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FARM-Africa joins the UK Food Group to mark World Food Day

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Dr Alastair Bradstock, Policy and Research Advisor at FARM-Africa, is one of number of policy experts who will marking World Food Day 2007 by discussing the theme of The Right To Food at an event hosted by The UK Food Group. This event coincides with the publication this week of the World Bank World Development Report 2008 which this year focuses on agriculture.

Dr Bradstock will be presenting some of FARM-Africa’s policy experiences in “Getting Policies Right for Small-scale Farmers” as part of the day of celebrations hosted by The UK Food Group in London.

“Getting Policies Right for Small-scale Farmers” describes how four different FARMAfrica projects in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa successfully influenced national policy in the natural resources sector. Each project will be presented as a case study using the Overseas Development Institute’s Research and Policy in Development (RAPID) framework to analyse the evidence and experiences.

Dr Bradstock’s presentation will demonstrate that NGO projects can influence national policy agenda’s in Africa by drawing on FARM-Africa’s experiences with Land Reform in South Africa, Veterinary Services in Tanzania, the Forestry Sector in Ethiopia and Livestock Policy in Kenya.

World Food Day must focus attention back to Africa’s rural smallholder farmers who in FARM-Africa’s view hold the key to tackling poverty on a macro level. FARM-Africa believes that boosting smallholder production in rural areas will lead to an increase in self-sustaining growth and employment across a range of agricultural and nonagricultural areas.

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