Public-private partnerships: African small-holder farmers - Dr Vivienne Anthony, Senior Advisor, Syngenta Foundation

1. Public-private partnerships
African small-holder farmers
Vivienne Anthony
Senior Advisor, SFSA

2. Public-private partnerships: definition
● PPPs have great potential to enable small-holder
farmers to improve their livelihoods but innovative
approaches are key
● Combine complementary strengths of:
− Public
− Private
− Voluntary organisations
● Produce benefits for small-holders that none can
achieve alone
− R&D and bringing research goods into practice
− Bring input and output markets to life
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3. Agriculture value chain and PPPs
● Africa > 100 PPPs
● 25% R&D-based
Productivity Markets
Collection
R&D Inputs Farmers Distribution Wholesale Retail
Processing
• Genomic science • Crop processing SABMiller
• Plant breeding • New markets Cassava beer
• Crop protection traits • Seed certification Mozambique
• Nutrition improvement • Credit and loans
• Fertilizer inputs • Inputs insurance
• Connectivity customers/
mobile phones
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4. Challenges
• Every PPP is different and has individual
characteristics
• Strategic vs. tactical partnerships to enable delivery
• Business cases: equitable benefits and risk sharing
• Financial mechanisms to support PPPs
• Governance and decision-making
• Intellectual property sharing
• Commercialisation route to farmers
• Negotiation vehicles and capacity building
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5. Shifting policy and enabling environment in Africa
G8 Alliance for food security and nutrition
Taking innovations to scale
Commitments
Mobilising
African
GrowAfrica
45  66 companies Managing
capital governments
$3.0  $3.5 billion risk
Investment/
Private sector Burkina Faso
Ghana partnership G8
Ethiopia  Mozambique
Opportunities
companies
Tanzania
governments
Cote d’Ivoire
Results accountability

6. PPP platform
Knowledge, contacts and tools
to support PPP creation
PPP database Expert contacts Financial
mechanisms
Case-studies Business
Best practices cases
Impact tools
www.apxc.org

7. Thank you for your attention