Transcript Document

Presentation by Mandivamba Rukuni
ZIMASSET Awareness Seminar for Members of Parliament
Harare International Conference Centre
12-13 March 2014
Zimbabwe's biggest nutrition challenge:
Children between 6-59 months of age are
stunted
Figure 1.1a Prevalence of stunting in children 6-59 months of age, by district (WHO)
Mb i re
Hu r u ng w e
Ce n te n a ry
K ar ib a U r ba n
G u ru v e
Ru sh i n g a
Mt D a rw in
K ar o i U r b an
UM P
S ha m v a
K ar ib a
Mu d zi
Ma zo w e
B in d u ra
G o kw e No r th
Ma k on d e
Mu to ko
Zvi m b a
G o ro m o n zi
Ha r a re U rb a n
Mu r e h wa
B in g a
V icto r ia F a lls
Ch e g u tu
G o kw e S ou th
K ad o m a
S ek e
Nya n g a
Ma r o n de r a
Hw a n ge U r ba n
Ma k on i
Hw e d za
Mu ta sa
Hw a n ge
Nk ay i
Lu p a n e
Ch ik o m b a
K we kw e
Mu ta r e Ur b a n
Ch ir u m h a nz u
B ub i
G we r u
Tsh o l ots h o
B uh e r a
Mu ta r e
G u tu
Um g u za
S hu r u g wi
B ul il im a
Ch im a n i ma n i
B ul a wa yo U r ba n
B iki ta
Zvi sh a va n e
Ma s vin g o
Um zi n gw a n e
Ch iv i
Ins iza
Ch ip i n g e
Za ka
P lu m tre e
Ma n g we
Mb e r e ng w a
Ch ir e d zi
Ma to b o
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G wa n d a
Mw e n ez i
0% - 19.9 %
20.0 - 29 .9%
B ei tb ri d g e
30.0% - 3 4.9%
35.0% - 4 7.8%
• Increased risk of dying from infectious
diseases (more than one-third)
• Associated with reduced school
performance equivalent to 2-3 years of
schooling
• Associated with reduced income earning
capacity (22% average; up to 45% has
been reported!)
• Increased risk of non-communicable
diseases in adult life
• Stunted girl is more likely to give birth to
undernourished baby
• Reduced GDP by 2-3%
• Stunting is irreversible!
B ei tb ri d g e U r b an
Districts w ith lo we r than e xp ected samp le size
Impaired
brain and
cognitive
development
ZIMBABWE NATIONAL NUTRITION SURVEY – 2010
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Poor school
performance
Impaired
productivity
and earnings
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Why has Zimbabwe become a nation of Traders not
Producers?
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How did Agriculture lose its status as Autonomous
sector?
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Why the de-industrialisation of Zimbabwe leads to
demise of Agriculture?
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Can global food markets guarantee Zimbabwe’s food
security?
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Zimbabwe MOST EDUCATED and MOST HARD-WORKING people on
continent BUT cannot feed itself!!
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No great nation where Government and Business have no common
agenda- Learn from the BRICS-
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Food is national security
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Business sector- grow out of ‘self-pity’, get more organised, this is war
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Educational system- we don’t need thinkers who can’t DO; need more
“THINKER-DOER” education
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Religion- get rich quick syndrome breeding more greed, crooks and
criminals
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Water, Roads/Rail, Electricity– are the
infrastructure backbone of the economy
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Agriculture and Agribusiness – are the
economic backbone of the economy
AFRICA AVERAGE
40%
Urban
50%
60%
food consumed
by Urban
of all
marketed
food urban
WEST AFRICA
50
60
70
EAST AND SOUTHERN AFRICA
30
40
50
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Beverages
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Fruits and veg
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Grain Millers
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Grocery Manufacturers
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Meat Packers
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National Bakers
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Pharmaceuticals
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Tea Growers
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Zimbabwe Sugar Associations
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Stockfeeds Ass
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Retailers
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Leather and Allied Industries
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Timber
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Furniture
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It is more strategic and
more sustainable to
promote and modernize
smallholder farming
Small Farms Can:
 use land more efficiently
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produce cheaper and more
nutritious foods
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increase own incomes and
productivity
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promote equity, hunger, and
poverty reduction
AND average farm size will continue to decline due to sustained
rural population growth
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A1 land, in my opinion, is where land policy should
really open up to a regulated land market
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A1 landowners will be the most vibrant and most
diverse commercial force in Zimbabwe’s rural areas.
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The farmers are already more responsive to market
signals than A2 and large scale farmers.
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These farmers won’t be stuck inflexibly to a few
commodities as with large-scale farmers.
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The A1 farmers will do much more if given a
more conducive land rights regime.
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These farmers will form the new frontline
commercial suppliers of manufacturing sector,
 especially raw materials for food, beverage, textile and
other manufactured products.
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The intermediary business sector is the source of
new growth
THE CHALLENGE
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Insecure land rights and poor liquidity in the
market has compounded the challenges of
farming
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The banking sector has limited understanding of
smallholder farmers and vice versa
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State banks (Agribank) and parastatals have
shrunk and that may be the case for some time.
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What is now needed is proper financial
intermediation
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With dollarization, it is now feasible to increase
domestic savings in rural areas
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Require minimum bank savings and investment
into rural sector
1.
Short-term (seasonal) finance for inputs and
working capital.
2.
Medium-term finance 2-5 years (for machinery,
irrigation infrastructure, etc.)
3.
Long-term finance 6-25 years (for land
acquisition, dams, etc.)
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Decline in supply of raw materials both local and
imported.
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Locally sourced raw material supply declining
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The price of sourcing raw materials has also
increased significantly
Consumption
Distribution
Packaging
Processing
Farming
Public sector
Private sector
Consumption
Distribution
Packaging
Processing
Farming
Public sector
Private sector
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With the provision of a Land Commission in the
new Constitution it would be strategic for the
Commission embarks on establishing a Land Bank
as well as a Land Acquisition Compensation Fund.
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The two have to be completely independent but
strategically, the success of one depends on the
other.
All A2 land shpuld be on Land Bank balance sheet