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 ]

1. Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa
Continental action to promote
sustainable livestock development
Ralph von Kaufmann
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FARA
IADG Annual Meeting
4 -5 may 2010
IFAD, Rome

2. Outline
1. CAADP and other reforms in African agriculture
2. ALive partnership for Africa’s livestock
development, poverty alleviation and sustainable
development
3. Priorities for improving the productivity of African
animal agriculture
4. Strengthening human and institutional capacity
5. Conclusions
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3. Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme
(CAADP)
• CAADP projects that 6% annual increase in agricultural production is the
minimum for getting ahead of population growth to make sustained
improvements in food security
• Livestock are often the only means of producing food and income and as
crop production intensifies so to does livestock production
• The investment and broad actions required for livestock are set out in the
CAADP companion document and AU-IBAR’s strategy
• AU-IBAR is the Lead Institution for livestock in CAADP
• FARA is the Lead Institution for CAADP Pillar IV that encompasses
agricultural research, technology development and dissemination and
crosscutting capacity strengthening
• AU-IBAR and FARA are collaborating through the ALive Partnership for
African Livestock Development, Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Growth
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4. CAADP and other reforms in African agricultural development
• The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development
Programme (CAADP) is a framework for:
– National & regional planning, implementation & evaluation
– Developing trade and development corridors
– Improving cohesion & complementarity between donors
• Promoting knowledge-driven development
Continental FARA • Capture spill-overs,
• Minimise duplication,
Sub SROs
regional • Share facilities,
• Exploit comparative advantages
National NARS
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5. The Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa
FARA
FARA is the apex body for agricultural research in Africa
It is a stakeholder organisation working though Sub-Regional Organisations (SROs)
ASARECA - East, NASRO – North, CORAF/WECARD- West, CARDESA – South
to build critical mass, avoid duplications, fill gaps by
supporting networking amongst its stakeholders in:
1. Advocacy and resource mobilisation
2. Access to information and technologies
3. Policies and regional markets
4. Capacity strengthening
5. Partnerships and strategic alliances
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6. The Framework for African Agricultural Productivity (FAAP)
FAAP Provides guidelines and principles for implementing CAADP Pillar IV
Aims While working with;
1. Evolution & reform of
Extension, research, training &
agricultural institutions &
education
services
2. Increasing the scale of Africa’s African governments, private
investment sector
3. Aligned and coordinated Development agencies, int’l
support financing institutions
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7. Priorities for improving the productivity of African animal agriculture
ALive partnership for Africa’s livestock development, poverty alleviation
and sustainable development
ALive’s Value proposition is:
“to provide a platform for facilitating discussion, advocacy advancing policy
advice and accessing global knowledge for stakeholders in African animal
agriculture and environment to add value to national and regional actions,
and programs in advancing the CAADP Livestock agenda”
ALive’s Specific Objectives are to:
• Identify trends and emerging issues affecting livestock development and
designing collective pre-emptive strategies
• Influence public and private investments in livestock
• Strengthen livestock sector policies and promote pro poor policies
• Improve access to information/knowledge on demand by the end users
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8. Priorities for improving the productivity of African animal agriculture
ALive partnership for Africa’s livestock development, poverty alleviation
and sustainable development
ALive’s objectives will be attained by producing specific results in the
following Results Areas:
• Catalyze and facilitate debate on trends and emerging issues affecting
livestock’s contribution to poverty alleviation and economic growth, as
well as human and animal health
• Advocacy and creating enabling environment for resource mobilization
• Support policy analysis and provide policy guidance
• Knowledge management and information sharing
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9. Priorities for improving the productivity of
African animal agriculture
• Technologies (Science & Community based innovation)
– Integrated crop/livestock management (NRM)
– Breeds adapted to local conditions (in situ conservation)
– Wildlife-livestock systems (buffer zones, Profit, People & Planet)
– Livestock disease control (Performance of Veterinary Services (PVS),
one world - one health Detection Identification Monitoring (DIM))
• Effective Advisory Services (making value chain actors knowledge-able)
• Efficient market chains including livestock products handling and
processing (Opening intraregional trade e.g., application of SPSS
equivalence)
• Enabling policies (Livestock Systems Investment Policy Toolkit (LSIPT),
land use, access to water)
• Human and Institutional Capacity development (livestock portfolio
database)
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10. strengthening human & institutional capacity
• Human and institutional capacity is probably the most critical constraint on
African agricultural development
• Critical weaknesses are in Africa’s:
– ability to attract the best young persons into agricultural training
– capacity to produce problems solvers and entrepreneurs
– capacity to retain the best professional in Africa and agriculture
• Capacity strengthening cuts across all Pillars of CAADP
– FARA coordinates continental programmes for strengthening
institutions & Africa’s capacity to build capacity
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11. Strengthening human & institutional capacity
• Collaborative programmes with other regions / countries
• Africa-US Initiative Hon Higher Education
• Platform for African-European Partnership on ARD (PAEPARD)
• Africa-India; Africa-China, Africa-Brazil, Africa-League of Arab States
• Institutional strengthening based on holositic institutional analyses
• Linking university education with research & business to promote
innovation & produce graduates with relevant skills
– Universities, Business and Research in Agricultural Innovation (UniBRAIN)
• Providing infrastructure support to improve internet access through Regional
Agricultural Information and Learning System (RAILS)
• African Union supports the establishment of specialised centres of
excellence – Biosciences east and central Africa (BecA) leading the way
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12. Conclusions
Livestock is the largest agricultural sub-sector
Livestock are an essential component in most production systems
Improved productivity of animal agriculture is compatible with, and
essential and for, conservation of natural resources and biodiversity
Research and development must be demand led
All value chain actors must be involved in setting agenda, design
and evaluation
It requires increased and better quality investment
Instruments for improved investment include CAADP, FAAP, the
AU-IBAR Strategy and ALive
THANK YOU
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13. For news on African
agricultural research for development
visit www.fara-africa.org
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