ReSAKSS-SA and Africa Lead Capacity Building Workshop in Pretoria, June,20-22 2012.

1. Strengthening Capacity for Strategic Agricultural
Policy and Investment Planning and
Implementation in the SADC Region
ReSAKSS-Africa Lead Training Workshop
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20th June 2012
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Johannesburg, South Africa
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2. Outline of Presentation
• About IWMI and ReSAKSS-SA
• Highlights of the 2011 trends and outlook
report
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4. IWMI Supporting regionally shared goals
• CAADP aims to stimulate agriculture-led development that
eliminates hunger and reduces poverty and food insecurity.
• CAADP directs investment to four mutually reinforcing and
interlinked pillars:
– Pillar I: Extending the area under sustainable land management and
reliable water control systems;
• SADC Regional Indicative Strategic Plan (RISDP) calls for efficient
irrigation systems in the region and has set out targets to
increase food production and productivity for food security
– Target 2: Double cropland under irrigation from 3.5% to 7% as
percentage of the total by 2015
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5. ReSAKSS-SA
• Is Part of an Africa wide initiative supporting CAADP and
regionally shared goals – COMESA, SADC, ECOWAS
• Provides Analysis and knowledge support for
planning, review and policy dialogue for agricultural
growth and poverty reduction
• 3 Sub-Regional programmes launched in Sept 2006
• ReSAKSS-SA is facilitated by IWMI and IFPRI, and steering
committee chaired by SADC FANR
• Multi-donor initiative (USAID, Gates, (MDTF – potential))
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livelihoods and the environment

6. Addressing 3 Regional Challenges
• Increasing agricultural growth to reach an
average annual growth rate of 6% as envisioned
by CAADP/SADC RISDP as necessary for attaining
overall economic growth, poverty reduction and
food security.
• Enhancing the contribution of agriculture to the
achievement of the MDG 1 by 2015 (halving
hunger and poverty in the region)
• Assessing of policy and investment alternatives
that will yield the highest payoffs given
commitments of increasing national agricultural
budgets (Maputo Declaration 2003)
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livelihoods and the environment

7. ReSAKSS-SA Strategic Components
1. Strategic analysis
• M&E of CAADP and SADC RISDP; data collection
and analysis
• Annual trends and outlook reports
• Specific strategic analysis and production
(occasional publications)
2. Knowledge Support Systems –
• e-Resource Centre (Website); Knowledge Products
(Publications); Knowledge Sharing Platforms
(workshops)
• 3. Capacity building
• Support to SADC
• Establishing and supporting SAKSS nodes
• Strengthening of local institutions
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8. ReSAKSS-SA Support to SADC
• CCARDESA Study - Exploring Strategic Priorities for Regional Agricultural
R&D Investments in Southern Africa
• Conducted strategic analysis that will support SADC MAPP and its
partners in revising, reviewing and prioritizing the regional
agricultural research strategy in Southern Africa and;
• An early action activity for identifying and ranking agricultural
research and development priorities in Southern Africa (evidence-
based).
• Providing on-going Support to SADC Regional Agricultural Policy – member
if the RAP Working Group
• Conducting study on ‘Options for up-scaling high performance irrigation
investments in Southern Africa’
• Providing an annual SADC-wide M&E report on agricultural sector
performance in the region in the context of CAADP and SADC-RISDP
(CAADP M&E framework)
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9. Highlights of the 2011 trends and outlook
report
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10. SADC wide GDP growth rates yet to reach SADC-RISDP
target…..
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12. …Mixed prospects for achieving MDG 1 targets on poverty reduction
(based on the international poverty ($1.25/day) headcount ratio
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13. Agriculture is most important in 7 low income
countries out of 15 SADC countries
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14. Yet, for most countries, public budget allocation and expenditure in
agriculture remains low and far below the 10 percent target set
under the Maputo Declaration in 2003
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15. Agriculture share in total budget, 2000-2010
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16. The same trend prevails for the share of
agriculture in total spending
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17. Share of agriculture in total spending
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18. …the gap between AgGDP and GDP in the region has been
widening in the last decades
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19. Progress towards the 6 percent agriculture GDP
CAADP growth target
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20. Progress towards the 6 percent agriculture GDP
CAADP growth target
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21. AgGDP growth outlook to 2015: poor prospects for
low income countries
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22. …some countries likely to reach/surpass the 6
percent CAADP target by 2015
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23. On average, cereal yields fall short of the
2000kg/ha SADC RISDP target
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24. On average, maize yields fall short of the
2000kg/ha SADC RISDP target
Source: ReSAKSS-SA Country Surveys 2011
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25. …cereal production has been failing to match population
growth in the region over the last decades
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26. Maize Production and Kg/capita - (1)
Source: ReSAKSS-SA Country Surveys 2011
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27. Maize Production and Kg/capita - (2)
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28. Annual growth rate in livestock production in
SADC countries, 2003 to 2010
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29. Annual production growth rate by livestock type to
achieve the SADC-RISDP 4% target
Source: ReSAKSS-SA Country Surveys 2011
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30. Net importer of cereals
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31. Fertilizer consumption yet to achieve SADC
RISDP target of 65kg/ha
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32. Fertilizer consumption yet to achieve SADC
RISDP target of 65kg/ha
Source: FAOSTAT and ReSAKSS-SA Country Survey 2011
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33. A SADC wide need exists to increase area
under irrigation
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34. Conclusions
• Future Outlook:
• AgGDP: as a group middle income countries are, on average and based on
trends observed between 2003 and 2008, on track to meeting the CAADP
target, low income countries are not
• Poverty: most SADC countries are off-track to reaching the MDG1 target
of halving 1990 poverty rates by 2015
• Mixed progress in meeting both goals of MDG1 – Poverty and Hunger
– Challenges:
– stabilizing and enhancing agricultural growth rates
– Increasing agricultural productivity (e.g. Irrigation, Fertiliser use etc.)
– Translating agriculture and total economic growth into poverty reduction
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