Shamba Centre for Food & Climate

📢 WEBINAR ALERT: Unlocking finance in 🌍 Africa is entering the 3rd phase of the Comprehensive African Agricultural Development Programme (CAADP3), a transformative framework designed to shape the continent’s agrifood systems over the next decade. Building on the successes and lessons of previous phases, CAADP3 seeks to accelerate agricultural productivity, foster multi-sectoral collaboration, and tackle the enduring challenges of food insecurity and malnutrition. With a renewed emphasis on regional integration, sustainability, and resilience, CAADP3 reflects Africa’s unwavering commitment to achieving self-sufficiency, climate adaptation, and inclusive economic growth.   💵 Realising these ambitious objectives requires significant investment. Mobilising domestic resources, securing grant funding, and leveraging innovative financing mechanisms are essential to scale up impactful policies and programs. However, this effort is complicated by widespread debt distress, constrained fiscal space, and the escalating risks of the climate crisis, making resource allocation both urgent and highly complex.   📆 This #RoadToKampala webinar that we co-organise will explore the critical financial considerations for advancing CAADP3. Experts and stakeholders will delve into financing options, innovative approaches and pathways to reform. 🔗 REGISTER: https://lnkd.in/eC_fTYGv 🎙️ The speakers: ▶️ ( FICP) Jerry Ntare, Acting CEO of the Rwanda Sovereign Wealth Fund Agaciro Development Fund ▶️ Myrtho Vlastou, Debt Director Africa, Incofin Investment Management  ▶️ Aakif Merchant, Director and Head of Africa, Convergence Blended Finance ▶️ Jason Rosario Braganza, Executive Director of the African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD) ▶️ Lebogang Ramafoko, Executive Director of Oxfam South Africa OZA The event will be moderated by Jeremy Lissouba, Member of Parliament, Republic of Congo, SG for African Food Systems Parliamentary Network #Africa #FoodSystems #Financing SDG2 Advocacy Hub The Consortium of African Youth in Agriculture and Climate Change (CAYACC)

🌍 The African Market Observatory (AMO) Price Tracker by the Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development (CCRED), an insightful initiative that summarises key trends in staple food prices in East and Southern Africa, expanded its radar. 🙌 From now on, #Botswana will be incorporated into the Tracker. 🆕 CCRED has another novelty: its new working papers on Tanzania’s fertilizer market and the soybean-to-poultry value chain highlight that market concentration is a key competition concern. 🧪 Tanzania’s fertilizer markets: https://lnkd.in/djFxk-GW 🐔 Soybean-to-poultry markets in Tanzania: https://lnkd.in/d5K5Fahu Namhla Landani Arthur Mahuma Simon Roberts AgriBusiness Botswana Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Resources Botswana College of Agriculture Botswana Climate Change Network (BCCN) Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Resources Food Science and Technology Club Food Nation Botswana FoodBank Botswana Fair Competition Commission (FCC) Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH https://lnkd.in/dhjnpsGk

💡 There are many entrepreneurs with great ideas out there but, as Christopher Wayne, from Acumen, rightly pointed out, markets are hard. Agrifood SMEs are a diverse group of enterprises. The poorest and most marginalised depend upon subsistence farming and require long-term and patient donor financing. Moreover, they need several years of continuous donor-financed capacity-building before they may be able to reach the appropriate level of maturity, professionalism and profitability to work with impact investors and blended financiers.  📑 In the Technical Note published with the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development, we dedicated Chapter 2 to financing and understanding the missing middle. Check it out: https://shorturl.at/GieUm 📢 Today our Co-Founder Carin Smaller will reflect on finance and the implications for the future at the GDPRD Annual General Assembly. 📺 You can watch her session live at 11:30 CET here: https://lnkd.in/e-cXwfvn Chris Wayne’s remarks were made during the side event webinar on innovative donor approaches to sustainable finance part of the UN Food Systems Summit +2 Stocktaking Moment (UNFSS+2): https://lnkd.in/eFyC6mqK Jim Woodhill Tim Diphoorn Natalia Toschi Jenice Achieng One Acre Fund International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) YPARD #AGA2024 #FinancingFoodSystems Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland IrishAid Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office USAID FAO

💡 Sustainable aquaculture methods hold great potential to help food systems meet nutritional needs and boosts economic opportunities. 👏 New analysis finds that extensive systems aquaculture systems with a nature-based approach perform 36% better than intensive ones in Madagascar when taking into consideration external factors like environmental, social, and economic impacts. These findings assessed the performance of four key aquaculture systems: ⏩ Extensive rice-fish farming: land-based aquacultural system using earthen ponds to cultivate fish symbiotically with rice, optimizing nutrient exchange to balance natural feed use and promote mutual growth. ⏩ Semi-intensive fish farming: This method in earthen ponds utilizes its natural productivity, in combination with supplementary feeding to achieve higher productivity. ⏩ Intensive net cage fish farming: Fish farming in large bodies of water, relies on feeding caged fish with formulated feeds. ⏩ Intensive fish farming in tanks: This aquaculture system relies on fish tanks using recirculating aquaculture systems and feeding fish with formulated feeds. The Shamba Centre is pleased to have been a part of this important assessment by the Nature-Based Infrastructure Global Resource Centre with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH To read the full report: https://lnkd.in/ewR8qchp #SustainableAquaculture #FoodSecurity #Madagascar #Aquaculture #FishFarming #RuralDevelopment

#COP29 is focusing on #Nature and #Biodiversity today and launched the Baku Declaration on Water for Climate Action which has been signed by 50 countries. This declaration highlights the importance of protecting and conserving our water resources and calls for integrating water-related mitigation and adaptation measures in national climate policies. Reflecting on biodiversity, how does nature fit into our modern economic system and how can we halt nature's extinction? The recent COP 16 on biodiversity provided two important corrections. But more needs to be done. Read more from Oshani Perera 👇 https://lnkd.in/eetUVfi5 Nature-Based Solutions Foundation WWF The Nature Conservancy UNDP Marcos Neto

The Shamba Centre is pleased to be attending the The Graça Machel Trust Women Creating Wealth Programme Summit currently underway in Johannesburg this week. Our colleagues Chilufya Sampa and Lysiane L. participated in panel discussions that explored the topics of access to finance and access to markets. Research by the Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development (CCRED) and the Shamba Centre shows that agrifood markets in Africa are characterized by extreme levels of market concentration.   ⚠️ This is detrimental to SMEs across Africa - such as those in the Graça Machel Trust network. As a result of anti-competitive business practices, they face inflated prices for supplies, depressed prices for sales and high barriers to enter markets across the supply chain, from seeds to retail.     Yet, SMEs drive growth and prosperity. To succeed, they rely upon fair agrifood markets to grow, generate income and wealth, as well as to improve the food security and nutrition. Access to capital is also essential for SMEs. Unlocking finance will require the participation of donors, governments, business partners, investors and banks with the aim of developing innovative and blended models that combine public and private sources of capital for more impact. 💡 Next steps The Shamba Centre looks forward to collaborating with the Graça Machel Trust to help improve market access for women-led SMEs and further discussion topics such as sustainable business practices and resilience to climate and nature risks.    👏 We congratulate the Graça Machel Trust on their pioneering work and look forward to engaging further on concrete actions after the Summit. Heike Fickel | Simon Roberts | Korkor Cudjoe | Victoria Mwafulirwa | Teboho Bosiu | The African Market Observatory (AMO)

As #COP29 enters its second week, the prospects for a global agreement on financing the climate transition look dim. Both leadership and confidence is lacking. The Shamba Centre is proposing 7 solutions that promise financial opportunity... Read the full article: https://lnkd.in/eFrFF-XF Celeste Saulo | Oxfam | Fiona Harvey | Global Witness | Gabriel ZUCMAN | The Office of Gordon and Sarah Brown | Earth.Org | Lars Jensen | Dominic Kavakeb

⚠️ Our current inaction to end hunger has a price – USD 210 billion. According to the most recent estimates, ending hunger by 2030 will cost an extra USD 540 billion. This contrasts with the projection made by Ceres2030 in 2020 which estimated that ending hunger by 2030 would cost an additional USD 330 billion. This additional cost is also unsustainable. It is also not optimal for those in need as they are trapped in hunger without the skills and job opportunities to escape. ❓ Instead, can we view food systems transformation as industrial policy? Such an approach is not only more efficient and socially cohesive, but also more resilient to climate change, biodiversity loss, water scarcity and other planetary risks. 💡 A new report published by the United Nations’ agencies FAO and UNIDO, in collaboration with Hesat2030, makes this case. The report, Ending hunger is possible: An income-generating approach through value addition, calls for ending hunger by focusing on driving growth in productivity and income in the agrifood sector.    This can be achieved in six steps. To find out how 👇 ▶️ Read the speech Carin Smaller delivered during the World Without Hunger Conference organized by UNIDO, the African Union and the Government of Ethiopia, with technical assistance of FAO https://lnkd.in/ekmycUrp ▶️ Watch Carin's speech: https://lnkd.in/ev3mmhXF ▶️ Read the full report: https://lnkd.in/dTNncK7u Maximo Torero Vlada Boldyreva David Laborde Lysiane L. Kamal El Harty Mali Eber Rose Oshani Perera Gunther Beger Luciana Delgado Rana Fakhoury dejene tezera Hannah Grupp

A must-read today! As CoP 29 gets underway today in Azerbaijan, we are also celebrating the 107th anniversary of the agreement that ended the First World War. Those negotiations began at the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918. Today we are the 11 of November 2024, at the 11th hour of an existential threat to ourselves. While there is reason for worry and disappointment, there are also proposals which promise opportunities. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eFrFF-XF Oshani Perera Carin Smaller Francine Picard Lysiane L. Kamal El Harty

Last year, at COP28, governments agreeing to transition away from fossil fuels. Many stakeholders have hailed this decision as a historic moment, marking the beginning of the end of the hydrocarbon era.   At the Shamba Centre, we were not convinced. As we noted, without a stronger commitment to phase out fossil fuels, along with targets and timelines to guide this transition, a low-carbon future remains unrealistic.  We called for: ⏩ A real global commitment with clear signals to advance the deep decarbonisation of value chains ⏩ Defined targets and timelines to guide and track progress  ⏩ Measures so that no single country can derail an agreement with a veto. What can we expect from COP29? How can we decarbonise are agrifood systems? How can we make sure that climate finance reaches those who are on the forefront of climate change - smallholder farmers? Read more: https://lnkd.in/eKy4xxc6