ACTESA was developed as a broad, long-term framework for coordinated activities by programmes in the agricultural trade sector, supported by a variety of institutions and donors. It was designed to contribute to the Comprehensive African Agriculture Development Program (CAADP) Pillar III, on Food Security, and Pillar II, on Markets and Trade. ACTESA has a focus on integration of small farmers into national, regional and international markets.
The overriding objective of this work is to build a Regional Food Balance Sheet that comprehensively maps the region’s food supply and demand situation more accurately and timely. This will provide a sound basis for policy analysis, informed decision making and information exchange between governments and relevant food security institutions needed to ensure food security at the regional level. It will also serve to provide vital information to stimulate the private sector and thereby promote growth in production and boost intra regional food trade.
In addition, the monitoring of informal cross-border food trade in Southern Africa will supplement the trade data required for constituting a regional food balance sheet. The informal cross border monitoring initiative focuses on capturing data of unrecorded trade in the major traded food commodities (maize, beans, rice) through key borders shared by the DR Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. This activity will be managed and led by the Alliance for Commodity Trade in Eastern and Southern Africa (ACTESA) from July 2011.
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The Data Entry Specialist will work to ensure that all data which are collected from the informal cross border monitors, Ministries of Agriculture and other relevant sources (in both soft and hard forms) are computerized and analyzed. S/He will work with other people within and outside ACTESA to achieve the desired project goals which is the establishment of a regional food balance sheet and a database.
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