Positioning agribusiness incubation within the
CAADP framework
Mark Kofi Fynn, CAADP Advisor
Dept. of Rural Economy and Agriculture, African Union Commission
African Agri-Business Incubation Conference & Expo 2015
JKICC, Nairobi
28 - 30 September, 2015
Outline
• Introduction
• The CAADP Framework
• New Impetus from Malabo Commitments and linkages to
Agribusiness Incubation
• Position of Agribusiness Incubation in ongoing and pipeline
processes
• Conclusion
Introduction
Opportunities and Challenges in African Agriculture
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Fast growing intra-African and global food market opportunities
Need for African agriculture to undergo structural transformation that entails shifting
from highly diversified and subsistence-oriented production systems towards more
market-oriented ones
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Key challenges need to be addressed
• Weak backward and forward linkages of smallholders in value chains
• High degree of fragmentation of African agricultural markets
• Deficiencies in market and trade related infrastructure, policies and institutions
•
Market development and trade in agricultural inputs and outputs will help
• farmers gain greater access to productivity-enhancing inputs and equipment
• farmers and agro-food processors have more opportunities to earn income from
their products
• investors -- including farmers -- see opportunities to invest in additional
production, processing and marketing capacities.
Introduction
What kind of Agriculture do we want to see in Africa…
Agriculture Industry - motivated and
driven by
 Business cases
 About wealth creation
… therefore calls for innovation
The CAADP Framework
•
CAADP as African owned and led strategic agenda for continental agricultural
development
• aims at transforming African agriculture, harnessing the sector’s job and
wealth creation potential, and thereby contributing to eradicate poverty,
hunger and malnutrition.
•
Within the framework of CAADP national and regional compacts and investment
plans have been developed (41 country compacts, 32 NAFSIPs)
•
The CAADP framework contributes to Africa's transformative agenda by:
• identifying relevant policy reforms and necessary investments;
• improving linkages among institutions dealing with agriculture and trade at
national, regional and continental levels
• strengthening their capacities to formulate and implement policies
• mobilizing public and private resources
• fostering the alignment and coordination of development partners support
accordingly.
The CAADP Framework – Key Priorities in
Investments Plans
Science and
technology applied in
food and agriculture
5%
Enabling Environment
2%
Capacity Institutional
Development
5%
Food & Nutrition
Security and
Emergency
Preparedness
38%
Market Access,
Competitiveness
and Value Addition
30%
Intensification & Devt
of Production and
Productivty Systems
15%
Sustainable
management of land
and water
6%
Source: “Status, Experiences and Lessons with the National Agriculture & Food Security Investment Plans”,
The CAADP Framework – Pillars
Approach
•
Pillar 1: Extending the area under sustainable land management and water
control systems
•
Pillar 2: : Improving rural infrastructure and trade-related capacities for market
access
• ’’accelerate growth in the agricultural sector by strengthening the
entrepreneurial capacity of large and small producers to meet the
increasingly complex demands of local, regional and international markets
in terms of quality and logistics”
•
Pillar 3: Increasing food supply, reduce hunger, and improve responses to food
emergency crises
•
Pillar 4: Improving Agricultural Research, Technology dissemination and adoption
New Impetus from Malabo
Focus on results and impact. Goals to be achieved by 2025:
• ending hunger
• tripling intra-African trade in agricultural goods and services
• enhancing agriculture’s contribution to economic growth & a
significant poverty reduction objective (at least by half)
• enhancing resilience of production systems and livelihoods to
reduce vulnerability, and
• enhancing investment finance in agriculture (both public and
private).
Commitment on Mutual accountability
• Biennial review and reporting
Post-Malabo Processes
Malabo
Declaration +
CAADP Results
Framework
Provides the overarching vision, goal
and targets for the period 2015-2025
The
Implementation
Strategy &
Roadmap
Presents strategic considerations as a guide to determining
national and country actions for (a) substantive agricultural
performance and wealth creation goals and (b)
transformational and capacity development goals
The
Program of
Work
Outlines work streams that define and continually
adapt the strategic actions into country, regional,
continental implementation actions
Malabo Implementation Strategy and
Roadmap
4 Substantive Strategic Action Areas
Objective: transform agriculture and ensure inclusive
growth
• Double productivity and increase production in a
sustainable manner
• Enhance value-chains, markets, trade
• Enhance resilience of livelihood systems
• Strengthen governance of natural resources
Malabo Implementation Strategy and
Roadmap
7 Thematic/drivers of change and transformation:
:
Objective: Strengthen systemic capacity for transformation
through support actions on
• Capacity for planning
• Policies and institutions
• Leadership, coordination, partnerships
• Knowledge, skills, agric education
• Data and statistics
• Institutionalize mutual accountability
• Investment financing
Malabo Programme of Work
• Four categories
• Policy development, formulation, and institutional
reform to achieve agricultural transformation
• Investment programme design and implementation
• Capacity building and coordination
• Monitoring and evaluation, data, and knowledge
management
Position of Agribusiness Incubation in
Ongoing and Pipeline Processes
• 2015-16 Priority Action Areas
• Review of Continental Agribusiness Strategy
• importance of agribusiness incubation highlighted; set
up of continental private sector body under preparation
• Engaging countries on appraisal of the NAIPs
• Design of the biennial agricultural review cycle
• Programmatic support for implementation
• Development and harmonisation of communication
strategy
Conclusion
• Achieving the results and impacts demanded by Malabo
requires innovation
• Agribusiness incubation offer a means to achieve the
Malabo commitments
• Ongoing and pipeline processes at national regional and
continental levels should exploit the huge potential offered
by agribusiness incubation in helping to realize the 2025
Malabo Goals
Thank You!
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CAADP Website: www.caadp.net