Strengthening coherence of food systems indicators and outcomes of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program biennial review
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The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program is a continental policy framework for agricultural transformation to increase food and nutrition security and reduce poverty.Read more
The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program is a continental policy framework for agricultural transformation to increase food and nutrition security and reduce poverty. There are signs of progress in some sectors following a fourth cycle of a continent-wide biennial review process, however the continent is still not on track. Inspired by the 2021 United Nations Food Systems Summit dialogues, there is increased recognition of the complexity of food systems and the necessity to think beyond agriculture to reach Africa’s food and nutrition goals. The resulting call to adopt a more integrated food systems approach calls for the use of a more comprehensive set of indicators for measuring and tracking progress with national and regional plans.
This project will address gaps and mismatches between Food Systems Summit priorities and the existing indicators used for monitoring agriculture and food systems improvements. It will analyze various tools for food systems measurement, the availability and sources of data, their current use and potential for their use by in-country actors across sectors. Mapping stakeholders and their interactions will help inform a more comprehensive set of food systems indicators and how a suitable statistical system may be integrated into the biennial review process. Challenges will include bringing food systems stakeholders from outside of the agriculture sector (including health) into the process, addressing conflicts between sectoral policies and plans and asserting the relevance of a more coherent set of indicators to all sectors concerned with food and nutrition.
With technical and analytics expertise from the International Food Policy Research Institute and the International Livestock Research Institute, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa will coordinate the development and mainstreaming of food systems indicators into national food systems strategies and investment plans. These will be tested for at least three countries (Ethiopia, Rwanda, Ghana) with additional capacity-building and consultations for adoption across eleven countries.
This project will be funded through the Catalyzing Change for Healthy Sustainable Food Systems (CCHeFS) initiative, a co-funding partnership between IDRC and the Rockefeller Foundation.
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