grow during colonization, ignoring their local wild foods. More emphasis on local and wild food can go a long way toward food security (even where mechanization isn't available) 01:42:48 Paradzayi Hodzonge: Even producing traditional/local crops require some level of mechanisation for households to produce enough. Wild foods is a fantasy 01:44:29 Eva Christensen: Wild food fed the entire continent for millenia--life has changed but it's not a fantasy to eat what grows naturally within a given context to supplement what can be grown by farmers. 01:44:31 Edouard Nizeyimana: Eva, with the widespread food insecurity (due to conflict, Climate change, costs and COVID), Maize has been seen as the crop which highly responds to the technology, and so contributing to Food security. 01:46:33 Edouard Nizeyimana: A lot of attention is back to sorghum, finger millet in the context of climate change (and nutrition). 01:46:34 Eva Christensen: @Edouard, that's been the plan for decades yet food security is decreasing. Perhaps we should start trying crops which more easily adapt to changes in climate, which require fewer expensive inputs, and offer nutrition in return. Maize is not a silver bullet. 01:46:42 Paradzayi Hodzonge: Wild food is a fantasy in that with the growing populations there is not enough of that to make any meaningful impact, over harvesting impacts on other wild life as well, we need to look at this holistically 01:47:04 Rebeca Gomes: please, can we have the recorded meeting, because of intrnet problmes 01:47:35 Michael Saltz: This meeting is recorded. We will send everyone a link to watch on YouTube. 01:47:49 Eva Christensen: As a 25-year agroecologist, I concur that a holistic approach is imperative; ignoring wild foods isn't holistic. 01:48:22 Alex Russell: For details and resources on the research discussed today, visit: https://basis.ucdavis.edu/project/smoothing-seasonal-hunger-through-planning-zambia 01:49:02 Eva Christensen: Relying solely on technology and inputs is not sustainable; we also need to look more closely at loss and waste to reduce pressure on production alone 01:50:32 Paradzayi Hodzonge: I do agree to looking at harvest and post harvest losses as this contributes hugely to food insecurity 01:51:22 Edouard Nizeyimana: @Eva, Agree, along understanding the pathway and the speed of change and the risk involved - we are almost reaching almost 900 million hungry people. Definitely agroecology needs to be scaled up! 01:52:05 Esosa Orhue: Is this household Agro-policy applicable to other Africa countries in your implementation? 01:53:48 Andrea Bohn: If scarcity (hunger month) is perceived as normal, then I think many households may be resigned to that being just the way it is. 01:55:06 Andrea Bohn: Excellent work, excellent speakers, excellent webinar, engaging chat! Thank you! 01:56:13 Dick Tinsley: Thank you for a very good webinar. Well presented. 01:56:14 Andrea Bohn: Humans overall do poorly at accurately assessing risk. 01:56:33 Pallavi Bharadwaj: No surprising to hear but a great insight nevertheless on people being more optimistic rather than their neighbors. Typical for humans. 01:56:40 Pallavi Bharadwaj: Thanks for sharing Kelsey! 01:56:49 Carl Wahl: +1 Dr. Jack - in Western Zambia, everyone was an optimist in May, and a pessimist in October 01:56:58 Kim Siegal: Terrific presentation and conversation! 01:56:59 Eva Christensen: I LOVE this presentation/research, because it's part of examining food security holistically. There are so many influences on FS, and we often overlook the emotional (stress) and social (culture), etc., and look directly to production capacity. I can't wait to share this info! 01:57:36 Pallavi Bharadwaj: Thank you all! I learned a lot 👍 01:57:39 Glenn Lines: Excellent presentation, very interesting discussion. Thanks! 01:57:45 Carl Wahl: I hope you are excited enough to field many forthcoming questions. 01:57:56 Katherine Riebe: Thank you for this very interesting webinar. Hoping the research will result in improved livelihoods globally. 01:58:06 Dan Norell: Thanks so much! Very well done! 01:58:10 Christine Nyanga: Thank you. This was very insightful. 01:58:13 Michael Saltz: We have an Agrilinks event next week: https://agrilinks.org/events/embracing-new-partnerships-advance-locally-led-development-through-private-sector-engagement 01:58:15 Andrew Cochrane: Thank you for the interesting webinar! 01:58:17 Edna Berhane: Excellent presentation! Thanks Kelsey and Harry! Very insightful. 01:58:17 Michael Saltz: Thanks for joining! 01:58:20 Maria Andrawis: Thanks everyone - great presentation - clear and relevant!