5 October 2015, Nadi, Fiji Vili Caniogo Team Leader, SPC The PAPP - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Linking Agriculture and Fisheries Statistics with Policy

5 October 2015, Nadi, Fiji

Vili Caniogo Team Leader, SPC

The PAPP Project

• Aims to strengthen engagement of

smallholder farmers in the Pacific with markets through:

– Strengthening regional agricultural strategies – Improving the dissemination of applied research & technologies – Contributing to enterprise development

Importance of data

• Data and statistics, crucial element of all PAPP

KRAs:

– Provides evidence for policies – Understand the baseline situation – Identify priorities for action – Targeting and effectively managing that action

Country Title of Document Type of document Status Mid-term review Terminal review PAPP Assistance Cook Islands Ministry of Agriculture Business Plan 2014/15 Matairangi Purea Agriculture agency business plan Current Started Fiji Fiji 2020 Agriculture Sector Policy Agenda "Modernizing Agriculture" National agriculture sector policy Current Mid-term (2017) End term (2020) Started FSM Federated States of Micronesia Agriculture Policy 2012 - 2016 National agriculture sector policy Current Started Kiribati Agriculture and livestock Division Agriculture Strategic Plan 2013 - 2016 Agriculture agency strategic plan Current Mid-term End term (2016) Q1,16 Marshall Islands Agriculture: Ministry of Resources and Development Strategy and Action Plan 2005 – 2010 Agriculture agency strategy Most recent Q4,2015 Nauru National Sustainable Development Strategy 2005-2025 (as revised 2009) National Sustainable Development Strategy Current 2009 End term (2025) IKM Niue Niue National Strategic Plan 2009 - 2013 Niue ke monuina, A prosperous Niue National Sustainable Development Plan Most recently available Q1,16 Palau Bureau of Agriculture Strategic Plan FY 2014-2019 Agriculture agency strategic plan Current End term (2019) Samoa Agriculture Sector Plan 2011 - 2015 "...farming and fishing first..." National Agriculture sector plan Current 2014-15 Q3 2015 Tonga Ministry of Agriculture & food, forests and fisheries Corporate plan 2014/15 - 2016/17 Agriculture agency corporate plan Current IKM Tuvalu Te Kakeega II National Strategy for Sustainable Development 2005 - 2015 including Mid-Term Review: Action Plan 2015 National sustainable development strategy Current 2009 End term (2015) Q4,2015 Vanuatu Vanuatu Agriculture Sector Policy 2014 – 2024 National Agriculture sector policy Launched 2018 2023-24 Started

PAPP Activities

• Inventory of National Agriculture/Forestry

Sector Policies

– 15 countries – Inventory includes summary of content of national agriculture sector plans: goals, objectives, issues, commodities etc – Analysis of the documents to identify the issues raised most frequently

Findings of inventory

• Four major themes

– Food Security – Economic Development – Sustainability – Effective Institutions

Inventory cont’d

Economic Development….includes

12 10 11 8 7 7 7 7 6 6 6 6 6 6 6

Local Markets/ Marketing (12) Access to Finance/ Credit (10) Trade/ Market Access (11) Animal Health (8) Adding Value (7) Rural Livelihoods (7) Transport (7) Stakeholder Capacity (7) Private Sector Role (6)

Agriculture Statistics a key issue

12 10 10 8 8 8 Figure 6: Effective Institutions: Major Sub-Categories

Extension Services (12) Sector Policy/ Framework (10) Government Capacity/ Resources (10) R & D (8) Training (8)

Agriculture Statistics (8)

What the policies say

• “Accessing data is a serious challenge”
• Subsistence activity: “there is a lack of data

and poor understanding in this area”

• “without reliable data..monitoring production

trends is severely constrained”

How data is used

• Four Pacific national agriculture sector plans

include data or information as evidence to inform policy

• Data is used from:

– Agriculture Census – Trade data – HIES and other sources

Census Data

percentage of households growing cash crops (Vanuatu)

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80

Kava Coconut Cocoa Coffee Pepper Vanilla 1999 2009

Trade Data

500000 1000000 1500000 2000000 2500000 3000000

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

Value US$

Year

Figure 6: FSM Key Agriculture Exports 2000-2009 Copra Banana Citrus Kava Betel Nut Root crop Total

Total Betel Nuts Kava

Agriculture Census Data

• Baseline and Comparison:

“An Agriculture Census was conducted in 2011..the Census gives a snapshot as compared to 2000 when the previous Census was carried out”

Commonly Mentioned Commodities

(13) Coconut (11) Taro (10) Fruits and vegetables (8) Cassava (7) Banana; traditional food crops (6) Root crops; vanilla

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The Message

• “The availability and quality of agricultural

statistics ….is one of the key challenges now facing the sector. “

• “Decisions about aid and/or investment efforts

to foster agricultural growth need to be based

• n sound information......these factors can
• nly be effectively measured and evaluated

with appropriate statistics.”

Understanding Policy Linkages

(Policy Bank)

Data Relevance

DSSPAC DSSPAC

MALFFB

Additional PAPP Activities

• Other emerging activities for PAPP include:

– Agriculture Public Expenditure Reviews. – Knowledge dissemination – Youth and women engagement in agriculture

• Better collection and use of data required in

all of these areas.

Concluding comments

• Need to keep in mind the key themes in

policies- statistics need to be relevant

• To get ‘knowledge’ from data it needs to be

accessible to non-specialist audiences

• Working towards a regional strategy on

agriculture and fisheries statistics to meet these needs