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Strengthening the Capacity of Women Farmers to Influence

Agricultural Policy Development in Africa

Women Accessing Realigned Markets (WARM) Project

Mozambique National Dialogue, April 26, 2012

Maputo, Mozambique

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About FANRPAN

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Introducing FANRPAN

• Call by Ministers of Agriculture from East

and Southern Africa for a

• Network formed in 1997, and registered

in 2002

• Stakeholder categories: • Government ministries responsible for

FANR; Policy research institutions;

• Private sector organizations which deal

with FANR issues;

• Farmers' organizations;

• Civil Society organizations

Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Lesotho,, Madagascar, Malawi,

Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia,

Zimbabwe.

• Members/National nodes in 16

African countries:

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FANRPAN’s Strategic Plan (2007 – 15)

VisionA food secure Africa free from hunger and poverty

Mission : To promote appropriate policies in order to reduce poverty, increase food

security and enhance sustainable agricultural and natural resources

development in Africa

How:Promoting effective Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources (FANR) policies by

– Facilitating linkages and partnerships between government and civil society

– Building the capacity for policy analysis and policy dialogue

– Creating capacity to demand evidence for policy development

– Promoting evidence based policy development in the Food Agriculture and Natural Resources sector

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FANRPAN’s Programming Areas

Social Protection & Livelihoods• FANRPAN Household Vulnerability Index Project

Food Systems• Strengthening Civil Society Engagement in Policy Analysis, Dialogue and Implementation of the CAADP

Process

• Platform for Dialogue on the Building of Joint African-European Multi-stakeholder Partnerships in

Agriculture Research for Development (PAEPARD )

Agricultural Productivity and Markets• Women Accessing Realigned (WARM)

• FANRPAN Harmonized Seed Security Project (HaSSP)

Natural Resources and Environment• From Research to Policy: Strengthening Institutional Capacity for Linking Climate Change Adaptation to

Sustainable Agriculture in Southern Africa (SECCAP)

• AfriCAN Climate Project

• Building Climate Change Resilience in Africa’s Agricultural Research Programs

• Limpopo Basin Development Challenge Project

Institutional Strengthening and Capacity Building• Strengthening Evidence-Based Agricultural Policy Advocacy and Harmonization in

Southern Africa

• CTA Support to FANRPAN Enhancing Communication and Networking

• ACBF Capacity Building (Pipeline project)

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FANRPAN CEO’s 2012 Vision

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Food & Nutrition

Security

• CAADP

• PAEPARD

• HaSSP

• WARM

• Youth Studies

Knowledge ManagementLENS (Learning, Evaluating, Nurturing and Storytelling)

2

Nature

• LBDC

• Climate Change

Advocacy - Rio+20

and CoP18

• SECCAP

• AfriCAN Climate

1

People

• FANRPAN-HVI

• PIVA

• SAPASA

• Knowledge

Management

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FANRPAN CEO’s 2012 Vision

Food & Nutrition Security Food & Nutrition Security

1. Comprehensive African Agricultural Development

Programme (CAADP)

2. Platform for Africa-Europen Partnerships for Agriculture

Research Development (PAEPARD)

3. Harmonized Seed Security Project (HaSSP)

4. Women Accessing Realigned Markets (WARM)

Knowledge ManagementLENS (Learning, Evaluating, Nurturing and Storytelling)

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What is the Typology of

African Women Farmers?

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Women Farmers’ Agricultural Productivity

Mozambique

• Land Owned: 0.6 ha - 12ha

• Main Crops: Maize Cassava and beans

• Yields: Maize 511kg/ha

• Fertilizer used by 25% of women

farmers

• Farming implements used: hand hoe,

axe, plough

Malawi

• Land Owned: 0.8 - 1 ha

• Main Crops: Maize, Tobacco

• Yields: Maize 500kg/ha

• Fertilizer used by 58% of women

farmers

• Farming implements used: plough,

ridger and ox cart

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• Women farmers responsible for bulk of staple food crops

• Women farmers - main food producers in sub-Saharan Africa

accounting for:

a. 70% of the agricultural labour force

a. 80% of food production in Africa

- 64% 0f People Living With AIDS are is sub Saharan Africa

- 75% of all Women Living With AIDS are in Sub-Saharan Africa

• Rural women work 13 hours/day using rudimentary

technologies for fetching water and fuel wood, cultivating

fields, grinding cereals

Women Farmers’ Livelihood

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• Marital Status

– 63% widowed, 7% are divorced

– 13% single,

– 10% married but husband not living at home

– Rest - Non Respondents

• Education

– 48% have primary education level,

– 8% secondary level,

– 1% technical level of

– 43% illiterate

Mozambique Women Farmers’ Livelihood

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• Average age of head of household

– 53 years

• Average number of persons per household

– 6 with only two who are in the working group (14

-55years)

Mozambique Household Demographics

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• Long distances to the market

• Same commodity competition for

a closed market

• Market prices not related to input

costs

• Women farmers not linked to

markets

• Average Distance walked to fetch

water

• 1 kilometre

Specific Challenges Faced by Women Farmers’

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• Poor representation of women farmers in policy processes

• Dominance of the government in policy making process

• Stakeholder consultative processes not promoted

- Said to be very costly

- Tends to favour the interests of donors

- Consultations usually conducted during the formulation stage and not at review stages.

• Very good policies on paper, poor implementation and review

• Poor in-depth research supporting policy processes in the region (academic vs. anecdotal)

• Traditional knowledge ignored at the expense of external advice

Women Farmers’ Policy Environment

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What FANRPAN is Doing to

Address these Challenges

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The Women Accessing Realigned Markets (Project)

The WARM project seeks to:

strengthen women farmers’ ability to

advocate for appropriate agricultural policies

and programmes

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The Women Accessing Realigned Markets (Project)

Duration: 36 months (July 2009 - May 2012) – pilot

Donor: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF)

Grant Value: $900,150.00

Pilot Countries: Malawi and Mozambique

Thematic Thrust: Agricultural Productivity and Markets

Goal: To strengthen women farmers’ ability to advocate

for appropriate agricultural policies and

programmes

Contributes to: CAADP Pillar II: rural infrastructure and trade

related capacities for market access; and

CAADP Pillar III: food and nutrition security

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Project Objectives

• To provide a platform for communities to dialogue on issues that affect women farmers’ access to input markets

• Empower women farmers to play a more active role in driving the development agenda

• To align development research agenda to women farmers’ issues

• Align agricultural input supply institutions and programs to women farmer needs

• To bring women farmer concerns into national and regional policy debates

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• Project Sites

– Kasungu and Lilongwe Districts in Malawi

– Boane & Marracuane Districts in Mozambique

• Implementing Partners:

Project Implementation Arrangements

Malawi Mozambique

National Smallholder Farmers’

Association of Malawi (NASFAM)

Foundation for Community

Development (FDC)

University of Malawi Bunda College of

Agriculture

University of Eduardo Mondlane,

Faculty of Agronomy and Forestry

Engeneering

Civil Society Agriculture Network

(CISANET)

University of Eduardo Mondlane,

School of Communication Arts

Story Workshop

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Project Output 1: Capacity Building

• Researchers trained in community action research

• 13 researchers from Malawi, Mozambique, South

Africa and Zimbabwe trained

• Women farmers trained in policy advocacy• 14 farmers trained in Malawi (9 women and 5 men)

• 18 farmers trained in Mozambique (12 women and 6 men)

• Community theatre groups trained• 6 groups formed and trained in Malawi (79 women and 5

men)

• 2 district theatre groups formed and trained in

Mozambique (24 women)

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Project Output 2: Research

• Analysis of inputs distribution systems and policies for

Mozambique• Reports and Policy Briefs written by João Mutondo, Bruno

Araújo and Meizal Popat and edited by Paiva Munguambe

&Mário Chilundo of the Faculty of Agronomy at Eduardo

Mondlane University– In Press

• Collection of agricultural productivity data• Exercise conducted by Munguambe Paiva, Emilio Mario &

Chilundo Magaia of the Faculty of Agronomy at Eduardo

Mondlane University – In Press

• Theatre scripts developed• Scripts based on data from action research, secondary research

and community consultations developed by Dadivo José, Orlando

Govo and Rogério Manjate of Escola de Comunicacao e Artes, of

Eduardo Mondlane University

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Project Output 3 (i): Advocacy

• National Level

• April 2011 - Presidência Aberta e Inclusiva - CSO Dialogue

with the President of Mozambique, President Armando E.

Guebuza at the Statehouse coordinated by FDC

• October 2011 - International Rural Women’s Day

celebrations in Marracuane, Mozambique coordinated by

FDC

• April 2012 – WARM National Policy Dialogue in Maputo,

Mozambique coordinated by FDC, UEM

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Project Output (ii): Advocacy

• Regional Level

• September 2011 – FANRPAN Annual Regional Policy

Dialogue, Mbabane Swaziland

• June 2011 – FANRPAN Annual Partners Meeting in Pretoria,

South Africa

• April 2011 - COMESA Regional consultative of gender,

agriculture and climate change, Lusaka , Zambia

• May 2010 – ACTESA 3rd Stakeholder Meeting, Lusaka,

Zambia

• November 2009 – FAO Regional Workshop on Rethinking

Regional Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa in the Post

2008 World, Nairobi Kenya

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Project Output (iii): Advocacy

• International Level

• London, UK March 2012 - Wellcome Trust Workshop on Impact of

Global Environmental Change on Food/Nutrition and Water in relation

to Human Health

• Washington, USA January 2011 – Worldwatch Institute 15th Annual

State of the World Symposium and launch of the State of the World

2011: Innovations that Nourish the Planet book

• Salzburg, Austria November 2011 - Global Seminar for Session 484,

Transforming Agricultural Development and Production in Africa:

Closing Gender Gaps and Empowering Rural Women in Policy and

Practice

• UNFCCC COP17 in Durban, South Africa, December 2011 - Rural

Women’s Assembly held on side-lines of the

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WARM Project Media Coverage 2009 - 2012

No. TITLE OF ARTICLE PUBLICATION YEAR LINK TO THE ARTICLE

1. International Women's Day 2012 -

African women: champions of

climate-smart agriculture

TrustLaw

Website

March 2012 http://www.trust.org/trustlaw/blo

gs/international-womens-day-

2012/african-women-champions-

of-climate-smart-agriculture/

2. Five Innovations that Are Working to

Empower Women

EcoWatch

Website

January 2012 http://ecowatch.org/2012/five-

innovations-that-are-working-to-

empower-women/

3. Empowering Women Farmers Could

End World Hunger

The Cultureist

Website

December

2011

http://www.thecultureist.com/201

1/12/30/empowering-women-

farmers-could-end-world-hunger/

4. Women are central to feeding Africa BBC News

News Article

April 2011 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/busin

ess-13049176

5. Women Farmers: Voiceless Pillars of

African Agriculture

NEPAD Food Security

Webpage Website

March 2011 http://www.nepad.org/fr/foodsec

urity/news/2103/women-farmers-

voiceless-pillars-african-

agriculture

6. What Works: Increasing Food

Sovereignty

We Blog the World:

Bridging Travel,

Culture and Ideas

Website

February

2011

http://www.weblogtheworld.com/

countries/africa-africa/what-

works-increasing-food-

sovereignty-2/

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WARM Project Media Coverage 2009 - 2012No. TITLE OF ARTICLE PUBLICATION YEAR LINK TO THE ARTICLE

7. Moving Forward Via

Communication: Integrated

Approaches to Development Action

through Communication Strategies

by Warren Feek

International Food

Policy Research

Institute (IFPRI) 2020

Conference

Conference Paper

February

2011

http://2020conference.ifpri.info/fi

les/2010/12/feek_movingforward

comm.pdf

8. Worldwatch Report Reveals Real

Agricultural Solutions

Common Dreams

Building Progressive

Community Website

January 2011 http://www.commondreams.org/

view/2011/01/19-10

9. Farmers are Integral to People’s

Health and the Planet’s Health, says

State of the World 2011 Symposium

World Future Society:

State of the World

Dispatch

January 2011 http://www.wfs.org/content/stat

e-world-dispatch

10. Theatre giving African women

farmers greater voice

New Agriculturalist

Website

December

2010

http://www.new-

ag.info/news/newsitem.php?a=18

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11. But Who Can Listen? FANRPAN

Launches Theatre for Policy

Advocacy Campaign in Rural Malawi

Nourishing the Planet

Blog

November

2010

http://blogs.worldwatch.org/nour

ishingtheplanet/but-who-can-

listen-fanrpan-launches-theatre-

for-policy-advocacy-campaign-in-

rural-malawi/

12. FANRPAN: Working to connect

farmers, researchers, and policy

makers in Africa

Nourishing the Planet

Blog

March 2010 http://blogs.worldwatch.org/nour

ishingtheplanet/fanrpan-working-

to-connect-farmers-researchers-

and-policy-makers-in-africa-

fanrpan

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13. We need to realize Africa's potential

on agriculture

Guardian UK – Katine

Chronicles Blog

February

2010

http://www.guardian.co.uk/katine

/katine-chronicles-

blog/2010/feb/10/africa-

agriculture-sithembile-

ndema/print

14. Fighting for Africa's food security Al Jazeera

News

February

2010

http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/

2010/02/201029113234906173.ht

ml

15. Women Accessing Realigned

Markets (WARM)

SOUL BEAT :

Edutainment Website

January 2010 http://www.comminit.com/en/no

de/308882/304

16. Linking Community Theatre and

Rural Development for Women

Farming First

Website

September

2009

http://www.farmingfirst.org/2009

/09/linking-community-theatre-

and-rural-development-for-

women/

17. FANRPAN Supports Women Farmers Future Agricultures

Press Release

July 2009 http://www.future-

agricultures.org/

18. Southern Africa: Song and Dance to

Empower Women Farmers

Inter Press Service

News

July 2009 http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idne

ws=47530

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• Mid Term Review Exercise

– Mid Term Review exercise conducted in May 2011

– Validation workshop held in June 2011

Project M&E Outputs

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Recommendations from the MTR

• Continued support for trained women advocates to

engage policy makers at various policy forums and to

network amongst themselves

• Support the institutionalization of TPA activities at

community level - Develop mechanisms for

sustaining the TPA platforms at community level

• Identify partners that can link farmers to markets –

women’s group to start participating fully in the

agricultural value-chain

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Recommendations from the MTR

• Document specific case studies to understand how

women farmer clubs operate and can be used to

help women access markets

• Develop a gender integration strategy - to involve

men but still with a focus of empowering women

• The TPA scripts need to evolve to reflect other

community issues; e.g, access to water, education

awareness, post-harvest handling and storage

• Further training on policy processes for women

farmers

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• End of project review exercise – May 2012

• Compilation of all project outputs and key policy

recommendations

• Publication of policy briefs on women’s access

to markets and agricultural productivity

• Documentation of lessons learnt

• Submission of final narrative and financial

report - 1 August 2012

Planned Activities for 2012

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Next Steps• Submission of project outputs to policy makers

• Engaging with service providers (input suppliers) and linking

women farmers to output markets

• Lesson learning and sharing of best practices with other partners

and projects at national & regional levels such as the WFP Purchase

for Progress Programme

• Continue raising awareness on issues affecting women farmers

• Strategy to up scale the project to address policy challenges raised

in the pilot countries

• Plan for out- scaling to other countries

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