Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum)

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    • Dear CFS Secretariat,

      I have the pleasure to submit the attached contribution on a multi-stakeholder online event entitled "Incentives for responsible investment in agriculture and food systems", organized jointly with the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment in 2021.

      Thank you.

      With kind regards,

      Yannick Fiedler (for the FAO RAI Team)

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    • Dear CFS Secretariat,

      On behalf of a joint group from FAO, SOLIDARIDAD and LANDESA, I am pleased to submit the attached contribution on our joint experience "Inclusive business models for responsible investment in agriculture and food systems in Sierra Leone". 

      Our designated contact person Nicholas Jengre (Solidaridad) remains at your disposal in case any further information would be required.

      With thanks.

      Yannick Fiedler

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    • Chers collègues du Secrétariat du CSA,

      Nous avons le plaisir de soumettre pour votre considération la contribution ci-jointe, intitulée "Vers une confédération de réseaux de jeunes agri-entrepreneurs sénégalais œuvrant en faveur d’un accroissement de l’investissement responsable dans l’agriculture et les systèmes alimentaires". 

      Cette expérience a été menée entre décembre 2018 et décembre 2020.

      Nous tenons à exprimer nos plus sincères remerciements à l'Office fédéral suisse de l'agriculture et la République française qui ont fourni un appui financier généreux qui nous a permis de mener l'analyse des capacités initiale en décembre 2018, ainsi qu'à l'ONG RIKOLTO qui a collaboré avec nous pour renforcer les capacités des jeunes agri-entrepreneurs à s'organiser en réseaux et à mener un plaidoyer en faveur de l'investissement responsable dans l'agriculture et les systèmes alimentaires.

      Nous restons à votre disposition pour toute information complémentaire utile.

      Meilleures salutations,

      Yannick Fiedler (pour l'équipe chargée de la promotion des investissements responsables dans l'agriculture et les systèmes alimentaires à la FAO).

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    • Dear CFS Secretariat,

      We are pleased to submit for your kind consideration our experience entitled "Creating an enabling environment for responsible investment in agriculture and food systems – Blended Learning Programmes for Six Western African Countries". 

      The RAI blended learning programmes were carried out for policy makers, parliamentarians, and technical government staff from Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal and Sierra Leone, with the generous support of the Federal Republic of Germany, the French Republic, and the Swiss Federal Office for Agriculture. 

      The programmes had positive and encouraging impacts on the application of the CFS-RAI at country level, as presented in detail in the attached form.

      With kind regards,

      Yannick Fiedler, FAO Programme Officer

      (for the FAO RAI Team)

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    • Over the last months, FAO has carried out three multi-stakeholder workshops in Uganda, Côte d’Ivoire and the SADC region to identify existing and needed capacities that engage and empower youth to carry out and benefit from responsible agricultural investments.

      During these workshops, young agri-entrepreneurs frequently mentioned that the absence or lack of access to incentives (financial, fiscal, incubators, etc.) was one of the challenges they faced in launching and sustaining their businesses in the early stages. For example, participants from one workshop mentioned that the allocation of fiscal incentives was subject to the generation of a turnover by far exceeding the capacities of a new business led by youth with limited amount of capital. Therefore, it was argued, that a policy initially designed to support agribusiness development inadvertently discriminated against youth and prevented them from sustaining their business.

      From an expert perspective, I would therefore be interested in learning about good practices and cases of incentives that are supporting young agri-entrepreneurs.

      From a policy perspective, I would be interested in learning about new or planned incentives by AU governments that would help realize the target of the Malabo Declaration to create job opportunities for at least 30% of youth in agricultural value chains.

      Thank you.