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Democratic Republic Of Congo (DRC) CAADP Multi-Stakeholder Policy Dialogue 11 November 2010
Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2010DRC is the third largest country in Africa and has a unique agricultural potential that is still untapped in the form of eighty million acres of land with a potential for cultivation. Only about 10% of this land is under cultivation.DocumentSwaziland CAADP Multi-Stakeholder Policy Dialogue
Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2010The Swaziland Comprehensive African Agriculture Development Program (CAADP) Multi-stakeholder Policy Dialogue was held in November 2010. The meeting was attended by participants from different stakeholder groups: government, NGOs, researchers/academia, private sector and farmers unions. This report gives an overview of the deliberations and recommendations generated during this meeting.DocumentMozambique CAADP Multi-Stakeholder Policy Dialgoue Platform 23 Nov 2010
Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2010The Mozambique FANRPAN CAADP Multi-stakeholder Policy Dialogue was held in November 2011 in Maputo. The dialogue was attended by participants from different stakeholder groups - government, NGOs, researchers/academia and private sector.DocumentEvaluation Repor: FANRPAN 2011 Food Security Regional Policy Dialogue
Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2011The FANRPAN 2011 Annual High-Level Regional Food Security Multi-Stakeholder Policy Dialogue–titled Advocating for active Engagement of the Youth in the Agricultural Value Chain–was held in September 2011. Delegates from 21 countries attended this meeting. This report evaluates the policy frameworks presented at this meeting.DocumentThe annual FANRPAN high level regional food security policy dialogue Advocating for the active engagement of the youth in the agricultural value chain
Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2011Africa has a unique population profile with 44 percent of its population under the age of 15 in 2006 making SSA the youngest region of the world. Today two out of three inhabitants of SSA are under 25 years of age. SSA is home to over 200 million young people who are employed primarily in agriculture where they account for 65 percent of the total employment.DocumentSustainable and inclusive growth in Africa: industrialization a must
Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2014Africa’s economic performance in the last fifteen years has been characterized as “impressive” due to enhanced real GDP and per capita GDP growth. This positive growth has been due in part to the rise of emerging economies, whose demand for raw materials represents a major opportunity for resource-rich African countries.DocumentAn assessment of opportunities for local production of construction and building materials using the South African public housing delivery programme as a procurement lever
Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2014The objective of this study is to review challenges and opportunities in the delivery of the public housing programme. The focus is on assessing opportunities for local production and manufacturing of construction materials.DocumentUsing input vouchers for improving access to agricultural in-puts - who are the winners and losers?
Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2008Emerging from the worst harvest in a decade, the Government of Malawi implemented one of the most ambitious and successful assaults on hunger in the history of the African continent. Through a national input subsidy programme, coinciding with better rainfall conditions, maize production doubled in 2006 and almost tripled in 2007 and 2008.DocumentTrue contribution of agriculture to economic development and poverty reduction in Malawi: who needs to know what?
Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2009The contribution of agriculture to economic development is enormous, as evidenced by the favourable direct and indirect impacts of agricultural growth and investment on Malawi’s economy, in terms of national income, inflation, interest rates, exchange rates and other macro economic variables.DocumentThe role of targeting in service delivery to vulnerable populations – the FANRPAN Household Vulnerability Index (HVI) - a synthesis of three country reports
Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2009The objective of the Household Vulnerability Index (HVI) pilot study, conducted in Lesotho, Swaziland and Zimbabwe, was to further develop and test the HVI as a statistical tool for quantifying household vulnerability resulting from shocks such as HIV and AIDS. Key outputs from the study were a refined method for constructing the HVI and a computerised tool for its computation.Pages