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 Terminal PAPP review review Assistance Cook Islands Ministry of Agriculture Business Plan Agriculture agency business Current Started 2014/15 Matairangi Purea plan Fiji Fiji 2020 Agriculture Sector Policy National agriculture sector Current Mid-term End term Started Agenda "Modernizing Agriculture" policy (2017) (2020) FSM Federated States of Micronesia National agriculture sector Current Started Agriculture Policy 2012 - 2016 policy Kiribati Agriculture and livestock Division Agriculture agency strategic Current Mid-term End term Q1,16 Agriculture Strategic Plan 2013 - 2016 plan (2016) Marshall Agriculture: Ministry of Resources and Agriculture agency strategy Most recent Q4,2015 Islands Development Strategy and Action Plan 2005 – 2010 Nauru National Sustainable Development National Sustainable Current 2009 End term IKM Strategy 2005-2025 (as revised 2009) Development Strategy (2025) Niue Niue National Strategic Plan 2009 - National Sustainable Most recently Q1,16 2013 Niue ke monuina, A prosperous Development Plan available Niue Palau Bureau of Agriculture Strategic Plan FY Agriculture agency strategic Current End term 2014-2019 plan (2019) Samoa Agriculture Sector Plan 2011 - 2015 National Agriculture sector plan Current 2014-15 Q3 2015 "...farming and fishing first..." Tonga Ministry of Agriculture & food, forests Agriculture agency corporate Current IKM and fisheries Corporate plan 2014/15 - plan 2016/17 Tuvalu Te Kakeega II National Strategy for National sustainable Current 2009 End term Q4,2015 Sustainable Development 2005 - 2015 development strategy (2015) including Mid-Term Review: Action Plan 2015 Vanuatu Vanuatu Agriculture Sector Policy 2014 National Agriculture sector Launched 2018 2023-24 Started – 2024 policy
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 Local Markets/ 6 12 6 Marketing (12) Access to Finance/ 6 Credit (10) 10 Trade/ Market Access 6 (11) Animal Health (8) 6 11 Adding Value (7) Rural Livelihoods (7) 6 Transport (7) 8 6 Stakeholder Capacity 7 7 (7) Private Sector Role 7 7 (6)
Agriculture Statistics a key issue Figure 6: Effective Institutions: Major Sub-Categories Extension Services (12) 8 12 Sector Policy/ Framework (10) 8 Government Capacity/ Resources (10) R & D (8) 10 8 Training (8) 10 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) 80 70 60 50 40 1999 2009 30 20 10 0 Kava Coconut Cocoa Coffee Pepper Vanilla
Trade Data Figure 6: FSM Key Agriculture Exports 2000-2009 3000000 Total 2500000 Copra 2000000 Value US$ Banana Citrus 1500000 Kava Betel Nuts 1000000 Betel Nut Root crop Kava 500000 Total 0 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Year
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 14
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 on sound information......these factors can only 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
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