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Mapping and Tracking Agriculture Investments in Africa

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.

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Mapping and Tracking Agriculture Investments in Africa

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  1. 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

  2. AgInvest portal: adding value to existing initiatives • 4. GIS tools, other data sets spatial analysis • Generate decision support information • Address policy questions 3. Spatial variables mapping P O RTA L 2. Collate & organize; one database; common key variables 1. Project data -multiple sources

  3. Information available in AgInvest • Variables documented: • Intervention (project/programme) name • Objectives • Time frame • Project cost • Funding agency • Implementing agency • Source of information/reference

  4. Interactive map of Agriculture Interventions

  5. Project list

  6. Informing policy interventions………..

  7. 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

  8. Accessibility to market centers 40% of projects are in areas with low market access Full potential cannot be realized http://harvestchoice.org/maps/travel-time-market-centers

  9. 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)?

  10. 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?

  11. 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 • ……………………………

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