1. SCIENCE ALONE IS NOT ENOUGH
John Hine and Associates Pty Ltd
Large Amounts of R&D Done
Adequately applied?
Why Not?
Corruption
Leadingtopoor:
 Infrastructure
 Education
 Extension
 Health
Inadequate farm business models
 Small farmswithlimited technical and
businessskills
 Limitedsupplychaindevelopment
 Pooraccess to information
Four Key Areas to Address
GroupsAddressingCorruption
 TransparencyInternational,in100
nations
 FreedomHouse
 G20 Anti-CorruptionWorkinggroup
 OECD Convention onCombatingBribery
FacilitatingInternational investment
 Grow Africa
 AfricanAgricultural Capital Fund
 Alliance forFoodSecurityandNutrition,
10 Africannations,9 OECD nations
 Duxton(Deutsche Bank)
Groupsaddressingbusinessmodels
 UN Year of the Cooperative 2012
 International Cooperative Alliance
 Africare
 Cooperative FacilityforAfrica,ILO/UN
 Committee forthe Promotionand
Advancementof Cooperatives
DevelopingEthical supplychains
 IDH, multinational involvement,starting
capital €155 MILLION
 Global GAP,EU supermarkets
 Sustainable SupplyChainFoundation
 Responsible SourcingNetwork
 Global Roundtable forSustainable Beef
 Solidaridad,10industriesin5continents
ACTION
Buildnetworkswiththe above groupsto:
 Identifyfundingoptions
 Identifylocal problems
 Identifyimplementationpartners
 Get more projectsfunded
 Satisfactionfrombetterimplementation