Dr Ousmane Badiane opened the session with a biref presentation of the Malabo Montpellier Panel On March 18th as Panel members Sheryl, Debisi, Gordon and Noble, as well as invited guests Dr Fadel Ndiame from AGRA and Dr. Reuben Echeverria from CIAT participated at the The Malabo Montpellier Panel: High Level Policy Innovation Through Evidence And Dialogue In Agriculture with the African Development Bank’s agricultural department to present and discuss the findings from the Panel’s three reports. They were joined by Dr. Martin Fregene, Director Agriculture and Agro-industry Department, Dr. Jennifer Blanke, Vice-President, Agriculture and Human Development, Dr. Bouchaib Boulanouar, Partnership Coordinator Agriculture and Agro-industry Department, Dr. Marie Brou-Tanoh, African Leaders for Nutrition, Dr. Atsuko Toda, Director Agricultural Finance and Rural Development Department, Dr. Edward Mabaya, Manager Agribusiness Development Division, Mr. Francis Bougaire, Manager Water Coordination and Partnerships Division, Mr. Mamadou Kane, Agricultural Finance and Rural Development Department ; and jointly called for increased efforts towards a thriving African agricultural sector.

1. Dr Ousmane Badiane
Abidjan, 18 March 2019www.mamopanel.org
MALABO MONTPELLIER PANEL

2. MaMo approach to policy innovation
Policy innovation from top,
Permanent Secretary and
above, is more likely:
• to be adopted and faster
• to be implemented and at
scale
• hence to be transformative
Drivers of policy innovation
from the top
• Failed experiments costlier,
financially and politically
• Policy change usually gradual vs
need for transformative scale
• Peer learning and imitation
accelerates pace of innovation

3. Fostering Policy Innovation: Learn from Positive Change
Understanding Positive
Change
• Finding where progress is
taking place
• Identifying critical success
factors
Learning from Positive
Change
• Good practices for
replication and imitation
• Dialogue and exchange for
adoption

4. Learning From Positive Change
Annual
Agricultural
Expenditure
Ag. Gross
Domestic Product
+86%
+63%
Where there is progress, there are lessons to be learnt

5. Learning from positive change
Share of
Population under
Poverty Line
Level of Malnutrition*
-36%
-20%
-43%* % malnourished population; under-5 stunted and wasted
Where there is progress, there are lessons to be learnt

6. Learning from positive change
Source: Oehmke, J. 2017
1996-2013-2015
Africa performed
better than BRICs
and world average

7. The imperative to learn
There is still a
long way to go
despite progress

8. The imperative to learn: Need to make up lost decades of
slow growth and decline
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
1600
1800
2000
1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020 2025
Actual and 2000s trend for the future
1960-1977 growth path
3.2% annual
growth rate
7.0% annual
growth rate
to catch up
$700
$1,200
$1,900
Source: Badiane et al (2015).
!!!! At current pace of growth
It would take decades to make up for the lost ground

9. Opportunities to learn
More countries are growing
faster than ever
Progress is uneven and
challenges are still
formidable
Some countries must be
doing certain things right and
better
Opportunities to replicate
and scale up successful
policies and interventions
Agricultural GDP Growth Rates
1990s 2000s

10. Malabo Montpellier Panel
Debisi Araba Tom Arnold Ousmane Badiane Nobel Banadda Patrick Caron Sir Gordon Conway
Gebisa Ejeta Karim El Aynaoui Ashok Gulati Sheryl Hendriks Muhammadou Kah Agnes Kalibata
Nachilala Nkombo Wanjiru Kamau-
Rutenberg
Ishmael Sunga Rhoda Peace
Tumusiime
Joachim Von Braun

11. Malabo Montpellier Forum
The Rt. Hon. Dr. Saulos Klaus
Chilima
Vice President
Republic of Malawi
H. E. Abdoulaye Bio-Tchané
Minister of State in Charge of Planning
and Development
Republic of Benin

12. Malabo Montpellier Forum
A platform to bring research into use at the
cross-country or continental scale
Guided by technical reports prepared by the
Malabo Montpellier Panel on what works,
why and how

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