Presentation made in the context of the FAO-led side event “Improved Food Security, Nutrition and Livelihoods: Addressing climate change and natural resources threats in SIDS”, in the context of the Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States, held in Samoa from 1-4 September 2014.

1. Value Chains and Livelihoods
Diversification
Périn L. Saint Ange
Regional Director, East and Southern Africa
International Fund for Agricultural Development
3 September 13-14:30
Faleata Sport Complex , Room CM5

2. Value Chains: IFAD supporting rural livelihoods
• Increasing dramatically over the past years
• Capturing larger share of value added and diversified production
• Improving market integration and efficiency
• Strengthening producer-private-public partnerships
• Pursuing sustainable adaptation to climate change
Implementing IFAD’s Value Chains Agenda
• Investing in rural men, women and youth
• Promoting entrepreneurship and marketing to increase
quantity, quality and diversity of agriculture and fisheries
produce
• Rural-urban nexus: provision of input
supply and access to output markets

3. Addressing Multiple Constraints in SIDS
• Supporting smallholders as managers of SIDS’ vulnerable natural
resources
• Securing access to markets through social capital and collective action
• Developing models for produce quality, reliability and affordability
• Providing knowledge on market opportunities, standards and labelling
• Investing in local infrastructure (production, processing and storage
facilities)
• Improving access to small, remote islands with
diseconomies of scale
• Increasing employment opportunities, training
producers and processors
• Making exports more profitable through global
policy dialogue and partnerships

4. 4
The case of artisanal fishing value chains
• Investing in artisanal fishing, processing, storage and
marketing facilities:
 Sustainable and responsible fishing practices
 Sheltered fish landing stations and
transportation of raw fish, reduce wastage
 Cold chain storage access to market and
nutrition information and improving
management and marketing skills
• Empowering women’s groups to improve catch and
effort, handling, processing, marketing and nutrition
• Promoting alternative and diversified livelihoods:
private sector service and supply provision along the
value chain, create additional employment and
reduce emigration

5. Concluding remarks
• Agriculture is mainly a smallholder business providing significant economic
and social opportunities in SIDS
• Higher prices signal revival of agricultural sector
• Smallholders able to feed themselves nutritiously
• Mobilizing private sector is key to agribusiness in
resource-constrained SIDS
• More sustainable and climate smart value chains
reduce food waste