1. Future Agricultures Consortium
Annual Review and
Planning Meeting
Old Ship Hotel, Brighton, UK
30 March – 1 April 2010

2. Future Agricultures Consortium
Established in 2005….
“to encourage dialogue and the sharing of good practice by policy makers and opinion formers in Africa on the role of agriculture in broad based growth”.
Through….
Critical research and reflection
Facilitating networking and partnerships
Building a platform for policy dialogue

3. Asking comparative questions… …debating future options

4. Is African agriculture in crisis?

5. Highlights & challenges
Highlights (of many):
Seasonality Revisited conference
AR4D/GCARD farmer consultations
West Africa (at last!)
Science, Technology and Innovation: Political Economy of Seeds (at last!)
New website (nearly…)
DFID funding for agreed in Feb ‘10
…. And challenges :
Finding our niche in an increasingly crowded, well-funded arena
FAC and CAADP/regional organisations
Delivery of outputs – and so profile
Process of getting the funding….

6. New phase – Outcomes
Policy options and their evidence base produced and communicated amongst target audiences for 8 thematic areas (60%):
(1) Policy Processes; (2) Growth & Social Protection; (3) Commercialisations; (4) Science, Technology & Innovation
(5) Climate change and agriculture; (6) Land and tenure change; (7) Pastoralism; and (8) Youth and Agriculture
Capacity of junior African researchers in generating quality policy relevant research and using this to influence policy processes strengthened (20%)
Consortium effectively managed and transitions to an African base and sustainable funding (20%) 

7. Purpose level impact indicators
Policy strengthening in key CAADP activities (implementation plans, country Compacts) which reflect policy options presented by FAC
Policy strengthening in civil society and/or donor activities in each of the FAC core countries and/or regionally as a result of FAC thematic research, networking and policy engagement activities
Evidence of impacts on policy strengthening will be documented through FAC’s adaptation of impact pathway analysis/outcome mapping (PIPA -
Purpose: Improve policy and promote agricultural growth and poverty reduction in Africa.
By policy strengthening we mean FAC contributes significantly to changing/improving policy in key areas of CAADP activity as defined in country Compact agreements and implementation plans.
By policy strengthening we mean FAC contributes through evidence-based research to changing/improving policy in key areas of civil society and/or donor activity as defined by policy positions, funding foci, project investments and capacity of key personnel.

8. Gender and social inclusion
Research dimensions
Understanding how dynamics of social difference – gender, age, ethnicity etc. – affects outcomes
Literature review/resource and methodology development
Organisational dimensions
New FAC members
FAC Fellowships
FAC studentships
FAC events
Regular audit and review

9. Organising FAC Country coordinators (and advisory groups)
Ethiopia – Kenya – Malawi – West Africa
CAADP engagement, networking and dialogues
Communications, networking and policy influencing
Research themes (convenors plus teams)
Across 8 themes, 3 regional ‘transects’ (?) and
(possibly) 10 countries
FAC Secretariat
FAC Coordinators, Admin, Finance
DFID
and other donors

10. Budgets – Annual Allocations
Coordination and management – 14%
(Coordinators: 75% x 1 fte; Country coordination: 11% fte x 4; Administrative: 100% x 1 fte)
Communications, impact monitoring and policy influencing – 12% (100% + 1 fte)
Policy dialogues/CAADP engagement – 6% (80% fte)
Research themes – 54% (UK: 27%; Africa: 41%; RA: 11% per theme/year)
Capacity – 10% (FAC Fellowships (Africa and UK); FAC Student Fieldwork Bursaries; Visiting Fellowships)
Over all lines, Communications – 21%

11. Capacity – Future FAC
Expanding and renewing country teams – FAC membership – organic process
Visiting fellowships – part of Theme research budgets
FAC fellowships – around £110k per year for fellowships in Africa (mostly) and for UK post-docs – linked to 8 themes. Application and selection process required (to be determined)
FAC fieldwork scholarships – another £35k, initially with Collaborative Masters Programme in Agricultural and Applied Economics in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa (CMAAE). Future: others (non-agricultural economists)?

12. FAC Africa institutionalisation process and timeline
FAC Institutionalisation Commission
Members: Amdissa, John O, Ephraim, Colin and Jim (temp)
This meeting: scope out challenge
Set up detailed Terms of Reference for consultant(s)
Consultants report March 2011 at Annual Meeting in Addis on options for FAC Africa institutionalisation (incl. options for: organisational home, legal status, governance structure, alliances with existing organisations etc.)
During 2011, begin to prepare FAC Africa proposal in discussion with potential donors
2012 Annual Meeting draft of proposal presented for review
Formal external review through MTR process completed by 2012
MTR report the focus for Donor Roundtable convened by DFID for funding FAC Africa from April 2013

13. Upcoming FAC events FAC-ODI Seminar Series – starting soon??
‘Sleeping Giants’ conference – SOAS, London (May- June 2011)
Political Economy of Seeds workshop (late 2010)
‘University of the Desert’ workshop for pastoralists and policymakers, northern Kenya, November 2010
FAC Annual Conference – Future of Pastoralism in Africa, Addis, March 2011?
FAC Annual Review and Planning Meeting, Addis, March 2011?
…. And more. Please add your events to sheet!

14. New website…

15. Programme and process Tues and Weds am Weds pm Thurs am
Review of concept notes for all 8 Themes (including CAADP engagement, gender and social inclusion, climate/environment).
Plus highlights of key outputs of existing themes (annual report – due tomorrow!)
Weds pm
FAC Networking, Communications and Policy Engagement
Country reports, including plans for West Africa
FAC events
Thurs am
FAC Africa – institutionalisation
Future FAC - capacity
AOB
And don’t forget….. Material and revisions for the website