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Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>By stimulating investments and supporting innovation in this sector, we foster inclusive growth and help our partner countries better feed their population, while protecting their natural resources.<\/p>\n

Agriculture in developing countries is facing important challenges: climate change, environmental degradation, biodiversity reduction, and rapid population and economic growth are all putting increasing pressure on agriculture in developing countries. If nothing is done to curb the tendency, the gap between the food supply and demand is bound to deepen. Agriculture therefore must become sustainable and resilient, to produce more and better food at affordable prices while protecting the environment. It also needs to bring bigger returns to create opportunities for growth and poverty reduction in our partner countries.<\/p>\n

In 2018, the European Commission launched the new Africa-Europa Alliance for sustainable investment and jobs, to boost public and private investments in African countries, including in the agricultural sector.<\/p>\n

The EU External Investment Plan (EIP) uses guarantees and other financial tools to reduce investment risks for private investors. For example, the EIP will enable the European development finance institutions and the African Development Bank to create 81,500 new direct jobs and 244,500 indirect job opportunities in Africa, with a special focus on young people and women. It will help small businesses become more resilient and develop their growth potential.<\/p>\n

We also support farmers\u2019 organisations, notably with the Farmers\u2019 Africa Programme which helps build the capacities of the Panafrican Farmers\u2019 Organization representing 52 million small farmers, of whom more than 26 million are women.<\/p>\n

Investments must respect the principles of responsible business conduct, as set out in the \u2018Principles for responsible investment in agriculture and food systems\u2019 (RAI) and in the \u2018Voluntary guidelines on the responsible governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests in the context of national food security\u2019 (VGGT). We apply the VGGT in 40 partner countries and have supported the preparation of technical guides and tools to facilitate their use. These guides and tools have benefitted more than 200,000 land governance stakeholders already so far.<\/p>\n

Since 2017, we promote the \u2018Development smart innovation through research in agriculture\u2019 (DeSIRA) initiative in our partner countries, to better link research and innovation with national programmes for a climate-relevant transformation of their agriculture and food systems. We pledged \u20ac 270 million to support DeSIRA\u2019s implementation, starting with more than 20 countries in Africa and Latin America.<\/p>\n

Moreover, our average annual share of climate-relevant actions in the field of nutrition, food security, and sustainable agriculture has continuously increased since 2007, to reach 63% in 2017.<\/p>\n

The EU supports global research partnerships such as the former Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). Through the CGIAR, improved technology adapted to and the capacities of thousands of smallholders were improved. Around 156,000 small-scale farmers ended up adopting the new approaches and technologies.<\/p>\n

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