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Brian, you were just at the 5th TICAD conference in Tokio last week.
If i see correctly, this is the main stage where Japan positions itself with UN organisations and key African stakeholders
with their commitments to african development.
Which of the sessions that you attended impressed you most? Was it the session on the role of the private sector in african development
Indeed, Pascal, that was the key session that i that i wanted to attend,
given my work with the platform on the private sector of that
and moving forward to the post-2015.
a very good session again
initially chaired by the president of the world bank
and he was joined to after the first half an hour the UN secretary
general
together with
african businessmen from from west
and
east africa
and the old spoke i think passionately above
important or bringing
the private sector to development in africa.
But also
what impressed me was the
linkages to the agricultural sector.
They had from
from ghana
they had Samuel Naidu
who works in the processing it down there
and he said uh... really he said
agriculture at agri-business is going to underpin
agricultural and rural development in
Ghana and underpin
the development of of ghana.
He made a passionate plea
therapy for
uh...
supporting bb the private sector and the smoke
africa
the
the the secretary of the the united nations
who highlighted
this is a phrase that i wrote up a time
the transformatice of power of the private sector
on the need for
increased
responsible
investment
and policies toward agricultural sector.
And he spoke
about what united nations is doing with the u_n_ global compact
on developing guidelines private sector
he's spokem and this was echoed by the president of the world bank work but
united nations
i'd like to be fat tab info agreed with the world bank to develop the principles for
responsible agricultural investment
so there was a strong
hurtful and in the audience we have the the president of Uganda
and he opened the floor
by emphasizing
again the role of the the private sector of the importance of creating the uh...
writes below infrastructure
his commitment in uganda to creating invading environment for the private
sector
i was impressed
by the unanimity
of all back comments from
world bank of the ivc as well were on where we're talking
from the
u_n_ from the world bank
from the Member countries.
discontinued it did work at the private sector any bolted the private sector
appeared to create a said you could look it up they showed the depth of the
ODA
it's not going to be sufficient
to beat the development needs of africa
you need to bring the private sector
it
thank you very much that
right here there's probably something that grows together what belongs to get
them respond and uh... there was a little an interesting admission i
believe now on the post 2015 agenda with Da Silva,
director general of have failed who were delivered (i have it here on paper)
five interesting messages going bombs' food security in nutrition shivering and
looked at the core of deposed effecting the gender
and that cause for that to their food security to be sustainable would need to
take us harder to look at our food production and consumption systems and
so forth and finally as uh... number five
them he talks about
small produces traders youthful know these groups has been critical agent of
change
where investment actually here that works too
obviously all these groups are
people that a part of the equation right now but what would make them change
agent large-scale investment for example scs use them it's a hindrance to change
shows edward simply by apartments
i have to change h
come back and i don't you pick up on an important fema that session which was
importance of understanding the value chain
who'll fabric ultra productions
and indeed that desilva
from the director general powell
edatel net just better to be at present i don't want to use in the
in the same session
both highlighted the
the roll call
in the case of the exiled president the small farm out the business books
uh... emphasize fit should not be seeing as data smallholder as a
about the future if they've got smallholder
in law and policy emphasis on gender
is that the business person
dasilva follow that up by highlighting the importance of
thinking about smallholder into the value chain
the traders
through the middle man
uh... irresponsible
in a responsible manner
uh... i don't think they feel that the other hand prints i think you picked
apart that was being made is that they have seen it that's a very much part of
the essential equation
if you want to
involve the small holbrooke both
the silver and and co
nobody could be cut
and he decided to polls giving supported invest into the small hotels
being the largest source of employment of the biggest salsa productions in
africa
so i think they were emphasizing saddened a message such small purchases
traders fuchs
off of this equation fall root development and free comic rotating in
africa
others initiative at least important that they both spoke about this supposed
b_-fifty twos gender because
it was not
yet seeing opposed to kitty addenda
focusing specifically on the agricultural sector it it recognizes
the importance all
of the rural sector it recognizes the importance of food production
that hasn't specifically talks about the rural sector in africa
advantage great you know as well what was also interesting in that you have
any intervention of the post of 2015 discussions,
this important of systeem, stab people some addressing the issue of food losses
diet
that issues that purpose is to relax
raced to build a platforms at the meeting into haiti january emphasizing
the stairs
in part of africa interviewed allow it
species of obesity about progress people simple diets people occurring
atrocious crops insuring that those crops
esp nutrition
full full young children in africa people jimmy tristen stress very much by
at the local programs executive director restaurant cousins was doesn't meetings
she emphasize strongly stage the importance of b the first time data
sequence of b
extraction requirements for children but i think so
some of the things that we've been hearing coming out to the close to
fifteen pst
working groups particularly agencies were repeated in in that fashion as much
about go ahead
value courtroom
chaired an open discussion at the side-event
principles of responsible agriculture investment has
interagency working between f_a_o_ he fat uncut worldbank
all around the in packed off investment on african agriculture's unprincipled
i'd
there was evidence
prevented from field we can't discuss implications for policy is well that's
the way for you
but you can tell the audience a little bit what keeps me all counts soft the
prior field implementation
in or spark what was discussed
but there's next steps identified in the discussion and maybe ought to be
implications for the future of households over which is uh... go into a
tree
intended enforcement of the car
oakton st the principles response letter talks investment launched at the u_n_ in
two thousand nine
at banning trade you see working group in which he credits pot has been
pointless because clinton track approach
on the one hand its team
piloting
at least searching key issues a responsible rick lockridge vestments on
on the other hand the second track
taking part
ansi devoted to the nation inches
c_f_s_ consultation on the spot agriculture best
spread side of that we had being
the at the cat fights was set up a *** foley
the interesting working groups too
profiled some of the research findings that's where we're coming out of the
world
uh... what we've been doing for example lived with was if rather
workload travesty during had been taking the private principles
uh... retrofitting those two
state risky investments so here where we talk about the principle of transparency
and involved with the local stakeholders
they develop
questionnaire
whereby
era commons those stevie areas of agriculture investment
in particular zones of africa
and those thomas who are outside this particular as a despot oscars questions
about
the success of the best once problems of being
onto those to stall holders who are outside the best terry swatted bb
implications sports
old interpreter
especially if you do to prevent those five days
uh... we started off the side of equities presentation problems
he had supported
smallholder
vegetable as project in uganda
over the property manager at kmart for mickey kantor and tony she dated buried
its present at patient of high small holders happy working
as as out growers providing
quality
as style
into the main processes uh... adding
improvements that exceeded
income over the last year's with abap program
uh...
the world bank also provided the patient almost research that they'd be specialty
hayden aid applicants investment
i'm particularly
split looking
the conditions successful investors process what's coming out of some of the
studies is that
he finds out
speak to be successful
speed african invested some tourist buses autopsied beaches that there is a
lot clutch failure rates of asbestos clean-up agriculture
church too
any reason style came through the most strongly walsh latzoff accurate business
plan
but many of the advancement of the world bank studied
which have failed
was changed to
speak about poor planning
and poor assessments of benefits and risks backstage
and when we did see a successful investments baseballs
layout investor
perhaps have just already
invested
it's an investment that has previously
gone bankrupt but failed
and this is happening suppose many investors successful investments release
possible where the investor
didn't have to carry them out capital cost the other less of that was going to
come out of touch with the importance of fathers
between
small holders
seized the private sector but with government
between captain by spat as with the civil society
i think the whether to tell the truth that was that
it be the best interests mojo were going to go back
that pop people is actress operating system
going back to the beginning of our combination here
you know and whole conference being in japan
and do a heart attack position petco
from or would you just said is there a particular rollback
good japan came forward in in orbit if you could see
well
that was
bias
evidence of involvement spelled of japan and we selected publicist so that
they're getting to rice research rice productions
uh... on the right into the side effects all of these speaking at the right
tricycle capacity of a
the rule was absolutely packed starring next
and it wasn't
uh... does it was full calm
spiral of african
participants kikax
disgusting rice production in africa
i think the question was coming from baldy coming from the audience was they
wanted to see more japanese supports
i don't trust financial technical
i mean the art was very distinct citations side destruction
on the importance of
ceasing laser levels through it sure unlevel
up production a party
which shows it
i'd of course
equal distribution the waters
across the country
something that the chinese out extremely skilled xd
style that was
evidence of
of where this is being applied to african
rice cultivation
uh... africans were taking up back technology nationalists and other side
is that still swell in terms of support to specter him
activity from and again
calling for more investigative destruction wrote roads it railways
it most supply selection station i think mandy
uh...
haphazard cattle
spouse as as being
able to get
support an investment set up for grabs
thank you very much
thanks very much but characteristic