Principles & Strategies
1. Multi-stakeholdership:
The essence of multi-stakeholdership is broad-based involvement and participation to ensure that all key players and prime movers in the country’s agriculture sector, including public-private partners, collectively articulate learn and share knowledge, innovations, technologies and policies, and are mobilized to take action towards attaining the Roadmap’s vision and mission.
2. Convergence:
Convergence is the coming together of all programs and initiatives of public and private entities to promote coordination, harmonization and, to the extent possible, integration among similar or inter-related programs, projects, and activities of public and private institutes and organizations, as a way of reducing sector-wide “transactions costs” in the delivery of responsive, timely and quality public services and investments to target rural beneficiaries. For instance, convergence efforts will include aligning interventions relevant to increasing entrepreneurship among smallholder farmers and other agricultural producers, measures pertinent to the pursuit of sustainability/natural resource management and resiliency to climate change, efficient development of value chains.
3. Collective action or cooperation:
Collective action is important because it counteracts a number of conditions that retard development: market failures, deterioration of customary institutions, and lack of empowerment of vulnerable groups. Collective action is relevant for a broad range of agricultural developmental activities, including technology innovation, enterprise development, policy change, improvement of community outcomes, and alleviation of poverty. But it has special relevance in the case of natural resource management. The very nature of many natural resources (non-divisibility, high variability and uncertainties) require collective action in order to provide effective management.
4. Equity:
Equity consideration is integral to all interventions. Technology and policy choices have to flow from equity consideration. Interventions must begin with identification of the poor and very poor families in selected poverty pockets, and are planned around these families with a livelihood focus, with special attention to building capacity of women.
5. Linking farmers to markets:
A key principle is to ensure that market-oriented development is inclusive, i.e. to capture as much of the value in the chain as possible for the very poorest groups including women, children, the landless, the unemployed, marginalized ethnic communities, youth and the elderly. This is vital in order to eliminate the extreme poverty that lies at the root of hunger.
6. Innovations:
In the fight against poverty and hunger amid the threat of climate change, science-based agricultural innovations are the best bets for smallholder farmers in marginal environments to survive and improve their livelihoods. Better and more diverse crops and crop products, better, more resilient and productive cropping systems, and better policies and partnerships are the kinds of innovations that Inanglupa must promote, support and advocate.
The essence of multi-stakeholdership is broad-based involvement and participation to ensure that all key players and prime movers in the country’s agriculture sector, including public-private partners, collectively articulate learn and share knowledge, innovations, technologies and policies, and are mobilized to take action towards attaining the Roadmap’s vision and mission.
2. Convergence:
Convergence is the coming together of all programs and initiatives of public and private entities to promote coordination, harmonization and, to the extent possible, integration among similar or inter-related programs, projects, and activities of public and private institutes and organizations, as a way of reducing sector-wide “transactions costs” in the delivery of responsive, timely and quality public services and investments to target rural beneficiaries. For instance, convergence efforts will include aligning interventions relevant to increasing entrepreneurship among smallholder farmers and other agricultural producers, measures pertinent to the pursuit of sustainability/natural resource management and resiliency to climate change, efficient development of value chains.
3. Collective action or cooperation:
Collective action is important because it counteracts a number of conditions that retard development: market failures, deterioration of customary institutions, and lack of empowerment of vulnerable groups. Collective action is relevant for a broad range of agricultural developmental activities, including technology innovation, enterprise development, policy change, improvement of community outcomes, and alleviation of poverty. But it has special relevance in the case of natural resource management. The very nature of many natural resources (non-divisibility, high variability and uncertainties) require collective action in order to provide effective management.
4. Equity:
Equity consideration is integral to all interventions. Technology and policy choices have to flow from equity consideration. Interventions must begin with identification of the poor and very poor families in selected poverty pockets, and are planned around these families with a livelihood focus, with special attention to building capacity of women.
5. Linking farmers to markets:
A key principle is to ensure that market-oriented development is inclusive, i.e. to capture as much of the value in the chain as possible for the very poorest groups including women, children, the landless, the unemployed, marginalized ethnic communities, youth and the elderly. This is vital in order to eliminate the extreme poverty that lies at the root of hunger.
6. Innovations:
In the fight against poverty and hunger amid the threat of climate change, science-based agricultural innovations are the best bets for smallholder farmers in marginal environments to survive and improve their livelihoods. Better and more diverse crops and crop products, better, more resilient and productive cropping systems, and better policies and partnerships are the kinds of innovations that Inanglupa must promote, support and advocate.