G20 Conference on Agricultural

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1 Subdirección Office of de Knowledge Investigación Exchange, y Extensión Research and Extension G20 Conference on Agricultural Research for Development Montpellier 12 & 13 September 2011 Tropical Agriculture Platform: a proposal to promote and ensure the impact of partnerships for food security Ms Xiangjun Yao Director, Office of Knowledge Exchange, Research and Extension FAO Rome, Italy 1

2 Tropical Agriculture Platform: a proposal to promote and ensure the impact of partnerships for food security Introduction and justification The proposal Development outcomes Approach and components Membership and structure Conclusions 2

3 Pervasive poverty and food insecurity All but 3 least developed countries 40% of human population Agriculture = up to 30% of GDP, up to 40% of labour force 33% of global crop land, but only 25% of food production Tropical Agriculture 3

4 Justification Access to new and traditional technologies key to development Individual and institutional capacity deficits Need for more people trained in technical areas Need for higher quality and relevance of the training Need for radical transformation of tertiary education and research institutions 4

5 Increasing investments in agriculture... Maputo declaration (2004) FAO Summits (2008 and 2009) GCARD (2010) G8 L Aquila (2009) G20 Seoul (2010) 5

6 ...and in agricultural innovation The GCARD called for a tripling of AR4D investments IFPRI estimates need for investment increase from US$51t 5.1 to US$ billion per year by 2025 To fill the capacity gaps becomes an urgent and essential prerequisite 6

7 Current International Partnerships Various interventions South-South North-South (bilateral or triangular) Majority of cases these interventions are not coordinated with each other All parties would gain significantly from: more coherent approaches avoiding duplication making use of synergies 7

8 Introduction and justification The proposal (prepared in collaboration with CIAT, EMBRAPA and others) Development outcomes Approach and components Membership and structure Conclusions Tropical Agriculture Platform: a proposal to promote and ensure the impact of partnerships for food security 8

9 Improved effectiveness and efficiency in capacity building programmes to foster the generation, sharing and utilization of agricultural technologies and practices for smallholders in tropical developing countries through new and existing mechanisms. Tropical Agriculture Platform: Development outcomes 9

10 Technical approach and Starting from the assessments of needs Building on existing initiatives and promoting new activities Integrating education and training into broader innovative capacity building programs Addressing both individual and institutional capacities modalities Integrating different interactive learning- oriented methodologies On-the-job learning Exchange of experts Short-term term placements Group training Distance learning Mentoring 10

11 4 Platform components 1. Capacity and Needs 3. Development of Assessments Institutional Capacities 2. Development of Individuals Capacities: Exchange of experts and technicians i Fellowships, Internships, and Short-term term Placements Group training Development of learning resource materials Reviews of tertiary education curricula Collaboration between research institutions in different countries Organizational Learning and change 4. Sharing of information and knowledge 11

12 Research and education institutes of G20 countries Research and education Institutes of least developed d countries FAO CGIAR GFAR and regional fora Development banks and funding agencies Membership 12

13 Structure re cultur m agric tform pical a plat Trop Financial partners Clearinghouse facility G20 countries Research and Education Institutes Management Board Executive Committee Developing countries Research and Education Institutes Key International Agencies and Regional Fora Secretariat (FAO) Component 1 Component 2 Component 3 Component 4 13

14 Comparative advantages Better coherence and coordination of existing capacity development initiatives Leverage of additional resources from funding agencies and participating countries 14

15 Tropical Agriculture Platform: a proposal to promote and ensure the impact of partnerships for food security Introduction and justification The proposal Development outcomes Approach and components Membership and structure Conclusions 15

16 Message 1: the Tropical Agricultural Platform vision is to promote and to ensure impact to international scientific partnerships for capacity building in agriculture Message 2: the Tropical Agriculture Platform mission is to offer a hub to existing initiatives to optimize complementarities, and to promote new partnerships to address recognized needs Key messages 16

17 Key messages (cnt.) Message 3: the Tropical Agricultural l Platform will be a facilitation mechanism based on a virtual, agile and efficient structure, t without t creating new structures Message 4: the Tropical Agricultural Platform will be managed by the members though a Management board and facilitated by FAO Message 5: funding of the Tropical Agricultural Platform (to be assured) will be covered by voluntary financial and in-kind contributions by its members 17

18 Next steps Consolidation of feed back Face-to to-face consultation with main stakeholders Formulation of a full fledged project document Fund raising Inception phase (component 1 + institutional arrangements) Implementation (components 2 to 4) 18

19 Thank you for your attention 19