From the Food Security Forum 2014: Good food, good health: delivering the benefits of food security in Australia and beyond - 17 March 2014

1. Trends in Donor Responses
To Food Security
Dr Jim Woodhill
Principal Sector Specialist Food Security and Rural Development DFAT

2. Overview
• Framing Food Security
• Key Trends
• Dilemmas
• Directions for Innovation

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

4. Aid in Comparison

5. Trends
• Food and nutrition security is back
• Private sector engagement
• Value chain development and trade
• Social protection
• Production push to market pull
• Attention for results

6. Dilemmas
• No big shift in resourcing
• Mismatch with private sector
• Scale
• Declining NGO support
• Global architecture
• Results curse

7. Where To Focus?

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

9. Conclusion
• Leadership
• Communication
• Partnerships