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ReSAKSS -Africa Lead Training Workshop 20 th June 2012 Birchwood Hotel

Strengthening Capacity for Strategic Agricultural Policy and Investment Planning and Implementation in the SADC Region. ReSAKSS -Africa Lead Training Workshop 20 th June 2012 Birchwood Hotel Johannesburg, South Africa. Outline of Presentation. About IWMI and ReSAKSS -SA

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ReSAKSS -Africa Lead Training Workshop 20 th June 2012 Birchwood Hotel

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  1. Strengthening Capacity for Strategic Agricultural Policy and Investment Planning and Implementation in the SADC Region ReSAKSS-Africa Lead Training Workshop 20th June 2012 Birchwood Hotel Johannesburg, South Africa

  2. Outline of Presentation • About IWMI and ReSAKSS-SA • Highlights of the 2011 trends and outlook report

  3. IWMI in Africa and Southern Africa • Strategic focus Identification of realistic, socially equitable and environmentally sustainable agricultural water management investment options that respond to regional needs and priorities, and contribute to increasing agricultural productivity and reducing poverty

  4. IWMI Supporting regionally shared goals • CAADP aims to stimulate agriculture-led development that eliminates hunger and reduces poverty and food insecurity. • CAADP directs investment to four mutually reinforcing and interlinked pillars: • Pillar I: Extending the area under sustainable land management and reliable water control systems; • SADC Regional Indicative Strategic Plan (RISDP) calls for efficient irrigation systems in the region and has set out targets to increase food production and productivity for food security • Target 2: Double cropland under irrigation from 3.5% to 7% as percentage of the total by 2015

  5. ReSAKSS-SA • Is Part of an Africa wide initiative supporting CAADP and regionally shared goals – COMESA, SADC, ECOWAS • Provides Analysis and knowledge support for planning, review and policy dialogue for agricultural growth and poverty reduction • 3 Sub-Regional programmes launched in Sept 2006 • ReSAKSS-SA is facilitated by IWMI and IFPRI, and steering committee chaired by SADC FANR • Multi-donor initiative (USAID, Gates, (MDTF – potential)) • Mission: To improve the management of land and water resources for food, livelihoods and the environment

  6. Addressing 3 Regional Challenges • Increasing agricultural growth to reach an average annual growth rate of 6% as envisioned by CAADP/SADC RISDP as necessary for attaining overall economic growth, poverty reduction and food security. • Enhancing the contribution of agriculture to the achievement of the MDG 1 by 2015 (halving hunger and poverty in the region) • Assessing of policy and investment alternatives that will yield the highest payoffs given commitments of increasing national agricultural budgets (Maputo Declaration 2003) • Mission: To improve the management of land and water resources for food, livelihoods and the environment

  7. ReSAKSS-SA Strategic Components • Strategic analysis • M&E of CAADP and SADC RISDP; data collection and analysis • Annual trends and outlook reports • Specific strategic analysis and production (occasional publications) • Knowledge Support Systems – • e-Resource Centre (Website); Knowledge Products (Publications); Knowledge Sharing Platforms (workshops) • 3. Capacity building • Support to SADC • Establishing and supporting SAKSS nodes • Strengthening of local institutions

  8. ReSAKSS-SA Support to SADC • CCARDESA Study - Exploring Strategic Priorities for Regional Agricultural R&D Investments in Southern Africa • Conducted strategic analysis that will support SADC MAPP and its partners in revising, reviewing and prioritizing the regional agricultural research strategy in Southern Africa and; • An early action activity for identifying and ranking agricultural research and development priorities in Southern Africa (evidence-based). • Providing on-going Support to SADC Regional Agricultural Policy – member if the RAP Working Group • Conducting study on ‘Options for up-scaling high performance irrigation investments in Southern Africa’ • Providing an annual SADC-wide M&E report on agricultural sector performance in the region in the context of CAADP and SADC-RISDP (CAADP M&E framework)

  9. Highlights of the 2011 trends and outlook report

  10. SADC wide GDP growth rates yet to reach SADC-RISDP target…..

  11. …however, GDP growth yet to translate into reduction in poverty

  12. …Mixed prospects for achieving MDG 1 targets on poverty reduction (based on the international poverty ($1.25/day) headcount ratio

  13. Agriculture is most important in 7 low income countries out of 15 SADC countries

  14. Yet, for most countries, public budget allocation and expenditure in agriculture remains low and far below the 10 percent target set under the Maputo Declaration in 2003

  15. Agriculture share in total budget, 2000-2010

  16. The same trend prevails for the share of agriculture in total spending

  17. Share of agriculture in total spending

  18. …the gap between AgGDP and GDP in the region has been widening in the last decades

  19. Progress towards the 6 percent agriculture GDP CAADP growth target

  20. Progress towards the 6 percent agriculture GDP CAADP growth target

  21. AgGDP growth outlook to 2015: poor prospects for low income countries

  22. …some countries likely to reach/surpass the 6 percent CAADP target by 2015

  23. On average, cereal yields fall short of the 2000kg/ha SADC RISDP target

  24. On average, maize yields fall short of the 2000kg/ha SADC RISDP target Source: ReSAKSS-SA Country Surveys 2011

  25. …cereal production has been failing to match population growth in the region over the last decades

  26. Maize Production and Kg/capita - (1) Source: ReSAKSS-SA Country Surveys 2011

  27. Maize Production and Kg/capita - (2)

  28. Annual growth rate in livestock production in SADC countries, 2003 to 2010

  29. Annual production growth rate by livestock type to achieve the SADC-RISDP 4% target Source: ReSAKSS-SA Country Surveys 2011

  30. Net importer of cereals

  31. Fertilizer consumption yet to achieve SADC RISDP target of 65kg/ha

  32. Fertilizer consumption yet to achieve SADC RISDP target of 65kg/ha Source: FAOSTAT and ReSAKSS-SA Country Survey 2011

  33. A SADC wide need exists to increase area under irrigation

  34. Conclusions • Future Outlook: • AgGDP: as a group middle income countries are, on average and based on trends observed between 2003 and 2008, on track to meeting the CAADP target, low income countries are not • Poverty: most SADC countries are off-track to reaching the MDG1 target of halving 1990 poverty rates by 2015 • Mixed progress in meeting both goals of MDG1 – Poverty and Hunger • Challenges: • stabilizing and enhancing agricultural growth rates • Increasing agricultural productivity (e.g. Irrigation, Fertiliser use etc.) • Translating agriculture and total economic growth into poverty reduction

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