Vivienne Anthony

Senior Advisor, SFSA

Public-private partnerships African small-holder farmers

Public-private partnerships: definition

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● PPPs have great potential to enable small-holder farmers to improve their livelihoods but innovative approaches are key

● Combine complementary strengths of:

− Public

− Private

− Voluntary organisations

● Produce benefits for small-holders that none can achieve alone

− R&D and bringing research goods into practice

− Bring input and output markets to life

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Inputs R&D Farmers CollectionProcessing

Distribution Wholesale Retail

Agriculture value chain and PPPs

• Genomic science• Plant breeding• Crop protection traits• Nutrition improvement• Fertilizer inputs

Productivity Markets

• Crop processing• New markets• Seed certification• Credit and loans• Inputs insurance • Connectivity customers/ mobile phones

SABMillerCassava beerMozambique

● Africa > 100 PPPs

● 25% R&D-based

Challenges

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• Every PPP is different and has individual characteristics

• Strategic vs. tactical partnerships to enable delivery

• Business cases: equitable benefits and risk sharing

• Financial mechanisms to support PPPs

• Governance and decision-making

• Intellectual property sharing

• Commercialisation route to farmers

• Negotiation vehicles and capacity building

G8 Alliance for food security and nutrition

Shifting policy and enabling environment in Africa

African governments

G8 governments

Private sectorcompanies

Mobilising capital

Taking innovations to scale

Managing risk

Results accountability

Commitments

45 66 companies $3.0 $3.5 billion

Ghana Burkina Faso Ethiopia Mozambique Tanzania Cote d’Ivoire

GrowAfrica

Investment/ partnership

Opportunities

Knowledge, contacts and tools to support PPP creation

www.apxc.org

PPP platform

PPP database

Case-studiesBest practices

Business cases

Expert contacts

Impact tools

Financial mechanisms

Thank you for your attention