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Presentation from the Livestock Inter-Agency Donor Group (IADG) Meeting 2010. 4-5 May 2010 Italy, Rome IFAD Headquarters.
The event involved approximately 45 representatives from the international partner agencies to discuss critical needs for livestock development and research issues for the coming decade.
[ Originally posted on http://www.cop-ppld.net/cop_knowledge_base ]
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With better access to climate technology and advisory services—linked to information about effective response measures—farmers can better anticipate climate-related events and take preventative action that help communities better safeguard their livelihoods and the environment.
AICCRA is supported by a grant from the International Development Association (IDA) of the World Bank, which is used to enhance research and capacity-building activities by the CGIAR centers and initiatives as well as their partners in Africa.
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Science Agenda for Agriculture in Africa by Dr Annor-Frempong- FARA
1. Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa
Framing AR4D’s contribution to achievement of CAADP’s vision:
Science Agenda for
Agriculture in Africa (S3A)
Dr Irene Annor-Frempong
FARA
Presentation at the AR4D Consultative Round Table pre-10th CAADP PP, Durban
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1. Why Africa needs a Science Agenda
2. Achievement of the AR4D system
3. Process and content of the Science Agenda
4. Institutional arrangements for implementing the
Science Agenda
5. How AR4D stakeholders must be organized
6. Conclusions
Outline
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– Produce more food on less land, water, chemicals, waste, GHGs
– Produce safer, healthier more nutritious foods
1. Higher expectations from agriculture in a more
challenging environment
Frontiers of S & T and opportunities
Nanotechnology has estimated global market $ 2.5 trillion in
2015 with promising applications for food security
• Improve precision farming through nanotech-based
sensors and monitoring systems
• Provide efficient delivery system for water, nutrients and
pesticides
• Provide smart food packaging system
5. Strategic
Thrust
Strengthening &
aligning Institutions,
Policies & Leadership
Knowledge &
Knowledge
Support
Financing &
Investments in
Agriculture
Knowledge,
Information
and Skills (KIS)
Agriculture
Science Agenda
Agriculture
Education and
Training
ICT in
Agricultural
Transformation
2. Recommitment to CAADP—sustaining the CAADP
momentum and Science Agenda as a tool to deliver
Wealth
Creation
Job Opportunities
and Food Security
Economic
Growth
Resilience
Impact
Outcomes
Strategic
Thrust
Strengthening &
aligning Institutions,
Policies & Leadership
Knowledge &
Knowledge
Support
Financing &
Investments in
Agriculture
Land and
Water
Research&
Knowledge
Food & Nutrition
Security
Markets,
Private Sector
CAADP Pillars
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• Trajectory of economic growth in Africa more
domestic resources available
• Increased external investments including CGIAR
reforms
• Post-food price crisis era:
greater awareness of the strategic importance of domestic /
regional food supply
Increased profitability of the sector
3. Stage set for increased investment in agriculture,
agro-industry
8. Global Knowledge Production
8
Global Inequalities in production of scientific knowledge
Worldmapper: Countries re-sized according research output
9. Output of World Scientific Research Papers Indexed in Web
of Science (2013 )
9
Africa
2%
S.Korea
4%
China
16%
USA
26%
Rest of World
52%
Africa
2%
S. Korea
6%
China
30%
USA
17%
Rest of World
45%
Nanotechnology
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2. Increased regional coherence and coordination
for AR4D in Africa
• CAADP
• CGIAR reforms
• Agricultural productivity Programmes (WAAPP, EAPP, APSA)
• Increased recognition of agriculture in national priorities
• New Alliance – prioritising food security
• Learning and knowledge sharing platforms
13. Small-holder
farmers
Rural technicians
and artisans
Extension workers
Entrepreneurs, traders,
processors,
Policy makers, scientists,
researchers, managers
Generation of knowledge and
technologies
Disseminatio
n
Adoption
Capacities & Actors
3. Enhanced capacity for innovation in agriculture
SCARDA
SABIMA
DONATA
UNIBRAIN
FARA Interventions
IAR4D&IFAT
RAILS
eCapacities
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4. Reform of AR4D institutions and services
Support to CAADP country processes
– FAAP
– CAADP Pillar IV Strategy and
Operational Plan
– Support to CAADP Country Teams
and RECs
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• Response to Maputo Declaration of 10% contribution
of national budgets to agriculture
• Increased coordination of investments
– Multi-donor trust funds
•In SSA, CGIAR is 12% of total ARD public investment
but receives 2/3 of all donor support to AR4D
5. Increased investments for AR4D in Africa
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6. Increased African leadership and ownership for effective
implementation of African development agendas
The Science Agenda builds on:
• Principles of ownership and leadership
• Past achievements and experiences
• AUC’s Human Resource, Science, Technology and Innovation
Strategy for Africa (STISA)
• NEPAD’s Science & Technology Consolidated Plan of Action (CPA)
• SPAAR-FARA’s Vision for African Agricultural Research
• Other think pieces: IAC (Inter- Academy Council), IAASTD
International Assessment of Agricultural S&Tfor Development)
18. 1. Development of methodology by FARA, TAG [Jan –Mar, 2013]
o framing and scoping
2. Discussion Paper prepared by the Expert Panel [June ]
– E- consultations
– Face-to-face consultations; Science week, regional & continental
consultations
3. 3. Zero Draft and first draft [September 2013]
4. Consultations hosted by SROs, FARA & CGIAR [Oct, Nov]
5. Synthesis paper [November]
6. 2nd draft of Science Agenda [November]
7. Review by FARA Board, a final round of revisions & a communication strategy
8. Final Draft for submission to AUC [February 2014];
9. CAAPD PP, Ministerial meeting,
10. Launch by AU Heads of State [Jun/Jul 2014]
11. Development of an implementation plan
Process
19. – Technical Advisory Group (TAG)
established to provide technical
guidance
– Institutional mechanisms established
– Science Agenda Expert Panel
orientation and Planning, Accra,
March 2013
– Reflection and Planning meeting,
Rome, 18th- 20th March, 2013
– Synthesis Team of the Expert Panel
(STEP) Planning and Preparatory
meeting, Dublin, 17th April, 2013
1. Framing and Scoping
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Oversight Group (OG)
• Provides oversight
• Builds stakeholder
ownership
Composition
AUC, NPCA, FARA Sec, SROs,
Education networks, AFAAS,
PAFO, PanAAC, RECs, CGIAR
Consortium, World Bank, IFAD
Oversight Group & Expert Panel
Expert Panel
• 12 members
• Provides technical advice
to OG
• Writes the S3A
• Synthesis Team:
commissioned to do the
analysis & writing
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1. Kanayo Nwanze (Chair/ Champion)
2. Geoffrey Mrema (co-Chair)
3. Yusuf Abubakar, ARC, Nigeria
4. Siwa Msangi, IFPRI
5. Ndéye Coumba Fall
6. Pierre Fabre, CIRAD, France
7. Nairobi, CGIAR Consortium Board
8. Lance O’Brien, TEAGASC, Ireland
Composition of Expert Panel (EP)
Synthesis Team of the EP (STEP)
9. Yihenew Zewdie
10. Mandi Rukuni
11. Gabrielle Persley
12. Howard Elliot
24. The breadth of science, meaningful engagements between
disciplines & effective transfer of outcomes of science to end users
It provides:
What the Science Agenda is about
1. African decision-makers
with the rationale for
increased investments in
science for Agriculture
3. The case for strengthening
synergies in AR4D at all
levels
2. The rationale for effective
engagement of tertiary agricultural
educational institutions with
agricultural research systems & CAADP
4. A framework for measuring the
impact and returns from agricultural
innovations
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“By 2030 Africa ensures its food and nutrition security; becomes a
recognised global scientific player in agriculture and food systems
and the world’s bread-basket”
Vision resonates with Agenda 2024 (STISA) and 2063 of the AU
In the short- to -medium-term, the Science Agenda will advance
CAADP’s targets under the Sustaining the CAADP Momentum
strategy
production, productivity, competitiveness and regional integration.
Vision for Science in African Agriculture
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Categories
1. Sustainable productivity in
major farming systems
2. Food systems and value
chains
3. Agricultural biodiversity and
natural resource
management
4. Mega trends and challenges
for agriculture in Africa
Themes
Cross cutting themes
1. Sustainable intensification,
2. Modern genetics and
genomics
3. Foresight capabilities,
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Categories
1. Sustainable productivity in
major farming systems
2. Food systems and value
chains
3. Agricultural biodiversity and
natural resource
management
4. Mega trends and challenges
for agriculture in Africa
Themes
• Crop improvement and crop
protection
• Livestock breeds, health and
feed
• Aquatic and inland fisheries
• Agro-forestry and forestry
• Agricultural mechanization
• Transforming production
systems
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Categories
1. Sustainable productivity in
major farming systems
2. Food systems and value
chains
3. Agricultural biodiversity and
natural resource
management
4. Mega trends and challenges
for agriculture in Africa
Themes
• Food and nutritional security,
food processing, safety and
storage
• Post-harvest handling,
processing and storage
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Categories
1. Sustainable productivity in
major farming systems
2. Food systems and value
chains
3. Agricultural biodiversity and
natural resource
management
4. Mega trends and challenges
for agriculture in Africa
Themes
• Conserving and enhancement
of biodiversity
• Land and water resources and
irrigation management
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Categories
1. Sustainable productivity in
major farming systems
2. Food systems and value
chains
3. Agricultural biodiversity and
natural resource
management
4. Agricultural Mega trends,
policy and institutional
dimensions
Themes
• Climate change, variability
adaptation and mitigation
• Policy and institutional
research, including market
access and trade
• Improving livelihoods of rural
communities
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1. Connect the components of the science for
agriculture system
– Thematic
– Geographical scales
– Among the various actors (science, policy, end users,
intermediaries)
2. Ensure capacity at the national level
– Sustaining a basic science capacity at the national level
– Integrating higher agricultural education with research and
extension
Realising the Vision: Making it happen
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3. Enhance supra-national collaboration and collective
action (regional, continental and Global)
– Regional centres of excellence
– Facilitate mobility of people, knowledge and resources
among African countries and beyond
4. Sustainable financing of the Science Agenda
– Financing from domestic sources is the key
Realising the Vision: Making it happen
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5. African Solidarity in Science
– Commitment to share benefits of discovery
– African Solidarity in science Fund
– Science honours (African Food Prize)
– Science mobility
– Engaging Africans in the diaspora.
6. Creating a favourable policy environment for science
– legislative and regulatory environment
– Strong commitment to women and youth
– Managing the science-policy interface
Realising the Vision: Making it happen
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• Crafting more effective modalities of collaboration and solidarity
in the next 5 years at national and regional levels
• Planning for the various work-streams necessary for deploying the
Science Agenda vision ahead of the AU Summit 2014 and beyond
• Mobilizing AR4D stakeholders at all levels to embrace the Science
Agenda and developing practical ways towards implementation
and realizing the vision
Institutional system for Implementing the Science
Agenda
36. How the AR4D coalition will organise itself
With partners through subsidiarity
FARA
SROs & sub regional
thematic networks
Extension
Business
National
Institutions
?
Education
Policy Farmers
National
Institutions
?
National
Institutions
?
CGIAR
37. 1. No society has transformed itself socially and economically without
adequately leveraging the power of science, especially in the dominant
sectors
2. Essential for Africa to mobilise science to drive its transformation
agenda (demystify science)
3. Science for agriculture in Africa is too important to be outsourced.
Africa’s leaders must take responsibility for expanding the role of
science in society and economic development
4. The difference between this Science Agenda and others before it is
Science Agenda process and its development has emphasized ownership
and buy-in by African stakeholders
5. Sharpening the participation of the AR4D network in the
operationalization particularly at country level is the key
Conclusions
