Transcript Agriculture, Food Security, and Rural Development

AGRICULTURE, FOOD SECURITY AND RURAL
DEVELOPMENT CLUSTER (AFSRDC)
Cluster Report for the 10th
Regional Coordination Mechanism
(RCM)
BY
WELDEGHABER KIDANE
FAO, SENIOR AGRICULTURAL POLICY
OFFICER
Introduction
• preparation of an annual work plan has not
been possible in the case of AFSRDC
• report based on two cluster meetings and
key collaborative activities
• Some cluster members did not provide
information on their collaborative activities
 report may not be complete.
Cluster meetings
• First Cluster meeting held on 28 June
2009 in Tripoli; margins of CADDP-Day
• Second Cluster meeting held on 22
September in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
• Third Cluster meeting 4 November 2009 in
Addis Ababa.
Discussions
• Cluster concerned by low attendance
• Many parallel coordination mechanisms;
CAADP/PP, GDPRD/TT on CAADP, HLTF,
MDG Africa
• Cluster reminded itself RCM is GA
decision  should work
Outcome of Cluster meetings
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discuss with NEPAD and DREA their strategic and
annual work plans and agree on few activities to be
handled by AFSRDC;
agree between the cluster members key collaborative
activities;
identify resources required for their implementation
and strategy for its mobilization;
ensure that the activities are mainstreamed into the
global CAADP coordination mechanism; and
organize AFSRDC meetings on the margins of bigger
events that involve most cluster members to reduce
costs and ensure better attendance.
Collaborative Activities
• High Level Expert Meeting - League of Arab States
and AU; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; 8-12 November 2008.
(FAO and WFP)
– paper on food crisis highlighted possible areas for joint Afro-Arab
cooperation for sustainable agricultural development and food
security in the two regions
• Conference on Water for Agriculture and Energy in
Africa, Sirte 15-17 Dec. 2008
• Key players FAO, World Bank and AfDB along with NEPAD and
AUC (400 participants
• Discussed (i) agriculture-energy nexus in Africa; (ii) investment in
water for agriculture and energy; (iii) climate change and agriculture
in Africa; and (iv) inter- and intra-basin cooperation in water and
energy transfer
• Four side events on water and energy related issues were
organized that involved AfDB and FAO
Collaborative Activities Cont.
• High Level Meeting on Food Security for All; Madrid,
Spain; 26-27 January 2009
– FAO, IFAD and WFP were among the key organizations
– Hosted by the Government of Spain and the United Nations as a
follow up to the “High Level Conference on World Food Security:
the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy” convened by
FAO, in collaboration with IFAD and WFP, and held in Rome
from 3 to 5 June 2008.
– The meeting resulted in a declaration on specific actions as
envisaged in the Comprehensive Framework for Action (CFA)
– Entrusted HLTF on the Global Food Security Crisis to ensure
implementation of recommendations
Collaborative Activities Cont.
• Tracking agriculture expenditure in the context of meeting the
Maputo 10%
– FAO with financial contribution from the World Bank in support of
NEPAD/AUC
– Report discussed in a workshop in December 2008
– Outcome serving as important advocacy tool
• The 13th African Union Summit
– AfDB, WFP, FAO along with IFPRI and other partners for the Joint
Meeting of Ministers for Agriculture and Ministers for Land held in Addis
Ababa on 23 and 24 April 2009
– Four thematic areas (i) Climate Change – Challenges and
Opportunities; (ii) Agricultural Trade and Market Integration; (iii)
Financing African Agriculture; and (iv) Inclusion of the Poor and Most
Vulnerable)
– FAO Prepared a synthesis paper of above documents and its own
experience as background document for the 13th AU Summit
Collaborative Activities Cont
• Promoting Agro-Industry and Agribusiness
Development in African Countries
– Meeting convened by ECA in Addis Ababa 22-24 July
2009
– Partners UNIDO, FAO, IFAD, AUC, AfDB, and CGIAR
as well as AGRA and selected public and private
sector institutions
– discussed a draft report on Public-PrivatePartnerships (PPP) in agro-industry and agribusiness
– Agro-industry Conference will be held in March 2010
in Abuja, Nigeria
Collaborative Activities
• Sustainable Modernization of Agriculture and Rural
Transformation (SMART)
– Key players are ECA in collaboration with FAO and UNIDO
– best practices on SMART assessed in West Africa, Central Africa
and southern Africa using the value chain approach.
– Commodities in focus for the assessment cassava in Nigeria,
rice and tomato in Senegal, milk in South Africa, palm oil and
banana plantain in Cameroon and maize in Malawi
• Enhancing Market Access for Small-Holder Farmers:
– WFP in partnership with FAO leveraging local food procurement
capacity to enhance productivity of small-holder and low-income
farmers
– Initiative being implemented on a pilot basis in some fifteen
African
Recommendations
– should meet once a year but continue to exchange information
on regular basis via tele/video conferences and emails;
– takes advantage of summits, conferences and other big
meetings which involve participation of cluster members to
organize side meetings to discuss Cluster issues;
– urges ECA to bring the issues of resource constraints for
effective cluster activities to the attention of Heads of Agencies
through the Chief Executives Board (CEB);
– focuses on information exchange rather than preparing and
implementing annual Cluster work plans; and
– annual reports continue to comprise activities implemented
through the collaboration of two or more members of the AFSRD
Cluster.
Thank you!!!