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This initiative focuses on improving global agricultural productivity sustainably, with a key emphasis on small family farms. It includes measures to support food security, implement responsible agricultural investment principles, and enhance agricultural innovation systems.
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations – for a world without hunger FAO and the G20 2012 FAO support on agriculture, food security and development
Food security under the G20 in 2012 – Two basic objectives • Implement the 2011 Action Plan on Food Price Volatility • Increase global agricultural productivity sustainably, with particular attention to small family farms
2012 Priority Implementation of 2011 Action Plan • Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS) • Rapid Response Forum (RRF) • International Research Initiative for Wheat Improvement (IRIWI) • Global Agriculture GEO-Monitoring Initiative (GEO-GLAM) • Tropical Agriculture Platform (TAP) • Exemption of food purchases by WFP from export restrictions • Regional emergency humanitarian food reserves • Principles for responsible agricultural investment (PRAI) • Voluntary Guidelines on Governance of Tenure of Land etc • Risk management • Financial regulations
2012 Priority Agricultural productivity and sustainability • Subject of new Interagency Report to the G20 • “ Improving Global Sustainable Agricultural Productivity Growth and Bridging the Gap for Small Family Farms” by • Bioversity, CGIAR Consortium, FAO,IFAD, IFPRI, IICA, OECD, UNCTAD, UN High Level Task Force on the Food Security crisis, WFP, World Bank, and WTO • Coordinated by FAO and OECD
The Interagency report • Evidence and analysis • trends and needs in agricultural productivity and sustainability, Agricultural Innovation Systems, investment, and policies • Reiterate ongoing activities and accepted principles • Three main headings focusing on policies, mechanisms and actions to: • create the enabling policy environment • improve agricultural innovation systems • close the productivity gap for the small farmer
What is new • Facilitate private sector investment in agriculture • Voluntary Guidelines for the Responsible Governance of Land Tenure • Principles for Responsible Agricultural Investments • Beyond formulating principles • support a series of international consultations with the relevant international organizations, the B20 and farmers’ organizations to assess the potential of various public-private partnership models • Support on an on-going basis, an annual meeting of "chief scientists" in G20 countries • facilitate exchange of experience and policy dialogue on AIS
What is new • Support developing countries to establish appropriate IPR systems • consistent with international obligations (Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of International Property Rights and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture) • in line with each country’s strategy for food security • Development of a global information system on plant and animal genetic resources • make information relating to genetic resources available through a common portal, such as ”Genesys” • Strengthen monitoring and evaluation systems for ‘market- smart’ input subsidies • improve targeting and graduation methods • Strengthen competition in fertilizer market, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa • analysis and studies
Agricultural productivity and sustainability Improving Global Sustainable Agricultural Productivity Growth and Bridging the Gap for Small Family Farms Draft Interagency Report to the G20 Agriculture Vice Ministers/Deputies by Bioversity, CGIAR Consortium, FAO,IFAD, IFPRI, IICA, OECD, UNCTAD, UN High Level Task Force on the Food Security crisis, WFP, World Bank, and WTO Los Cabos, 2-5 May 2012