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Second DSEDT Open Day

ACP House, 11 October 2011
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 Basic Facts about 3ACP

• Duration : Sept 2007 to Dec 2011

• Overall Budget: € 45 M, of which € 15 M earmarked
in support of EU-Africa Partnership on Cotton
• A pilot programme covering 6 ACP regions: Pacific,
Caribbean, Central Africa, West Africa, Eastern &
Southern Africa (ESA)
• Funds channelled in two tranches through 5 partner
int’l organisations = implementing agencies
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 Major Problems addressed
Problem Area
• Dependency
• Absence of agr strategies
• Smallholders are poorly
organised
• Poor market functioning and
Imperfect information
• Limited access to market-
based risk management tools
Required Action
• Promote value-addition and
diversification
• Encourage development of
participatory strategies (or
adherence to existing ones)
• Support capacity-building of
producer organisations
• Enhance market functioning &
improve information flows
• Facilitate interest in and access
to RM tools
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 Expected Results
1. Commodity chain stakeholders have the capacity
to develop, adapt & implement sustainable
strategies
2. Strategic priorities are effectively implemented
3. Market-based Risk Management instruments are
introduced and their use increased
4. Complementarities and synergies of partner IOs
and other programme partners are harnessed to
the benefit of ACP stakeholders
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Link between Agriculture and CC

 Reduction in crop yields & in agr productivity
 Increased incidence of pest attacks
 Exacerbation of climatic events (droughts, floods,
hurricanes)
 Programme Contribution :
 Adaptation Measures
 Promoting GAP (Good Agricultural Practices) - € 1.94M
 Promoting Weather Risk Management - € 1.2M
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Integrated Production & Pest Management (IPPM):

An Example of GAP
• FFS approaches for cotton and horticulture (West
Africa – Senegal, Mali, B. Faso, Benin; East Africa:
Kenya, )
• Cotton farming systems: 18, 620 farmers and 423
trainers trained in IPPM
• Horticulture: 1,300 farmers and 86 trainers trained
• Preliminary evaluation show reduction in cost of
crop protection by 70% (Mali)
• Uptake of IPPM by ministries, ginners, FO
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IPPM

Mali Cotton Production - FFS and Non-FFS

n=65
Pesticide Quantity L/ha Organic Amendments Kg/ha
5.0 5000
4.5 4500
4.0 4000
3.5 3500
3.0 3000
2.5 2500
2.0 2000
1.5 1500
1.0 1000
0.5 500
0 0
Non FFS Non FFS
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Weather Risk Managment

• Agricultural risk plays a predominant role in the
vulnerability profile of low income countries
• In most developing countries, traditional community
risk management methods do not provide effective
protection against large and catastrophic losses, which
often stem from climate change
• Need for mechanisms that transfer agricultural risk
from affected communities
• Innovations in agricultural insurance, more specifically,
weather index insurance provide such mechanisms
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Weather Risk Managment

• Supply chain risk assessments:
– Cotton (Burkina Faso, Mozambique); Coffee (Cameroon,
Uganda, Jamaica, Haiti); horticulture (Kenya); rice (Guyana)
• Training:
– On designing index based agricultural insurance
(Caribbean, East Africa)
• Capacity Transfer:
– Partnership with College of Insurance of Kenya
– Training of EAFCA trainers
– Training of CAFAN leaders
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