This chapter analyzes how the interplay of agriculture and social protection programs and policies and their coordinated implementation can create positive synergies that accelerate progress in reducing rural poverty, eliminating hunger, and building resilience and improved well-being, especially for small family farmers.
The 2017–2018 Annual Trends and Outlook Report (ATOR) takes an in-depth look at social protection in rural Africa. First, it summarizes the available evidence on successful implementation of social protection programs in rural Africa. Second, the report helps to fill knowledge gaps related to enhancing the role of social protection in reducing vulnerability and increasing resilience of rural households as Africa embarks on the implementation of the Malabo Declaration commitments and the African Union’s Agenda 2063.
Beginning 2016, the African Union Commission (AUC), NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency (NPCA), and Regional Economic Communities (RECs) implemented consultative actions and technical partner engagements that culminated in a set of reporting tools for the first BR. An agreement reached with the leadership of the AUC was to evaluate the progress made by individual member states using balanced scorecard methods, to come up with an African Agriculture Transformation Scorecard (AATS).
This note presents summaries, experiences and lessons from the inaugural BR process focusing on the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC). It highlights country and regional averages of BR scores and brings out common policy lessons for the region.
In 2003, the African Union Assembly of Heads of State and Government adopted the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), an agriculture-led integrated development framework to boost African Agriculture with the aim to accelerate growth and eliminate poverty and hunger in African countries. CAADP was adopted in all ECOWAS Member Countries, that all developed and implemented a National Agriculture and Food Security Investment Plan (NAFSIP).
This paper uses panel data on 25 African countries from 2001 to 2014 and a country and year fixed-effects model to estimate the impacts of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), an agriculture-led integrated framework of development priorities in Africa, on government agricultural expenditure, official development assistance (ODA) for agriculture, and land and labor productivity. Instrumental variables and Heckman correction (inverse mills ratio) are used to address potential endogeneity and selection bias, respectively.
Abridged version of the Malawi Ministry of Irrigation and Water Development Integrated Water Resources Management and Water Efficiency Plan for the period 2008 – 2012.
