Francesco Rampa, ECDPM
Food, Farmers and Markets
Global Donor Platform for Rural Development Annual General Assembly
30-31 January 2013, The Hague
Francesco Rampa attended this meeting and facilitated a session on Aid for Trade and Agriculture.
What role does regional trade play in getting food from the farm to the fork
1. What role does regional trade
play in getting food from the
farm to the fork?
FRANCESCO RAMPA
Programme Manager – Food Security
GDPRD Annual General Assembly
31 January 2013, The Hague
2. Why regional trade ?
• Integrated reg.markets enable food to
move from surplus to deficit areas,
increasing food availability, reducing price
volatility, stimulating diversification
BUT: poor performance of African agricultural
markets (only 25% marketed - 19% of intra-
Afr exports is agric)
infrastr & Governance & Policy Bottlenecks
low supply response, no incentives to inv,
export bans…
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3. Why regional cooperation ?
• Individual countries alone cannot
address challenges & opportunities
• Coherence/coordination of different reg.
initiatives enhance their chances of
success, also ODA (HORIZ.COHERENCE)
• Coherence/coordination of reg. and
national action increase the value of
both (VERTICAL COHERENCE)
• Linking food security and regional
integration can help public-private
cooperation & stimulate investment
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4. THIS GROUP:
• Challenges and opportunities : corridor
approaches & trade facilitation for PSD for food
security
• political economy and trade policy issues that
constrain open regional trade
• a common vision on
opportunities for private sector involvement in
infrastructure development for regional trade
opportunities for the expansion of local and
external agribusiness investments in regional
trade corridors in Sub-Sahara Africa
the role donors can play in promoting regional
trade
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5. Different Regions – Shared Challenges
• ECOWAS, COMESA, EAC, SADC, ECCAS,
IGAD … Spaghetti
• vert coherence & horiz coherence
• Businesses say (“Grow Africa”)
bottlenecks to inv in CAADP are often
regional … business-led RI
• Participation of NSA in Reg CAADP
Compact preparations?
• Which agric.model ?
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6. DPs challenges
• DPs at HQ-reg-nat to
align/coord/harmonize Reg
Compacts (reg DWG)?
• From aid to development
effectiveness?
• PPPs ?
• What are early deliverables &
pilots (CAADP)?
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7. First ever AU Joint Ministerial on
Trade & Agric
• Plan of Action for Boosting Intra-Africa Trade
…early deal to liberalise key regional food staples
markets?
• CAADP the instruments to define and
operationalize trade-agriculture collaboration
• Strengthening the capacity of relevant
institutions and producers to effectively
participate in these innovative practices and
monitor their impact at country level;
• Mandating AU,NEPAD,RECs to institutionalize
policy dialogue aimed at realizing synergies
between agriculture and trade sectors;
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8. Thank you
fr@ecdpm.org
www.ecdpm.org/foodsecurity
www.ecdpm.org/dp138
www.ecdpm.org/bn38
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