Local food purchasing programme (Purchase from Africans for Africa - PAA) Senegal component Vincent Martin, FAO Representative, Senegal 27 October 2015 Brussels

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 2013 Sept 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

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: extension

Senegal government undertaking [Three-year Public Investment Programme / ] 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

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