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ACF News:
CAADP
Stakeholder Meeting
The
Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development
Programme (CAADP) provides an integrated framework
of development priorities aimed at restoring
agricultural growth, rural development and food
security in the African region.
Although CAADP is continental in scope, its key
principles and targets are to be transformed
strategies and investment programmes at country
level in form of a Country CAADP
Compact.
The country level
process is done in two steps, the first is a
stock-taking and investment
options analysis, which form the
background for the
development of a Zambia
Country Compact
based on and complementary to the Fifth
National Development Plan (FNDP) programmes. The
second step is about building partnerships and
alliances between key actors under the leadership of
the Governments in so-called Country Round Tables
(CRTs).
As part of this
process the ACF
in
collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture and
Cooperatives and the Common Market for Eastern and
Southern Africa (COMESA)
held a
stakeholder meeting at the Pamodzi Hotel in
Lusaka on 27th March, 2008, to review the
draft Zambia Country Compact. The
objective of the meeting was to come up with
broad based consensus on the development agenda for
Zambia’s agricultural sector,
collect stakeholder
input and formulate
resolutions that will support the joint
implementation process in Zambia.
The
Farming Systems Association of Zambia
was
"Tracking the Comprehensive African Agriculture
Development Programme" on behalf of Concern
Worldwide, which provides a
critical review of the
inclusion
of marginal farmers in the Country CAADP Round Table
process.
Research in Use
The ACF facilitated a stakeholder
meeting on behalf of team
from the
Research in Use (RiU) on 6th
May 2008. Southern Africa has been identified by RiU
as one of the key regions which have the greatest
potential for a large scale improvement in
livelihoods for the poor through up-scaling of
existing research outputs. At the meeting
stakeholders in Zambia were introduced to the RiU
programme approach and objectives. Subsequent
workshops aimed at developing a country strategy for
Zambia. This work is still on-going.
ACF
Advisory Note on World Food Prices
The ACF, in collaboration with the
Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the Central
Statistical Office (CSO), and the Jesuit Centre for
Theological Reflection (JCTR) held a stakeholder
meeting on 19th June, 2008 on the
"Impact of rising world
food prices on the Zambian economy".
The
invited speakers pointed out the threats and
challenges to the Zambian food markets but also
elaborated on opportunities for higher incomes from
agricultural production. Stakeholders agreed that it
is only possible to realise these opportunities if
full attention is given to agricultural development
programmes. The ACF has subsequently submitted a
Policy Advisory Note to the Ministry of
Agriculture and Cooperatives that includes
recommendations emanating from the discussion of
this meeting.
The Zambia Food
Security Monitor
The Zambia Food Security Monitor
is compiled and published by the Agricultural
Consultative Forum on behalf of the Food Security
Task Force chaired by the Ministry of Agriculture
and Cooperatives / MACO, with financial support from
the European Commission / MACO project “Support to
Agriculture Diversification and Food Security in
Western and North-Western Provinces”.
This is the first issue of the
Zambia
Food
Security Monitor and obviously we are still trying
to find our feed. The monitor may change its look
and contents in future issues depending on data
availability and responses from stakeholders to this
issue. As an introduction we first present the
concept that “The Zambian Food Security Monitor”
follows and place it within the strategic framework
for food security under the Fifth National
Development Plan. We then move on to provide
information on indicators from the Food Security
Monitoring Matrix, which was endorsed by
stakeholders as the official cross-sectoral
monitoring instrument.
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