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Off the Shelf: Innovation in family farming for sustainable agriculture. Terri Raney, Editor The State of Food and Agriculture Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN. ICABR 18 June 2013 Ravello . The State of Food and Agriculture Editor-in-Chief 2002-2013. Planning for The SOFA 2014. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Off the Shelf: Innovation in family farming for sustainable
agriculture
Terri Raney, EditorThe State of Food and Agriculture
Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
ICABR18 June 2013
Ravello
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The State of Food and AgricultureEditor-in-Chief
2002-2013
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Planning for The SOFA 2014
Innovation in family farming for sustainable agriculture
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Why a SOFA on agricultural innovation?
• World population is growing. Incomes are rising. Demand for food is growing.
• Poverty and hunger is still pervasive. • The natural resource base is more and more
constrained and at risk of degradation and climate change.
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Food consumption to 2050(Kcal/person/day)
Source: FAO, 2011
1500
2000
2500
3000
3500
1969/71 1979/81 1990/92 2005-07 2030 2050
Industrial countries Sub-Saharan Africa
Near East-North Africa Latin America & Caribbean
South Asia East Asia
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Real food prices increasing?
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Hunger is widespread and persistent
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… with stark regional disparities
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2012).
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1990/92 2010/12
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Increase of 64 million in Sub-Saharan Africa
Decrease of more than 100 million each in East and Southeast Asia
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… and increasingly
complex malnutrition
problems
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Small family farms are crucial to the challenge
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Systems at risk of degradation and climate change
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Sources of production growth
Source: FAO, 2011Developing co
untries
sub-Saharan
Africa
Near East
& N. A
frica
Latin Americ
a
South Asia
East
AsiaWorld
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100Land Cropping intensity Yield
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Yields much higher on irrigated land … very scarce in SSA
World
Developing countri
es
South Asia
Near East
& N. A
frica
East
Asia
Latin Americ
a
sub-Saharan
Africa
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2005/07 yield on irrigated land, tons per hectare (left-axis)2005/07 yield on rain-fed land, tons per hectare (left-axis)Irrigated land as percent of total harvested land (right-axis)
Source: FAO.
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Strong competition for water in some regions
Near East & N. Africa
South Asia East Asia sub-Saharan Africa
Latin America Developed countries
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Irrigation water withdrawal, cubic km (left-axis)Pressure on water resources due to irrigation, percent (right-axis)
Source: FAO.
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Fertilizer use is very low in SSA
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Ensuring sustainable productivity growth in family farming requires:
• Generating and sharing technologies and practices in and for family farms
• Reforming policies and institutions to remove constraints and promote the use of practices and technologies for sustainable productivity.
• Facilitating access of family farms to market incentives as a driver and a source of innovation.
• Promoting innovation capacity among family farms.
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The technical challenge of sustainable productivity growth
• Productivity growth stagnation and gaps.• Increasing stress on the natural resource base.• Climate change threatens traditional practices.• Ag. R&D and extension services to meet old
and new challenges.
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The socio-economic challenges of ensuring access to technologies
and practices
• More inclusive to meet needs of small farms.• Markets and value chains as a driver of
innovation. • Overcoming constraints to adopt practices
with positive private returns:– High short term opportunity costs– Financial constraints– Risk aversion
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Promoting innovation capacity among family farms
• Individual innovation capacity (education, training, gender gaps)
• Collective innovation capacity (ability of farmers and others to organize effectively to access markets, information, technologies etc.)
• Broader enabling environment (policies, institutions, governance etc.)
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How you can help
• Research on various aspects of the challenge• Examples of policy, institutions, incentives for
innovation• Case studies of successful adoption of
sustainable practives
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For more information …
The State of Food and Agriculture
2013Food systems for better nutrition
FAO‘s major annual flagship publication.
Available in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic and Chinese
www.fao.org/publications/sofa
#sofa2013
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Resources
• The State of Food and Agriculture 2013: Food systems for better nutrition (June 2013)
• World agriculture towards 2030/50 (2012)• The State of the World’s Land and Water
Resources (2011)• Background papers for the “Food Security
Futures” conference (FAO and IFPRI)
www.fao.org/publications
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Land expansion potential, concentrated in certain regions
sub-Saharan Africa
Latin America Near East & N. Africa
South Asia East Asia Developed countries
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Cropland currently in use, million hectares Potential rain-fed cropland, million hectares
Source: GAEZ-v3.0 in Fischer et al 2011.
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High fertilizer use in East Asia; South Asia and Latin America will follow suit
sub-Saharan Africa
Near East & N. Africa
Latin America South Asia East Asia Developed countries
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2005/07 fertilizer consumption, kg per hectare (left-axis) 2050 fertilizer consumption, kg per hectare (left-axis)Growth, percent per annum (right-axis)
Source: FAO.
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Natural Resources for Food Production: Water• The FAO projections indicate that the global demand for
water withdrawals from agriculture will increase by 11% from a 2006 baseline to 2050
• By 2050, more than half the world’s population will live in countries with severe water constraints
Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture, 2007
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Systems at risk
• densely populated highlands in poor areas;• small holder rainfed farming in semi-arid
tropics;• densely populated and intensely cultivated
areas in the Mediterranean basin• intensive rainfed cropping in temperate
climate;• irrigated rice-based systems;• crops depending on irrigation by
groundwater;• rangelands on fragile soils; • deltas and coastal areas;• periurban agriculture.