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Thematic Area FOOD SYSTEMS

Thematic Area FOOD SYSTEMS. FANRPAN Partners’ Meeting 13 June 2011 Pretoria , South Africa. Background. Over 75% of the African population lives in RURAL areas 80 % of farmers in Africa are smallholder farmers rely on rain-fed agriculture for their livelihoods

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Thematic Area FOOD SYSTEMS

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  1. Thematic AreaFOOD SYSTEMS FANRPAN Partners’ Meeting 13 June 2011 Pretoria, South Africa

  2. Background • Over 75% of the African population lives in RURAL areas • 80 % of farmers in Africa are smallholder farmers • rely on rain-fed agriculture for their livelihoods • Women constitute 70% of the labour force • Spend up to 80 % of income on food

  3. Source: Regional COMESA Compact 2010 Food Security Outcomes

  4. FANRPAN PROJECTS 1. Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) 2. Platform for African European Partnership on Agricultural Research for Development (PAEPARD)

  5. Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP)

  6. Background • CAADP is a strategic framework agreed upon by NEPAD Heads of State to guide agricultural development • Objective is to commit 10% of national budgets to agriculture and attain an average annual growth rate of 6% • Reduce poverty by 50% by 2015.

  7. The four pillars of CAADP • Extending area under sustainable land management and reliable water control systems • Improving rural infrastructure and trade related capacities for market access • Increasing food supply and reducing hunger • Agriculture research , technology dissemination and adoption

  8. Key CAADP stages • Government buy in, appoint Focal point • CAADP launch • Country team appointed • Experts engaged • Draft report submitted • Stakeholder validation workshop • Compact signed • Investment plans • Technical review • Business meeting

  9. What is a CAADP Compact? • High level agreement between government and key stakeholders that details the programmes aimed at addressing national agriculture priorities

  10. 25 countries signed compacts; 18 reviewed investment plans; 12 convened business meetings Source: NEPAD 2011 CAADP Status in Africa

  11. CAADP implementation

  12. Signed compacts by REC

  13. Source: ReSAKSS 2010 Country agriculture expenditure

  14. Agriculture budgets at 10% or more

  15. FANRPAN CAADP PROJECTS • Developing the COMESA Regional Compact – Funded by COMESA • COMESA Regional Compact advocacy and outreach processes – Funded by DFID • Strengthening civil society engagement in policy analysis, dialogue and implementation of CAADP – Funded by GIZ

  16. What did FANRPAN do? • Developed the COMESA Regional CAADP Compact • Convened 8 CAADP Policy Dialogues • Developed a stakeholder database • Sharing of experiences and best practices • Hosts Non-State Actor (NSA) Task Team Secretariat • Global advocacy

  17. Emerging issues in CAADP • Buy in and full engagement by NSA • Strengthening capacity of local institutions • Funding and coordinated follow ups on recommendations from policy dialogues • Leadership capacity

  18. CAADP Compact Pipeline

  19. Take home message • Since CAADP was started by governments, the role and participation of CSOs / NSA who are not playing a part in CAADP will be strengthened through FANRPAN’s work

  20. FANRPAN PROJECTS ALIGNED TO CAADP PILLARS

  21. The Platform for African – European Partnership in Agricultural Research for Development

  22. Objectives of PAEPARD II Overall Objective: • Build joint African-European multi-stakeholder partnerships in agricultural research for development contributing to the MDGs • Enhanced, more equitable, more demand driven and mutually beneficial collaboration of Africa and Europe on agricultural research for development Feeds into CAADP Pillar 4: • Agricultural Research Technology Dissemination and Adoption Background on PAEPARD I • Major conclusion - a wider range of stakeholders particularly non-research should be included in research proposals in order to better achieve adoption and uptake of research outputs Beneficiaries • African and European non research (private sector, NGOs, Farmer associations) and research scientists

  23. Expected Results • Increased awareness of partnership opportunities in Europe and Africa for agricultural development in Africa. • Improved mobilization and coordination of European ARD stakeholders and African non–research stakeholders • Increased knowledge on European funding opportunities among African ARD stakeholders and support for partnership development will lead to increased number of high quality ARD proposals.

  24. Activities Organized in 7 WPs WP7: Project management and coordination WP1: Mobilizing European stakeholders WP6: Advocacy PAEPARD WP5: Innovation partnerships WP2: Mobilizing non research African stakeholders WP4: Capacity building WP3: Information and communication

  25. PAEPARD Consortium Partners & Roles

  26. FANRPAN Role: Work Package 2 • WP 2 Objectives: • Create an enabling environment for successful partnerships in ARD. • Improve participation of non research stakeholders (CSOs, FOs, private sector organizations, government) in conceptualizing, implementing and evaluating innovative multi stakeholders research projects. • WP 2 Specific Activities: • Mapping African Stakeholders • Internal consultation for each stakeholder category • National / regional consensus and priority setting multi-stakeholder consultations • Identification of case studies; success and failure stories

  27. Focal Countries • Botswana - Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis (BIDPA) • Democratic Republic of Congo - Centre d`Echanges pour des Reformes Juridiques et Institution • Mauritius - Department of Agricultural Production and Systems, University of Mauritius • Mozambique - Faculdade de Agronmia e Engenharia Florestal, Eduardo Mondlane University • South Africa - National Agricultural Marketing Council (NAMC) • Swaziland - Coordinating Assembly of NGOs (CANGO) • Lesotho - National University of Lesotho, Institute of Southern African Studies (ISAS) • Zimbabwe - Agricultural Research Council (ARC)

  28. Achievements To Date • PAEPARD project launch at the FARAGeneral Assembly in Burkina Faso, 19 July 2010. • PAEPARD blog and website: paepard.blogspot.com/ • Dissemination of information on funding opportunities. • Desk review to validate capacity needs and propose options for a capacity strengthening strategy. • National consensus and priority setting multi-stakeholder dialogues conducted in DRC; Swaziland; Mozambique; Botswana and Zimbabwe. • Outcomes: • Lessons on existing African & European multi-stakeholder partnerships • National consensus on research priorities • National consensus on priority capacity needs

  29. Achievements To Date • Regional consensus and priority setting multi-stakeholder consultation held 12-13 May 2011 Nairobi, Kenya. • Outcomes: • Lessons on existing African & European multi-stakeholder partnerships • Federating research themes • Food security • Post harvest technologies • Animal husbandry • Markets and strategic value chains • Environmental resilience and water • Knowledge management

  30. Achievements to Date Fig. 1: National Dialogue Participants by Stakeholder Sector

  31. Achievements To Date Profile of applicants • 1st Call for Proposals Launched on 8th December 2010 • 1st Call for Proposals Deadline 28th January 2011 • 82 submissions received • 52 selected on administrative grounds and for technical appraisal • 9 selected for partnership inception

  32. Selected Proposals • Uganda - Enhancing capacity and developing networks between North-South Universities in Research Methods training at PhD level • Togo - Agribusiness around soybean • Togo - Togo - Characterization of two varieties of red pepper to improve marketing and semi-industrial processing • Senegal - A partnership between Europe and Africa for the establishment of a monitoring tool for small holder farming • Ghana - Improving food security and income for smallholder farmers through improved post harvest technology. • Kenya - Aflatoxin contamination management along the maize value chain

  33. Selected Proposals • South Africa - Use of GIS, GMPBasic and existing related information systems to benchmark and plan the development of the emerging livestock sector of South Africa • Malawi - Partnership for Enhanced Aquaculture Innovation in Sub Saharan Africa (PEAISSA) • Zimbabwe - Improving the incomes of smallholder farmers through increased access to livestock markets and through the engagement of the stakeholders in the livestock production to marketing value chain

  34. NEXT STEPS • 2nd call for proposals launched 31 May 2011, applications close 15 July 2011. • Partnership inception workshops for first call:

  35. Thank you

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