YEAR IN REVIEW SOLUTIONS FOR AGRICULTURE AFRICAN 2015/6 · Dr Enos Shumba, Regional Research seat,...
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NETWORK OF NETWORKSFANRPAN’s extraordinary strength lies in its ability to link the policy supply to the demand side. It is an all-inclusive multi-stakeholder
platform, which links government, policy analysts, farmers and the private sector. It further follows a regional approach that enables learning between countries. FANRPAN is literally a network of networks.
FACILITATING EVIDENCE-BASED POLICY TRANSFORMATIONFANRPAN is making giant strides in its quest to hasten the transformation needed to establish a food secure Africa free from poverty and hunger. This dynamic network draws on the world’s foremost leadership prowess, intellectual resources, research and technological advances to address the continent’s vexing dilemmas. Its unswerving mission is to promote evidence-based food, agriculture and natural resources policies.
WHERE SCIENCE AND
POLICY MEET
HOME-GROWN SOLUTIONS FOR AFRICAN
AGRICULTURE
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FOR AFRICANS, BY AFRICANSThe Board of Governors, the highest governing body of FANRPAN, is responsible for providing the policy oversight for the organisation. The current Board has the following members:
Mr Argent Chuula, COMESA-ACTESA (Chairman)
Mr Mortimer Mannya, South Africa, Host Government (Regional Secretariat) representative
Mr Ringson Chitsiko, Zimbabwe, Host Government (Registration) representative
Mme Margaret Nyirenda, Botswana, SADC FANR Directorate representative
Mr Dyborn Chibonga, Malawi, Farmers’ seat (NASFAM)
Mr Nnaemeka C. Ikegwuonu, Youth seat (The Smallholders Foundation)
Ms Lynette Chen, Private Sector seat, NEPAD Business Foundation
Dr Enos Shumba, Regional Research seat, CCARDESA
Mr Haddis Tadesse, Donor seat, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Dr Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, CEO of FANRPAN (Ex-offició)
Ms Sharon Alfred, Board Secretary, FANRPAN
Looking back on 2015/6, we at FANRPAN can proudly say the Network has taken several bold steps. Our unrelenting quest to achieve continental food and nutrition security has taken a huge leap forward with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded Agriculture to Nutrition (ATONU) initiative which we launched in Uganda in October 2015. For the first time we find ourselves at the helm of a high-powered, multi-sectoral international consortium which is equipped to make huge inroads in combatting the scourge
of hunger. Along with all the other projects we run across Africa, I believe we are rapidly gaining ground and I would like to thank all our Nodes, development partners, stakeholders and co-workers for making this a stellar year. The stage is now set to forge our collective energies and to shape our own future.
In keeping with the modern trend of being climate smart, this publication serves as a snapshot of FANRPAN’s activities during the year in review to give the reader a quick overview of the outstanding accomplishments achieved by this Africa-wide Network. Of course, every year the secretariat delivers an annual report to the Board o f Governors that is infinitely more comprehensive. Not everyone has the time or inclination to study lengthy documents and so I hope you get a
glimpse of the truly exceptional work that FANRPAN is doing for over one billion Africans. As the Board chairman I couldn’t be more proud of the unbridled passion, sincerity and sheer hard work that I see this Network doing. My heartfelt thanks to everyone who has contributed over the past year.
Angola
Benin
Botswana
DRC
Kenya
Lesotho
Madagascar
Malawi
Mauritius
Mozambique
Namibia
South Africa
Swaziland
Tanzania
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe
CEO’s MESSAGEDr Lindiwe Majele Sibanda
MEMBER STATES& NODES
CHAIRPERSON’S MESSAGE Mr Argent Chuula
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Policy research and advocacy is critical to helping policy makers formulate evidence-based policies. In the last decade, FANRPAN has developed a strong and inclusive network at the forefront of the
agricultural debate in Sub-Saharan Africa. FANRPAN now seeks to increase
the visibility of the available research evidence to boost progress towards solving the global agenda of food security and agriculture. Partnerships will always play a key role in helping FANRPAN bring its messages to global audiences.
By act ive ly fac i l i tat ing l inkages and partnerships between governments and civil society, building the capacity for policy analysis and policy dialogue in Africa, as well as supporting demand-driven policy research and analysis, FANRPAN is influencing and effecting verifiable change in Africa.
Improving Nutrition outcomes through optimized agricultural interventions (ATONU) - Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF)
Strengthening policy advocacy and research capacity for enhanced food security in Eastern and Southern Africa (SPARC) - The African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF)
Post-Harvest Management - Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) – Helvatas Swiss Intercooperation
Increasing irrigation water productivity through on farm monitoring adaptive management and agricultural innovation platforms - Australian Center for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)
Partnerships for African-European partnerships for Agriculture Research and Development Partners (PAEPARD) (Africa wide) - European Union /Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA)
Platform for African-European Partnerships for Agricultural Research and Development Competitive Research Fund - European Union / National Smallholder Farmers’ Association of Malawi (NASFAM)
Post-harvest management - FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) - PHM
Workshop (Training of stakeholders in South Africa in the human right to food) - FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) - Right to Food
Diversifying agriculture for balanced nutrition through fruits and vegetables in multi-storey cropping systems (Nutrihaf) - ZEF (Center for Development Research) Germany
Supporting the needs assessment for establishment of an African Centre for Best practices, capacity development and South South cooperation (SSC) (Africa wide) - The African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF)
World Food Prize day - International Development Research Centre - World Food Prize Day USA
African Interact-Climate change initiatives (Africa wide) - West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development (CORAF)
Climate Smart Agriculture Country case studies in Malawi and Tanzania - FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization(Global Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture)
Climate change Adaptation and mitigation in the COMESA-EAC-SADC Region - Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)
STRENGTH IN ADVOCACY
CONVENING POWER
GLOBAL POLICY ENGAGEMENTS
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In collaboration with various partners and stakeholders, FANRPAN undertakes comprehensive policy development programmes to yield evidence for effective policies to improve agricultural productivity. These initiatives focus on the relationship between commodity trade and access to technology, as well as inputs such as seed, fertiliser and germplasm. Increasing access to existing and improved technologies for smallholder farmers, the primary producers of staple food in most African countries, is a critical area of investment with high-impact potential.
Research and advocacy for improved food systems concentrate on the impact of policies related to global environmental changes, biosafety, biotechnology, phytosanitary conditions, and trade tariffs on crop and animal-based food supplies. Africa has the highest malnutrition rates in the world, and it is vital that agricultural programmes start to take nutrition into account if they are to provide long-term food security.
This important thematic thrust focusses on policies relating to trans-boundary resources management, biofuels, land and climate change. In the face of increasing resource pressures, climate change has big implications for Africa, particularly the poorest countries. Vulnerable countries face increased food shortages, changing weather patterns and natural disasters, yet they are ill-equipped at present to respond to these challenges. FANRPAN is engaged in several projects seeking to document, anticipate, mitigate and, wherever possible, help reverse the effects of climate change.
In sub-Saharan Africa, people are highly vulnerable to environmental, health, economic and social stresses, which increase the difficulties faced by resource-poor farmers to produce adequate food. This thematic area is centred on cross-cutting issues such as the impact of HIV and AIDS on agriculture and food security, gender and youth, targeting of humanitarian and developmental interventions and the development of longitudinal community based capital asset databases to inform development interventions.
FANRPAN’s regional and international scope puts it in a unique position to identify key issues and design projects to address them in a region-wide, comprehensive, manner. The research builds capacity in African institutions by engaging researchers in multi-country multi-disciplinary projects and creating opportunities for learning and exchange. The Network’s research model also allows for cost-sharing among participating organisations so that projects are both more cost-efficient and more reflective of regional priorities from a number of perspectives.
AGRICULTURE INPUT AND OUTPUT MARKETS
FOOD SYSTEMS AND NUTRITION
NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT
SOCIAL PROTECTION AND LIVELHOODS
INSTITUTIONAL STRENGTHENING
THEMATIC THRUSTS
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AGRICULTURE INPUT AND OUTPUT MARKETS
“The current DISCONNECT between agriculture and nutrition MUST END”
FOOD SYSTEMS AND NUTRITION
INSTITUTIONAL STRENGTHENING
NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT
SOCIAL PROTECTION AND LIVELIHOODS
ANgOLA
BENIN
BOTSWANA
DRC
ETHIOPIA
KENyA
LESOTHO
MADAgASCAR
MALAWI
MAURITIUS
MOZAMBIqUE
NAMIBIA
NIgERIA
SOUTH AFRICA
SWAZILAND
TANZANIA
UgANDA
ZAMBIA
ZIMBABWE
Climate Change
COMESA-EAC-SADC Climate Change Tripartite Programme
Limpopo Basin Development Challenge (LBDC)
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
From Policy to Practice: Advocating for aligned Climate Smart Agriculture initiatives in Africa
Strengthening Evidence-Based Climate Change Adaptation Policies (SECCAP)
Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation (CTA) support to FANRPAN
Household Assets Vulnerability Assessment (HAVA) Pilot Project
Development of The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Regional Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) Compact
Improving Nutrition Outcomes Through Optimized Agricultural Investments (ATONU)
Postharvest Management in Sub-Saharan Africa (PHM-SSA)
Stemming Aflatoxin pre- and post-harvest waste in the groundnut value chain (GnVC) in Malawi and Zambia to improve food and nutrition security in the smallholder farming families
Supporting Smallholder Farmers in Southern Africa to better manage Climate-related Risks to Crop Production and Post-harvest Handling
Competence Platform on Energy, Crop & Agro-forestry Systems and Semi-arid Ecosystems Africa (COMPETE)
Youth in Agriculture
Economic Research and Agricultural Policy Harmonisation (Strengthening Evidence-Based Agricultural Policy Advocacy and Harmonisation in Southern Africa)
Harmonised Seed Security Project (HaSSP)
Strengthening the Capacity of Women Farmers to Influence Agricultural Policy Development in Southern Africa
GEOGRAPHIC SPREAD OF PROJECTS
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FINANCIALS STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION As at 31 March 2016 (In US Dollars)
Note 2016 2015
ASSETS
Non-current assets
Property and Equipment 25,922 27,078
Current assets
Cash and cash equivalents 3 2,387,997 4,443,289
Trade and other receivables 4 133,979 50,249
Donor receivables 8 24,879 33,185
Total current assets 2,546,855 4,526,723
TOTAL ASSETS 2,572,777 4,553,801
EQUITY AND LIABILITIES
Equity
Accumulated surplus 465,183 416,462
Liabilities
Current liabilities
Trade and other payables 6 349,327 137,788
Donor payables 8 1,758,267 3,999,551
Total current liabilities 2,107,594 4,137,339
TOTAL EqUITy AND LIABILITIES 2,572,777 4,553,801
STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME For the year ended 31 March 2016 (In US Dollars)
Note 2016 2015
Revenue 8 3,418,932 3,779,405
Other Income 10 32,783 61,793
Operating expenses (3,405,284) (3,984,233)
Operating surplus/(deficit) 9 46,431 (143,035)
Investment revenue 11 2,290 2,844
Surplus/(deficit) 48,721 (140,191)
Other comprehensive Income - -
Total comprehensive surplus / (deficit) for the year 48,721 (140,191)
These financial statements were approved at the Annual General Meeting in Accra, Ghana on 26 October 2016.
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DONORSBill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF)
Improving Nutrition outcomes through optimized agricultural interventions (ATONU)
The African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF)
Strengthening policy advocacy and research capacity for enhanced food security in
Eastern and Southern Africa (SPARC)
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) – Helvatas
Swiss Intercooperation Post-Harvest Management
Australian Center for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)
Increasing irrigation water productivity through on farm monitoring adaptive management
and agricultural innovation platforms
European Union /Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA)
Partnerships for African-European partnerships for Agriculture Research and Development Partners (PAEPARD)
European Union / National Smallholder Farmers’ Association of Malawi (NASFAM)
Platform for African-European Partnerships for Agricultural Research and Development
Competitive Research Fund
FAO(Food and Agriculture Organization) Post- harvest management
FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization Workshop (Training of stakeholders in South
Africa in the human right to food)
ZEF (Center for Development Research) Diversifying agriculture for balanced nutrition through fruits and vegetables in multi-storey
cropping systems (Nutrihaf)
The African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF)
Supporting the needs assessment for establishment of an African Centre for
Best practices, capacity development and South South cooperation (SSC)
International Development Research Centre
World Food Prize day
West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and
Development (CORAF) African Interact-Climate change initiatives
FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization CSA Country case studies in
Malawi and Tanzania
Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)
Climate change Adaptation and mitigation in the COMESA-EAC-SADC Region
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Angola Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security [email protected]
Benin Platform for Civil-Society Actors in Benin (PASCiB) Atidegla Aurelien Comlan [email protected]
Botswana Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis Tebogo B. Seleka [email protected]
DRC The Center of Dialogue for Legal and Institutional Reforms (Centre d’Echanges pour des Reformes Juridiques et Institutionnelles Charles-M. MUSHIZI [email protected]
Kenya Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis Dickson Khainga [email protected]
Lesotho National University of Lesotho Thope Matobo [email protected]
Madagascar Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries RANDRIANARISOA Mina Tsiriarijao [email protected]
Malawi Civil Society Agriculture Network Tamani Nkhono Mvula [email protected]
Mauritius University of Mauritius, Faculty of Agriculture Shane Hardowar [email protected]
Mozambique Eduardo Mondlane University Joao Mutondo [email protected]
Namibia University of Namibia Theopoline Itenge [email protected]
FANRPAN NODE ADDRESSES
FANRPAN Regional Secretariat (Pretoria, South Africa) 141 Cresswell Street, Weavind Park, 0184 [email protected] www.fanrpan.org
South Africa National Agricultural Marketing Council Bonani Nyhodo [email protected]
Swaziland Coordinating Assembly of NGOs Emmanuel Ndlangamandla [email protected]
Tanzania Economic and Social Research Foundation Bohelo Lunogelo [email protected]
Uganda Makerere University Archileo N. Kaaya [email protected]
Zambia Agricultural Consultative Forum (ACF) Masiye Nawiko [email protected]
Zimbabwe Agricultural Research Council (ARC) Isaiah Mharapara [email protected]