AGRIBIZ & AGRO-INDUSTRY INITIATIVES FOR AFRICA
Erle Frayne D. Argonza
A gladdening news from Africa concerns the 3ADI or African Agrigusiness and
Agro-industry Development Initiative. The African Union, FAO and UNIDO are
collaborating together to jettison the 3ADI.
Arranging food security
measures along the value chain has been a very challenging task for Africa as a whole. Poverty and famine stoke the continent
or vast parts of it, added to other disasters of geological and atmospheric
disturbances.
Such a seemingly bleak
situation for food insecurity, poverty, and ecological disharmonics can still
be reversed to end vicious cycles of deaths and deplorable living conditions.
With the collaborating institutions at the helm of 3ADI, the clout for putting
a productive agenda into practice is greatly enhanced.
Below is a brief report on
the 3ADI from the UNIDO.
The African Agribusiness and Agro-industry Development Initiative (3ADI)
The goal of the 3ADI is to
have an agriculture sector in Africa which
consists of highly productive and profitable agricultural value chains.
To accelerate the development of the agribusiness and agro-industries sectors in Africa, 3ADI supports an investment programme that will significantly increase the proportion of agricultural produce in Africa that is transformed into differentiated high-value products.
The initiative highlights the critical role of agribusinesses in the process of economic development, food security and sustainable reduction of poverty and hunger especially for the world’s poorest countries.
It also defines priority areas where support is needed to foster sustained poverty reduction through human capital development, highly productive and profitable agro-value chains and greater agribusiness participation in domestic and international markets.
The 3ADI stems from the Abuja Declaration, passed at the end of the Abuja Conference, organized by the African Union Council (AUC) on March 2011. The declaration calls upon UNIDO, in cooperation with FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) and IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development) to join efforts in a well coordinated way, in order to share knowledge and harmonize programmes in ways that capture synergies, avoid fragmented efforts, and enhance developmental impacts.
To accelerate the development of the agribusiness and agro-industries sectors in Africa, 3ADI supports an investment programme that will significantly increase the proportion of agricultural produce in Africa that is transformed into differentiated high-value products.
The initiative highlights the critical role of agribusinesses in the process of economic development, food security and sustainable reduction of poverty and hunger especially for the world’s poorest countries.
It also defines priority areas where support is needed to foster sustained poverty reduction through human capital development, highly productive and profitable agro-value chains and greater agribusiness participation in domestic and international markets.
The 3ADI stems from the Abuja Declaration, passed at the end of the Abuja Conference, organized by the African Union Council (AUC) on March 2011. The declaration calls upon UNIDO, in cooperation with FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) and IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development) to join efforts in a well coordinated way, in order to share knowledge and harmonize programmes in ways that capture synergies, avoid fragmented efforts, and enhance developmental impacts.
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