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Where we are? How we got here? Where we want to go?

Dairy Asia: Towards Sustainability

Dairy Asia Multi-stakeholder Meeting Muaklek, Saraburi, Thailand

January 27-30, 2016

Vinod Ahuja Livestock Policy Officer

FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (FAORAP)

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• Large, growing and dynamic sector

• Huge opportunities for productivity and gains, substituting imports, spreading risk, nutrition, jobs . . .

• Increasing resource scarcity and growing feed costs

• Increased consumer demand for food safety, convenience, quality

• Growing pressure to intensify and scale up production systems

• Continued predominance of smallholder producers

The context

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Key strategic pillars

Enabling environment

Human resources

and knowledge

management

Productivity and

competitiveness

Market linkages

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• Enhanced efficiency of

–Water, nutrients, energy, land and labor

• Protect soil, water and biodiversity

• Climate change adaptation and mitigation

• Protection against diseases

• Build system resilience

Need for cognizance of new realities

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Dairy Asia Towards Sustainability

Bangkok 21-23 May 2014

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Any solution that ignores livelihoods can not be sustainable

T Nanda Kumar, Dairy Asia Meeting, Bangkok, May 2014

The Sustainability Principle

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• Drafting group for Regional Strategy Paper

• Peer Review

• Review by Dairy Asia Bangkok delegates

• Open e-consultation

• Final draft

The road from Bangkok to Anand

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The vision

A socially and environmentally responsible Asian Dairy Sector that

enhances rural livelihoods, improves nutrition, and contributes to

economic prosperity.

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• Farm profitability and milk productivity .

• Fair and efficient markets

• Dairy food quality and safety.

• Consumer education and school milk

• Capacity to cope with risks and for greater innovation.

• Environmental footprint and climate changes

The Strategic Objectives

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Profitability & Productivity


• Animal nutrition and feeding management

• Husbandry practices including animal welfare

• Genetics

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• Smallholder institutions • Informal sector • International trade

Markets


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• Improve the management and operations of the dairy value chain

• Reputation building; quality assurance; and incentive payment

• Food quality and safety standards; improvement in laboratory infrastructure;

• Promoting and certifying GAP and GMP

• Provision of training to build the capacity of women

Quality and safety


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• Enhanced public investment towards linking the development of school milk programmes with local dairy development

• Strengthening consumer education,

media information campaigns and public outreach efforts, including greater coverage and visibility of nutrition issues.

Consumer education and school

milk


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• Building up response capacity of communities and institutions

• Coordinated delivery of services, farmer training, insurance mechanisms

• Institutional mechanisms to improve regional networking to promoting more resilient dairy-related livelihoods.

Coping with risks


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Minimize the environmental footprint of the dairy sector and improve mitigation/adaptation measures of the dairy sector to climate changes.

Water footprint

Greenhouse gases

Manure management

Environment and climate change


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Dairy Asia: Towards Sustainability From Concept to Action

March 23-26, 2015

Anand, India

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Step 1: County/Stakeholder Analysis

What is major dairy development initiative in your country?

• What are the key lessons? What works and Why? What does not work and Why?

• What are 3-5 most critical challenges you are facing in dairy development?

• What do you need/get from the platform which would help you most to take dairy to next level in your country?

• What you can offer/ contribute to platform?

The Anand process and outcomes

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Step 2: Cross country analysis & priority areas for the platform

• What are three most critical/ common challenges across countries?

• What are most common demands/expectations from the platform?

• The Three focal priority areas which the platform should address? Take into account the following criteria: – Areas/ thrusts where the regional level can add substantive value to the

country.

– Areas/ thrusts which address issues which the countries have great interest and energy in.

– Where the likelihood of success in 1-2 years is high.

The Anand process

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Step 3: Focus areas/ thrusts for the program

• How should the thrust be achieved:

– What needs to be done/ delivered at regional level, which cannot be done at country level?

– What needs to be done at country level to enable the regional level to platform?

• How should the platform be structured and what should be its core functions?

The Anand process

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• Review and adoption of the strategy paper

• A Joint Communique

• Consensus on the need and structure of Dairy Asia platform

The Anand process and outcomes

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Dairy Asia: Core Functions

1. Facilitate knowledge and information exchange about dairy development across Asian countries

2. Support institutional development for dairy development in Asia

3. Support Policy and Strategy in support of dairy sector development in Asian countries

4. Advocate for and broker investment partnerships in dairy development

5. Facilitate collaborative R&D activities in support of sustainable dairy development

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Dairy Asia

Interim Steering Committee Secretariat Country

Coordination Groups/Focal

points

Country A Country B Country C

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.

Technical Working Groups

Dairy Genetics

Dairy Economics &

Policy

Institutional Develop-

ment

Other technical

groups to be identified

Structure of Dairy Asia platform

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Back to Bangkok: The Dairy Asia Writeshop

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1. Grace Cenas, Administrator, National Dairy Authority, Philippines

2. Sangram Chaudhary, Executive Director, National Dairy Development Board, Anand, India

3. Narongrit Wongsuwan, Director, Dairy Farming Promotion Organization of Thailand Saraburi, Thailand

4. Tashi Samdup, Director, Department of Livestock, Ministry of Agriculture and Forest, Thimphu, Bhutan

5. Steve Staal, Regional Representative for Asia, ILRI, Philippines

6. Matthew John Fielding, Manager, Stockholm Environment Institute – Asia, Bangkok, Thailand

7. Thumrongsakd Phonbumrung, Regional Project Coordinator, SDDP, FAO RAP

8. Vinod Ahuja, Livestock Policy Officer, FAORAP

9. Henning Steinfeld, Chief, Livestock Information and Policy, FAO HQ

10.Neil Fraser, Chair, Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock

Participants

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– We are like no other—independent, multi-stakeholder

platform focused on dairy

– Cross learning, experience sharing, relationship building

– Platform for packaging and facilitating the exchange of knowledge and experience

– Exploiting the diversity of systems, scale, capacity, policies and experience of the Asia dairy sector for mutual benefits and more symbiotic development

• Core values/consensus document

• Membership criteria—open, voluntary, not-price based

Dairy Asia: The value proposition

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Steering committee Functions

– Lead, guide, coordinate and set policy directions, strategy and program priorities for Dairy Asia including contribution the continuous development of vision and strategy

– Advocate and promote the values and cause of Dairy Asia

– Stimulate partnerships and participation including establishing linkages with governments and other national, regional and international platforms, agencies and initiatives

– Approval of work plan and budget

– Resource mobilization

– Advise on the communication needs and tools of Dairy Asia

The Organizational Structure

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Steering committee Composition

– Time bound (term limit- 3 years; staggered every 3 years)

– Rotational/geographic representation

– 8-12 members

– Minimum representation of the following key sectors—Government, national dairy agencies, civil society, international/regional, private sector, research/academia, producer representation


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The Technical working groups

Functions – Provide knowledge leadership in specific technical areas

– Develop and package knowledge from cross country experience

– Compile and analyze knowledge and information in specific technical areas and develop knowledge products and partnerships

– Propose and initiative projects, training and technical activities

– Respond to specific technical requests from members

– Explore new areas of regional technical needs

– Contribute to resource mobilization

Composition – Committed technical experts/senior managers


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The National Focal Points

Functions – Ambassador/champion of Dairy Asia at the country level – Encourage other stakeholders to join Dairy Asia – Liaise with the secretariat; propose/coordinate implementation

of DA recommendations/activities in the countries – Represent or identify appropriate country representative and

provide feedback to country stakeholders – Provide/human resources/finances to support in-country DA

activities – Contribute to resource mobilization in support of DA activities at

the country level – Organize stakeholder meetings to identify priorities etc – Translation and dissemination of knowledge products/

communication


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The Secretariat

Functions – Provide administrative and logistics support for platform activities

– Coordinate activities of the Technical Working groups

– Provide communication infrastructure and products including website maintenance

– Process documentation, member relations, organization of meetings and activities

– Process annual budget, plan and projects and manage financial resources

– Implement Steering Committee decisions

– Develop strategy for long term sustainable growth of the platform


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What next?

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• Stakeholder recognition and adoption of Dairy Asia platform

• Membership and signing of core values and consensus document

• Steering committee and National focal points

• Develop a plan of work for 2016-17 (including roles, responsibilities and time line)

What next?

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We have traversed a path few have dared to. We are continuing on a path still fewer have the courage to follow. We must pursue the path even fewer can dream

to pursue. Yet, we must, because we hold in trust the aims and aspirations of millions of our countrymen

Dr. Verghese Kurien

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