POTENTIAL SYNERGIES BETWEEN CAADP NATIONAL INVESTMENT PLANNING AND FARMING SYSTEMS INFORMATION

Mandi Rukuni

Presented at Side Event: A Farming Systems Approach to Support National Agriculture Investment Planning in Southern Africa. Bingu International Conference Centre. Lilongwe. Malawi. Thursday 16 April 2015

GUIDING QUESTIONS TO POTENTIAL VALUE ADD OF FS INFORMATION TO CAADP

1. What can the FS tool offer CAADP to strengthen mainstreaming of land management in country investment plans?

2. What are the strengths and gaps within current implementation framework; and therefore what could be the entry points for FS synergies?

* 30 Country Compacts

Over 40 Countries actively

engaging

* 24 country Business meetings

* 27 National Investment Plans

1 regional compact & Investment Plan (ECOWAS)

CAADP implementation & CAADP implementation & achievementsachievements

CAADP failures and successes in 1st Decade

1. Not much focus on Institutional capacity; Policy reform2. Shallow problem analysis; poor political economy analysis3. Not enough focus on how to make markets work better4. CAADP raised high expectations of mobilization new resources5. Not enough focus on how to attract and catalyse more domestic

private sector investment in agriculture6. African financial institutions (AfDB, regional dev banks, private equity

and investment banking institutions) hardly involved7. Brought Agriculture back as a priority8. Solidarity and regional integration9. Rallying point for governments, development partners and

investors

Sustaining the CAADP Momentum

Wealth Creation

Job Opportunities and Food Security

Economic Growth ResilienceImpact

Outcomes

Strategic Thrust

Strengthening & aligning Institutions,

Policies & Leadership

Learning & Knowledge

Support

Financing & Investments in

Agriculture

Land and Water

Research& Knowledge

Food & Nutrition Security

Markets, Private Sector

CAADP Pillars

MALABO DECLARATION 2014

1. Recommitment to the Principles and Values of the CAADP Process

2. Recommitment to enhance investment finance in Agriculture • Uphold 10% public spending target; Operationalise the African Investment Bank

3. Commitment to Ending Hunger by 2025 • Double productivity; Reduce PHL by half; reduce underweight to 5% and stunting to 10%

4. Commitment to Halving Poverty by 2025, through inclusive Agricultural Growth and Transformation• Sustain Annual Agricultural GDP at least 6%; strengthen inclusive PPPs

5. Commitment to Boosting Intra-African Trade in Agricultural Commodities & Services• Triple intra-Africa trade in agricultural commodities and services

6. Commitment to Enhancing Resilience in livelihoods and production systems to climate variability and other shocks

7. Commitment to Mutual Accountability to Actions and Results Through the CAADP Result Framework – conduct a biennial Agricultural Review Process

5 Priority orientations

1- sustainable intensification of smallholder farming in order to upgrading to modern family farms: (access to inputs – including the use of smart subsidy policies; securing land access (in part. for women) and priority to family farms (law)

2- Strengthening the the agro-food value chain whether into local, rural towns, regional market or export and the position of farmers in it: participation of farmers to research orientation; foster vocational training; contractual relationships in value chains; involvement in the negotiations of large scale investments

3- Improving the functioning of markets with a focus on the on the regional level: production of public goods (infrastructure, research); create market incentives for credit and insurance (ie Warehouse receipt, option certificates); regulations of markets (intervention) if distorsions; safety nets

5- need to deepen the financial effort of our governments to agricultural and rural infrastructure: allocate 10% of public expenditures to agriculture for the countries where agriculture represents more than 10% of GDP and all countries to increase public expenditures for agriculture at the same pace as GDP in real terms

4- Integrating global markets in a gradual approach based on an “infant industry“ and regional preference strategy: flexibility in regional tariff policy (smart protection to manage instability and endangering competition practices in international markets; regulations on the use of genetic resources ; climate change negotiations

Implementation StrategyImplementation StrategyKernel of strategy has three elements

Diagnosis

Guiding Policy

Coherent Action

Unpacking & understanding the Problem (or Opportunity) Feasible coordinated

policies; resource commitments & actions to carry out the guiding policiesSpecifics of the approach

to deal with the obstacles (Issue; principles; standards; action)

FSD, CAADP AND NAIFSPs• Farming Systems Information Framework for Planning Investment in

Agricultural Development has huge scope for the implementation of CAADP and NAIFSPs

• CAADP priorities are at 3 levels- agriculture led social and economic transformation (systemic capacities; productivity; inclusive growth)

• The FSD tool broadens and deepens the investment interventions in NAIFSPs by way sharpening change pathways in the vast diversity and heterogeneity of agricultural production systems

• FSD complements the commodity-based value-chain targeting • Rapid structural transformations taking place on the continent

requires tools to interphase farming and non-farm activities

The need for a systematic assessment of land governance within CAADP

1. Equitable land distribution /access

2. Secure land tenure and rights

3. Absence of disputes/conflict

4. Responsive land use planning

5. Low productivity of land use in many areas

Weaknesses • Data and scale

• Is a big issue having consistent, seamless, accurate (fit-for-purpose) datasets – continent, region, national and sub-national level

• Navigating complexities, understanding relationships and dependencies

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CONCLUSIONS• Opportunity for applying the FSD planning tool in support to

implementing CAADP NAFSIPs

• Need for technical guidelines, tools, capacity building and training on these tools and follow-ups in implementation alog with CAADP processes

• This will improve enormously chances of archiving Malabo targets by 2025

Thanks• CHRIS AURICHT• JEAN-MARC BOFFA 15