2021 CAADP Biennial Review Brief – Zimbabwe

AUTHOR

Malvern Mupandawana, Jacob Ikhothatseng Greffiths, Greenwell Matchaya, Bhekiwe Fakudze, Grace N. Nicholas, and Alfios Mayoyo.

SERIES NAME

Biennial Review

YEAR

2023

ABSTRACT

The Malabo Declaration on accelerated agricultural growth and transformation for shared prosperity and improved livelihoods is a set of goals that were adopted by Heads of State and Government of the African Union in 2014 in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea (AUC 2014). To translate the seven Malabo commitments into results, a call for action was made by the Heads of State and Governments, by calling upon the AU Commission and the NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency, in collaboration with partners, to initiate a review process to be conducted on a biennial basis starting 2017, with an objective of tracking, measuring, and reporting progress towards achieving the Malabo Declaration commitments by 2025.

 

Three Biennial Reviews (BR) have been conducted—the inaugural BR in 2017, the second BR in 2019, and the third and most recent BR in 2021. This brief draws on the third BR report to summarize the performance in pursuit of the seven Malabo Declaration commitments across the three BR cycles highlights challenges and lessons from the third BR, and outlines policy and programmatic measures required for Zimbabwe to meet the Malabo Declaration commitment targets by 2025.

 

The third BR reveals that Zimbabwe is not on track for achieving the Malabo Declaration Commitments. However, an improvement in the country’s overall performance score since the second one has been noted. This progress from the second to the third BR represents a turnaround from the decline the country registered between the first BR and the second.

 

A key recommendation from the analysis is for the country to enhance its access to agricultural technologies to improve yields and production. The country should review its involvement in agricultural commodity markets to ensure government actions promote, rather than hinder, the competitiveness of the sector.

PUBLISHER

AKADEMIYA2063