Fourth CAADP Biennial Review Brief: Zambia

AUTHOR

Winnie Kasoma-Pele, Greenwell Matchaya,Chongo Banda, and Benard Mumba

SERIES NAME

Biennial Review

YEAR

2025

ABSTRACT

 

The Malabo Declaration on accelerated agricultural growth and transformation for shared prosperity and improved livelihoods is a set of goals 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 Government for the African Union Commission (AUC) and the African Union Development Agency NEPAD (AUDA-NEPAD), 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 toward achieving the Malabo Declaration Commitments by 2025.

 

Four Biennial Reviews (BR) have been conducted—the inaugural BR in 2017, the second BR in 2019, the third BR in 2021, and the most recent BR concluded in 2023. 

 

As part of fulfilling Commitment 7 on mutual accountability, the fourth BR Report (BR4) and the Africa Agriculture Transformation Scorecard (AATS) were launched at the 37th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the AU Heads of State and Government in March 2024 (AUC 2024). 

 

This brief highlights Zambia’s performance in BR4 and compares this to the country’s BR1, BR2, and BR3 performance. It also discusses challenges and lessons learned during the fourth BR. Further, the brief reviews policy, programmatic, and investment changes in Zambia that are attributable to the BRs and concludes by highlighting the measures Zambia needs to take to meet all seven Malabo Commitments by 2025.

 

A key recommendation from the analysis indicates that Zambia should consider increasing resources to support the key drivers of agricultural growth, including research and development, extension services, market information, irrigation for smallholder farmers, and feeder roads. 

PUBLISHER

AKADEMIYA2063