Press releases on the Africa-Americas Ministerial Summit son Agri-food Systems

Se presenta una recopilación de pequeños artículos que informan al respecto sobre la ejecución de la Cumbre Ministerial y los diferentes temas que se abordaron durante su desarrollo. Además identifica recursos audiovisuales disponibles sobre las exposiciones relacionadas

African farmer-led irrigation development: re-framing agricultural policy and investment?

The past decade has witnessed an intensifying focus on the development of irrigation in sub-Saharan Africa. It follows a 20-year hiatus in the wake of disappointing irrigation performance during the 1970s and 1980s. Persistent low productivity in African agriculture and vulnerability of African food supplies to increasing instability in international commodity markets are driving pan-African agricultural investment initiatives, such as the Comprehensive Africa Agricultural Development Programme (CAADP), that identify as a priority the improvement in reliability of water control for agriculture. The paper argues that, for such initiatives to be effective, there needs to be a re-appraisal of current dynamics of irrigation development in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly with respect to the role of small-scale producers’ initiatives in expanding irrigation. The paper reviews the principal forms such initiatives take and argues that official narratives and statistics on African irrigation often underestimate the extent of such activities. The paper identifies five key characteristics which, it argues, contradict widely held assumptions that inform irrigation policy in Africa. The paper concludes by offering a definition of ‘farmer-led irrigation’ that embraces a range of interaction between producers and commercial, government and non-government agencies, and identifies priority areas for research on the growth potential and impact of such interactions and strategies for their future development

Lista de participantes. Estados miembros Cumbre Ministerial África- Américas sobre sistemas agroalimentarios

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Cumbre Ministerial África- Américas sobre sistemas agroalimentarios. Memoria de la Cumbre

La cumbre permitió reconocer que ambos continentes comparten el objetivo común de alimentar al mundo y fomentar la sostenibilidad ambiental global, y puso de manifiesto la necesidad de desarrollar una agenda conjunta de cooperación. Durante esa mesa redonda, los ministros de agricultura y otros actores del sector, de ambos continentes, analizaron la agenda global para la transformación de los sistemas agroalimentarios, contando con la participación de especialistas de alto nivel y amplio reconocimiento internacional. El propósito de esta Cumbre fue identificar las áreas en las que las dos regiones puedan trabajar juntas, sobre todo, aquellas en las que las oportunidades de cooperación podrían ser más rentables; así como los mecanismos operativos y financieros necesarios para movilizar los recursos requeridos. Los diálogos se concentraron en las siguientes áreas temáticas: (i) ciencia, tecnología e innovación; (ii) cambio climático y resiliencia; (iii) oportunidades en la agricultura digital; (iv) innovaciones institucionales y políticas; (v) comercio internacional y regional de alimentos; y, (vi) la transformación de los sistemas agroalimentarios post-CSANU; entre otros asuntos considerados indispensables para aumentar la productividad, la inclusión y la sostenibilidad de los sistemas agroalimentarios

Rural Development as a Key to Achieve Zero Hunger in 2030

Agricultural development, a subset of economic development, implies a sustained increase in the level of production and productivity over a reasonable length of time and the subsequently improved well-being of farmers as reflected in their higher per capita income and standard of living. Rural development relates not only to a sustained increase in the level of production and productivity of all rural dwellers, including farmers, and a sustained improvement in their well-being, manifested by increasing per capita income and standard of living, but also leads to a sustained physical, social, and economic improvement of rural communities (Nchuchuwe and Adejuwon 2012)