Francesco Rampa

Friday July 3rd - EXPO Milan 2015, Italy

Role of private sector & PPPs in the Agriculture, Nutrition andFood Security Sectors in Sub-

Sahara Africa

Starting from girls: they are the source to trigger a change!

• Food crises … agric & food security back to centre stage of DEV discourse… private sector (PS)…& more recently PS also in nutrition debates (integration?)

• Declining importance of i) aid and ii) donors• Growing imp. of i) PS flows ii) PS as partners• Economic crisis and competition in 3rd markets• DEV focuses on economic transformation &

integration ..alignment of aid & investment (“aid”, “transitional” “trade” relationships)

Changing landscape PS & PPPs

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• All this very clear in Africa: PS dynamics…and (gradually) captured also by GOVs : CAADP – Grow Africa…= TRANSFORMATION agenda

• FNS a societal challenge PPP spirit…how can we achieve ambitious food production/availability targets without producers & traders? How better nutrition outcomes without supermarkets (& consumers)?

• …with governments & donors in supporting role (i.e. providing public goods)

…changing landscape

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PPP spirit…& biz model: the value chain

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• mistrust between public & private actors• Which PS ?? win-win family farmers / foreign PS ?• Donor support or self-interested ‘economic

diplomacy’ ? • ‘Extractive commodity PPPs’ ok…but are ‘inclusive

PPPs for FS’ commercially sustainable & scalable? Most existing examples still early phases, CSR-motivated…not clear yet if pilots can be upscaled to serve base-of-the-pyramid consumers profitably

• PPPs even newer in nutrition sector: bigger challenges to make nutritious food available, both S & D (can producers deliver better food at affordable costs?)

Challenges for agric & FNS PPPs

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• (ODA) changing landscape captures reality better• In Africa CAADP right methodology: opened up to

NSA, w mutual accountability (GA letters of intent)• Accountability for inclusive PPPs for

FNS...Responsible Agriculture Investments (RAIs)• donors (EC’s €3.5 bn nutr. pledge…70% via ag-

related interventions)…Equity Fund Uganda, AgriFI• PS capital available for agriculture (PPPs) in Africa

(both equity & debt, by both local & foreign)...but investment management capacity?

Opportunities for agric & FNS PPPs

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• Policy reform follow-up (political & market analysis)• Holistic/coordinated business facilitation (multiple

challenges …inputs, loans, rural infrastructure, MIS, …)• ‘Patient Capital’ since PPPs require time and not only seed

capital (esp. if to benefit smallholders) …medium-term financial & technical follow-up: consumer awareness, technology transfer, support intermediary organisations like cooperatives [esp.financial capacity building ]…share costs, risk, knowledge + avoid marginalisation of the weakest players • systematic inclusive multistakeholder dialogue & strong

monitoring component on what needs to improve (RAIs? certified compliance with codes of conduct?)

• Clarify asap PPPs objectives (D or S driven) & governance

Successful PPP models: result-oriented & accountable pships

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Patient buyer/processor + BDSP/aggregator (incentives for smallholders to cluster along VC, extension services, input pre-financing/output market) (WFP, BUHLER/DSM)  

• Malabo Declaration [redress discrimination vs women & youth] , AU Year Women Empowerment… but not girls

• NEPAD Women in Agribiz [Fund for small scale agri-biz promotion for women; CB; gender disaggregated data…] 

• SUN Biz Network – CAADP integration…nutrition-sensitive investment (Publ & Private)… girls?

• Women to better link agric & nutrition agendas: consumption AND production choices

• SO in PPPs: employability/contracts, access to land/credit, reliable water (irrigation vs nutrition & gender gaps?), informal women traders, specific gender M&E (RAI 3)…conditionality in PPP procurement process…

more analysis/dialogue on girl-friendly success/failure PPPs in agric/FNS (know VC to identify pressure points)

Gender-friendly PPPs ?

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Thank you

www.ecdpm.org/foodsecurity

fr@ecdpm.org

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