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Mapping and Tracking Agriculture Investments in Africa
Agriculture Policy Exchange and Learning Event, Dakar, Senegal
13-16 May 2013
Stella Massawe, Joseph Karugia and Paul Guthiga
AgInvest portal: adding value to existing initiatives
1. Project data - multiple sources
2. Collate & organize; one database; common key variables
3. Spatial variables mapping PORTAL
4. GIS tools, other data sets spatial analysis Generate decision support informationAddress policy questions
Information available in AgInvest
Variables documented:• Intervention (project/programme)
name• Objectives• Time frame• Project cost• Funding agency• Implementing agency• Source of information/reference
Interactive map of Agriculture Interventions
Project list
Informing policy interventions………..
Project numbers and Length of Growing Period (LGP)
More interventions in high potential areas
Not necessarily food insecure areas
Efforts to enhance distribution of food from surplus to deficit areas
Accessibility to market centers
http://harvestchoice.org/maps/travel-time-market-centers
40% of projects are in areas with low market access
Full potential cannot be realized
Project numbers and Poverty
High poverty, fewer Agdev. Interventions
range management, livestock trade, water harvesting, irrigation, ?
Targeting
Good development outcomes (poverty reduction and food security)?
Some of the questions that can be addressed by GIS tools
• What/where are the investment gaps?• Who can we partner with?• Right projects in right areas?– market access, dairy, perishable, livestock etc
• Others?
What mutual accountability related data would your country want to see represented using GIS tools?
Acknowledgements• USAID • Colleagues in IFRPI and ILRI• Government ministries• Agricultural Cooperative Development International/Volunteers in Overseas Cooperative
Assistance (ACDI/VOCA) • African Development Bank (AfDB) • Agricultural Market Development Trust (AGMARK) • Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) • European Union (EU)• Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) • Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) • The Department for International Development (DFID), • International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC)• The Development Gateway, The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) • Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)• Kilimo Trust • NEPAD• The World Bank• ……………………………