FRANCESCO RAMPAProgramme Manager – Food Security

GDPRD Annual General Assembly31 January 2013, The Hague

What role does regional trade play in getting food from the

farm to the fork?

• 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…

Why regional trade ?

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• 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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Why regional cooperation ?

• 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

THIS GROUP:

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• 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 ?

Different Regions – Shared Challenges

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• 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)?

DPs challenges

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• 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;

First ever AU Joint Ministerial on Trade & Agric

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