Advocacy is the process of supporting a cause, such as fostering a RAS-friendly policy environment. This category thus contains resources that relate to advocacy for RAS and provide strategies on how to best engage in policy processes. It looks at how to identify topics that need to be strengthened in policies, how to engage in multi-stakeholder processes for a particular cause, and how topics can be brought to the attention of policy makers. It discusses how to adapt your strategy to your very specific context and contains information on how to communicate you cause.Download here4945 times downloaded
Speech delivered by Akinwumi Adesina, Minister of Agriculture, Nigeria at the Brussels Policy Briefing on ‘Agricultural resilience in the face of crises and shocks’, Brussels, 04 March 2013.
The speech covers six policy areas for improving resilience, based on experiences in Nigeria: access to affordable agricultural inputs, access to financial services, building capacity to predict shocks to inform risk management, encourage drought tolerant crops, improved water management and social safety net policies.