Reframing the New Alliance agenda: A critical assessment based on insights from Tanzania

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dc.contributor.authorSulle, Emmanuel
dc.contributor.authorHall, Ruth
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-07T10:46:52Z
dc.date.available2019-03-07T10:46:52Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractA dedicated investment in smallholder farmers to enable them to improve their land use and productivity is critical to achieve sustainable and inclusive growth in African countries. The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition (‘New Alliance’) focuses on public-private partnership (PPPs) with local investors and multinational corporations (MNCs) to produce food. However, this is unlikely to solve chronic problems of hunger, malnutrition and poverty because of under-investment in smallholder agriculture, and the rolling back of state support following structural adjustment programmes from the 1980s onwards. The initial signs of New Alliance implementation, instead of reversing this chronic under-investment in smallholder agriculture, suggests the adoption of corporate agriculture, either turning smallholder farmers into wage workers and hooking them into value chains in which they have to compete with MNCs, or expelling them to search for alternative livelihoods in the growing cities. Although tempered by promotion of ‘outgrower’ schemes, in practice this agenda promotes large-scale commercialisation. We argue that African countries engaging with the New Alliance should focus instead on securing citizens’ access to land, water and improved governance. African countries have a better chance of addressing the root causes behind rural poverty and low agricultural productivity by investing directly in smallholder farmers themselves.en_US
dc.identifier.citationSulle, E. & Hall, R., 2013. Reframing the New Alliance Agenda: A Critical Assessment based on Insights from Tanzania. Cape Town: Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS).en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/4394
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherInstitute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS)en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesFAC Policy Brief;56
dc.subjectNew Allianceen_US
dc.subjectTanzaniaen_US
dc.subjectPublic-private partnership (PPPs)en_US
dc.subjectMultinational corporations (MNCs)en_US
dc.subjectSmallholder agricultureen_US
dc.titleReframing the New Alliance agenda: A critical assessment based on insights from Tanzaniaen_US
dc.typeOtheren_US

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