Saturday, September 19, 2020

Overview of latest reports

Food Security / Food systems

REPORT: Estimating the cost of SDG 2: Zero hunger

  • The Making of a Model: integrating environmental sustainability and farmer incomes to measure the cost of ending hunger
  • This research project wants to answer two linked questions: (i) What will it cost governments to end hunger as defined by Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2? (ii) And what are the most effective public investments to end hunger sustainably based on the available evidence?
  •  13 October 2020. Online dialogue. A WORLD WITHOUT HUNGER IS POSSIBLE – WHAT MUST BE DONE. Dr. Gerd Müller, Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, will use this online event for a discussion with German and international guests on the latest scientific studies, and on practical ways of fighting hunger and poverty.

REPORT: Bridging demand and supply of private investment capital for small and medium agribusinesses

  • T.S. Jayne, Richard Ferguson, Sloans Chimatiro, September 2020 ©FCDO, 56 pages
  • The study assesses whether what is needed is different forms of capital; greater work to provide the pre-conditions for private investment in agri-food systems; or both of these. The resulting analysis addresses the needs and interests of both investors and investment-support stakeholders.
  • African food staple value chains are important long-term endeavours that will still require grant financing, blended finance, technical support, and de-risking guarantees if they are to be considered fertile ground for impact investors.
  • Panel discussion: 15/09 AGRF. Including Thom Jayne is University Foundation Professor of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics at Michigan State University. In 2019, Jayne is seconded to the African Development Bank, serving as Special Advisor to the President. 

REPORT: Effectiveness of agri-business incubation in emerging markets.

  • Alberto Didoni, Varcando Ltd., 2020©FCDO. 33 pages
  • Recommendation: Donors should keep financing high-risk incubation work
  • Panel discussion: 15/09 AGRF

REPORT: ICTs for improving investment readiness of small and medium agribusinesses

  • Alvaro Valverde, September 2020 ©FCDO, 75 pages
  • Panel discussion: 15/09 AGRF

REPORT: Special Report EU development aid to Kenya

  • European Court of Auditors., 73 pages
  • Limited Impacts of EU Aid: Between 2014-2020, Kenya received $515 million from the European Union for developments in food security, sustainable agriculture, and accountability of public institutions.
  • To increase impacts of development spending, the report recommends that aid focus on fewer areas, with an emphasis on manufacturing to increase job creation.
  • 16/09 Audit finds EU aid to Kenya lacked impact : “In agriculture in the longer term or middle term there will be less jobs. At the same time, there are a lot of opportunities to create more value on this production chain in Kenya and that would be easily part of the manufacturing activity and creating jobs, doing something with these agricultural products.” ; “Job creation in particular, will feature prominently in the negotiations with Kenya on the next country program. It is already the focus of successful ongoing initiatives which support agriculture in the country.”

BOOK: Agricultural extension: global status and performance in selected countries

  • September 2020, 380 pages
  • This book provides a global overview of agricultural extension and advisory services, assesses and compares extension systems at the national and regional levels, examines the performance of extension approaches in a selected set of country cases (Brazil, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Malawi, and Uganda), and shares lessons and policy insights.
  • 10 September 2020. BOOK LAUNCH Virtual Event - Co-Organized by IFPRI and the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM).

REPORT: Africa Agriculture Status Report. Feeding Africa’s Cities: Opportunities, Challenges, and Policies for Linking African Farmers with Growing Urban Food Markets.

REPORT: The food systems approach in practice. ECDPM guide for sustainable transformation.

  • ECDPM paper, July 2020, 20 pages
  • Tackling the myriad sustainability challenges related to food – from the environmental impacts of food production to the health consequences of inadequate diets – requires systemic interventions that improve sustainability at local, national, and international level.

REPORT: Pan-African Private Sector Trade and Investment Committee (PAFTRAC) survey

  • This survey highlighted the private sector’s desire for considerable reforms to make the global trade rules system fairer and more transparent.
  • The analysis, done ahead of the selection of the new WTO director general, surveyed a total of 200 African CEOs around issues concerning the WTO and trade in general.
  • It covered a number of areas which revealed a general consensus that the current rules penalise the African continent and its private sector.

COVID-19

REPORT: Food Crises and COVID‑19:Emerging evidence and implications. An analysis of acute food insecurity and agri‑food systemsduring COVID‑19 pandemic. 

  • Technical note. 38 pages
  • Global Network Against Food Crises is re-orienting its key priorities within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, with emphasis on enhancing the generation and sharing of evidence-based information and analysis on food crises and COVID-19 effects.
  • 15/09 European Commissioner Janez Lenarcic opened the UNGA side event

REPORT: Survey on bilateral actors’ emerging priorities, short- and long-term financing and programming implications in light of COVID-19.

  • developed by OECD, 34 pages

REPORT: Facilitating cross-border trade through a coordinated African response to COVID-19,

  • The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has launched a new COVID-19 cross-border trade report , 48 pages
  • It urges governments on the continent to adopt and harmonize policies that will help continent strike an appropriate balance between curbing the spread of the virus and facilitating emergency and essential trade.

Green Deal

REPORT: The WWF 2020 Living Planet Report
  • released 10/09, published by WWF every two years, documents trends in biodiversity and the health of our planet, 83 pages
  • “The recently proposed EU Biodiversity and Farm to Fork strategies are potential game changers and must now be unequivocally endorsed and implemented by Member States and Parliament. But that is not enough. We must also curb the EU’s global footprint, which is driving the destruction of forests, grasslands and other precious ecosystems outside of Europe. A strong new law to keep products linked to deforestation out of the EU market is urgently needed!”

REPORT: Global Biodiversity Outlook 5.

  • Montreal. Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (2020) 212 pages.
  • The Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO) is the flagship publication of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). It is a periodic report that summarizes the latest data on the status and trends of biodiversity and draws conclusions relevant to the further implementation of the Convention.

ARTICLE: The 10 Elements of Agroecology

  • New FAO peer-reviewed publication, 19 pages
  • FAO) has approved the 10 Elements of Agroecology as an analytical framework to support the design of differentiated paths for agriculture and food systems transformation, hence facilitating improved decision-making by policymakers, practitioners and other stakeholders in differing contexts at a range of levels on a number of scales.

REPORT: 
 Collaborating for adaptation : findings and outcomes of a research initiative across Africa and Asia

BOOK: The Nature of Nature: Why We Need the Wild.

  • Enric Sala wants to change the world--and in this compelling book, he shows us how. Once we appreciate how nature works, he asserts, we will understand why conservation is economically wise and essential to our survival.
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