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Die beiden Beiträge handeln von der Gründung und Tätigkeit eines neuen Comite de Politique Economique et Sociale (CPES) in Zaire. Der erste Beitrag diskutiert auf dem Hintergrund einiger empirischer Daten und anhand von Vergleichen mit anderen Staaten grundlegende Aspekte der menschlichen Entwicklung wie Bildung und Gesundheit. Insbesondere wird die Notwendigkeit struktureller Reformen hervorgehoben. (DÜI-Kör)

To guide the design of future agriculture and food value chain interventions, this paper combines two existing spatial food and nutrition security typologies and applies them to the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Apart from estimating absolute and relative inefficiencies along the food system from agricultural potential to nutrition, the integration of both typologies resulted in nine unique low efficiency profiles across the territories and major cities of the Greater Kivu region and Tanganyika. In addition to low utilization efficiency observed in some areas, most PICAGL intervention zones, especially Uvira and Kalemie, suffer from significant market constraints and therefore could substantially benefit from food value chain development. Although this paper relies on the most recent and spatially disaggregated data (which is a major improvement with respect to agricultural statistics of the country), the proposed typologies cannot uncover all bottlenecks hindering the development of agricultural value chains in the region. ; Non-PR ; IFPRI1; 3 Building Inclusive and Efficient Markets, Trade Systems, and Food Industry; 4 Transforming Agricultural and Rural Economies; 5 Strengthening Institutions and Governance; UNFSS ; AFR

Le présent document applique une combinaison de deux typologies spatiales de la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle à la région Est de la République démocratique du Congo (RDC) dans le but de guider la conception des futures interventions dans le domaine de l'agriculture et des chaînes de valeur alimentaires. L'intégration des deux typologies a permis d'estimer des inefficacités absolues et relatives tout au long du système alimentaire (du potentiel agricole à la nutrition) et d'aboutir à neuf profils uniques de faible efficacité dans les territoires et les grandes villes de la région du Grand Kivu et du Tanganyika. En plus de la faible efficacité d'utilisation observée dans certaines zones, la plupart des zones d'intervention du projet PICAGL, en particulier Uvira et Kalemie, souffrent de contraintes importantes sur le marché et pourraient donc bénéficier considérablement du développement des chaînes de valeur alimentaires. Bien que ce document s'appuie sur les données disponibles les plus récentes et les plus désagrégées dans l'espace (ce qui constitue une amélioration majeure par rapport aux statistiques agricoles du pays), les typologies proposées ne sauraient mettre à jour tous les obstacles qui entravent le développement des chaînes de valeur agricoles dans la région. ; Non-PR ; IFPRI1; 3 Building Inclusive and Efficient Markets, Trade Systems, and Food Industry; 4 Transforming Agricultural and Rural Economies; 5 Strengthening Institutions and Governance ; AFR

IFPRI3; ISI; F Strengthening institutions and governance ; DSGD; WCAO ; PR

IFPRI3; CRP2 ; DSGD; WCAO; PIM ; PR ; CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)

Attaining food security for all requires well-functioning institutions and policy process that are effective in designing and implementing food and agricultural policies and programs. This paper assesses early stages of the decentralization and institutional reforms in the policymaking processes in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It develops a conceptual framework and adopts an innovative mapping tool to identify capacity and incentive challenges impeding the effective design and implementation of food and agricultural policy and institutional reform processes. We found that decentralized platforms for policy dialogues have the potential to improve civil society participation in local-level and national-level policy and planning processes. However, their success depends on organizational and human capacity strengthening, financial sustainability, effective participation of the civil society, and demonstrated impact of their participation.

L'enorme potentiel agricole de la Republique Democratiqu du Congo (RDC) est bien documente. Le pays est doté de plus de deux millions de kilomètres carrés (km²) de terres, dont 800 mille sont arables, et pourtant, la portion de terres cultivées ne s'élève qu'à 10 pour cent. La RDC bénéficie également de conditions climatiques et météorologiques favorables, permettant plusieurs récoltes de nombreuses cultures chaque année. Néanmoins, peu d'études ont été axées sur l'hétérogénéité spatiale du pays en termes d'activité économique, de bien publics ou de stratégies de moyens de subsistance des petits exploitants agricoles. Par conséquent, les décideurs politiques disposent de peu de données probantes pour orienter leurs décisions dans la planification et la mise en œuvre des interventions visant à améliorer la position du pays en matière de sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle. ; Non-PR ; IFPRI1; Capacity Strengthening; ReSAKSS ; WCAO

The huge agricultural potential of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is well Documented. The country is endowed with well over two million square kilometers (km2) of land, 800 thousand of which is arable, yet only 10 percent is currently under cultivation. DRC also has favorable climatic and ecological conditions, allowing several harvests of numerous crops per year. Nevertheless, few studies have looked at the country's spatial heterogeneity in terms of economic activity, public goods, or the livelihood strategies of smallholder farmers. As a result, policymakers have little evidence to guide their decisions in planning and implementing interventions to improve the nation's food and nutrition security status. To fill in this knowledge deficit, the Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System (ReSAKSS), which is facilitated by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), provides knowledge products and analytical tools in support of African countries. Among the tools developed, country eAtlas—which is freely available online (http://eatlas. resakss.org/)—is a highly interactive, geographic information systems–based mapping tool designed to provide policymakers and analysts with access to high-quality, highly disaggregated data on agricultural, socioeconomic, and biophysical indicators. ; Non-PR ; IFPRI1; Capacity Strengthening; ReSAKSS ; WCAO

In 2011, in collaboration with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Democratic Republic of Congo's government launched the Food Production, Processing, and Marketing project—which aimed to raise incomes and improve food security in the target areas by improving agricultural productivity, market efficiency, and the capacity of producers to respond to market signals. In August–October 2013 and February–March 2014, halfway through the project's implementation, a midline survey was conducted to assess progress with respect to intermediate outcomes. The present paper highlights the results of that assessment survey. We pay close attention to accurate attribution of observed changes to the project and employ a double-difference method that compares the changes in indicators before the project and at the time of the survey (project midline) between the beneficiaries and comparable control groups. Overall, the survey results suggest weak impact on most of the outcome indicators, and they highlight challenges in implementing small-scale farmers' capacity building within the context of weak institutions and a fragile political context. ; Non-PR ; IFPRI1; CRP2; D Transforming Agriculture; E Building Resilience; F Strengthening institutions and governance; DRCSSP; Land Resource Management for Poverty Reduction ; DSGD; PIM; EPTD; WCAO ; CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM)

Civil wars inflict considerable costs on countries which may be trapped in vicious cycles of violence. To avoid these adverse events, scholars have attempted to identify the roots of civil wars. Valuable minerals have been listed among the main drivers of civil conflicts. Yet, despite the large body of literature, the evidence remains mixed. This paper provides a spatially nuanced view of the role of mineral resources in civil wars in the particular case of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We estimate the impact of geolocated new mining concessions on the number of conflict events between January 1997 and December 2007. Instrumenting the variable of interest with historical concessions interacted with changes in mineral international prices, we unveil an ecological fallacy: Whereas concessions have no effect on the number of conflicts at the territory level (lowest administrative unit), they do foster violence at the district level (higher administrative unit). We develop a theoretical model wherein the incentives of armed groups to exploit and protect mineral resources explain our empirical findings. A spatial analysis of the effect of mining concessions on conflict backs our proposed theoretical explanation. ; Non-PR ; IFPRI1; Subtheme 6.2 ; WCAO; DSGD

Given its vast land resources and favorable water supply, the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC's) natural agricultural potential is immense. However, the economic potential of the sector is handicapped by one of the most dilapidated transport systems in the developing world (World Bank 2006). Road investments are therefore a high priority in the government's investment plans and those of its major donors. Although these are encouraging signs, very little is known about how the existing road network constrains agricultural and rural development, and how proposed new road investments would address these constraints. To inform this issue, the present paper primarily employs geographic information system (GIS)-based data to assess the impact of market access on agricultural and rural development in the DRC. Compared to existing work, however, the paper employs a number of innovations to improve and extend the generic techniques used to estimate the importance of market access for agricultural and rural development. We then use our derived results to run simulations of how proposed infrastructure investments would affect market access, and how market access would in turn affect agricultural production and household wealth. We find highly significant and negative elasticities between travel times to sizable cities (50,000 or 100,000 population), although we also find that these elasticities are small relative to those of similar cross-country tests. Moreover, city access by itself is less important than access to cities and ports. This finding strongly suggests that increasing investment in ports in the DRC should be a priority in the infrastructure investment portfolio. ; Non-PR ; IFPRI1; GRP32 ; KCID; DSGD; EPTD