Securing livelihoods, land and natural resource rights through partnerships between small-scale farmers and outside investors: Lessons from IFAD Steven Jonckheere International Fund for Agricultural Development Land and Poverty Conference, World Bank, March 2014
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Securing livelihoods, land and natural resource rights through partnerships between small-scale farmers and outside investors: Lessons from IFAD
Steven Jonckheere
International Fund for Agricultural DevelopmentLand and Poverty Conference, World Bank, March 2014
Context
Renewed interest in
agricultural investment
Large-scale acquisitions of
farmland
Polarised debates about “land grabbing”
Alternative ways of structuring agricultural
investments
IFAD and agricultural investments
• Identifying private-sector models that strengthen land and natural resource rights and boost agricultural development & introducing project models with private-sector investment
• Key principles:- Smallholder family agriculture is a business- Overcoming gender inequalities and empowering
women- Land is fundamental to the lives of poor rural people- Deepening engagement with the private sector
Assessing value sharing
• Economic viability is a precondition for agricultural investments to benefit the local population
• Focus on the way in which business models share value between the business partners