While small scale family farmers grow food, and produce 70% of the food in this region, we remain to be poorest, hungriest, mostmalnourished? Why ? First because many of us do not have adequate access , control or ownership of the basic natural resources needed to do farming: land, waters, forests, seeds. Without land rights, we cannot decide what to plant, when to plant, where to market the produce, and in many cases, get only a 30% share of the produce of the farm. Without water rights, the fishes we could have captured in our seas and waters are first captured by big commercial trawlers, leaving so little for the many of us who would like to fish. Without forestry rights, we lose our forests to big mining and logging companies. Without rights to breed, conserve, save and exchange seeds, we will be dependent on the seeds of big and multi-national seed companies..
Second, our yields are low, of inferior quality, and we do not have the money to buy necessary inputs such as seeds, fertilizers or even farm tools or put up needed services such as irrigation, electricity.
Environmental sustainability of family farming can be obtained by helping family farms to conserve and ensure the sustainable use of natural resources on their farms, namely water, land and biodiversity.
BIG IDEAS for partnerships in sustainable developmentICRISAT
ICRISAT has identified the biggest hurdles and opportunities critical for the
development of agriculture and agribusiness in the drylands.
The drylands cover 40% of the world’s land, where one-third of the people depend on agriculture and over 600 million of these people are among the poorest in the world. Climate change is also making the drylands a tougher environment to develop and survive.
The contribution of Africa RISING research to development outcomesafrica-rising
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Returning farmers to the centre of policy decisions is fundamental to sustainable development. Governments, businesses, scientists and civil society groups must focus attention on the source of our food security. All these groups must work together to enable the many millions of farm families, especially smallholders, to grow more crops sustainably through effective markets, more collaborative research and committed knowledge sharing.
The Farming First framework proposes six interlinked imperatives for sustainable development:
1. Safeguard natural resources
2. Share knowledge
3. Build local access and capacity
4. Protect harvests
5. Enable access to markets
6. Prioritise research imperatives
Explore the principles one by one
As this animated diagram suggests, a broad-based, knowledge-centred approach to agricultural development is needed. The approach starts with focusing on farmers and the tools and information they need to steward land, grow crops, bring in their harvest and then get it to market. While modern agricultural technologies and management approaches have doubled the production of world food calories over the past half-century, many smallholder farmers struggle to achieve even the most basic level of subsistence.
New investments, incentives and innovations are needed to achieve greater social and environmental sustainability, while delivering increased agricultural production. These benefits must be made available to all farmers and agricultural workers, recognising their role as guardians of our shared environment, biodiversity, and ecosystems. There is a need for a radical shift in thinking which places the farmer at the centre of sound and sustainable agricultural practices.
This approach – delivering productivity and sustainability – must also lead to a more equitable and efficient production and distribution systems. Combined with better functioning markets and sustainable local and regional infrastructure, an enhanced farming system will contribute to improved economic development, providing food security, decent work, fair prices and improved land management.
To succeed, any new approach must be based on a stable policy environment within which farmers can work and invest. This, in turn, requires us to establish stable, long-term policy and regulatory frameworks for the development of agriculture; to enhance national financial allocations; to direct international development assistance towards the agricultural sector in developing countries;and to undertake comprehensive stakeholder consultation processes in the design and implementation of agricultural programs.
Environmental sustainability of family farming can be obtained by helping family farms to conserve and ensure the sustainable use of natural resources on their farms, namely water, land and biodiversity.
BIG IDEAS for partnerships in sustainable developmentICRISAT
ICRISAT has identified the biggest hurdles and opportunities critical for the
development of agriculture and agribusiness in the drylands.
The drylands cover 40% of the world’s land, where one-third of the people depend on agriculture and over 600 million of these people are among the poorest in the world. Climate change is also making the drylands a tougher environment to develop and survive.
The contribution of Africa RISING research to development outcomesafrica-rising
Presented by Irmgard Hoeschle-Zeledon, Mateete Bekunda, Haroon Sseguya and Silvanas Mruma to the USAID Tanzania Country Mission, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 18 September 2017
Returning farmers to the centre of policy decisions is fundamental to sustainable development. Governments, businesses, scientists and civil society groups must focus attention on the source of our food security. All these groups must work together to enable the many millions of farm families, especially smallholders, to grow more crops sustainably through effective markets, more collaborative research and committed knowledge sharing.
The Farming First framework proposes six interlinked imperatives for sustainable development:
1. Safeguard natural resources
2. Share knowledge
3. Build local access and capacity
4. Protect harvests
5. Enable access to markets
6. Prioritise research imperatives
Explore the principles one by one
As this animated diagram suggests, a broad-based, knowledge-centred approach to agricultural development is needed. The approach starts with focusing on farmers and the tools and information they need to steward land, grow crops, bring in their harvest and then get it to market. While modern agricultural technologies and management approaches have doubled the production of world food calories over the past half-century, many smallholder farmers struggle to achieve even the most basic level of subsistence.
New investments, incentives and innovations are needed to achieve greater social and environmental sustainability, while delivering increased agricultural production. These benefits must be made available to all farmers and agricultural workers, recognising their role as guardians of our shared environment, biodiversity, and ecosystems. There is a need for a radical shift in thinking which places the farmer at the centre of sound and sustainable agricultural practices.
This approach – delivering productivity and sustainability – must also lead to a more equitable and efficient production and distribution systems. Combined with better functioning markets and sustainable local and regional infrastructure, an enhanced farming system will contribute to improved economic development, providing food security, decent work, fair prices and improved land management.
To succeed, any new approach must be based on a stable policy environment within which farmers can work and invest. This, in turn, requires us to establish stable, long-term policy and regulatory frameworks for the development of agriculture; to enhance national financial allocations; to direct international development assistance towards the agricultural sector in developing countries;and to undertake comprehensive stakeholder consultation processes in the design and implementation of agricultural programs.
A prosperous and nutritionally secure drylands through demand-driven innovation ICRISAT
A prosperous and nutritionally secure drylands through demand-driven innovation
Presentation by ICRISAT Director General Dr. David Bergvinson at the CGIAR meeting in USA on 2 November 2015.
Farming First is a coalition of global organisations looking to enhance sustainable development through agriculture. More can be found on the website: www.farmingfirst.org
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Mixed farming refers to one of the agricultural systems wherein addition to growing crops and other agricultural practices including dairy farming, poultry, or bee keeping are practiced by a farmer.
A prosperous and nutritionally secure drylands through demand-driven innovation ICRISAT
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The new ICARDA Strategy 2017 – 2026 builds on forty years of past achievements, lessons learned and successful partnerships and investments at regional and global levels. The Strategy is aligned with the national development priorities of the countries we work in, the CGIAR Strategic Results Framework 2016-2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Agenda for 2030. The Strategy orients ICARDA’s research activities to find innovative and demand-driven solutions to guide sustainable development in drylands and to ensure that they have impact.
Mixed farming refers to one of the agricultural systems wherein addition to growing crops and other agricultural practices including dairy farming, poultry, or bee keeping are practiced by a farmer.
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3. Why are we poor, hungry,
malnourished?
• Natl Resource issues
Land,Water, forests,
Seeds)
• Productivity issues
• Marketing issues
• Climate change and
natural disasters
• Governance issues
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10. Local Initiatives to Establish
Food Reserve
1. “Lumbung
Pangan”
In Cianjur (West
Java Province)
In Boyolali (Central
Java Province)
11. 2. Developing Local Seeds. Rice seeds cross-breeding in Boyolali (Central
Java Province), and Ngada (East Nusa Tenggara Province), while maize
seeds breeding is in Kediri (East Java Province)
12. 3. Establishing Cooperatives
“Tunda Jual” (putting off the
selling) in Brebes (Central Java)
and Kediri (East Java)
4. Join Cooperation with rice
and vegetables wholesales
markets in Jakarta
13. 5. Research and multi stakeholder meeting on Rice:
“Government Purchasing Price (HPP)” in Jakarta (related
ministries are Agriculture, Trade, Forestry, Bulog (Logistic
Agency), and Ministry of Coordinator of Economy)
Indonesian Peasant Alliance (API) has been advocating the better price of rice for
small producers through a serie of research on Government Purchasing Price based
on multi location and multi variety of rice instead of single price.
14. 7. Building Collective Marketing
Strengthening farmers’ association, developing economic
organizations in rural areas, building the capacity of farmers in
order to develop collective marketing.
17. Renewable Energy System
• bio-digester program encourages farmer to use
power source by using cattle and pig dung. It can
produce biogas from cattle- and pig manure. This
yields gas for the stove and for lighting. And it
reduces emissions of methane, which would
otherwise be produced by the decomposing manure.
19. In the community….
- 80 farmers use SRI
-size of families experiencing insufficiency in rice
decreased from 30 percent to 10 percent
• duration of rice shortage declined from 3 to 6 months
to only 3 months at most
• able to save on cost of production, especially on
chemical fertilizers and seeds, resulting in an
increase in income from rice production
21. Pablo De Ocampo, a calamansi producer
42 Years old, Married
Calamansi Cluster Leader, Bgy Antonino,
Victoria, Oriental Mindoro
Farmer Technician
Member of MESAFED
22. Our farms are almost planted solely to
calamansi. Most of our calamansi stands are
now old and tall. Harvesting is the most costly
part of our production - second to hauling.
23. I also intercrop bananas in between the
pineapples. I need banana trunks for my
vermicast production as fertilizer for my crops.
24. At the side of the farm, I
planted more than 1,500
hills of ube. I project to earn
___ pesos after one year.
25. Block
Area
Crops Area
(Sq.
Mtrs
Volume Expense
s
Projected
Gross
Income
Block
1
Household
Vegetables
400 284 hills 2,951 7,830
Block
2
Free Range Chicken 1,728 100
chicks
9,790 18,000
Block
3
Muskobe Duck 1800 100
chicks
1,950 15,000
Block
4
Pineapple
Banana
Lemon Grass
2400 2,400
hills
144 hills
144 hills
19,064 114,480
Block
5
Ube 630 2268
hills
24,844 170,000
Main Crop – Fresh Calamansi 51,420 257,100
Lanzones - Pakyaw 86,400
TOTAL 110.019 668,810
Net Income 558.791
Per Month 46,566
26. Mindoro Ecological and Sustainable Agriculture Federation, Inc.
(MESAFED)
ACTIVITIES OF MESAFED
Partnership with local government units on different advocacy issues
primarily on environment, and various development projects
especially on sustainable agriculture.
Improvement of farm technologies and practices based on organic
farming
Building Agro-Business Enterprises; linking farmers to market.
( Presentation will concentrate on the Agro-Business Enterprises.)
31. The solutions we offer
• sustainable, integrated, diversified,
organic/ecological friendly agriculture which is
owned , controlled and managed by small
scale women and men farmers, fishers and
indigenous peoples,
• Joint/collective /cooperative production and
marketing activities ; sustainable enterprises
• Massively supported by goverrment policies
and programs
32. Global Challenge/Paradoxes
Unsustainable food production and consumption
1. DOUBLE BURDEN: Under-nutrition and Obesity
- One in three developing country children under the age of five
(171 million children) are stunted due to chronic undernutrition
- At the same time obesity rates have increased drastically in
some countries over the last 30 years. 43 million children
under five years of age are overweight, and obesity affects
around 500 million adults, increasingly in low and middle
income countries
2. FOOD LOSSES AND FOOD WASTE
• Food Losses
– Take place at the beginning of the supply chain - during production,
post-harvest and processing stages in the food supply chain
• Food Waste
– Food losses occurring at the end of the food supply chain and is largely
associated with the behavior of retailers, the food service sector and
consumers.
• Food losses and wastes reduce food availability and contribute to greenhouse gas
emissions. They also represent the wastage of inputs - water, energy, fertilisers,
labour and capital - used in food production, distribution and disposal.
33. Sustainable Food and Nutrition Security
by small-scale farmers: key to ending hunger
1. Access to key productive
resources (land, water,
seeds, energy, etc)
2. Public and Private
investment in small-scale
food producers (particularly
women) including fishers,
pastoralist
3.Meaningful participation
of small-scale farmers in
governance
http://www.soilassociation.org/sustainablefoodcities/thefivethemes
More diverse diets than Fortification &
biofortification
34. The support we ask
• A clear, systematic redirection of
investment, funding, research and
policy focus on sustainable,
integrated, diversified, organic
farming and agro-based enterprises
by smallscale producers
35. Particular support in
• More Agricultural research and investment
• Strengthen links between research,
advisory and extension
• Technical assistance , focusing on women
• Capacity building
• Representation in policy making
36. Policy Objectives
• 2 major policy objectives :
-support and promote the sustainability of farmer-owned
and farmer-led private enterprises.
-ensure that the sharing of risks and benefits between
farmers and investors are equitable and inclusive and
does not further undermine the farmers’ livelihood and
welfare.
37. Agricultural Investment
Policy Lever Policy Intent
Policies that support smallholders Policies that support women
Investment
policies
• Scrutiny of investment proposals and
monitoring of approved investments to
protect smallholder interests
Tax incentives for sourcing from or
working with smallholder
Gender-sensitive screening and
monitoring
Control over
land and natural
resources
Measures that strengthen local rights to
land and natural resources
Redistributive reforms
Protection of customary rights
Simple, low-cost, accessible land records/
registration
Requirements for local consultation and
FPIC
Repeal of gender-discriminatory
clauses
Address conflict between statutory and
customary land laws
Guarantees for women to own,
inherit, buy/sell land in own right
Joint land titling
Gender quotas
Access
condition for
land and natural
resources
Regulation of commercial investment
Restrictions on land ownership
Charging adequate prices for land
Open contracting
Contract
farming and
supply chain
relationships
Access to information on technology and
markets
Contract support, regulation,
monitoring
38. Market Governance
Policy Lever Policy Intent
Policies that support smallholders Policies that support women
Producer
organisations
Laws and tax to support smallholders to compete
Protection of autonomy of cooperatives
No taxation of intra-cooperative trade
Remove clauses that (indirectly)
discriminate against women
Affirmative actions
Support informal groups
Diversity of market
outlets
Public support to upgrade traditional wholesale
markets and informal sector
Enable participation of private sector and
cooperatives
Simple infrastructure improvements, e.g.
calibrated scales
Protection of traditional markets e.g. zoning
modern retail
Support or upgrade informal sector,
esp local markets, street vendors,
wet markets
Address women’s market access
constraints
Market
coordination
Investment in market fundamentals eg storage
facilities
Competition policy Break up of cartels
Fair trading laws or codes
Quotas and market
preference
Incentives for procurement from smallholders
Public procurement policies
Smallholder access to export quotas
Public policies and
private standards
Create a level playing field for smallholders, e.g.
training, subsidies
Gender-sensitive support criteria
and services
Trade policy Treat small-scale sectors as infant industry,
39. Support for Farmer-led/managed enterprises
• Donors : support organizing and capacity
building; financing guidelines
• NGOs : partner with FOs on awareness
raising, organizing, building enterprise devt
activities
• Private sector : sustainability and
inclusivity measures
• Consumers : patronize the products ,
networking for direct farmer-consumer
relations
40. Homework for FOs
• Organize according to geographic clusters
and along commodity/crop lines.
• Instill an “sustainable entrepreneurial
attitude”.
• Strengthen advocacy for policies and
regulations
41. Healthy,
Sustainable,just
Caring and
Sharing
Community
41
STRENGTHEING
LOCAL INITIATIVES
1.advocacy/campaign for
land rights (water, seed,
etc) for both men and women
2.Capacity building for
Sustainable Agricultural
productivity and marketing
3.Cooperative Enterprise Dev’t
4.Constructive engagement
with government,business
other stakeholders
42. Concluding message
We feed the world and care for the earth but
we are highly vulnerable
We are big part of the solution, Let us be part
of the AGRI DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES –
local, natiional, regional , global
Together we can build a healthy, sustainable,
caring and sharing family farming
communities.
THANK YOU