The Brussels Briefing on the subject of “Emerging donors and rising powers in agriculture in ACP countries” took place on Tuesday 27 October 2015 from 9:00h to 13:00h at the ACP Secretariat (451 Avenue Georges Henri, 1200 Brussels, Room C ). The Briefing discussed the key challenges and new opportunities to enhance South-South and Triangular cooperation. The Briefing : i) reviewed successes and the lessons learned from research and practice; ii) promoted the exchange of information on best practices and drivers of success; iii) fed into the debate various perspectives on policy options. It reviewed the key challenges and opportunities in South-South cooperation in agriculture and the lessons learned from research and practice. It looked at examples of successes in South-South and triangular partnerships across the ACP.

1. Local food purchasing programme
(Purchase from Africans for Africa -
PAA)
Senegal component
Vincent Martin, FAO Representative, Senegal
Vincent.martin@fao.org
27 October 2015
Brussels

2. • 2009: FAO meeting - Brazil- Africa
• 2010: Brazil-Africa Dialogue on Food Security, Fighting Hunger
and Rural Development Rural (Senegal, Malawi, Ethiopia,
Niger, Mozambique)
• Senegal: Vulnerability to Food and Nutritional Security (Sahel:
recurrent drought and the impact of climate change).
– 2012: 739,000 people severely food insecure
– General acute malnutrition: 10 to 15%, 16/45 departments (> alert
threshold)
Background to the PAA and context

3.  Stimulate local production by guaranteeing a
market for small producers.
 Strengthen the sustainability of the school canteen
programme thanks to local purchasing initiatives
for cereals to boost the local economy
 Improve food security and the incomes of
vulnerable farmers
Threefold objective
Connect vulnerable family farmers to the markets

4. Geographical focus, community, category
March 2012 – August 2013
Sept 2013 – Dec 2015
$1. 7 million

5. • 1,000 vulnerable households
(40% women) a year (small
family rice-producing farms)
• 5 Unions of 30 Economic
Interest Groupings (EIGs)
• 181 school canteens, 24,000
students through production
surpluses bought from small
beneficiary producers
Conclusive results

6. Conclusive results
On the basis of support in the form of inputs, technical guidance,
processing capability, consolidating producers’ organisations in
terms of financial management,….
• Yields up from 800 Kg (reference year) to 2.5T/Ha (pilot phase)
to 3 T/ Ha (consolidation phase), a more than 300% increase
in relation to the reference situation
• 340 T of rice bought from producers for WFP-supplied school
canteens

7. Higher processing capabilities

8.  Food self-sufficiency and
surpluses
 a model for joint synergistic
action by the UN to support
the government
 Field School Producer
/integrated pest
management approach

9. • The vulnerability of the targeted producers’
organisations
• Targeting the beneficiaries (inclusion and
exclusion failures)
• Materiel bought
• Market disruption by programme outsiders
• Coordination and multisectoral approach
• Scaling up, finance & institutionalisation
Challenges

10. • Estimated amount: US$42.5 million
• Intervention areas: St Louis, Matam, Ziguinchor, Kolda
Sediou
• 4 local sectors to be revived (rice, maize, cowpeas,
potatoes)
• 6,000 small producers grouped into 200 farmers’
organisations receiving support.
• 608 schools, 117,000 students
• 1 lunch/ day and 2 breakfasts/ week over 4 years
Outlook: 2015-2018 extension

11. • Senegal government undertaking [Three-year Public Investment
Programme / 2015-2017] but the financial resources will be
allocated only in 2017
• Process under which the FAO and the WFP are transferring the
project to the government with the creation of a National
Technical Coordination Committee overseen by the Executive
Secretary of the National Food Security Council
• Measuring the impact on food and nutritional security and on
household incomes
Outlook & PAA innovations

12. Senegalese Agricultural
Acceleration Programme (PRACAS)
National School Food
Policy
National
Social Protection Strategy/ PBSF
(Family Security Grants Programme)
Sustainable agricultural development
and resilience to food and nutritional insecurity
Outlook & PAA innovations

13. Thank you for your attention
Vincent.martin@fao.org