The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition in Africa
The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition in Africa (NAFSN) launched in May 2012 under the auspices of the G8 aims to create the conditions that will allow the African countries concerned to improve agricultural productivity and develop their agrifood sector by attracting more private investment in agriculture. The participating countries (Burkina Faso, Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal and Tanzania) adopted 'country cooperation frameworks' (CCFs) listing their policy commitments, and companies provided 'Letters of Intent' identifying intended investments. While the general objective of the NAFSN is sound, certain deficiencies remain: the CCFs are silent on the need to shift to sustainable modes of agricultural production and to support farmers' seed systems, on the dangers associated with the emergence of a market for land rights, or on the regulation of contract farming; and they are weak on nutrition as well as on the recognition of women's rights and gender empowerment.
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Olivier DE SCHUTTER (University of Louvain - UCL, Centre for Philosophy of Law - CPDR, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research in Legal Sciences - JUR-I, Belgium)
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- agricultora
- agricultura sostenible
- AGRICULTURA, SILVICULTURA Y PESCA
- ASUNTOS FINANCIEROS
- ASUNTOS SOCIALES
- Benín
- Burkina Faso
- Costa de Marfil
- Etiopía
- financiación e inversión
- GEOGRAFÍA
- geografía económica
- Ghana
- Grupo de países más industrializados
- independencia alimentaria
- Malawi
- medio de producción agrícola
- Mozambique
- Nigeria
- ORGANIZACIONES INTERNACIONALES
- organizaciones mundiales
- pequeña explotación
- política agraria
- política de inversión
- política internacional
- precio alimentario
- precios
- productividad agrícola
- recurso alimentario
- reforma agraria
- RELACIONES INTERNACIONALES
- régimen de explotación
- sanidad
- semilla
- Senegal
- sistema de explotación agraria
- Tanzania
- África