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Continental action to promote

sustainable livestock development

Ralph von Kaufmann

Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa

FARA

IADG Annual Meeting

4 -5 may 2010

IFAD, Rome

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Outline

1. CAADP and other reforms in African agriculture

2. ALive partnership for Africa’s livestock development, poverty alleviation and sustainable development

3. Priorities for improving the productivity of Afr ican animal agriculture

4. Strengthening human and institutional capacity

5. Conclusions

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Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme

(CAADP)(CAADP)

• CAADP projects that 6% annual increase in agricultural production is the minimum for getting ahead of population growth to make sustainedimprovements in food security

• Livestock are often the only means of producing food and income and as crop production intensifies so to does livestock production

• The investment and broad actions required for livestock are set out in the CAADP companion document and AU-IBAR’s strategy

• AU-IBAR is the Lead Institution for livestock in CAADP

• FARA is the Lead Institution for CAADP Pillar IV that encompasses agricultural research, technology development and dissemination and crosscutting capacity strengthening

• AU-IBAR and FARA are collaborating through the ALive Partnership for African Livestock Development, Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Growth

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CAADP and other reforms in African agricultural developmentCAADP and other reforms in African agricultural development

• The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) is a framework for:

– National & regional planning, implementation & evaluation

– Developing trade and development corridors

– Improving cohesion & complementarity between donors

• Promoting knowledge-driven development

NARS

SROs

National

Sub

regional

Continental FARA •• Capture spillCapture spill--overs, overs,

•• Minimise duplication, Minimise duplication,

•• Share facilities, Share facilities,

•• Exploit comparative advantagesExploit comparative advantages

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The Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa The Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa

FARAFARA

FARA is the apex body for agricultural research in Africa

It is a stakeholder organisation working though Sub-Regional Organisations (SROs)

ASARECA - East, NASRO – North, CORAF/WECARD- West, CARDESA – South

to build critical mass, avoid duplications, fill gaps by

supporting networking amongst its stakeholders in:

1. Advocacy and resource mobilisation

2. Access to information and technologies

3. Policies and regional markets

4. Capacity strengthening

5. Partnerships and strategic alliances

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The Framework for African Agricultural Productivity (FAAP)The Framework for African Agricultural Productivity (FAAP)

Aims

1.1. Evolution & reform of Evolution & reform of

agricultural institutions & agricultural institutions &

servicesservices

2.2. Increasing the scale of AfricaIncreasing the scale of Africa’’s s

investment investment

3.3. Aligned and coordinated Aligned and coordinated

supportsupport

While working with;

Extension, research, training & Extension, research, training &

educationeducation

African governments, private African governments, private

sector sector

Development agencies, intDevelopment agencies, int’’l l

financing institutionsfinancing institutions

FAAP Provides guidelines and principles for implementing CAADP Pillar IV

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Priorities for improving the productivity of African animal agrPriorities for improving the productivity of African animal agriculture iculture

ALive partnership for AfricaALive partnership for Africa’’s livestock development, poverty alleviation s livestock development, poverty alleviation

and sustainable developmentand sustainable development

ALive’s Value proposition is:

“to provide a platform for facilitating discussion, advocacy advancing policy advice and accessing global knowledge for stakeholders in African animal agriculture and environment to add value to national and regional actions, and programs in advancing the CAADP Livestock agenda”

ALive’s Specific Objectives are to:• Identify trends and emerging issues affecting livestock development and

designing collective pre-emptive strategies• Influence public and private investments in livestock• Strengthen livestock sector policies and promote pro poor policies• Improve access to information/knowledge on demand by the end users

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Priorities for improving the productivity of African animal agrPriorities for improving the productivity of African animal agriculture iculture

ALive partnership for AfricaALive partnership for Africa’’s livestock development, poverty alleviation s livestock development, poverty alleviation

and sustainable developmentand sustainable development

ALive’s objectives will be attained by producing specific results in the following Results Areas:

• Catalyze and facilitate debate on trends and emerging issues affecting livestock’s contribution to poverty alleviation and economic growth, as well as human and animal health

• Advocacy and creating enabling environment for resource mobilization• Support policy analysis and provide policy guidance• Knowledge management and information sharing

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Priorities for improving the productivity of Priorities for improving the productivity of

African animal agricultureAfrican animal agriculture

• Technologies (Science & Community based innovation)– Integrated crop/livestock management (NRM)– Breeds adapted to local conditions (in situ conservation)– Wildlife-livestock systems (buffer zones, Profit, People & Planet)– Livestock disease control (Performance of Veterinary Services (PVS),

one world - one health Detection Identification Moni toring (DIM))

• Effective Advisory Services (making value chain actors knowledge-able)

• Efficient market chains including livestock product s handling and processing (Opening intraregional trade e.g., application of S PSS equivalence)

• Enabling policies ( Livestock Systems Investment Policy Toolkit (LSIPT) , land use, access to water)

• Human and Institutional Capacity development (livestock portfolio database)

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strengthening human & institutional capacity

• Human and institutional capacity is probably the mo st critical constraint on African agricultural development

• Critical weaknesses are in Africa’s:

– ability to attract the best young persons into agri cultural training

– capacity to produce problems solvers and entreprene urs

– capacity to retain the best professional in Africa and agriculture

• Capacity strengthening cuts across all Pillars of C AADP

– FARA coordinates continental programmes for strengt hening institutions & Africa’s capacity to build capacity

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Strengthening human & institutional capacity

• Collaborative programmes with other regions / countries• Africa-US Initiative Hon Higher Education

• Platform for African-European Partnership on ARD (P AEPARD)

• Africa-India; Africa-China, Africa-Brazil, Africa-L eague of Arab States

• Institutional strengthening based on holositic institutional analyses

• Linking university education with research & business to promote innovation & produce graduates with relevant skills

– Universities, Business and Research in Agricultural Innovation (UniBRAIN)

• Providing infrastructure support to improve internet access through Regional Agricultural Information and Learning System (RAILS)

• African Union supports the establishment of specialised centres of excellence – Biosciences east and central Africa (BecA) leading the way

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� Livestock is the largest agricultural sub-sector

� Livestock are an essential component in most production systems

� Improved productivity of animal agriculture is compatible with, and

essential and for, conservation of natural resources and biodiversity

� Research and development must be demand led

� All value chain actors must be involved in setting agenda, design

and evaluation

� It requires increased and better quality investment

� Instruments for improved investment include CAADP, FAAP, the

AU-IBAR Strategy and ALive

THANK YOU

Conclusions

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