Achieving Food and Nutrition Security: Lessons learned from the IFSP

Medford, 29 Jun 2011.

Insa Wiegreffe of GIZ recommends this study conducted by internationally renown food security expert Patrick Webb. Webb assessed the impact and sustainability of the Integrated Food Security Programme that had been implemented in Malawi 1996-2004 and came to generally very positive results. 

 


Chronic malnutrion (stunting) dropped by 11.5% during project implementation and is now one of the lowest in the country. Further the IFSP has been shown to be one of the most cost-effective projects.

 

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Der Autor der Studie, Prof. Dr. Patrick Webb,  ist einer der international anerkanntesten Experten im Bereich Ernährungssicherung. Als Berater von USAID, Weltbank, FAO, WHO und UNICEF und ehemaliger Leiter der Nutrition-Abteilung des UN-Welternährungsprogramms prägt er seit über 20 Jahren Ernährungssicherungspolitiken weltweit.

Im Auftrag der GIZ hat er, sechs Jahre nach Projektende, die Wirkungen und die Nachhaltigkeit eines Integrierten Ernährungs­sicherungs­programms (IESP) bewertet, das von 1996 bis 2004 in Malawi durchgeführt wurde und ist dabei zu sehr positiven Ergebnissen gekommen. Die chronische Unterernährung (Wachstumsverzögerung, stunting) ist in Mulanje im Interventionszeitraum um 11,5% gesunken und gehört heute zu den landesweit niedrigsten des Landes. Zudem hat sich das IFSP im Vergleich zu anderen Projekten als sehr kosteneffizient erwiesen.

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OECD - Aid for Trade and HLF-4

Paris, 27 Jun 2011.

Eleonara Caningiani of UNCCD GM recommends this document which states that five years after the simultaneous conception of the Aid-for-Trade Initiative and the Paris Declaration the commitment to the Paris principles by partner countries and donors on aid for trade was gathering momentum. The document was submitted FOR COMMENT to the joint meeting of the Development Assistance Committee and the Working Party of the Trade Committee under Item 9 of the draft agenda [COM/DCD/TAD/A(2011)1/PROV].

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The Aid-for-Trade Initiative and the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness were conceived at the same time. The WTO Task Force on Aid for Trade made explicit in its 2006 recommendations that the delivery of aid for trade should be guided by key principles of the Paris Declaration. Five years on and, as the latest evidence in the joint OECD/WTO Aid for Trade at a Glance 2011 shows, the commitment to the Paris principles by both partner countries and donors on aid for trade is gathering momentum. Such commitment is particularly important considering that donors provide over a quarter of their ODA to aid for trade (see Chapter 3 in the joint OECD/WTO Aid for Trade at a Glance 2011). This note sets out, for discussion, the possible contribution of aid for trade to the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness which will be held from 29 November to 1 December 2011 in Busan, Korea. In particular, it focuses on how aid for trade contributes to development outcomes.


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ICT for Agriculture e-Sourcebook

Washington, 20 Jun 2011.

The Information and Communication Technologies for Agriculture e-Sourcebook is designed as an e-publication to maximize its outreach, with the intent of maintaining it as a ‘living’ updatable document following its release in Autumn 2011. The e-Sourcebook will be featured on a website currently being constructed at ICTinAgriculture.org. Given the quickly evolving ICT environment, the World Bank and its partners will build ongoing collaborations with other organizations, the private sector, and subject matter experts to expand and update the e-Sourcebook — by means of the website — as new knowledge becomes available.


The e-Sourcebook is operational in nature, with practical examples and case studies from all five regions where the World Bank works. It aims to provide both technical and policy guidance to a diverse group of development practitioners and decision makers in:

  • Understanding current trends in information and communication technologies (ICTs) as they pertain to agriculture as well as the contributions that ICTscan make to enhance agricultural strategies andinterventions
  • Designing and implementing appropriate and sustainable ICT components for agriculture projects
  • Building effective partnerships — public and private — to promote ICT access and innovation for agriculture
  • Evaluating the impact of these interventions
  • Including ICT in policy dialogue and planning with country counterparts on agricultural and rural development goals and priorities

// Background

Information and communications play a vital role in agricultural development and in rural development more broadly. The role that ICT can play as an instrument of change is potentially transformative, although its ultimate impacts will be contingent on getting affordable individual technologies such as mobile telephones into the hands of the most important agents. These include smallholder farmers and traders, with particular emphasis on women, and a variety of other agents to whom the technologies provide access including entrepreneurs, service providers, and researchers.

The connectivity offered by new technologies, applications, and business models is a powerful means of inclusion, making smallholders in particular more knowledgeable in their understanding of opportunities, risks and options.


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Overview of forthcoming e-Sourcebook


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Agribusiness for Africa’s Prosperity

Vienna, 8 Jun 2011.

UNIDO has published Agribusiness for Africa’s Prosperity, presenting the state-of-the-art of agribusiness development in Africa. This work analyses the challenges, the potential and opportunities of African agribusiness in the current period of dramatic changes in global agro-industrial markets, and builds a case for agribusiness development as a path to Africa’s prosperity.

In recent years a renewed focus on agriculture has been evident in policy and development agendas for the African continent; yet little knowledge has been generated on the inter-linkages of production, agro-industry and markets, as well as the potential and capacities for developing these.


Agribusiness for Africa’s Prosperity outlines the current status of agribusiness and agro-industrial activities in Africa, and situates them in historical and global context. It analyses the opportunities for diversified growth, and assesses the existing and potential sources of demand growth for agribusiness development in Africa.

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IFDC’s 2010 Annual Report

Muscle Shoals, 7 Jun 2011.

IFDC is using donor funding to help smallholder farmers and agro-dealers along the agricultural value chain move from the ‘poverty cycle’ to the ‘prosperity cycle’. Their 2010 annual report covers activities in more than 30 countries on five continents.

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//  Activities highlighted

  • Creation of the Virtual Fertilizer Research Center, a global research initiative to develop the next generation of fertilizers
  • Launch of africafertilizer.org, a global forum to disseminate and exchange information on fertilizers, soil fertility and other critical agricultural issues that face Africa
  • Release of World Phosphate Rock Reserves and Resources, a major IFDC study estimating the amount of phosphate rock worldwide
  • Re-launch of the IFDC website, which now provides a greater level of information about the Center’s programs, projects and those it serves

//  About IFDC

IFDC is a public international organization addressing critical issues such as international food security, the alleviation of global hunger and poverty, environmental protection and the promotion of economic development and self-sufficiency. IFDC focuses on increasing productivity across the agricultural value chain in developing countries. This is achieved by the creation and transfer of effective and environmentally sound crop nutrient technology and agribusiness expertise. The Center was established in 1974 in response to global food and energy crises. To date, IFDC has provided assistance in nearly 100 countries.

IFDC is governed by an international board of directors with representation from developed and developing countries. The nonprofit Center is supported by various bilateral and multilateral aid agencies, private foundations and national governments.


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