• Wheat Supplies and Food Fears, Council on Foreign Relations, Aug 9
• UN Agencies Say 1.7 mln Zimbabweans Need Food Aid, Reuters Africa, Aug 10
• Ghana: Govt Warned of Looming Food Crisis, allAfrica.com, Aug 11

The significant progress made at the country level toward CAADP implementation over the past several months is continuing into mid-2010. Since the January/February issue of the ReSAKSS e-Newsletter, four countries have held Roundtables and signed CAADP compacts. Three of these countries are in the COMESA region (Malawi, Swaziland, and Uganda) and one (Guinea) is in the ECOWAS region.

• Leaders Approve New Agency to Replace NEPAD, allAfrica.com, Feb. 9
• NEPAD to Drive Continent's Growth, allAfrica.com, Feb. 16
• Food Security Talks in Africa Must Help, allAfrica.com, Feb. 16

Photo credit: Molay

CAADP is a program of NEPAD

The African Union Commission (AUC), in collaboration with the NEPAD Secretariat and ECOWAS Secretariat, organized the 5th Comprehensive Africa Agricultural Development Programme Partnership Platform (CAADP-PP) meeting from November 9-10, 2009 at the Transcorp Nicon (Hilton) Hotel in Abuja, Nigeria.

Nearly 300 agricultural experts, policymakers, donors and representatives from the African Union (AU), the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the East African Community (EAC) and other international organizations convened in Kigali, Rwanda from December 7-8, 2009 for a high-level stakeholders meeting on investments into Rwanda’s agricultural sector through NEPAD’s Comprehensive Africa Agricultural Development Programme (CAADP).

The Global Donor Platform for Rural Development has published a new publication called Guidelines for Donor Support to CAADP at a Country-level. 

By Lucas Barasa

This article first appeared on The Nation Website www.nation.co.ke on December 2, 2009. Mr. Lucas Barasa is an active member of the CAADP Network of Journalists.

A major conference to help enhance food security in Africa and share lessons on best practices was held from November 30 to December 4, 2009 in Nairobi, Kenya.

The Government of Sierra Leone has signed its CAADP compact, making it the second country in West Africa and the fifth on the continent to do so. The country’s Roundtable took place on September 17-18, 2009.

More information is available on the CAADP website at www.nepad-caadp.net.

Feature written by Dr. Babatunde Omilola, ReSAKSS-Africa Wide Coordinator