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ProjectFactsheetStrengthening Institutional Capacities of Provincial and District Development Authorities for Sustainable and Inclusive Rural Development, Ensuring Food Security and Increased Income Generation - TCP/PNG/3905 2025
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No results found.Agriculture is the mainstay of Papua New Guinea. The government’s Medium-term Development Plan 2018-2022 (MTDP III) emphasized the role of provincial and district governments in identifying viable investment options for creating employment and income opportunities, and ensuring that viable projects in the provinces and districts be identified and designed in alignment with the Agriculture Medium-term Development Plan (AMTDP) 2020 2022. To this end, the DAL was directed to develop a district agriculture development plan for selected provinces in 2021. The plan would be based on such natural biodiversity resource endowments as land use potential and other favourable environmental considerations and would be realigned to the government’s higher national development plans. The DAL is the lead agency responsible for overall sector coordination and management. However, it did not have the legal authority to lead and coordinate district development plans, and lacked the coordination and management mechanisms needed to govern public investment programmes. In alignment with the MTDP III, the department formulated the AMTDP 2020 2022 to fulfil its coordination roles and responsibilities under the MTDP III, with a focus on improving sector governance through the review and amendment of agriculture legislation, improving the formulation of district agriculture development plans, addressing institutional issues, and establishing coordination and management mechanisms for the sector. FAO was requested to support the review and formulation of the AMTDP 2023 2025, and the strengthening of district agriculture plans to align with the AMTDP. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetBrochureThe contribution of public investment in the agricultural sector to economic growth and rural poverty reduction
A high-level dialogue in Nicaragua based on a prospective analysis
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In 2018, the government of Nicaragua requested technical assistance from FAO to carry out a prospective analysis of the Nicaraguan economy and the evolution of rural poverty, in the context of the restrictive economic conditions experienced in the country that year. Thus, the FAO Agricultural Development Economics Division (ESA) in Rome, together with the FAO Country Office in Nicaragua (FAONI) and in close coordination and support with the country’s Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (MHCP), the Central Bank of Nicaragua (BCN) and the Ministry of Agriculture (MAG), developed the study “Analysis of alternative ways of public investment and its impact on economic growth, agriculture and poverty reduction in Nicaragua.” This analysis generated quantitative evidence on the impact of agriculture on economic growth and poverty reduction. The results are clear: in all simulated scenarios, it was verified that an increase – by a value of 0.5 or 1 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) – of public investment in the agricultural sector generates economic growth, which is reflected, among other things, in GDP growth that varies between 0.8 and 3.5 percent annually through 2030 depending on the scenario. Moreover, it is observed that the difference in the total poverty rate in rural areas with respect to the base scenario would range between 0.5 and 2.25 percentage points in the same period, depending on the agricultural investment scenario. With regard to extreme poverty, the difference is projected to be between 0.16 and 0.31 points. The ongoing high-level dialogue and collaboration between FAO and Nicaragua’s economic and fiscal policy-making authorities is an excellent example, which should be replicated elsewhere, of how FAO can influence a country’s public policies. -
ProjectFactsheetNational Food Security Policy in Papua New Guinea - TCP/PNG/3602 2019
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No results found.Malnutrition continues to be a serious issue in Papua New Guinea, imposing considerable social and economic costs on individuals, families, communities and the economy as a whole, and disproportionately affectingsuch disadvantaged groups as women and children. As a United Nations Member State, the country is committed to ending hunger, achieving foodsecurity, improving nutrition and promoting sustainable agriculture by 2030. FAO assisted the Government to formulate a new National Food Security Policy (NFSP) Framework for 2017-2027 to strengthen food and nutrition security in the future. However, the capacity to formulate an action planto facilitate the implementation of the new policy was lacking. The Government therefore requested FAO to help to build national capacityin this important area. The project supported the development of acomprehensive budgeted action plan to enable the Government to roll outthe new NFSP Framework to the relevant sectorial agencies and local governments, as a follow-up to the policy formulation phase. It also builtcapacity and raised awareness at national and provincial levels, andsupported the preparation of provincial food security priority action agendasfor three pilot provinces.
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