8th ADB Business Opportunities Fair

Regional Development and Food Security

(Agriculture) SDCC
presentation by: Md. Abul Basher
22 March 2017
 Outline
Context
o Food Security Globally and in Asia and the Pacific

Overview and Approach

o ADBs Food Security Investment: A Multi-Sectoral
Approach
o ANR Investment Areas to 2020
o ANR Portfolio and Pipeline

General Business Opportunities

o Strategic Operations Support
o New Project Ideas for Pipeline Development
o Knowledge Management
o Food Security Forum

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 1. Context

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 Food Security Globally and in Asia
and the Pacific
Where are we What are we up What do we want to
now? against? achieve?
In Asia and the Pacific

Population growth
Economic
and demographic
transformation
transition
In Asia

Climate variability Less water and land Safe, nutritious, and

and resources, and affordable food
change environmental
degradation
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 2. Overview of the Sector

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 ADBs Food Security Investment
A multi-sector approach
Agriculture and Natural
Resources:
Public Sector Productivity
Market
Operations
Food Safety, Quality, and
Nutrition
Food Security Natural Resources
Investment
($2 billion
annually) Agribusiness and Value-
Chain
Financial Intermediary

Inclusive Finance and

SMEs
Private Sector
Operations Cross-sectoral:
Water
Finance
Energy
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Climate change, etc.
 ANR Investment Areas to 2020
Core Areas Investment Areas Links with Other Links to
Sectors/Themes Global
Agenda
Productivity Sustainable infrastructure Water SDG (2,
Commercialization and private Energy 5, 6, 7,
service delivery Finance 12, 13)
Climate-smart agriculture Social COP 21
Policy reforms Gender
Climate change

Market Logistics and market infrastructure Public-private SDG (2,

Agribusiness and value chains partnership 9, 11, 17)
ICT and rural-urban-market linkages Transport Addis
Policy reforms Finance Ababa
Urban
Social
development
Food Safety, Quality, and Infrastructure for safety and Health SDG (2,
Nutrition standards Social 3, 4, 5)
Policy, regulation, and capacity Gender
Outreach and education Education
Policy reforms
Natural Resources Climate resilience Water SDG (2,
Land, soil, forest, river basin Social 5, 6, 13,
management Gender 14, 15)
Climate change COP 21
Environment
 ADBs ANR Portfolio and Pipeline
($ million)
In 2016, ADBs food security investments reached $2.3 billion
Agriculture and Natural Resources (ANR) approved projects in 2016
valued at across in 11 countries
$1.4 billion 20
projects
ANR and Food Security Projects, 20122019
($ million)
$5,000

$4,500 $150

$4,000

$3,500
$200
$3,000
Non-ANR
$2,500
ANR (Non-sovereign)
$4,420
$2,000 ANR (Sovereign)
$1,091
$1,500 $1,210 $1,036 $914 $3,091 $2,959
$208
$49 $98
$1,000 $143 $534
$500 $1,117 $1,001 $1,217
$836
$545
$0
8 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
 3. General Business
Opportunities

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 Strategic Operations Support
Pipeline development
o Agribusiness
o Climate-smart agriculture
o Agricultural market development
Focus
o New technology/innovation
o Flagship new generation projects
o Mobilizing partnership and co-financing
Mechanisms
o Working groups on climate-smart agriculture and agribusiness
development
o Technical assistance support
o Partnership with Centers of Excellence
Outputs
o 23 new project proposals
o Pilot project (Bangladesh and Cambodia)

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New Project Ideas for Pipeline Development
High-Level Technology and
Climate-Smart Agricultural
Practices
Objective: Convert Labor
Intensive Agriculture into
Technology and Knowledge
Intensive Agriculture
Outcome: Collaborative
technology development and
dissemination, Partnership with
private sector in mechanization
of agriculture, Integration of ICT
in agriculture
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Agricultural Value-Chain Agri-Logistics and Fresh Food
Development Wholesale Markets: New
Investment Potential
Objective: Generate the best value at
Producers
all stages of agricultural supply chain
starting from production, to
processing and trading, and to
Wholesale Markets
consumption Suppliers
Outcome: Institutionalization of
support mechanism for all agents
from farmers through traders,
Distributors
processors and retailers, to promote
farm productivity, better post-harvest
handling, processing, provision of
technologies of production and Retailers
handling, grading
Consumers
Wholesale food markets: center of the value chain.
Connects consumers, suppliers, and logistics providers
Ensures safety, quality., and price stability
Increases access of smallholders to high value food
markets
 Knowledge Management
Food Security Forum 2016 Publication

Workshop on Technology and Knowledge Intensive Agriculture

(May, Manila)
Objectives: Problem identification, solutions development,
knowledge exchange, and foster partnerships

Report on the use of High-Level Technology in Agriculture and

Natural Resource Sector

Assessment of investment requirement in Asia Pacific to achieve

food security by 2030 (with IFPRI)

Piloting of Climate resilient agricultural practices (with IRRI)

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 Contact person:
Mahfuz Ahmed
Advisor, SDCC-AR concurrently Technical
Advisor, Rural Development
and Food Security
akmahmed@adb.org

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