Download Regional Cooperation Agenda for Food Security Matthew Hammill Economic Affairs Officer

Regional Cooperation
Agenda for Food Security
Matthew Hammill
Economic Affairs Officer
South and South-West Asia Office
South Asia focus (SA: 1/3 World’s Food
insecure, ½ World’s underweight)
Global Hunger Index, 2013
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India Bangladesh Pakistan
Nepal
Sri Lanka
I.R. Iran
Turkey
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South Asia Food Security
challenges
• Acute undernourishment, low rank in global hunger index,
smallholder agriculture, weak institutions and policy
challenges
• High population density, rural concentration and agriculture
dependence,
• 20% of the world’s population, 4% world’s land
• 80% of farmers are smallholders
• 85% of farming systems are mixed systems
(livestock/horticulture/agriculture)
• Agriculture is 2/3 Employment 1/3 of GDP
• Agriculture shares: 50% of land (40% world), 91% of water
withdrawal, 36% of GHG emissions
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Regional cooperation Agenda
for Food Security
1. Climate Resilience, sustainable agriculture and agricultural
intensification
2. Regional food management through food and seed banks,
fodder banks, milk grids, information sharing on production
and stocks of agricultural commodities
3. Liberalized regional trade for food security including on
tariffs and NTBs through SAFTA
4. Joint R&D to focus on productivity, innovation in agriculture
and technology transfer
5. Effective Regional Knowledge Networks for sharing best
practices
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Regional cooperation Agenda
for Food Security
6. Cooperation in logistics to reduce waste and post-harvest
losses
7. Increasing policy coordination – common positions
international forums and multilateral negotiations (eg. WTO
& IPR)
8. Alignment and coherence in regulations for food-safety and
management of trans-boundary animal diseases
9. Natural resources management: integrated water
management including non-agriculture sectors and the
energy sector
10. Implementing Integrated Phase Classification (IPC)
methodologies for food security
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Prioritizing the Agenda
• Low-hanging fruit? - Higher-level crosssectoral coordination in policy design,
Mandate for Food Security mainstreaming,
R&D, Extension and Education
• Domestic policy
complementarity/coordination - access to
food and social protection/One-stop shops especially targeting empowerment of women,
especially women in agriculture.
Thank you.
sswa.unescap.org
South and South-West Asia Office
Thank you.
sswa.unescap.org
South and South-West Asia Office
Replicating South Asia good
practices
• Investment in technologies, R&D for climate adaptation,
mechanization (BGD)
• Food diversification programmes (BTN, NPL)
• Promoting crop yield growth for specific land types and
diversification (LKA)
• Home garden improvement programmes (LKA)
• Increasing Right to Food, scope for Cash transfer, food transfer
(IND)
• Community level actions and farm one-stop shop for services
(IND. MSSRF).
• Improving agricultural extension, farmer education and access to capital (PAK)
• Soil conversvation programmes (LKA)
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