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The Sphere Handbook

Authors:
Sphere
Sector Type:
Resilience and Disaster Risk Reduction
Year Published:
2018

Advancing Country-led Accountability for Performance in the Ag Sector: Africa’s CAADP Biennial Review

Addressing Africa’s agricultural challenges has the potential to unlock inclusive economic growth, benefit smallholder farmers, boost food production and end hunger. It is for this reason that African heads of state and governments signed a declaration on Agriculture and Food Security in Maputo, Mozambique in July 2003, creating the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) to increase public investment in agriculture by a minimum of 10 percent of national budgets, and to raise agricultural productivity by at least 6 percent. In 2014, as part of the Malabo Declaration, African Union Member States committed to report biennially on implementation of CAADP