Paths for Brazil-Africa Cooperation in Food Security Policy

Centre of Excellence Against Hunger

The Centre of Excellence Against Hunger

Centre of Excellence Against HungerCapacity Development in School Feeding, Nutrition and Food Security

• A partnership between the World Food Programme - WFP and the Government of Brazil, located in Brasilia;

• Created to support governments in Africa, Asia and Latin America and Caribbean in the areas of school feeding, nutrition and food security;

• Promote south-south dialogue by supporting knowledge sharing of Brazil’s experience and related best practices;

• Facilitate training and capacity development activities for governments to design and manage nationally-owned and led programmes (study visits, technical missions, consultants).

Highlights of the Brazilian Food Security Policy Experience

Centre of Excellence Against HungerCapacity Development in School Feeding, Nutrition and Food Security

• Multi-dimensional- Zero Hunger (2003, 4 axis);- National Food and Nutritional Security Policy (2010, 8 guidelines). • Multi-sectoral - Programmes of different Ministries (since 1940´s);- National Food and Nutritional Security Plan (2011, range of programmes). • Multi-stakeholder- 19 Ministries in National Food and Nutritional Security Chamber and Council;- Wide civil society representation in Food and Nutritional Security conferences and councils.

• Multi-tier- Institutional arrangement in three levels: national, state, municipal (SISAN, 2006)

Highlighted Programmes

Centre of Excellence Against HungerCapacity Development in School Feeding, Nutrition and Food Security

Selected Programmes

• PAA (Food Purchase Programme)- MDA / MDS: public purchase from family farmers for distribution in the social assistance network and to build a strategic food reserves;- Social-economic inclusion and access to food;- 2011 budget: US$ 390 million;- 200,000 farmers / 15 million people receive food items / year.

• PNAE (National School Feeding Programme)- ME: minimum 1 meal a day for public basic education; - Nutrition, education and local market opportunities;- 2011 budget: US$ 1.9 billion;- 47 million students / year;- 30% of funds for purchase from family farmers.

Sharing the Brazilian experience: PAA Africa

Centre of Excellence Against HungerCapacity Development in School Feeding, Nutrition and Food Security

The Program

• Starts in 2012, targets 10 African countries

• Aims to contribute to food security and income generation by linking small-scale farmers to food assistance initiatives through local food purchase

• Basic features: pilot project for local food purchase per country; knowledge strengthening of stakeholder for longer-term local food purchase strategy within national policy

• Two strategies:1.GoB (humanitarian cooperation), WFP, FAO + DFID 2.GoB (technical cooperation), FAO

Sharing the Brazilian experience: PAA Africa

Centre of Excellence Against HungerCapacity Development in School Feeding, Nutrition and Food Security

Opportunities

• Build on existing similar initiatives in Africa (P4P and HGSF);

• Support smallholder farmers by promoting potentially large and stable demand along with profitable prices;

• Strengthen the provision of diversified and nutritionally balanced meals and rations in food assistance programmes;

• Support low-carbon food supply chains.

Sharing the Brazilian experience: PAA Africa

Centre of Excellence Against HungerCapacity Development in School Feeding, Nutrition and Food Security

Challenges

• Differences of national contexts such as institutional capacity, smallholder profile and production, design and implementation mechanisms of food assistance programmes;

• Small-scale cooperation experience, need to ensure sustainability and scale up:

- Ensure government ownership and capacity;- Guarantee that an expected increasing universe of smallholder farmers can respond to demand;- Further strengthen food assistance programmes.

Sharing the Brazilian experience: PAA Africa

Centre of Excellence Against HungerCapacity Development in School Feeding, Nutrition and Food Security

Conclusions

• Strategic opportunity to share the Brazilian experience in implementing local food purchase and to build on similar experiences in Africa;

• Occasion to increase joint support for the different dimensions of food security (food production, access to food, food utilization, environment);

• The possibility for this cooperation experience to achieve its full potential will to a great extent depend on how solidly it will be implemented and further developed in each country context.

Darana Souza

Programme Officer

darana.souza@wfp.org

Centre of Excellence Against Hunger Capacity Development in School Feeding, Nutrition and Food Security

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