Pillar 3: Food Supply and Hunger

What's on this page?

On this page you can find out what Pillar 3 is and what work is being done in this area.

What is Pillar 3?

Pillar 3 aims to increase food supply and reduce hunger across the region by raising smallholder productivity and improving responses to food emergencies. The Pillar focuses on the chronically food insecure

Pillar 3 objectives

The objectives of Pillar 3 are to:

- Improve domestic production and marketing;
- Facilitate regional trade in food staples; and
- Build household productivity and assets.

What's happening in Pillar 3?

• Regional Enhanced Livelihoods for Pastoral Area, funded by USAID, has been launched and is aimed at enhancing the livelihoods of pastoralists.
• The Regional Food Security and Risk Management Programme for Eastern and Southern Africa (REFORM), funded by the European Union, has been launched and is aimed at capacity building.
• Making Markets Work for the Poor: Enhancing Food Security and Productivity Growth in Eastern and Southern Africa (MMWP), is funded by World Bank/DFID-UK. The project involves a three-year programme of practical analysis, policy outreach, consensus building, and capacity strengthening to promote the goals of national and regional food security, poverty reduction, and agricultural productivity growth.
• Improved Regional Trade in Food Staples (RTFS) was launched with start-up funding from the World Bank. The programme aims to assemble data on existing regional production and trade in food staples and to develop analytical tools to map the outcomes of natural and policy shocks.
• Cassava Transformation in Southern Africa (CATISA), with start up funding by SIDA, aims to analyse and help accelerate cassava commercialisation in Southern Africa in order to help improve food security in the region.
• Home-Grown School Feeding (HGSF), funded by the World Food Programme and DFID-UK, is designed to link school feeding to agricultural development through the purchase and use of locally and domestically produced food.

What progress has been made so far?

The Secretariat has facilitated and coordinated the final technical review and validation processes for the CAADP Pillar 3 Framework (May 2008) on increasing food supply and reducing hunger. The framework is ready for widespread distribution and will have to take the due process for political endorsement by the AU Heads of State and Government.

Who is leading Pillar 3?

Lead technical agency
- University of KwaZulu Natal - African Centre for Food Security:
Professor Sheryl Hendricks
Email: hendriks@ukzn.ac.za

- Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel.
Email: CILSS@fasonet.bf

Pillar 3 NEPAD contact person

Ms Bibi Boitshepo Giyose
Email: bibig@nepad.org

Pillar 3 documents

Pillar 3 documents can be found here.