Food & Nutrition Security

1. Strategic Partnership ‘Food for All’
Dutch support to WBG/IFC Global Practice Agriculture
Marcel Beukeboom (BuZa)
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, IGG - Head Food & Nutrition Security
Ruerd Ruben (WUR)
Research coordinator Food Security, Value Chains & Impact Assessment

2. Key Challenges
￭ Population growth  Feeding the World
 Poverty & hunger  Nutrition, Health & Water
 Urbanization  Dietary transitions
 Food Availability  Yield gaps
 Climate Change  Variability & risks
 Food value chains  Quality & safety

3. Food Security dimensions
Food production
Inputs & Finance
GAP
Incomes & Prices
Logistics & losses
Value chains
Climate-smart
Yield variability
Risk & Insurance
Nutrition practices
Food fortification
Breeding

4. Food & Nutrition
Security
Food,
Water &
Energy
Food security nexus
Food,
Water &
Energy
Climate Change
Agriculture &
Food
Agriculture
Nutrition &
Health
Gender,
WASH &
SRGR

5. Dutch Focus Areas
•Food fortification &
micro-nutrient breeding
•Novel foods with Protein
enrichment
•Crop insurance & risk
management practices
• Food safety & quality
Standards
• Dietary transitions: F&V,
aquaculture, dairy, poultry
Eradicating Hunger
& Malnutrition
Inclusive & Sustainable
Agricultural Growth
Ecologically sustainable
Food Systems
•Supply chain integration
& upgrading
•Input provision & value
chain finance
•Propagation & source
materials (seed, semen)
•Food processing & value
added generation
•Reduction post-harvest
losses & waste
•Local, regional & global
market development
•Climate-smart, resilient
& eco-efficient farming
•Soil fertility management
& nutrient recycling
• Maintaining functional
agro-biodiversity
• Drought-resistant &
Climate sensitive
production systems
(Sustainable Intensification)
•Integrated crop-livestock
(fisheries/forestry) systems

6. Nutrition, Health & Food
￭ Access to healthier food for vulnerable groups
(new protein sources, caloric value, micronutrients)
 Risk management in (metropolitan) food systems
(Health risks, infectious diseases, biosecurity)
 Reconstruction of food systems in (post)conflict states
(crop failure warning, storage & assets, price mgt)
� Linkages with GAIN, SUN, GFSP, IDA/FCS, etc

7.  Efficient agricultural value chains integration
(inputs, agro-processing, logistics, marketing, retail)
 Inclusive sourcing: smallholder & SME participation
(outgrowers, contract farming, certification, etc)
￭ Reliable foresight: insight in FNS & market tendencies
(availability/access, distribution/inequality, prices, etc)
� Linkages with GAFSP, IFAD-ASAP, TSC, SAI, ICA, etc
2. Inclusive Agricultural Growth

8. 3. Sustainable Food Systems
 Pathways for Sustainable intensification
(soil fertility, INM, biomass circles)
 Resource use efficiency for yield gap reduction
� Linkages with CGIAR, Fertile Grounds, CSA Alliance
￭ Climate-smart & adaptive
resilient agricultural ecosystems
(adaptation, mitigation, landscaping)

9.  Agriculture sector organization
 farmers, cooperatives, unions, clubs, etc
 Stakeholder participation
 contracts, auctions, partnerships (PPPs), etc
 Gender equity
 role of men/women in farms, households, value
chains & markets
Cross-cutting Issues

10.  Broad multi-stakeholder partnership
 farmers, agri-business, agri-finance, public, civic
 geographic & sector targeting
 Interdisciplinary view on agricultural systems change
 identification of critical innovation points
 Interactive knowledge management
 open innovation, knowledge exchange (FFS),
upscaling
Drivers of Change

11. Agricultural Diamond
Private Sector
& Coops
Civil Society:
NGOs & FO’s
Government Knowledge
Institutes

12. Sandwich Focus

13. Sandwich Focus
Diagnosis &
Strategy
Implementation
Impact
Assessment

14. A. Diagnosis: Most-limiting Factors
Radiation Infrastructure
Temperature Land rights
Crop features
Water Seed supply
Nutrients Input markets
Rural finance
Weeds Rural extension
Pests & Diseases Insurance
Calamities Market contracts
Labour options
Resource-limited
Agro-Ecology + Socio-Economic
+ Foresight Analysis
(modeling & Simulation)

15. Drivers of Change in Value Chains

16. `B. Implementation: PSD & PPPs
￭ Based on interactive co-creation
 Public-private partnerships
 Knowledge to business approach
 Policy dialogue on Business climate

17. ￭ Key performance indicators (KPIs):
- Food production & yields
- Nutritional intake & stunting incidence
- Market supply, value added & prices
- Food quality, safety & loss reduction
- Eco-efficiency/Sustainability NRM
 Impact assessment methods
- Robust & Reliable (DiD, RCTs, VC Gaming)
- Selective (learning-focused)
 Knowledge exchange for upscaling of sustainable
innovations
C. Impact Assessment & Learning

18.  Co-creation for Social Innovation
(business platforms, incubators, labs, etc)
 Joint learning
(expertise exchange, staff outposting, training)
 ICT development
(big data, open cloud, geo data, smart sensing, etc.)
Dutch – WBG/IFC Interactions

19. ￭ Business sector (Topsector, Unilever, DSM, Friesland
Campina, Heineken, seed companies, F&V, retail, etc )
 Knowledge platform (F&BKP)
 Wageningen UR
 Agriprofocus, Agriterra, SNV, MFOs, etc
 Financial sector (Rabo, Dutch microfinance platform)
Dutch stakeholder involvement

20. Thanks for your attention
Mjm.Beuekeboom@minbuza.nl
Ruerd.ruben@wur.nl
j.r.gatsonides@minez.nl