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Innovation Africa

Innovation Africa. Enhancing Policy Engagement through Local Food Security Plans. Innovation Africa. Develop local food security plans that are based on a multi-stakeholder situational analysis and the evidence of local innovations through an inclusive participatory processes.

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Innovation Africa

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  1. Innovation Africa Enhancing Policy Engagement through Local Food Security Plans

  2. Innovation Africa Develop local food security plans that are based on a multi-stakeholder situational analysis and the evidence of local innovations through an inclusive participatory processes. Implementation: 2010-2012 EU-FSTP co-funding In food insecure districts: Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia Burkina Faso and Niger

  3. Capacity Building Main activities Final Results Training on Farmer Innovation and Food Security strategies at household level Study on local and national Food Security Policies and Strategies Training on Farmer-led Documentation (FLD) FLD documentation of farmer FS strategies Local Food Security Plan Training on basic concepts of Food Security and Local Food Security Planning (LFSP) Multi-stakeholder planning process for Food Security Lobbying Plan Training on Policy aspects and Lobbying (by ODI) Study on Lobbying for Food Security Innovation Africa: programme overview

  4. Policy Engagement Decentralisation Capacities needed for local development planning Multi-stakeholder process Goal: policy influencing at provincial and national levels

  5. Food Security Situational Analysis • National programmes and policies have relatively little impact on local FS • Local and regional food systems have • their own dynamics and perspectives • HH Coping strategies: • Migration • Off –farm activities • Non-timber forest products • Even in surplus food production areas majority of households are food insecure • Seasonal changes in food availability

  6. Farmer Innovations • Farmer-led documentation of local innovations • Soil and water conservation • Value chain development • Off season productive activities • Social organisation • But also adoption and adaptation of external propositions (mainly NGOs) • In Niger over 50 local innovations identified.

  7. Food Security Approaches Food Insecurity and Early Warning Systems National policies and programmes Local Food Systems and Farmer Innovations

  8. Local Food Security Plans Part of district development process Based on local innovations and initiatives Make district actors together owner of the activities enhancing food security Develop policy influencing plans for provincial and national levels

  9. Suggestions for the Food Security Research Agenda What contribution can Local Food Security Plans make to the development of local /regional food systems? How can local/ regional food systems bring together rural producers and urban consumers? How do (inter) national policies interventions relate to local innovations and initiatives?

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