Conference given at University Paris-Saclay / AgroParisTech on 19 November 2018 as part of Master CLUES (Sequence "Everyone Eating Well within Environmental Limits)
Food planet health Fabrice DeClerck CLUES 2020Alain Vidal
The document discusses a report from the EAT-Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems. It outlines the commission's goal of achieving healthy diets for nearly 10 billion people by 2050 through 1 goal, 2 targets, and 5 strategies. The targets are defined as healthy reference diets and planetary boundaries for environmental systems. Modeling was used to analyze measures to stay within boundaries while delivering healthy diets.
The global livestock sector: Opportunities and challengesILRI
The global livestock sector faces many challenges in sustainably meeting the growing demand for food while balancing trade-offs between efficiency, livelihoods, and the environment. Key issues include climate change, water and land scarcity, disease risks, and debates around large versus small-scale production systems. Addressing these complex challenges will require reliable assessments of hard trade-offs and achieving equity across scales from local to global.
14 March 2016. Brussels. DevCo External Cooperation InfoPoint. An overview of the situation of food and nutrition security in the world today was presented. Special emphasis was given to the current situation of El Niño, current droughts in Africa South of the Sahara, and potential policies that need to be put in place in the future to minimize these and associated risks.
Introduction: Jean-Pierre Halkin, Head of Unit - DEVCO C1- Rural development, Food security, Nutrition
Presentation: Maximo Torrero, Director, Markets, Trade and Institutions Division, International Food Policy Research Institute
how small scale farmers can save the worldchris claes
The document discusses several questions around feeding the world sustainably and the role of small-scale family farming. It argues that family farming has advantages like environmental protection, job creation, and productivity when farmers have access to knowledge. However, globalization and market concentration have shifted power to large agri-corporations, squeezing small farmers. It calls for supporting small farmers through access to resources, markets, and price stability to boost food security and rural development. New approaches like agroecology that empower farmers are needed to overcome "business as usual" thinking and transition to more sustainable food systems.
The interplay of knowledge and natural resources: Ensuring the health, wealth...ILRI
Presented by Jimmy Smith at the Tropentag 2014 Conference on Bridging the gap between
increasing knowledge and decreasing resources, Prague, 17−19 September 2014
Food planet health Fabrice DeClerck CLUES 2020Alain Vidal
The document discusses a report from the EAT-Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems. It outlines the commission's goal of achieving healthy diets for nearly 10 billion people by 2050 through 1 goal, 2 targets, and 5 strategies. The targets are defined as healthy reference diets and planetary boundaries for environmental systems. Modeling was used to analyze measures to stay within boundaries while delivering healthy diets.
The global livestock sector: Opportunities and challengesILRI
The global livestock sector faces many challenges in sustainably meeting the growing demand for food while balancing trade-offs between efficiency, livelihoods, and the environment. Key issues include climate change, water and land scarcity, disease risks, and debates around large versus small-scale production systems. Addressing these complex challenges will require reliable assessments of hard trade-offs and achieving equity across scales from local to global.
14 March 2016. Brussels. DevCo External Cooperation InfoPoint. An overview of the situation of food and nutrition security in the world today was presented. Special emphasis was given to the current situation of El Niño, current droughts in Africa South of the Sahara, and potential policies that need to be put in place in the future to minimize these and associated risks.
Introduction: Jean-Pierre Halkin, Head of Unit - DEVCO C1- Rural development, Food security, Nutrition
Presentation: Maximo Torrero, Director, Markets, Trade and Institutions Division, International Food Policy Research Institute
how small scale farmers can save the worldchris claes
The document discusses several questions around feeding the world sustainably and the role of small-scale family farming. It argues that family farming has advantages like environmental protection, job creation, and productivity when farmers have access to knowledge. However, globalization and market concentration have shifted power to large agri-corporations, squeezing small farmers. It calls for supporting small farmers through access to resources, markets, and price stability to boost food security and rural development. New approaches like agroecology that empower farmers are needed to overcome "business as usual" thinking and transition to more sustainable food systems.
The interplay of knowledge and natural resources: Ensuring the health, wealth...ILRI
Presented by Jimmy Smith at the Tropentag 2014 Conference on Bridging the gap between
increasing knowledge and decreasing resources, Prague, 17−19 September 2014
Sustainable animal production systems in AfricaILRI
Presented by Timothy Robinson, Catherine Pfeifer, Mario Herrero, Thomas van Boeckel and Marius Gilbert at the 61st International Congress of Meat Science & Technology, France, 23–28 August 2015
Overview of Livestock Contributions to the Sustainable Development GoalsILRI
Presented by Fritz Schneider (Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock) at the Expert panel: Sustainable solutions for the livestock sector: the time is ripe! 10th Global Forum for Food and Agriculture, Berlin, 19 January 2018
Cades lecture november 2013: agriculture, food & globalisationchris claes
Smallholder farming and its contribution to saving the world.
The document discusses the importance of smallholder farming in addressing issues related to global food security and poverty reduction. It notes that smallholder farmers currently produce most of the world's food but many live in poverty and face challenges from factors like climate change, competition for resources, and market pressures. Investing in smallholder farming could help feed the growing global population, reduce rural poverty, and lessen environmental impacts compared to industrial agriculture models. The world will need to support smallholder systems if it wants to achieve food security and sustainability goals by 2050.
Small livestock like poultry, rabbits, and guinea pigs can help achieve several UN Millennium Development Goals through poverty reduction and improved nutrition, health, and empowerment of women. Keeping small livestock allows even landless families to generate income, provides high-quality food, and produces manure for crops. Projects supporting small livestock have increased incomes, school attendance, and consumption of protein-rich foods in developing countries.
Small livestock like poultry, rabbits, and guinea pigs can help achieve several UN Millennium Development Goals through poverty reduction and improved nutrition, health, and empowerment of women. Keeping small livestock allows even landless families to generate income, provides high-quality food, and produces manure for crops. Projects supporting small livestock have increased incomes, school attendance, and consumption of protein-rich foods in developing countries.
The global livestock sector: Trends and health implicationsILRI
Presented by Timothy Robinson, William Wint, Giulia Conchedda, Giuseppina Cinardi, Thomas Van Boeckel, Bernard Bett and Marius Gilbert at the Workshop on Measuring Progress, Biennial Meeting of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH), Oxford, 27 September 2014
Global challenges such as population growth, increasing demand for food, and scarce resources are putting pressure on agriculture. BASF is committed to supporting sustainable farming through innovative solutions. Some key challenges for farmers include crop losses from pests and diseases, global trends of urbanization and diet changes, and macroeconomic pressures. BASF aims to help farmers produce more and better quality food while preserving the environment through solutions across chemistry, biology, and digital technologies.
Healthy people, animals and ecosystems: The role of CGIAR researchILRI
Keynote presentation by Bernard Bett and Jimmy Smith at the Regional Conference on Zoonotic Diseases in Eastern Africa, Naivasha, Kenya, 9–12 March 2015.
The document discusses the links between population growth and food production. It notes that population growth has increased demand for food, resulting in more farmland and water usage. Food production depends on limited resources like cropland and water that are under strain from rising populations. The document recommends strategies like improving crop yields, using resources more efficiently, shifting diets to require fewer agricultural resources, and reducing food waste to help address global food security challenges in the face of population growth.
Forget everything you think you know about food. While it is popular nowadays to demonize modern agriculture and promote a vision for farming and food production that revolves around small farms and artisanal methods, companies such as Monsanto are using modern technology to improve agriculture in ways that provide benefits to farmers, consumers and society as a whole. Contrary to popular myths, this is not (all) about biotechnology!
SPVentures no lançamento da AgTech Garage.AgTech Garage
Apresentação de Francisco Jardim, sócio da SPVentures, durante o encontro "A Nova Era da Inovação no Agro" que marcou o Lançamento da AgTech Garage no dia 1 de junho de 2017, no Cubo Coworking, em SP.
The role of livestock in food and nutrition securityILRI
Presented by Jimmy Smith at the University of Florida Global Nutrition Symposium on ‘Nurturing development: Improving Human Nutrition with Animal-Source Foods’, 29–30 March 2017
Presented by Delia Grace, Erastus Kang'ethe, Bassirou Bonfoh, Kristina Roesel and Kohei Makita at the 4th annual Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health (LCIRAH) conference, London, UK, 3-4 June 2014.
The livestock revolution and implications for human health and diseaseILRI
The document discusses the livestock revolution driven by increasing global demand for animal-source foods. It notes the revolution has benefited poor farmers through higher incomes and improved nutrition but also brought risks like food safety issues and disease emergence. While the revolution increased production and closed some demand-supply gaps, continued population and income growth means more food will be needed in the future. The document examines both positive and negative impacts on human health from the livestock revolution.
The document discusses food security challenges facing the world by 2050. Key points include:
- Global food production must increase 70% by 2050 to feed a rising population expected to reach 9.1 billion.
- Hunger currently affects over 821 million people worldwide and billions lack reliable access to nutritious food.
- Factors exacerbating food insecurity include population growth, changing diets, climate change, water scarcity, soil erosion, and plateauing crop yields.
- Solutions proposed are closing yield gaps, raising water productivity, balancing calorie and nutrient needs, reducing food waste, and supporting young farmers. UN agencies are working on programs like Zero Hunger to end hunger by 2030.
Livestock and household-level economic development: An example from UgandaILRI
Presented by Emma Naluyima (Smallholder Farmer, Private Veterinarian) at the Expert panel: Sustainable solutions for the livestock sector: the time is ripe! 10th Global Forum for Food and Agriculture, Berlin, 19 January 2018
Global challenges to food security and poverty alleviation 2020-21Alain Vidal
Conference given at University Paris-Saclay / AgroParisTech on 16 November 2020 as part of Master CLUES (Sequence "Everyone Eating Well within Environmental Limits")
Food security and animal production—What does the future hold?ILRI
Presented by Jimmy Smith, Dieter Schillinger, Delia Grace, Tim Robinson and Shirley Tarawali at the IFAH Europe Sustainability Conference, Brussels, 11 June 2015
Sustainable animal production systems in AfricaILRI
Presented by Timothy Robinson, Catherine Pfeifer, Mario Herrero, Thomas van Boeckel and Marius Gilbert at the 61st International Congress of Meat Science & Technology, France, 23–28 August 2015
Overview of Livestock Contributions to the Sustainable Development GoalsILRI
Presented by Fritz Schneider (Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock) at the Expert panel: Sustainable solutions for the livestock sector: the time is ripe! 10th Global Forum for Food and Agriculture, Berlin, 19 January 2018
Cades lecture november 2013: agriculture, food & globalisationchris claes
Smallholder farming and its contribution to saving the world.
The document discusses the importance of smallholder farming in addressing issues related to global food security and poverty reduction. It notes that smallholder farmers currently produce most of the world's food but many live in poverty and face challenges from factors like climate change, competition for resources, and market pressures. Investing in smallholder farming could help feed the growing global population, reduce rural poverty, and lessen environmental impacts compared to industrial agriculture models. The world will need to support smallholder systems if it wants to achieve food security and sustainability goals by 2050.
Small livestock like poultry, rabbits, and guinea pigs can help achieve several UN Millennium Development Goals through poverty reduction and improved nutrition, health, and empowerment of women. Keeping small livestock allows even landless families to generate income, provides high-quality food, and produces manure for crops. Projects supporting small livestock have increased incomes, school attendance, and consumption of protein-rich foods in developing countries.
Small livestock like poultry, rabbits, and guinea pigs can help achieve several UN Millennium Development Goals through poverty reduction and improved nutrition, health, and empowerment of women. Keeping small livestock allows even landless families to generate income, provides high-quality food, and produces manure for crops. Projects supporting small livestock have increased incomes, school attendance, and consumption of protein-rich foods in developing countries.
The global livestock sector: Trends and health implicationsILRI
Presented by Timothy Robinson, William Wint, Giulia Conchedda, Giuseppina Cinardi, Thomas Van Boeckel, Bernard Bett and Marius Gilbert at the Workshop on Measuring Progress, Biennial Meeting of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH), Oxford, 27 September 2014
Global challenges such as population growth, increasing demand for food, and scarce resources are putting pressure on agriculture. BASF is committed to supporting sustainable farming through innovative solutions. Some key challenges for farmers include crop losses from pests and diseases, global trends of urbanization and diet changes, and macroeconomic pressures. BASF aims to help farmers produce more and better quality food while preserving the environment through solutions across chemistry, biology, and digital technologies.
Healthy people, animals and ecosystems: The role of CGIAR researchILRI
Keynote presentation by Bernard Bett and Jimmy Smith at the Regional Conference on Zoonotic Diseases in Eastern Africa, Naivasha, Kenya, 9–12 March 2015.
The document discusses the links between population growth and food production. It notes that population growth has increased demand for food, resulting in more farmland and water usage. Food production depends on limited resources like cropland and water that are under strain from rising populations. The document recommends strategies like improving crop yields, using resources more efficiently, shifting diets to require fewer agricultural resources, and reducing food waste to help address global food security challenges in the face of population growth.
Forget everything you think you know about food. While it is popular nowadays to demonize modern agriculture and promote a vision for farming and food production that revolves around small farms and artisanal methods, companies such as Monsanto are using modern technology to improve agriculture in ways that provide benefits to farmers, consumers and society as a whole. Contrary to popular myths, this is not (all) about biotechnology!
SPVentures no lançamento da AgTech Garage.AgTech Garage
Apresentação de Francisco Jardim, sócio da SPVentures, durante o encontro "A Nova Era da Inovação no Agro" que marcou o Lançamento da AgTech Garage no dia 1 de junho de 2017, no Cubo Coworking, em SP.
The role of livestock in food and nutrition securityILRI
Presented by Jimmy Smith at the University of Florida Global Nutrition Symposium on ‘Nurturing development: Improving Human Nutrition with Animal-Source Foods’, 29–30 March 2017
Presented by Delia Grace, Erastus Kang'ethe, Bassirou Bonfoh, Kristina Roesel and Kohei Makita at the 4th annual Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health (LCIRAH) conference, London, UK, 3-4 June 2014.
The livestock revolution and implications for human health and diseaseILRI
The document discusses the livestock revolution driven by increasing global demand for animal-source foods. It notes the revolution has benefited poor farmers through higher incomes and improved nutrition but also brought risks like food safety issues and disease emergence. While the revolution increased production and closed some demand-supply gaps, continued population and income growth means more food will be needed in the future. The document examines both positive and negative impacts on human health from the livestock revolution.
The document discusses food security challenges facing the world by 2050. Key points include:
- Global food production must increase 70% by 2050 to feed a rising population expected to reach 9.1 billion.
- Hunger currently affects over 821 million people worldwide and billions lack reliable access to nutritious food.
- Factors exacerbating food insecurity include population growth, changing diets, climate change, water scarcity, soil erosion, and plateauing crop yields.
- Solutions proposed are closing yield gaps, raising water productivity, balancing calorie and nutrient needs, reducing food waste, and supporting young farmers. UN agencies are working on programs like Zero Hunger to end hunger by 2030.
Livestock and household-level economic development: An example from UgandaILRI
Presented by Emma Naluyima (Smallholder Farmer, Private Veterinarian) at the Expert panel: Sustainable solutions for the livestock sector: the time is ripe! 10th Global Forum for Food and Agriculture, Berlin, 19 January 2018
Global challenges to food security and poverty alleviation 2020-21Alain Vidal
Conference given at University Paris-Saclay / AgroParisTech on 16 November 2020 as part of Master CLUES (Sequence "Everyone Eating Well within Environmental Limits")
Food security and animal production—What does the future hold?ILRI
Presented by Jimmy Smith, Dieter Schillinger, Delia Grace, Tim Robinson and Shirley Tarawali at the IFAH Europe Sustainability Conference, Brussels, 11 June 2015
A lecture in Quantitative Sustainability
It is often claimed that agricultural productivity needs to be increased in order to feed a growing world population. Food security depends on several factors besides the productivity, including waste/efficiency, energy crops, meat consumption, and global justice and equity. This lecture explores the issue of food security in its many dimensions and teaches how to use a high-level systems approach in sustainability science.
800 million people suffer from hunger each year despite global food production being enough to feed the world population. Food security has become a priority for global governance but issues around access to food remain due to several factors. Rising food prices are driven by increased demand, environmental changes, commodity speculation, and the shift towards biofuels and large-scale agriculture. This has concentrated food supply among a few multinational corporations and harmed small farmers, reducing local food security in developing countries who must now rely on imports or humanitarian aid. Strengthening family farming is presented as a way to improve food access, local economies, and sustainable development.
This document discusses several ethical issues related to food production and agriculture. It notes that population growth is putting pressure on natural resources and food supplies. Exploitation of forests, water sources, and marine resources for agriculture and fishing is degrading the environment. Economic power is also concentrated among a few major corporations. New biotechnologies could help increase food supplies but also raise risks. An ethical food system would work to reduce poverty and ensure fair distribution of food. Global cooperation is needed to address challenges through responsible policies and programs.
A keynote address by Dr. Alain Vidal of the CPWF to the Spiritual Transformation for
Sustainable Development: a Forum focusing on Carbon Dioxide Reduction and Efficient Use of Water, hosted by Thailand's AIT on November 3-4, 2009.
The conference seeks to discuss how spiritual values can complement political and economical processes and what can be done to increase the impact of ethical values on carbon dioxide reduction and efficient use of water. The primary purpose is to find ways and means for securing a sustainable society based on the long term ethical values common to all world religions.
“What would it take to build a truly resilient local food system?"Guy Dauncey
The document discusses building a resilient local food system and outlines seven core solutions, including transitioning to regenerative organic farming and developing a cooperative food economy. Specifically, it proposes establishing 29 regional growers' cooperatives across British Columbia to support local farmers and increase local food production and resilience. The cooperatives would provide shared resources like distribution, storage, supplies and business skills training to help farmers overcome challenges of high land costs, lack of infrastructure and difficulty competing with industrial agriculture. Transitioning the food system in this way over ten years could help address issues of soil health, climate change and economic challenges for farmers.
This document discusses the potential benefits of biofuels for reducing poverty and addresses concerns about biofuels and food security, climate change, water usage, and biodiversity. It argues that biofuels could provide income and employment for rural poor through expanding crop production, and that impacts could be minimized by using non-food crops and sustainable farming techniques. Concerns about biofuels impacting food prices, water, and deforestation are complex issues that require considering population growth and alternative livelihoods.
This document discusses the potential benefits of biofuels for reducing poverty and addresses concerns about biofuels and food security, climate change, water usage, and biodiversity. It argues that biofuels could provide income and employment for rural poor if produced from alternative crops that require less water and can be grown in marginal lands. Concerns about biofuels impacting food prices or deforestation are minimized if multiple-use crops are used and smallholder production employs conservation agriculture techniques on underutilized lands.
- The world faces both a food crisis and a water crisis that are interrelated and driven by similar long-term trends like population growth and dietary changes as well as short-term factors like biofuel production and speculation.
- To overcome these crises, we must increase water and food productivity while also improving the resilience of food production systems to better cope with global changes through approaches like multiple water use systems and soil water conservation techniques.
- Achieving this will require changes in how we think about and manage water and agriculture locally and globally with a focus on both technical solutions and relationships between stakeholders.
Our Industry 2014 is packed with insights and useful facts, graphs and images from Syngenta and many external sources. It covers the global challenges relating to food security and includes sections on the major crops and on advances in agricultural technology.
The future of sustainable livestock systems in low- and middle-income countriesILRI
Presented by Shirley Tarawali at the Expert dialogue: The future of sustainable agriculture. Let’s think about… livestock, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), 28 June 2022
Climate-smart, sustainable and nutritious food for allCGIAR
How can public agricultural research engage with agri-business to tackle sustainability challenges?
Presented by Alain Vidal, Director of Strategic Partnerships, CGIAR System Organization, at the World Business Council For Sustainable Development (WBCSD) Climate-Smart Agriculture Strategy Meeting, Montreux, Switzerland on 29 March, 2017.
The animal husbandry perspective: Managing animals and their excreta in low- ...ILRI
Presentation by Johanna Lindahl at a workshop to identify Water, Sanitation and Hygiene and One Health synergies and solutions to deal with risks from livestock husbandry and animal excreta, 25 November 2020.
2nd Annual Malthus Lecture "Feeding the World Sustainably: Reflections, Issues, and Suggestions" given by Dr. Ismail Serageldin at IFPRI on 14 July 2011. Co-hosted by IFPRI and PRB (Population Reference Bureau). Sponsored by Montague Yudelman.
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A small quizz…
• How many extremely poor (< 1€/day) on our planet ? How many
poor (< 2€/day) ?
• In which environment do the extremely poor live ?
• How many overweight ? How many suffering from obesity?
• One child dies from undernourishment every
5 hours ? 5 minutes ? 5 seconds ?
• One adult dies from obesity every 10 hours ? 10 minutes ? 10
seconds ?
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Global challenges to
food security and poverty alleviation
• A global food and nutrition crisis
• Food (and nutrition) security needs
more than increased productivity
• Received wisdom vs. facts on rural
poverty
• 2 examples in Africa and Asia
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A food crisis in the developing world
• 3 billion poor < 2€/day
• 1 billion extremely poor < 1€/day
• 800 million undernourished
• Mostly in Africa and South Asia
• 75% are rural poor
• Combating hunger starts with
reducing rural poverty
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Food (and nutrition) security
•
Food security "exists when all people, at all times,
have physical, social and economic access
to sufficient, safe and nutritious* food
to meet their dietary needs and food preferences
for an active and healthy life"
• (UN World Food Summit, 1996)
• * nutrition security refers to essential vitamins and minerals required for a
healthy development, esp. of children
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The causes of the global food crisis
• Long term trends…
• Increasing demand – Increasing incomes and shifts in diets,
globalization and urbanization
• Decreasing supply – Insufficient growth of crop yields, low stocks,
shocks on food products supply, climate change, high energy costs
• …combined with emerging short term effects that exacerbate
long term trends
• Speculation and biofuels production hit the poorest disproportionately
• Uncertainties due to economic instability
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Demography is the main driver
Source : UN Population
2 words of caution (Le Bras, 2017)
• Overall ‘political’ projections (eg China vs
USA)
• Valid only between two crises (cf Sauvy
before WW2)
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More meat in China, more dairy in India
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Climate variability will impact on food production
Source: Socioeconomic Data and
Applications Center (SEDAC)
Crop yields drop by
2050 under BAU
Maize 16%
Rice 21%
Wheat 42%
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« To achieve food security…
…let’s produce more »
• A simple (yet simplistic) received
wisdom, still dominating an
‘engineering’ supply vision of the
world
• Once the response of agribusiness
during the 2007 food crisis
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An evolving discourse,
yet intertwinned with the ‘old’ one
• « Achieving food security requires adequate food availability, access, and
use »
• « Access to water and irrigation is a major determinant of land
productivity and the stability of yields »
• World Bank World Development Report, 2008
• « New systems must be built for growing and urbanizing populations,
changing consumption and income patterns, and food and energy security
demands »
• World Bank Paper on Investing in Water Infrastructures, 2012
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Alleviating rural poverty starts with increasing /
securing yields
• Not always true – farming is less and less the main source of income, around
50%
Source : IFAD Rural Poverty Report 2011
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The rural poor produce enough to feed their family
• False - A majority of the rural poor are not net sellers of
tradable food staples (but are buyers or self-sufficient)
Source : World Bank Development Report 2008
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Burkina Faso
Bangladesh
Bolivia
Brazil
India
Ethiopia
Ethiopia and
Burkina Faso in
agricultural phase
of development
India and
Bangladesh
transitioning to
higher value
activities
Bolivia emerging
slowly after decades
of low growth
Brazil strong growth in the
60’s and in recent years to
emerge as an industrial
economy
General
direction
Rural poverty and development trajectories
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Basic needs
Meeting urgent
demand growth Emerging need for
sustainability
Building productivity and
capacity while securing
and offsetting the risk
Invest in agricultural basics
and infrastructure
Big invest in agriculture
Resource-sharing & protection
Developing pathways out of
farming
Benefit-sharing (trading)
Demand management
Supply-chain management
…and dedicated solutions
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Innovation platforms in Zimbabwe
create local markets for goats
• Established around local specific production and
marketing systems (auctions)
• Markets raise the value of one goat
from US$10 to $60
• Virtuous circle where more money flows to the
producer - an incentive for growing stock feed
and improving rangeland management
"Everyone seems to be operating under the assumption that increasing
production will increase profitability, but the reverse is actually true. If
you increase profitability, then production will go up." (BMGF report on
Innovation Platforms)
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A virtuous circle that triggers change
to a more resilient state
S
S
Recurrent droughts,
increasing climate
variability, poor
connection to markets
Local markets
Producers self-
esteem
Improved rangeland
production replacing
US$15 / goat of
stock feed value
Improved
livestock:
US$ 50 per goat
Goat mortality
down to 10%
Rainfed maize cropping: US$16/ha
Livestock: US$10 per goat
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Among the world’s poorest
BBS / WorldBank / WFP (2009)
Poverty, food insecurity, vulnerability
75% of households (HH) with 0.2-0.6 ha
HH income US$700/year
80% of population below national poverty line
Too much water in rainy season
Salinity and lack of fresh water in dry season
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Untapped potential but growing
pressure from salinity
• Huge potential to improve food
security and livelihoods
• Salinity not a constraint
everywhere – even an
opportunity if water properly
controlled
Soil salinity
None
Very slight
Slight
Strong
Very strong
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Sustainable intensification of polders:
technical and institutional challenges
Lots of viable
cropping systems possible with
crop diversification, fish and
shrimp
Need for political changes at national and local levels
Canal maintenance and management
Shifting from rice monoculture rebalancing powers
Rice Shrimp
Upper threshold limit of salinity -
Rice
Date
Watersalinity(ppt)
Lower threshold limit of salinity - ShrimpDaily water salinity
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Know whom you work for
• Responding to the
specific needs of
various farmers
categories
• Privilege inclusive
approaches
Source: FAO
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References and links
• CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF)
• www.waterandfood.org
• International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
• www.ifpri.org
• Global Nutrition Report (yearly)
• The World Bank
• www.worldbank.org
• World Development Report 2008 on Agriculture
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
• www.fao.org
• International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD)
• www.ifad.org
• Rural Poverty Report 2011