ReSAKSS-SA and Africa Lead Capacity Building Workshop in Pretoria, June,20-22 2012.

1. Status of CAADP
implementation and Agricultural
Information Management
Systems (AIMS) in the SADC
Region
Presented
by
Bentry Chaura – SADC FANR
20th June 2012

2. Food, Agriculture and
Natural Resources (FANR)
FANR Directorate has the mandate to
facilitate issues related to CAADP.
•Objective: To develop, promote, coordinate and
facilitate harmonization of policies and
programmes meant to increase agricultural and
natural resources production and productivity and
to promote trade, ensure food security and
sustainable economic development in the region

3. Core Functions of the
Directorate
• Developing, promoting and facilitating the harmonization of
agricultural policies, taking into account gender equity in
development strategies and programmes;
• Ensuring sustainable food security policies and programmes;
• Developing, promoting and harmonizing of bio-diversity, sanitary
and phyto-sanitary, crop production and animal husbandry policies;
• Developing measures meant to increase agricultural output of agro-
based businesses;
• Strengthening regional capacity for agricultural research;
• Developing, promoting and facilitating the harmonization of policies
and programmes aimed at achieving effective and sustainable
utilization of natural resources such as fisheries, forestry and
wildlife;
• Developing and facilitating the harmonization of sound
environmental management policies; and
• Promoting trade in agricultural products.

4. FANR Key Result Areas /
Intervention Areas
• Ensuring food availability
• Ensuring access to food
• Promoting food safety and nutritional value
of food
• Ensuring disaster preparedness and
awareness for food security
• Ensure equitable and sustainable use of
environment and natural resources
• Strengthening institutional frameworks and
capacity building

5. Ensuring Food Availability
through:
• increased food production and productivity;
• enhanced irrigation and water management;
enhanced conservation and management of
natural resources;
• control and eradication of pests and diseases;
• development of regional input market;
• increased access to agricultural land; and
• strengthened agricultural research and
development.

6. Ensuring Access to Food
through:
• improved agricultural trade;
• commercializing of agricultural production;
• and enhanced agro-business including
agro-processing.

7. Promoting food safety and
nutritional value of food through:
• facilitating development of Regional Food
Quality Standards; and
• sharing of information on best practices

8. Ensuring disaster preparedness
and awareness for food security
through:
• development of Regional Food Reserve;
• development of Regional Early Warning
System; and
• provision of information for food relief,
poverty reduction and rehabilitation.

9. Ensure equitable and sustainable
use of environment and natural
resources through:
• facilitating development of regulatory
frameworks for regional cooperation;
• integration of environment and sustainable
development issues into sectoral, national and
sub-national plans;
• promoting regular assessments, monitoring and
reporting on Environmental conditions and
Trends in the region; and
• facilitating Regional positioning in environmental
negotiations.

10. Strengthening institutional
frameworks and capacity
building through:
• facilitating harmonization of rules and
regulations; and
• strengthening institutional development

11. FANR Interventions vs CAADP
Pillars
FANR Intervention Area CAADP Pillar
Food Availability • Extending the area under sustainable land
management and reliable water control systems
• Agricultural research and technology
dissemination and adoption
• Increasing food supplies and reducing hunger.
Ensuring Access to Food
• Improving rural infrastructure and trade-related
capacity for market access
Promoting food safety and nutritional value of
• Agricultural research and technology
food
dissemination and adoption
Ensuring disaster preparedness and awareness
for food security • Increasing food supplies and reducing hunger
Ensure equitable and sustainable use of
environment and natural resources • Extending the area under sustainable land
management and reliable water control systems

12. Mainstreaming of CAADP Processes
into FANR Interventions:
The Directorate is working on the following:
• Development of Regional Agricultural Policy
from which to develop Regional SADC Compact
• Development of Multi-donor Trust Fund (MDTF)
Strategy
• Facilitating Member States to develop
Investment Plans

13. Implementation
- SADC completed the first 5 –years in the
Implementation of RISDP in 2010;
- An internal RISDP Implementation Report
produced – external awaits independent
evaluators.
- Copy of the FANR programme
implementation available for distribution.

14. Agricultural Information Management
Systems (AIMS)

Development objectives of AIMS:
Integrate and rationalise the various information systems within the
FANR into an effective, efficient and coherent system in support of
revitalising agricultural growth, enhancing food security and
promoting rural development in the region.

Strategic goals:
• To provide support and input into the monitoring and evaluation
system of the SADC Regional Indicative Strategic Development
Plan RISDP;
• To meet the objective of the Dar-es-Salaam Declaration on
Agriculture and Food Security with regard to a Regional
Integrated Agricultural Information System.

15. AIMS Activities
 Coordination of information management within
the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources
Directorate
 Support of the regional early warning activities
– Acquisition and dissemination of early warning
information
– Preparation of regional agro-meteorological and food
security monthly reports
 Vulnerability Assessment and Analysis

16. The SADC AIMS Portal
A web portal was developed in 2008 for dissemination of agriculture
information and for the promotion of networking in the region.
• The proposed components of the AIMS Web Portal are shown below
[some of which are still under development]
=> http://aims.sadc.int Graphical User
Interface being
Managed by
Content
Management
System
Spatial/GIS
Information Directories and
Numerical e.g. Natural Resources Information object
Data use, production, repositories
e.g. Production, Social, climate, disease Institutions, People
Climate, Trade, Stats Documents, Metadata

17. Development of AIMS regional
database

Regional database developed with focus on national datasets
and 1st sub-national level data

Modules available
− Human population
− National food balance
− Food insecure /vulnerable population
− Crop production [area, yield, production]
− Livestock production (including livestock numbers +
animal health)
− Fish production
− Markets / Commodity prices
− Forest cover
− National accounts

18. Development of a national version of
AIMS database
Requests for similar database application to assist with data

management at national level:

SADC AIMS has developed a draft national AIMS database application
based on Regional database – with facilities for data entry for all
administrative levels;

A customised version has been provided to the Tanzania
Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security for testing;
Resource constraints have so far prevented support to Member

States.

19. Thank you/
Muito Obrigado/
Merci