22 October 2022 African Diaspora Agrofood Forum The theme of this 6th edition of the African Diaspora Agro Food Forum was Investment, Trade and Transformative Development. This highlights the importance of enabling diaspora entrepreneurs access to funds, investors and markets .

1. Raschad Al-Khafaji
Director
FAO Liaison Office for the European Union
and Belgium
Africa Diaspora
Agrofood Forum 2022
21 October 2022

2.  FAO seeks to support the 2030 Agenda through the
transformation to MORE efficient, inclusive, resilient and
sustainable, agri-food systems for better production, better
nutrition, a better environment, and a better life, leaving no one
behind.
 New FAO Strategic Framework approved by the FAO Conference
in July 2021
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FAO’s Strategic Framework 2022-31
The four betters

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Leaving no one
behind through
sustainable, inclusive
and resilient agri-
food systems

4. Boosting Smallholder Resilience for
Recovery:
Protecting the most vulnerable,
promoting economic recovery and
enhancing risk management capacities
Preventing the Next Zoonotic
Pandemic:
Strengthening and extending the One
Health approach to avert animal-origin
pandemics
Food SystemsTransformation:
Building back better during response and
recovery
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COVID-19 impact and recovery & Food Coalition
Global Humanitarian Response Plan:
Addressing the impacts of COVID-19 and
safeguarding livelihoods in food-crisis
contexts
Data for Decision-making:
Ensuring quality data and analysis for
effective policy support to food-systems and
Zero Hunger
Economic Inclusion and Social Protection to
Reduce Poverty:
Pro-poor COVID-19 responses for an inclusive
post-pandemic economic recovery
Trade and Food Safety Standards:
Facilitating and accelerating food and
agricultural trade duringCOVID-19 and
beyond
Seven
Thematic
Pillars of the
FAO COVID-19
Response and
Recovery Plan

5. • Hand-in-Hand is FAO’s evidence-based,
country-led and country-owned
initiative to accelerate agricultural
transformation and sustainable rural
development to eradicate poverty (SDG
1) eradicate poverty (SDG 1) eradicate
poverty (SDG 1) and end hunger end
hunger end hunger and all forms of
malnutrition (SDG2).
• all forms of malnutrition (SDG2).
• all forms of malnutrition (SDG2).
• In doing so, it contributes to attaining
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Hand In Hand – 1000 DigitalVillages
45 countries with 26 from Africa

6.  From, to and between rural areas
 Migration impacts the agricultural
sub-sectors and rural areas
 Migration is linked to FAO’s mandate
and global goals
 Agricultural and rural dimensions of
migration
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FAO and Rural Migration Key Figures
80% of the worldwide poor live in rural areas
and 64% of them earn a living by working in
the agricultural sector (WB 2016)
By 2050, over half of the population in least
developed countries will still live in rural areas,
relying on agriculture and related activities for
their livelihoods (UNDESA, 2014)
Around US$300 billion international
remittances sent to rural areas (IFAD, 2021)

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Enhance the positive effects of migration for
agriculture and rural development
Global fora, partnerships
Increase knowledge and awareness of
diaspora contribution to agriculture
and rural development
Country-level projects
Foster diaspora engagement in
agribusiness through skills, knowledge
and investments transfer

8. First ever Uganda Diaspora Agribusiness Award
 3 diaspora winners selected according to the innovativeness of
their business and contribution to youth employment generation
in agribusiness
FAO’s diaspora partners and beneficiaries in
global and regional fora
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Role models

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 Strengthen technical and functional capacities of policy
makers
 Brings the voice of the diaspora into policy
consultations and decision-making processes
 Facilitate diaspora investments in agribusiness
Strengthening the enabling environment for
diaspora to contribute financial and non-
financial resources to sustainable agriculture
Participatory
approach

10.  1 national diaspora policy formulation process influenced
 1 national multi-stakeholder technical working group on
diaspora in agribusiness set up
 60 government and civil society actors trained on engagement
mechanisms for diaspora contributions to agribusiness
 200 people reached through two Uganda Diaspora
Agribusiness Conferences
 3 diaspora agripreneurs awarded as role models through the
Uganda Diaspora Agribusiness Award
 1 diaspora in agribusiness organization set up, made of 90
diaspora agripreneurs across the world
 A diaspora-youth agribusiness matching programme
developed and rolled out
 A diaspora-youth match making conference organized
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The case of Uganda

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Pilot mechanisms
Diaspora-Youth Partnerships
formalized and under
discussions
Call
diaspora&
youth
agripreneurs
Youth
business
profiles
strengthened
Matching
process
Diaspora-youth agribusiness matching
programme

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13. THANKYOU
Raschad Al-Khafaji
Director
FAO Liaison Office for the European Union
and Belgium