Jim Woodhill, Principal Sector Specialist, Food Security and Rural Development, AusAID, presented at the UNAA Victoria Global Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture Seminar held on Tuesday 29 October in Melbourne. Held in support of the United Nations Zero Hunger Challenge, in partnership with NAB and the University of Melbourne, this seminar was part of the UNAA Sustainability Leadership Series and sought to build momentum for collective action on food security and sustainable agriculture post Rio +20. Bringing together experts and practitioners from government, business, civil society, farmers' organisations, research and academia, the seminar sought to provide a platform for shared learning and discussion on Australia's role in addressing the global food security challenge and advancing sustainable agricultural practices. It highlighted the challenges and opportunities that Australian government, businesses, and NGOs face as they contribute to developing and promoting sustainable food supply chains that increase food production, preserve natural resources and fight hunger at the local, national and global level. For more information about this seminar and the UNAA Sustainability Leadeship Series please visit www.unaavictoria.org.au/education-advocacy/masterclasses/

1. Global Food Security and
Sustainable Agriculture
Setting the Scene
Jim Woodhill – Principal Sector Specialist Food Security and Rural Development

2. Overview
• The context
• Opportunities and challenges
• Framing the transition
• Implications for Australia

3. Healthy Food – our most basic need
We need to eat the right food
for good health
Too much of the wrong food is
a major health risk
Our most basic need
Food
Producing food can destroy the
environment and peoples
livelihoods
Our food systems are at
risk from climate change
Agri-food sector growth is a
significant economic
opportunity

4. Context: Key Trends
• 2 billion more people by 2050
• At least 70% more food needed
• Urbanisation
• Globalisation of supply
• Plateauing yields
• Resource degradation and water scarcity
• Climate variability and extremes

5. Context: A Perfect Storm – or Not?
Rising food prices
Infectious diseases
Natural disasters
Climate change
Land Grapping
Food and
Nutrition
Security
Increasing
food demand
Water scarcity
Population growth
Urbanisation
Obesity
Land degradation
Ecosystem collapse

6. Context - Population Dynamics
1960
2050
?
2010
Adapted Gapminder / Hans Gosling

7. Context - Key Development Facts
• 1 billion people suffer from hunger (58% in Asia)
• 2.7 billion people live on less than $2 per day and the same number
largely depend on agriculture for their livelihoods
• 90% of the worlds 525 million farmers are small scale, they feed
50% of the worlds population
• 80 per cent of farmers in Africa are women
• 36% of children in Indonesia are malnourished
• The annual global spend of development assistance to agriculture
is a about 10 billion USD (8%) of ODA or equivalent to 4% of just
Australia’s food industry

8. Opportunities
• Market growth
• Development of resource smart
technologies
• Healthy food
• Eliminating hunger and malnutrition

9. Challenges
• Transforming small scale-agriculture
• Incentives that drive responsible resource
use
• Mobilising investment
• Research and development

10. Framing - Dimensions of Food Security
Food Security
Why
What
Availability
Global Food
Sector
Productivity
Access
Transforming
Rural Economies
and small-scale
agriculture
Utilization
Productive
Social Protection
Measures
Healthy,
sustainable
affordable food
(nutrition)
Policy and Investment Areas (Public and Private)
Business
enabling policy
environment
How
Agricultural
Inputs
Infrastructure
Domestic
Policy
Human
Capability
Market Access
Facilitation
Private Sector
Investment
Efficient Trade
Research and
Innovation
Financial
Services
Trade and
Market
Access
Advisory
Services and
Extension
Private Sector
Investment and
engagement
Sustainable
use of natural
resources
Equitable access
to natural
resources
Global
Public
Goods

11. Framing - A Rubik's Cube of Agri-Food Innovation
Consumption and
wellbeing
Markets and
distribution
Production and
resource use
Perspectives
Prospects
Pathways
Political Innovation
Institutional Innovation
Technological Innovation

12. Critical Enablers
• Evidence based foresighting and scenario analysis
• Dialogue and partnerships between business,
government, NGOs and research
• Innovation brokering
• Sustained leadership
• Tenure and property rights
• Women’s economic empowerment
• Efficient markets within a context of good
governance that manages externalities

13. Implications For Australia
• Economic and political stability
• Agricultural export opportunities
• Regional business opportunities
• Service and expertise opportunities