grain fish money financing africa’s green and blue revolutions

GRAINFISHMONEYFinancing Africa’s green and blue revolutions

Presentation to African Ambassadors: Geneva

Caroline Kende-Robb

The Africa Progress Panel

Selected Recommendations

African Governments • Set equity target for the post 2015 goals• Deliver on promises on spending targets for

agriculture • Prevent ‘land grabbing’• Take action on intra-regional trade• Stop the plunder of nature resources

International community

• Ratify the 2009 Port State Measures Agreement to end the theft of Africa’s fish.

• Establish illegal unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing as a ‘transnational crime’.

• Eliminate subsidies that contribute to IUU fishing• Financial regulators should investigate remittance

charges.• Deliver on climate adaptation financing.

Private sector

• Act as champions of transparency and implement project-by-project disclosure.

• Make company ownership public.• Invest in agro processing.• Eliminate transport cartels.• Seize opportunities created by Africa’s tech revolution

and develop innovations for Africa and for the world.