agricultural growth corridors - jeff sayer

Agricultural Growth Corridors

ISPC 12 meeting, Rome 14-16 Sep. 2016

Jeffrey Sayer & R. Serraj

http://ispc.cgiar.org

Who will be farming, where and what in 20 years?

Foresight and partnerships ISPC trying to get this on the CRP agenda Links with NEPAD, CAADP and ECDPM NRM challenges


Urbanization & farm size (Masters et al. 2013) – Innovation will spread along transport routes; average area per farm is likely to keep falling in Africa and start

rising in Asia; Diverse and changing farm systems will present new research

challenges.

Vast reduction in the proportion of the population engaged in agriculture and a large move out of rural areas. (Collier and Dercon (2014)

Conflict with commitment to smallholder agriculture as the main route for growth in African agriculture and for poverty reduction?

Need realism - not just a narrow focus on existing smallholders situations.


Tendency of corridors to exclude the poorest and deepen existing power disparities - hinterlands.

Many governments investing in SDIs and large-scale public-private partnerships to achieve development goals.

Spending on public works to “jump-start” global economy – AIIB – impacts on agriculture visible

Malabo declaration – Ambitious goals: implications for CGIAR’s research strategies, targets and metrics?


1. Introduction

Corridors in perspective

Research and agricultural corridors

Outline of this paper

2. Typology of existing growth corridors in Africa Corridor origins?

Geographical scope

Aims and scope of activities

...to agricultural corridors

Different drivers different challenges?

3. Corridor governance mechanisms Managing corridor complexity

Coordination mechanisms

Instruments for corridor development

Corridor-linked policies & regulations

Learning

Measuring the impact of corridors

4. Key risks and opportunities Corridors of opportunity

Risks

5. Knowledge gaps, potential research priorities Transformational change through scale and partnerships

The development nexus: turning corridors into sustainable developmental investments

Strengthening the link between agricultural research and development outcomes through corridors

Research on more technical issues

Research on political issues: smallholder inclusivity and land rights Cross-cutting issue: capacity building

Agricultural Growth Corridors - an overview and key questions for further research – An ISPC commissioned background paper

©Bill Laurence

Next steps for ISPC -CGIAR

Exploring implications for CGIAR Meeting in Africa – late 2015 Dialogue –CRPs – NEPAD, CAADP Reflection on agricultural transitions

Corridors, Clusters, and Spatial Development Initiatives

in African Agriculture Workshop Announcement

A side event of the Global Forum for Innovations in Agriculture in Africa

30 November 2015, Durban, South Africa

The CGIAR Independent Science and

Partnership Council (ISPC) will be co-organizing

a one-day workshop as a side event of GFIA-

Africa, in collaboration with ECDPM and NEPAD.

The workshop on “Corridors, clusters, and

spatial development initiatives in African

agriculture” represents a step in the ISPC’s efforts to develop a strategic study for the

CGIAR on this topic.

The workshop will discuss the potential implications for the CGIAR of transformational change,

with participants from the scientists and research managers community as well as

representatives of major promoters of change and other key partners and stakeholders.

http://www.gfiaafrica.com/

