AAPC 2024
A Decade of Impactful Policy Reforms: Driving Resilient, Inclusive and Sustainable Food Systems
A Concept Note for the 9th Annual Agricultural Policy Conference (AAPC) Dodoma, April 17th – 19th, 2024
Over the past decade, Tanzania has undergone transformative changes in its agricultural landscape through a series of impactful policy reforms. These reforms have played a pivotal role in fostering resilience, inclusivity, and sustainability within the country’s food systems.
A collaborative approach of industry stakeholders and the Government has been instrumental in effecting reforms. The crop and livestock subsectors have witnessed various reforms, including reviewing policies and regulatory frameworks through streamlined and rationalized licenses, taxes, charges, fees, and levies to improve the business environment for the private sector. Furthermore, sector-transforming initiatives such as Agenda 10/30 have been launched, which have been instrumental in charting a road map for the sector. Agenda 10/30 aims to achieve more than 10% growth for the agriculture sector by 2030. There has been development in transformative policies in tailored programs like Agricultural Sector Development Program-2 (ASDP-2) and Building a Better Tomorrow – Youth Initiative for Agribusiness (BBT-YIA). BBT, launched in 2022, aims to promote Tanzanian youth engagement in agribusiness, while the Livestock and Fisheries Entrepreneurship for Youth program (BBT-LIFE) aims at transforming the livestock and fisheries sector to contribute towards national economic growth through the promotion of youth investment in livestock, fisheries, and aquaculture enterprises.
- Dodoma Hotel, Dodoma
- April 17th – 19th, 2024
Disclaimer: PAG reserves the right to make final determination of physical participants in Dodoma. A strict code of conduct will be put in place as we take all precautions against COVID-19
About PAG & AAPC
The Annual Agricultural Policy Conference (AAPC) is organized by the Policy Analysis Group (PAG) in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture. The PAG is an informal (community of practice) and voluntary group that consists of members working on agricultural policy projects, initiatives, academia, and local and international policy think tanks. Established in 2013, the group has about 20 members and provides a platform for sharing information on policy research findings so as to enhance coordination, collaboration and synergy. The PAG also aims at ensuring consistency in policy messaging.
The AAPC brings together over 150 participants from academia, research institutions, policy-makers, advocacy groups and development practitioners from Tanzania, in the region and beyond. The Conference provides an opportunity to assess progress in implementing policy reforms under the CAADP framework of the New Alliance on Food Security and Nutrition. In addition, the conference will discuss successes, lessons learned and identify remaining gaps, how to increase competitiveness within the alliances, and emerging issues that require attention.
Partners
COVID 19 and its effect on value chains and agricultural competitiveness
The 7th AAPC will also feature a session to share data and analysis from various members. The rationale for the session is to enable agriculture stakeholders to specify what targeted interventions and approaches should be taken to increase market competitiveness and access to capital in light of the global recession.
Also the analysis will enable further structured support towards value chains that proved to be successful during the COVID era such as spices, cereals and horticultural value chains.
The Approach
As the AAPC is gradually turning into a regional and international platform, this upcoming conference will mark the launch of a digital AAPC program platform. The conference will be in a blended format and will constitute about 100 on the ground participants possibly at the Treasury Square with others joining virtually. The conference will still be in the “Davos” style in which thematic papers will be presented followed by a panel discussion before opening the session to the floor for questions and answers. All Meetings will take place in facilities that can aid virtual meetings. The technology used will have the output in high resolution format and the AAPC task force will work with virtual communication professionals with experience in managing virtual meetings and will form their own technical committee so as to build in-house capacity.
The blended format will also motivate buy-in from the donor community. Best practices from AGRA’s AGRF and also tools from the AGRF will be effected to ensure that 7th AAPC is a success.