ReSAKSS Issue Briefs number 16, "CAADP Promotes Pro-Poor Growth and Poverty Reduction in Uganda" analyzes the feasibility of the CAADP 6 percent agricultural growth target and its potential impact on the Ugandan economy.

The Government of Nigeria has signed its CAADP compact, making it the ninth country in West Africa and the 12th on the continent to do so. The country’s Roundtable took place on October 29-30, 2009.

The International Conference on Financing Agricultural Policy in West Africa ended on November 12, 2009 with the official signature of the Regional Partnership Compact - the first such regional CAADP compact to be signed.

The Conference brought together high-level CAADP stakeholders from within West Africa, pertinent African institutions with continental mandates on CAADP and representatives of technical and financial partners. 

On December 3, 2009, the Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa hosted a special discussion in Washington, DC on the “Next Steps for the US Food Security Initiative”. Development partners from USAID and representatives from NGOs were present to discuss reflections on the FAO World Food Summit and the Partnership’s US-Africa Forum. ReSAKSS presented on CAADP progress and the outcomes of the fifth CAADP Partnership Platform (PP) which took place in Abuja, Nigeria. 

Babatunde Omilola presents at the Special Session on Africa of the High-Level Expert Forum on "How to Feed the World in 2050", October 12-13, 2009

Benin, The Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Mali and Niger have held CAADP Roundtables culminating in the signing of their country CAADP compacts since late-September. Nigeria is also expected to hold its CAADP Roundtable and sign its country CAADP compact during the last days of October 2009. This will bring the total number of countries, which have signed CAADP compacts up to12 at the end of October 2009. Several other countries, including Cote d'Ivoire, Senegal, Malawi, Uganda, Kenya, Swaziland and Zambia are also scheduled to hold their CAADP Roundtables before the end of 2009 or early 2010.

Representatives from the US government and the G-20 highlighted the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) as a model for collaborating with governments to increase agricultural production, food security, investment and poverty reduction at several key events in late September.

The ReSAKSS conference on “Exploring New Opportunities and Strategic Alternatives to Inform African Agricultural Development, Planning and Policy” in Africa will take place on November 23-24, 2009 at the United Nations Conference Center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

At the close of the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh, USA that ran from September 24-25, 2009, the official Leader's Statement was released. The statement promotes strengthening financial supervision and regulation for ensuring economic growth and job creation worldwide.

United States Chief of Staff and Counselor Cheryl Mills highlighted the importance of utilizing the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) as a means of collaborating with African countries in the area of food security, during her comments at a briefing in New York on September 25, 2009.

Read the full briefing here.