The paper’s focus is population and demographics on supply in Tanzania.
The uploaded file is previous task on demand paper, and the module two is my work with comments by the teacher. You at best read it carefully and then to write the supply paper.
Times New Roman 12 double space
- Abstract (1/2 page) and Introduction (1 page). Put these on separate pages.
- Recommendations for closing the gap between demand and supply; increasing SHF welfare; safeguarding the environment (2 pages)
- Technology Contributions to achieve the recommendations (1 page)
- Purpose of Abstracts and IntroductionsReflect the goal of Term Project, e.g. While safeguarding the environment, (1) bridge the gap between food demand and supply of your staple crop, and (2) increase welfare of the SHFs
Purpose of the Supply Paper Modules
The center piece of the Supply Paper and the Term Project is reflected in the Recommendations and the Technology Sections. Your modules will provide background and compelling evidence to support your recommended interventions and their location entry points in the Agricultural Value Chain.
- To increase staple food supplies and the SHF welfare, while safeguarding the environment.
- To introduce technologies to achieve these recommendations.
Your recommendations and technologies should connect and flow from your Demand Paper modules, e.g. reflect relevant issues and material already discussed in the Demand Paper
You want to convey to the reader that you have mastered your subject matter and can explain it clearly, logically, and succinctly. Your end product is expected to be a professional paper which can be presented to high level funding agencies for their investment considerations.
Suggestions: not inclusive; merely intended to jump-start your thinking of different items/issues that might (or might not) be appropriate to support the feasibility of your recommendations.
Supply Paper Module 2: Financial services; storage systems; and agricultural information systems (2 pages): What exists; what improved systems/technologies could be recommended
Recommendations (2 pages)
Note: These are only suggestions and are not inclusive
- How to close the gap between demand and supply while safeguarding environment
- Methods to improve smallholder welfare:
- Increase SHF’s purchasing power for education, health, food, business start-ups to escape poverty cycle.
- Increase SHF’s bargaining power to capture downstream profits
Use Information From the Six Global Indexes to inform and defend your recommendations: rank your country’s status in terms of hunger, instability, corruption, economic freedom, prosperity and ease of doing business
(1) (Links to an external site.)Economies are ranked on their ease of doing business (Links to an external site.). Scores on 10 topics. Covers 11 indicator sets and 189 economies.
(2) Index of Economic Freedom (Links to an external site.), an annual guide for 20 years published by The Wall Street Journal and The Heritage Foundation (Washington’s No. 1 “Think Tank”). The Index covers 10 freedoms – from property rights to entrepreneurship – in 186 countries.
(3) The African Prosperity Report (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)ranks 38 countries in terms of prosperity: measures GDP and eight sub-indices – economics, education, governance, heath, safety, security, personal freedom, entrepreneurship, & opportunity.
(4) IFPRI’s Global Hunger Index (Links to an external site.) – hunger by country/region; failures and successes; insights into drivers of hunger. 132 countries
(5) Political Instability (Links to an external site.) Index. (Links to an external site.) 195 countries rated for economic distress and underlying vulnerability to unrest.
(6) Corruption Index
Your Country’s Progress Toward the Three Global Goals Accepted By Developing Countries: How far has your country progressed toward reaching these goals?
- World Summit for Children Declaration and Goals: 1990-2000
- United Nations Millennium Development Declaration and Goals: 2001-2015
- United Nations Declaration and Sustainable Development Goals: 2015-2030
Technology to Support Your Recommendations (1 page)
Note: These are only suggestions and are not inclusive
- To increase food supplies for SFHs + surplus for sale; increase quantity, quality and diversity of SHF family’s diet
- To capture profits (value-added) beyond farm gate and move downstream in value chains
- To connect more effectively and profitably with traders
- To increase farmer bargaining leverage:
Implementation of your recommendations:
- How best will you coordinate with your host country? What role and/or type of buy-in has your host country agreed to? Financial assistance? Agreement on the principles/implementation? Officially signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)?
- Which organizations (local; government; international) in your country would make effective “Development Partners” to support and implement your recommendations? Be sure the host country is involved at some level . . . at least supportive of your shared goals and approaches. Depends on their Index ranking.
- Major international organizations with an agricultural focus include, but are not limited, to the following:
- World Concern
- One Acre Fund
- The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
- (Links to an external site.)FINCA International (Links to an external site.)–village banking, “World Bank of the Poor”
- Mercy Corps
- Oxfam
- Accord International
- CARE
- Self Help Africa
- Worldwide NGO Directory: (Links to an external site.) Find your country in this directory and see if any entities are already working on activities which would support your recommendations. In not, consider inviting them to join.
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