Local food purchasing programme (Purchase from Africans for Africa - PAA)

Senegal component

Vincent Martin, FAO Representative, SenegalVincent.martin@fao.org

27 October 2015Brussels

• 2009: FAO meeting - Brazil- Africa • 2010: Brazil-Africa Dialogue on Food Security, Fighting Hunger

and Rural Development Rural (Senegal, Malawi, Ethiopia, Niger, Mozambique)

• Senegal: Vulnerability to Food and Nutritional Security (Sahel: recurrent drought and the impact of climate change). – 2012: 739,000 people severely food insecure– General acute malnutrition: 10 to 15%, 16/45 departments (> alert

threshold)

Background to the PAA and context

Stimulate local production by guaranteeing a market for small producers.

Strengthen the sustainability of the school canteen programme thanks to local purchasing initiatives for cereals to boost the local economy

Improve food security and the incomes of vulnerable farmers

Threefold objective

Connect vulnerable family farmers to the markets

Geographical focus, community, category

March 2012 – August 2013Sept 2013 – Dec 2015$1. 7 million

• 1,000 vulnerable households (40% women) a year (small family rice-producing farms)

• 5 Unions of 30 Economic Interest Groupings (EIGs)

• 181 school canteens, 24,000 students through production surpluses bought from small beneficiary producers

Conclusive results

Conclusive results

On the basis of support in the form of inputs, technical guidance, processing capability, consolidating producers’ organisations in terms of financial management,….

• Yields up from 800 Kg (reference year) to 2.5T/Ha (pilot phase) to 3 T/ Ha (consolidation phase), a more than 300% increase in relation to the reference situation

• 340 T of rice bought from producers for WFP-supplied school canteens

Higher processing capabilities

Food self-sufficiency and surpluses

a model for joint synergistic action by the UN to support the government

Field School Producer /integrated pest management approach

• The vulnerability of the targeted producers’ organisations

• Targeting the beneficiaries (inclusion and exclusion failures)

• Materiel bought• Market disruption by programme outsiders• Coordination and multisectoral approach• Scaling up, finance & institutionalisation

Challenges

• Estimated amount: US$42.5 million• Intervention areas: St Louis, Matam, Ziguinchor, Kolda

Sediou• 4 local sectors to be revived (rice, maize, cowpeas,

potatoes)• 6,000 small producers grouped into 200 farmers’

organisations receiving support. • 608 schools, 117,000 students• 1 lunch/ day and 2 breakfasts/ week over 4 years

Outlook: 2015-2018 extension

• Senegal government undertaking [Three-year Public Investment

Programme / 2015-2017] but the financial resources will be allocated only in 2017

• Process under which the FAO and the WFP are transferring the project to the government with the creation of a National Technical Coordination Committee overseen by the Executive Secretary of the National Food Security Council

• Measuring the impact on food and nutritional security and on household incomes

Outlook & PAA innovations

Senegalese Agricultural Acceleration Programme (PRACAS)

National School Food Policy

National Social Protection Strategy/ PBSF (Family Security Grants Programme)

Sustainable agricultural development and resilience to food and nutritional insecurity

Outlook & PAA innovations

Thank you for your attentionVincent.martin@fao.org