G/AG/N/AUS/98  
 
3 March 2016  
(16-1272)  Page: 1/8  
Committee on Agriculture  Original: English  
 
NOTIFICATION 
The following submission, dated 1 March 2016, is be ing circulated at the request of the Delegation 
of Australia . The notification concerns actions taken within the framework of the Decision on 
Measures Concerning the Possible Negative Effects of the Reform Programme on Least-Developed 
and Net Food-Importing Developing Countries ( Table NF:1 ) for the financial year 2013/2014 . 
 
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  Table NF:1 
NOTIFICATION UNDER ARTICLE 16:2 OF THE AGREEMENT: MO NITORING OF THE 
FOLLOW-UP TO THE DECISION ON ME ASURES CONCERNING THE POSSIBLE 
NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF THE REFORM PROGRAMME ON LEAST-DEVELOPED 
AND NET FOOD-IMPORTING DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: 
AUSTRALIA 
REPORTING PERIOD: FINANCIAL YEAR 2013/2014 
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1  QUANTITY OF FOOD AID PROVIDED  TO LEAST DEVELO PED AND NET FOOD-
IMPORTING DEVELOPING COUNTRIES 
1.1.  All Australian food assistance in financial year 2013/14 was cash-based, with a total value 
of $A 93.6 million inclusive of cash and voucher transfers and logistical costs. In that year, 
Australia provided funding for 64,745 metric tonnes of food valued at approximately $A 42.1 million:  
 emergency food assistance totalled $A 37.5 m illion, including 24,513 metric tonnes of food 
valued at approximately $A 15.4 million (see Attachment A). This data includes emergency food assistance to Least-Developed Countries (LDCs)
1 and Net Food-Importing Developing 
Countries (NFIDCs)2; and 
 all food assistance to LDCs and NFIDCs totalled $A 73.4 million, inclusive of 51,050 metric 
tonnes of food valued at around $A 34.1 million (see Attachment B).  
2  INDICATION OF THE PROPORTIONS IN FULLY GRANT FORM OR APPROPRIATE 
CONCESSIONAL TERMS 
2.1.  All Australian food assistance is provided on fully grant terms. 3  TECHNICAL AND FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE UNDER PARAGRAPH 3 (III) OF THE 
DECISION 
3.1.  Following the integration of the fo rmer Australian Agency for International 
Development (AusAID) into the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) from 
1 November 2013, DFAT is the agency primarily responsible for delivering Australia's aid 
programme. DFAT aims to reduce poverty and achieve sustainable development in developing countries not just by improving agriculture and rura l development, but also by directing its efforts 
across a variety of sectors. The Australian Centre  for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) 
also assists developing countries through bilateral and multilateral projects focusing on delivering 
more productive and sustainable agriculture to  increase food security and rural incomes. 
ACIAR delivers agricultural research programmes in collaboration with Australian institutions and 
their counterparts in developing countries. 
3.2.  In the financial year 2013/2014, Australia provided $A 360.5 million  for programmes within 
the ambit of the Decision. Of this, over $A 205.9 million was directed to LDCs/NFIDCs. The 
expenditure was channelled through a number of  programming windows including multilateral, 
regional and bilateral, humanitarian/emergency assistance, non-government organisations (NGOs), ACIAR, and other government departments (OGDs). 
                                               
1 Based on least-developed countries as recognised by the Economic and Social Council of the United 
Nations. 
2 LDCs as well as Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Botswana, Côte 
d'Ivoire, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Gabon, Grenada, Honduras, Jamaica, Jordan, 
Kenya, Maldives,  Mauritius, Mongolia, Morocco, Namibia, Pakistan, Peru, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint 
Vincent and the Grenadines, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Trinidad and Tobago, and Tunisia. (G/AG/5/Rev.10 of 23 March 2012). G/AG/N/AUS/98 
 
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  Direct aid flows for food secu rity, by programme, 2013/2014 
Programme Sub Programme 2013/2014 ($A)  
Bilateral & Regional Programmes Bilateral Programmes 133,848,872 
 Regional Programmes 30,408,732 
Global Programmes Humanitarian 57,906,776 
 Other International 58,840,142 
Non-DFAT Programmes  ACIAR 72,134,566 
 Other Government Departments 7,365,934 
Total  360,505,022  
Source: DFAT. 
Direct aid flows for food security, by programme, LDCs and NFIDCs, 2013/2014 
Programme Sub Programme 2013/2014 ($A) 
Bilateral & Regional Programmes Bilateral Programmes 112,252,318 
 Regional Programmes 7,943,244 
Global Programmes Humanitarian 49,279,433 
 Other International 17,268,665 
Non-DFAT Programmes  ACIAR 19,204,408 
 Other Government Departments 0 
Total  205,948,068  
Source: DFAT. 
 
3.3.  All financial assistance provided through DFAT and ACIAR is in fully grant form. Some further information follows. 
3.1  Australian Department of Fo reign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) 
Bilateral and Regional Programmes 
 3.4.  The majority of Australia's aid is deli vered through bilateral (or country) and regional 
programmes. Bilateral country strategies reflect recipient government priorities as well as 
Australia's capacity to assist. Specific activities are developed with partner countries in order to provide technical and financial assistance. Australia also supports several regional programmes 
which are often the most cost effective response to region-wide development challenges. 
3.5.  In 2013/2014, the bilateral and regional technical and financial assistance provided to LDCs 
and NFIDCs was around $A 120.2 million. This assist ance focused on agricultural productivity and 
sustainability, crop storage, environmental manage ment, the provision of infrastructure related to 
food security and assisting countries adjust to changes in trade patterns. 
Humanitarian and Emergency 
 
3.6.  In 2013/2014, Australia supported projects valued at approximately $A 49.3 million in 
relation to humanitarian and emergency relief to LDCs and NFIDCs.  
Other 
 
3.7.  A proportion of Australia's core contributi ons to the multilateral development banks and other 
relevant multilateral organisations are used for food security, agricultural productivity and infrastructure related development activities. 
3.8.  There are also a number of other areas where Australia's aid programme supports food 
security, agricultural productivity and infrastructure. The measures contribute to strengthening human infrastructure in the beneficiary countries. Australia supports scholarships students 
from LDCs and NFIDCs in the areas of agriculture,  forestry and fisheries. A number of Australian 
non-government organisations receive aid programme funding that has a direct impact on improving food security, agricultural productivity and infrastructure in developing countries.  G/AG/N/AUS/98 
 
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  Australian Centre for Internationa l Agricultural Research (ACIAR) 
 3.9.  ACIAR's purpose is to achieve more prod uctive and sustainable agricultural systems for 
developing countries through agricultural research and training partnerships. In 2013/2014 the 
Australian Centre for International Agricu ltural Research (ACIAR) expended around 
$A 107.2 million of which $A 42.3 million was provid ed to multilateral International Agricultural 
Research Centres (IARCs) whose mission is to advance agri-food science and innovation to enable 
poor people in LDCs and NFIDCs, especially poor women, to increase agricultural productivity and 
resilience; share in economic growth and feed themselves and their families better; and manage natural resources in the face of climate change and other threats (see Attachment C).  
3.10.  Projects funded under ACIAR's programmes comprise research targeting the following food 
security and poverty alleviation issues:  
 increased availability of and access to meat, milk, grains, fruit and vegetables;  
 improved nutritional quality and diversity of diets; 
 new and diversified enterprise options;  
 enhanced market chains for smallholder agriculture;  
 increased productivity, quality and market access for agriculture, aquaculture and forestry 
products, greater resilience and diversity of production systems; and 
 strengthened plant and animal biosecurity and reduced post-harvest loss and waste.  
The primary criterion on which ACIAR bases its allocation of Australia's funds to the IARCs is the 
comparative advantage of a centre to deliver research applicable to Australia's regional 
development priorities that contribute to sustaina ble food security, agricultural productivity and 
income generation. 
4  OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION WITH RESPECT TO ACTIONS TAKEN WITHIN THE 
FRAMEWORK OF THE DECISION 
4.1.  Outside the aid programme a number of Federal and State Government agencies ("Other 
Government Departments") sponsored official exchanges between Australia and developing 
countries on agriculture and food security, to talling around $A 7.4 million in 2013/2014.  G/AG/N/AUS/98 
 
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  ATTACHMENT A 
Emergency Food Assistance, including to LDCs and NFIDCs, by country, 2013/2014 
Country Total Value ($A) 
Iraq 1,000,000 
Mali 1,732,513 
Mali Regional 577,504 
Philippines 5,000,000 
South Sudan 9,025,518 
Sudan 3,848,014 
Syria 6,299,385 
Syria Regional  1,911,539  
Yemen  8,091,006  
TOTAL 37,485,479 
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  ATTACHMENT B 
All Australian food assistance in 2013/2014 wa s cash-based. Quantity of food assistance 
provided to Least Developed Countries (L DCs) and Net Food-Importing Developing 
Countries (NFIDCs) 2013/2014: Breakdown by commodity and recipient countries. 
Recipient 
Country/Region Total Value ($A) Commodity Actual 
Tonnage (tonnes) 
Afghanistan 5,000,000 Salt 200 
Supplementary Plumpy 200 
Wheat 3,413 
Bangladesh 4,012,759 High Energy Biscuits 529 
Lentils 101 
Rice 862 
Split Peas 556 
Vegetable Oil 311 
Bhutan 500,000 Chickpeas 66 
Rice 725 
Burundi 924,007 Beans 63 
Maize 246 
Cambodia 2,560,637 Corn-Soya Blend 425 
Rice 1,842 
Vegetable Oil 78 
Democratic Republic of the 
Congo 1,386,928 - - 
Ethiopia 1,848,014 Beans 1,138 
Faffa 630 
Split Peas 529 
Guinea 1,155,009 Corn-Soya Blend 112 
Ready-to-Eat Supplementary Food 20 
Rice 268 
Salt 25 
Split Peas 162 
Vegetable Oil 148 
Guinea-Bissau 500,000 Rice 477 
Kenya 3,288,752 Corn-Soya Blend 288 
Maize 4,528 
Lao People's Democratic 
Republic 3,615,501 Corn-Soya Blend 1,206 
Corn-Soya Blend + 119 
Rice 650 
Sugar 247 
Vegetable Oil 351 
Madagascar 397,443 Corn-Soya Blend 568 
Malawi 1,731,390 Corn-Soya Blend 867 
Vegetable Oil 426 
Mali 1,732,513 Corn-Soya Blend 194 
High Energy Biscuits 6 
Split Peas 461 
Mali Regional 577,504 Rice 654 
Myanmar 6,000,000 Chickpeas 510 
High Energy Biscuits 300 
Palmolein Oil 180 
Rice 4,317 
Wheat-Soya Blend ++ 240 
Niger 2,656,520 Corn-Soya Blend 1,174 
Rice 63 
Sorghum 136 
Pakistan 9,000,000 Achamum 675 
Palmolein Oil 300 G/AG/N/AUS/98 
 
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  Recipient 
Country/Region Total Value ($A) Commodity Actual 
Tonnage (tonnes) 
Wheat-Soya Blend + 300 
Somalia 1,732,513 Beans 34 
Ready-to-Eat Supplementary Food 306 
South Sudan 9,025,518 Beans 96 
Corn-Soya Blend 453 
Salt 200 
Sorghum 2,410 
Split Peas 1,824 
Sudan 3,848,014 Corn-Soya Blend 1,140 
Salt 30 
Sorghum 1,389 
Vegetable Oil 136 
Yellow Split Peas 500 
Timor-Leste 231,002 - - 
Uganda 2,425,518 Beans 81 
Corn-Soya Blend 579 
Maize 347 
Vegetable Oil 149 
Yemen 9,276,553 Beans 2,147 
Palmolein Oil 656 
Red Beans 769 
Rice 475 
Sugar 61 
Vegetable Oil 1,561 
Wheat 3,315 
Wheat Flour 458 
Wheat-Soya Blend 48 
TOTAL NFIDC AND LDC 73,426,095  51,050 
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  ATTACHMENT C 
ACIAR Contribution to IARCs, 2013/2014 
CGIAR Centres 2013-2014 
Centre specific 
($A) Project specific 
($A) 
WORLDBANK The International Bank for 
Reconstruction and Development 18,300,000   
AFRRICE Africa Rice Center     
CIAT International Center for Tropical 
Agriculture   375,545 
CIFOR Center for International Forestry 
Research 3,000,000 0 
CIMMYT International Maize and Wheat 
Improvement Center   3,983,275 
CIP International Potato Center   0 
ICARDA International Center for 
Agricultural Research in Dry Areas   4,936,228 
WORLD 
AGROFORESTY 
CENTRE World Agroforestry Centre   2,326,670 
ICRISAT International Crops Research 
Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics   121,197 
IFPRI International Food Policy Research 
Institute   0 
IITA International Institute of Tropical 
Agriculture   0 
ILRI International Livestock Research 
Institute   2,030,001 
IPGRI Bioversity International   0 
IRRI International Rice Research 
Institute   2,014,078 
IWMI International Water Management 
Institute   1,060,240 
WFISH World Fish Center   2,853,043 
Non-associated centre      
AVRDC The World Vegetable Center   659,599 
CABI CAB International 530,000 0 
Subtotal   21,830,000 20,359,876 
        
Regional support       
APAARI Asia Pacific Association of 
Agricultural Research Institutions 83,149   
TOTAL MULTILATERAL FUNDING 42,273,025 
Source : ACIAR. 
 
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