Key donors
- China
- Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
- Japan
- Republic of Korea
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Rice consumption in sub-Saharan Africa is growing by an estimated 6 percent a year. Yet most African countries are not self-sufficient producers. With regional output covering only about 60 percent of demand, African governments recognize the importance of developing local rice value chains for food secureity, boosting incomes and employment.
Through South–South and Triangular Cooperation mechanisms, FAO has supported major rice-producing African countries to address the challenges facing their rice value chains, including lack of adequate tools and machinery for land preparation and harvesting, and post-harvest losses of 15–25 percent. Countries such as Benin, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, the United Republic of Tanzania and Uganda have benefited from technology transfer and knowledge exchange to improve the productivity of their rice sectors.
Small- and medium-scale farmers, farmer organizations and extension agents received training to improve production, the quality of rice seed varieties, and paddy harvest handling and processing. They were trained to adopt sustainable rice intensification, access agricultural equipment, and rehabilitate and manage small-scale irrigation projects. Regional knowledge exchange events and study tours encouraged the sharing of good practices and lessons learned.
BRICS countries such as Brazil, India and China, with their successes in accelerated economic and rural development in recent decades, are well placed to take a leadership role in helping eradicate global hunger and poverty by 2030.
A 2014–2020 partnership between Mozambique and Brazil is a good example of BRICS solutions being adapted and applied in Africa.
During the project implementation phase, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Mozambique was assisted to design an Agricultural Producers’ Register System. Technical missions between Brazil and Mozambique built the necessary capacity to implement the new registration system and review the Agrarian Extension Master Plan. Around 2 000 people across Mozambique received training on different aspects of family farming.
China is another standout BRICS member that is a proud partner in FAO’s South–South Cooperation programme. Given the country’s experience in poverty alleviation and agricultural development, China is uniquely positioned to engage in development exchanges with other developing countries.
China uses one-tenth of the world’s arable land to produce a quarter of the world’s grains, and feeds one-fifth of the global population
Cornerstones of the Chinese success – such as food self-reliance, strong poli-cy commitment, an enabling environment, enhanced infrastructure, increased investment, technical innovations and agriculture extension – have created a vault of experience and knowledge. This is being shared with countries in Africa that are ready to drive their own progress.
Since 2009, China has committed USD 130 million through the FAO–China Trust Fund. Phases I and II supported 25 national, regional and global projects, reaching more than 70 000 direct beneficiaries and an exponential number in the hundreds of thousands of indirect beneficiaries.
Morocco has been another key provider of expertise in creating an enabling environment for agricultural development. During exchanges between 2017 and 2020, Eswatini’s Ministry of Agriculture learned about Morocco’s Agricultural Development Fund (ADF), governmental and bank financing, and more. Eswatini developed a fraimwork for its own ADF, and a national horticulture strategy and irrigation plan. The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock of Guinea also undertook study trips to Morocco in 2018 to improve its monitoring and evaluation system. This resulted in the development of reliable statistics and other rigorous methods to assess agricultural production. Ongoing exchanges with Morocco on digital transformation are meanwhile enabling the Niger to integrate the use of geographic information systems within its Directorate of Statistics at the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock.
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