National Policies and Strategies
Where we work: Rwanda
In Rwanda, agriculture remains the cornerstone for ensuring consistent economic growth, elevating the quality of life, and enhancing the well-being of its population. Rwanda’s Strategic Plan for Agriculture Transformation phase 4 (PSTA 4) outlines priority investments in agriculture and estimates required resources for the agriculture sector for the period 2018-2024. It is the implementation plan of the National Agricultural Policy (NAP) and represents the agriculture sector’s strategic document under Rwanda’s National Strategy for Transformation. Building on the achievements of the PSTA 3, the PSTA 4 emphasizes a stronger role of the private sector, including farmers, with the government becoming a market enabler by creating an enabling environment, providing public goods, otherwise undersupplied by the private sector, including infrastructure, research, social protection, and emergency response. However, while envisaging a transformation of agriculture from a subsistence sector to a knowledge-based value creating sector, Rwanda’s main limiting production factors are land, high population growth and climate change.
The CGIAR Initiative on National Policies and Strategies is supporting Rwanda in Collaborative policy analysis to prioritize agricultural transformation, increase agricultural productivity, improve nutrition, strengthen food systems and the rural nonfarm economy, as well as capacity development, knowledge sharing to build policy coherence and linkages across research, government, civil society, and other stakeholder communities. More specifically the CGIAR Initiative on National Policies and Strategies is supporting the strategic engagement with MINAGRI, partners and stakeholders on evidence-based design of Fifth Strategic Plan for Agricultural Transformation (PSTA5), providing agriculture and livestock sector analysis tools at micro-level: farm, market, household costs and returns as well as contributing to the livestock/animal resources sector model design, updating, and scenario analysis for 2024-30.
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