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Presented at the Seminar on Responsible Agricultural Investments in Developing Countries: How to Make Principles and Guidelines Effective? Organized by Swedish FAO Committee & SIANI
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Responsible agricultural investments in developing countries
Swedish FAO Committee25 March 2014
Bo Göransson
ABBBAAfrican Bioenergy and
Biofuels Business Assessment
• Starting point: Investments are needed.
”How”, not ”if”• Trees and forests: Utilize, develop, prevent.
Stoves, cars, game corridors, waste• 3 years. Small and with no money.
Matchmakers (we thought…..)
What is out there?
• Money, both international and local• Ideas and needs• Demand : Growth, urbanization• Policies, guidelines: IFC, FAO etc• Also ABBBA. ”Stolen with pride”. More feasibility
than assessments.
But…….
• Money is not used. Not ”bankable”• Big business “self contained”.• Forest industry shell shocked. • The small are -just small.• Banks risk averse • CAP + RED = Inv/Trade barriers. True? • Different standards for different crops?
Policies for investments. The same song sheet, but…
• Who cares or owns? Investors, NGOs, FAO, media, countries, people?
• Individual ownership/tenure or stronger ownership of communal land?
• Sanctions. Case of Ethiopia• Transparency. Case of Gambella. Role of Banks, IFI,s
donors, NGOs, media.• Sweden in the 19th century: Farmers robbed. Laws,
farmers org., surveyors
Frankly
• It is about power, stupid
Quo vadis?
• Level the playing field for investments - remove trade barriers
• Main actors must act. Role of pension funds, Swedfund, Business Sweden?
• New instruments or directives. Guarantees? • The big and the small must act together
and…….• ……..be local and persistent• ABBBA: Matchmaker or midwife?
Finally.
Do not use the phrase “land grab”!