Resource Portal
In recognizing the importance of a collaborative approach to knowledge management, EAT is committed to contributing to the existing Agribusiness Enabling Environment through reliable and consistent analytical publications, demand-drive events and shared lessons from the field.
This section is intended to serve as a portal, bringing together a range of research, information and contributors from the both the EAT Project and across the web. It aims to be a one-stop-shop resource to promote and inform the debate on enabling agriculture and food security.
In this section, you will find:
- EAT Project Resources
- External Resources
- Useful Portals
- Useful Blogs
EAT Project Resources
Coming soon
External Resources
FAO Agro-Industries for Development, 2008
This publication is an outcome of the 2008 FAO/UNIDO/IFAD Global Agro-Industries Forum. It has evolved through contributions from scholars and development practitioners aimed at highlighting the current status and future course of agro-industries and bringing further attention to the valuable contribution that the agro-industrial sector can make to international development. FAO, UNIDO and IFAD expect that the materials presented here will help advance the knowledge and enrich the debate on the role of agro-industries in generating employment, creating income, and fighting poverty in the developing world.
African Agribusiness and Agro-industries Development Initiative (3ADI), 2010
Launched in Abuja, Nigeria, during the High-Level Conference on the Development of Agribusiness and Agro-Industries in Africa (HLCD-3A), the African Agribusiness and Agro-industries Development Initiative (3ADI) aims to facilitate and increase private sector investment flows going into the agriculture sector in Africa by mobilizing resources for agribusiness and agro-industrial development from domestic, regional and international financial systems. With CAADP (particularly Pillar 2) as the overarching institutional framework, the specific objectives of the Initiative are to: 1) Leverage current attention to agriculture in Africa to accelerate the development of agribusiness and agro-industrial sectors that ensure value-addition to and trade of Africa’s agricultural products; 2) Support a well-coordinated effort to share knowledge and harmonize programmes in ways that capture synergies, avoid fragmented efforts, and enhance developmental impacts; and 3) Support an investment programme that will significantly increase the proportion of agricultural produce in Africa that is transformed into differentiated high-value products.
FAO Enabling Environments for Agri-Business and Agro-Industry Development, Workshop: Africa, Eastern & Central Europe, Latin America
In order to overcome the gap in traditional assessments of enabling environments in Agribusiness and agro-industrial sectors, FAO has conducted assessments of key factors that contribute to the provision of an enabling environment. These assessments have been discussed in a series of regional workshops
UNIDO Agri-business/Agro-industry Development Interventions, Thematic Review 2010
UNIDO study analyzing lessons learned from past interventions, as part of its process of revising its Agribusiness Development Branch intervention strategy.
This study is a part of the FAO’s South Asia regional study to understand the emerging agribusiness environment in the countries in this region. The overall objective of the paper is to get an overview of the emerging agribusiness sector, characteristics of an enabling environment, and address critical issues in the way forward. Specific questions addressed in this paper are: 1) What is the current situation of agro industries development in India? 2) What are the challenges to development of a processing sector? 3) What are the future prospects – what is the vision for the industry? 4) What are the characteristics of an enabling environment? 5) What are critical issues from development perspective?
World Bank: Agribusiness and Innovation Systems in Africa, 2009
This publication discusses the major findings of the World Bank country reports on Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, whose objective was to shed light on the dynamics of agricultural innovations, and the impact of public policies and institutions on innovation and value chains, by focusing on agribusiness and by taking the agricultural innovation system concept as the overarching analytical framework. It also links common themes, and distills lessons learned to inform governments, farmers’ organizations, NGOs, research institutes, and donors.
As a central component of the project, this open access policy information portal has been established to provide comprehensive and detailed information country-by-country on food policy developments.
World Bank Doing Business Survey
OECD’s Policy Framework for Investment
This website provides resources on the many ways in which small farmers can be successfully included in value chains in Africa, the Caribbean and in the Pacific (ACP) regions. It serves the dual purpose of firstly sharing information on key topics for inclusive value chains and secondly promoting networking and collaboration between regions on inclusive value chains.
African Agribusiness and Agro-industries Development Initiative (3ADI)
Launched in Abuja, Nigeria, during the High-Level Conference on the Development of Agribusiness and Agro-Industries in Africa (HLCD-3A), the African Agribusiness and Agro-industries Development Initiative (3ADI) aims to facilitate and increase private sector investment flows going into the agriculture sector in Africa by mobilizing resources for agribusiness and agro-industrial development from domestic, regional and international financial systems. With CAADP (particularly Pillar 2) as the overarching institutional framework, the specific objectives of the Initiative are to: 1) Leverage current attention to agriculture in Africa to accelerate the development of agribusiness and agro-industrial sectors that ensure value-addition to and trade of Africa’s agricultural products; 2) Support a well-coordinated effort to share knowledge and harmonize programmes in ways that capture synergies, avoid fragmented efforts, and enhance developmental impacts; and 3) Support an investment programme that will significantly increase the proportion of agricultural produce in Africa that is transformed into differentiated high-value products.
A gateway to global development information on international development issues, with useful papers on food security, food policy, IPRs and Gender
Useful Blogs
World Bank Growth & Crisis Blog
Blog maintained by the Growth and Crisis Program of the World Bank Institute (WBIGC), with news, resources, tools, ideas and commentaries on issues related to the global economic crisis and growth.
Owen Barder is a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington DC, and the Director of aidinfo – a programme of Development Initiatives which aims to make aid more transparent and accountable. He lives and works in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Rethinking US Foreign Assistance Blog
Blog serves two CGD initiatives: Rethinking U.S. Foreign Assistance, which analyzes progress and challenges in modernizing U.S. foreign assistance, and the MCA Monitor, which tracks developments at the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation.
The Aid Watch blog is a project of New York University's Development Research Institute (DRI), based on the idea that more aid will reach the poor the more people are watching aid.
whydev.org is a space open to everyone, in particular young people, studying, volunteering and working across all sectors of international development. whydev.org provides a collaborative and participatory space for individuals passionate about international development. It also provides a way to communicate ideas, opinions, knowledge, doubts, questions and creativity so that we can take a collaborative and critical approach to international development as professional workers.
An academic blog about African politics, security & advocacy
UK Guardian Development Blog, in partnership with Bill & Melina Gates Foundation.
Research blog on international development, foreign policy, and violent conflict from Assistant Professor of Political Science & Economics at Yale
Exploring complexity sciences in international development and humanitarian aid
Oxfam blog by Duncan Green, Head of Research for Oxfam Great Britain on how active citizens and effective states can change the world
Good Intentions Are Not Enough
Blog dedicated to providing donors with the knowledge and tools they need to make funding decisions
International Development blog targeted at young professionals and grad students
Collection of more or less real-time stories, reflection and opinion about life inside the humanitarian aid industry, from some of the worst neighborhoods in the global village
Unguarded reflections, thoughts, and ideas on international development from Lawrence Haddad, Director of the Institute of Development Studies based in the UK.
If you would like to contribute to this section, please email the EAT Project team at eat@fintac.com
The World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Report
This year's features of record number of 139 countries, and thus continues to be the most comprehensive assessment of its kind. It contrains a details profile for each of the economies features in the study as well as an extensive section of data tables with global rankings covering over 100 indicators.