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Regional agricultural development and food security initiatives in africa
1. Food Security Systems in ACP Countries and International
Markets: Relationship with WTO Treatment
Regional Agricultural
Development and Food Security
Initiatives in Africa
Fabien Tondel
ECDPM
ACP Brainstorming Meeting on Current WTO Agriculture Issues
Geneva, March 19, 2013
2. Food Security Systems in ACP Countries and International Markets
Contents
• About ECDPM
• CAADP—Africa’s agricultural development and food
security initiative
• Regional agricultural trade and food security
• Current status of regional policy processes
• The international trading system and regional food
security initiatives in Africa
• Current policy analysis activities
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3. Food Security Systems in ACP Countries and International Markets
About ECDPM
• ECDPM
“Think and do tank”
Development cooperation EU-ACP
Policy-oriented research
Policy dialogue facilitation
Partnership building around policy processes
• ECDPM’s Food Security Programme
Demand-driven activities
EU-Africa relations (CAADP process)
• Other focus areas concerning the ACP Group
Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs)
Policy coherence for development (EU’s CAP)
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4. Food Security Systems in ACP Countries and International Markets
Comprehensive Africa Agricultural
Development Program (CAADP)
• 2003 Maputo Declaration
Allocation of at least 10% of national budgets to agricultural
and rural development (ARD), objective of 6% annual growth
in agricultural production
• CAADP Policy framework
Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and Accra Agenda for
Action
Ownership, donors support alignment and harmonization,
results orientation and M&E, mutual accountability, inclusive
partnerships
• National and regional compacts and investment plans
• Continental-level coordination by AUC and NPCA
• Donors group
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5. Food Security Systems in ACP Countries and International Markets
Regional agricultural trade and food
security
• Food insecurity and malnutrition
• Cross-border agricultural trade, an essential element
of food security and agricultural development
• Regional economic integration
• Multi-sectorial approaches
• National and regional action
• Policy coherence
Linking agricultural initiatives with initiatives promoting regional
trade and a favorable environment for private investment
(agro-food industries, infrastructures)
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6. Food Security Systems in ACP Countries and International Markets
Regional agricultural trade issues
• Significant barriers to cross-border trade remain (share
of intra-Africa trade in agricultural products < 20%)
Poor infrastructure and transportation systems (high
transportation costs)
Policy barriers to trade at the borders (tariffs, NTBs, red tape,
and unstable trade policies)
Behind-the-border barriers to trade, underdeveloped value
chains for local food crops
• Some progress
Ongoing road, rail and waterways projects, trade facilitation
projects and development of trade corridors
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7. Food Security Systems in ACP Countries and International Markets
1st AU Joint Ministerial Conference on
Trade and Agriculture in 2012
• Accelerating the Action Plan for boosting intra-Africa
trade
Early deal for the liberalization of staple food markets?
• Identifying and implementing synergies between
trade initiatives and ARD initiatives through CAADP
• Strengthening the capacity of relevant institutions
and agricultural producers to effectively participate in
joint trade-ARD initiatives and monitor their impact
• Mandating AU, NPCA and the RECs to institutionalize
the policy dialogue aimed at realizing synergies
between the agricultural and trade sectors
• But concrete bridges across sectors are still needed
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8. Food Security Systems in ACP Countries and International Markets
Joint Action Group for Regional Trade
and Infrastructure
• CAADP Joint Action Group for agriculture, regional
trade and infrastructure
Support countries and RECs in coordinating actions in ARD,
trade and infrastructure
• Bringing aid-for-trade into the CAADP process
Enhanced Integrated Framework, Standards and Trade
Development Facility
• Providing more aid-for-trade support at the regional
level
• July 2013 Global Aid for Trade Review
Aid for trade and value chain development
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9. Food Security Systems in ACP Countries and International Markets
Current status of regional CAADP
processes
• West Africa (ECOWAS) (ECOWAP)
• Central Africa (ECCAS)
• East Africa (EAC)
• Horn of Africa (IGAD)
• Southern Africa (SADC)
• Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)
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10. Food Security Systems in ACP Countries and International Markets
The Int’l trading system and regional
food security initiatives in Africa
• Rising food commodity prices and price volatility
• Trade policy
• Government stocks
• Agricultural market information
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11. Food Security Systems in ACP Countries and International Markets
The Int’l trading system and regional
food security initiatives in Africa
• Investment in key food crop and livestock supply
chains
• Free trade areas, customs unions, and other
initiatives for regional economic integration
• Trade facilitation activities with a focus on
agricultural products
• Regional food reserves
• Market information systems
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12. Food Security Systems in ACP Countries and International Markets
Current policy analysis activities
• Agricultural trade: linking crop producing areas to
markets through trade corridors, promoting private
investment in infrastructures supporting trade
Trade corridors in Southern Africa (with FANRPAN)
• Value chain development: connecting farmers to
regional buyers and input suppliers, promoting private
investments in the agro-food sector
Agricultural information tool for East African farmers
• CAADP process facilitation: Assessing achievements of
ECOWAP, COMESA roadmap
• Policy coherence for development: Coherence
between the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy and African
food security initiatives
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