Presentation by Roberto Aparicio at the 2016 annual meeting of the European Forum on Agricultural Research for Development (EFARD).

1. AR4D in the EU development
cooperation
Lisbon, 21st April 2016
Systemic resilience to food crises
Roberto APARICIO
Policy officer Sustainable Agriculture
DG International Cooperation and Develop------------
-----------------------------------------------ment

2. Countries where FNS-SA will likely be a focal sector for 2014-2020
NIP approved Last update 16/02/2016NIP expected Food Security significant
R
Nord
Soudan Djibouti
Ethiopie
Kenya
Somalie
Tanzanie
Ouganda
Benin
Burkina Faso
Côte d'Ivoire
Gambie
Erythrée
Ghana
Guinée Bissau
Libéria
Mali
Mauritanie
NigerSénégal
Sierra Leone
Burundi
Cameroun
Rwanda
Sao Tomé & P.
Tchad
Angola
Madagascar
Namibie
Malawi
Mozambique
Swaziland
Zambie
Zimbabwe
Afghanistan
Bangladesh
Népal
Myanmar Cambodge
Laos
Bhutan
Pakistan
Sri Lanka
Timor Oriental
Yémen
Kyrghyzstan
Tajikistan
Uzbekistan
Azerbaijan
Georgie
Moldavie
Cuba
Haïti
Suriname
Guatemala
Honduras
Nicaragua RCA
Solomon Islands
Sud
Soudan
RD Congo
Nigeria
Vanuatu
Fidji

3. Four Strategic Priorities
Sustainable Agriculture
PSD and inclusive agricultural growth
Systemic resilience to food crises
Nutrition security and enhancement

4. 1) Sustainable Agriculture
Why it matters?
• Climate change is happening, natural
resources are depleting and inequality is
growing
What are the priorities
• Governance of land, water and
biodiversity for agriculture"
• Sustainable intensification of agriculture,
livestock husbandry, aquaculture and
fisheries
• Building human and social capital for
family farming

5. 2) Private Sector Development &
Agricultural Growth
• Why it matters?
• Highest return on poverty reduction
• 75% of the poor live in rural areas
• Mobilizing private investment to achieve impact at scale.
• Smallholder farmers insufficiently connected to markets
• They lack organisations, capacities, have low productivity or are not
producing in a socially and environmentally sustainable manner
What are the priorities?
• Entry point to work on private sector is the value chain… …Bearing in mind that
the reality is far more complex… Development of rural territories
• Four priorities for our actions:
1. Value chains performance and governance
2. Innovation, support services and farmers organisations
3. Infrastructure and local development
4. Financial innovation and risk management

6. 3) Strategic resilience to food
crises
• 3.1 Protection of productive assets and
livelihoods
• 3.2 Income diversity and stability
• 3.3 Food prices stability and insurance
• 3.4 Food and nutrition security early warning /
information systems
• 3.5 Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)

7. 1. Enhance
mobilisation and
political
commitment for
nutrition
2. Scale up
actions at country
level
3. Knowledge for
nutrition
(strengthening
the expertise and
the knowledge-
base)
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1. Alignment
2. Complementarity and
sequencing
3. Multisectoral approach
4. Partnerships
+ Accountability
+ Communication
4) Nutrition Security and Enhancement

8. Djibouti
Ethiopie
Kenya
Somalie
Tanzanie
Ouganda
Benin
Burkina Faso
Côte d'Ivoire
Gambie
ErythréeMali
Mauritanie
NigerSénégal
Sierra Leone
BurundiCameroun
Rwanda
Tchad
Angola
Malawi
Mozambique
Swaziland
Zambie
Zimbabwe
Afghanistan
Bangladesh
Népal
Myanmar Cambodge
Laos
Pakistan
Sri Lanka
Yémen
Tajikistan
Haïti
Guatemala
Honduras
RD Congo
Nigeria
40 EUD NIPs where nutrition is an objective/indicator
(SUN countries with high stunting burden)
Nutrition focus
Anthropometric indicators
Anthropometric indicators:
-prevalence of stunting
-prevalence of wasting
-underweight
-malnutrition
Dietary diversity indicators

9. EU priorities and post-2015 agenda
EuropeAid 9
Global Food Security Challenges
795 million hungry people, more than two billion are
suffering from micronutrient deficiencies, more
than162 million children under five are stunted
Feed more than 9 billion people in 2050
Post 2015 framework for the development agenda
(ambitious approach to Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture with special
Goal 2 ( but also in other goals 5, 8, 12 and 14)
end all forms of
malnutrition
and in particular
stunting
end
hunger
ensure
access to
food
ensure sustainable
food production
systems
double agricultural
productivity and
incomes of small-
scale food
producers
maintain agro
biodiversity;
No food
losses
Our strategic priorities
Nutrition security and
enhancement
PSD and inclusive agricultural
growth
sustainable agriculture
Systemic resilience to food crises

10. FNS-SA in the Global Public Goods and Challenges
programme: a complement to NIPs and RIPs
€ 1,425 million (roughly € 200 million per year)
for these Priority areas:
• 1. Generating and exchanging knowledge and
fostering innovation
• 2. Strengthening and Promoting Governance
and Capacity
• 3. Supporting poor and insecure to react to
crisis and strengthening resilience

11. Second biennial report
2014-2015
IMPLEMENTING EU FOOD AND NUTRITION
SECURITY POLICY COMMITMENTS

12. Main EU political
commitments in FNS-SA
• Support partner countries in reducing the number
of stunted children by 7 million by 2025 (€ 2.8
billion pledge nutrition sensitive agriculture and
implementation of Nutrition Action Plan- first progress
report 2014-2015 for early 2016
• Build resilience and enhance crisis prevention &
management
• Agriculture for growth & job creation - enhancing
private sector/ agribusiness in development
cooperation- AGRIFI- and jobs for youth
• Promote a sustainable agriculture (20% pledge of
EU overall budget)
• Strong engagement in international development
agenda: (CFS World Food Security, UNGA-SDG,
G8/G20, Scaling Up Nutrition, Rio+20, partnership with
3 Rome-based agencies (FAO, IFAD, WFP)
• Support to continental/regional initiatives: (Africa's
Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development
Programme (CAADP) and Support to regional
communities and partnerships SHARE and AGIR)

13. The EU approach for AR4D
• Ensuring that AR4D delivers
impact at country and local level
• Exploring new strategic directions
to put research into use and
achieve impact
• Ensuring the success of global
and regional AR4D initiatives
• Improving EU leadership,
coordination and influence

14. On-going programmes
• Support to
• Research
• Institutional organisation and
architecture of research
• Capacity development
• Knowledge sharing, transfer and
use of the results of research
• Research priorities formulated
with stakeholders participation
14
2010-2013 funding

15. On-going programmes (2)
Regional, with priority on Africa (CAADP pillar
IV)
Sub-regional, in particular Sahel and the Horn of
Africa
Complementarity between the
different levels
15
DEVCO Support 2010-2013

16. A new initiative to support AR4D
• To achieve impact on development:
• Ensuring research is effectively servicing
innovation
• Enabling a sustained development by establishing
durable domestic agricultural research and
innovation capacity
• To harness European resources for
effectiveness and improve EU leadership and
influence:
• Pooling resources
• Take advantage of the strong and diversified
European scientific expertise

17. Highlights…
• Magnitude of challenges the world is facing
makes innovation more necessary than ever
• Research is not a goal in itself (from a
development cooperation prospect), it’s an
input to stimulate, make possible innovation
• EU committed to keep supporting AR4D and
stimulate partnerships famers, governments
and private sector to boost innovation
• Farmers well beyond partners, users,
recipients… of research; main characters of
the innovation process