The University of Ibadan hosted the 2nd Symposium on Climate Change Adaptation In Africa on May 14-15. The symposium was co-organized with Manchester Metropolitan University (UK), Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany) and the International Climate Change Information Programme (ICCIP) in Ibadan, Nigeria.

Malawi is proving that an inclusive and participatory agriculture joint sector review (JSR) is instrumental for mutual accountability and guiding agricultural policy reforms in the country. Its JSR provides opportunities for all key stakeholders to debate agricultural policies and advocate for improvements, which in some cases have led to concrete policy changes.

African Union led initiatives have been shaping policy debates and driving research agendas towards the transformation of African agriculture for the last two decades. Continent-wide policies have set a clear vision for African agriculture and now the frontrunners are being recognised.

I’m just off an overnight plane from East Africa, and while I’m not a Marvel fan, it was refreshing to see a theme dominated by Africans in the ‘Black Panther’ movie last night. Could Africa be helping itself towards the seemingly equitable prosperity of the fictional African country of Wakanda?

This report is primarily for mutual review at the continental level, the process that culminates in the annual CAADP Partnership Platform meeting (CAADP PP) that brings together representatives of the leading Regional Economic Communities (RECs) as well as other regional organizations dealing with agriculture, major bilateral and multilateral development agencies, and private-sector and farmers’ organizations to review overall progress in the implementation of CAADP at the Africawide level.

Progress with implementation of CAADP in Lesotho: Despite Lesotho signing the CAADP Compact in 2013, finalization of the National Agriculture Investment Plan (NAIP) is still in
progress, while subsequent processes (technical review and business meeting) are yet to be conducted. A SAKSS node to facilitate monitoring and evaluation, and provide a platform

The 2016/17 Agriculture Sector Performance Report (ASPR) documents the performance of the agricultural sector of Malawi for the fiscal year 2016/17 against the set goal, objectives and outcomes measures of the National Agriculture Policy (NAP) and the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) framework of the National Agriculture Investment Plan (NAIP). As such, this report contains the baseline measures for monitoring progress towards achieving the agricultural transformation agenda outlined in the NAP and operationalized through the investment

The 2016 Joint Sector Review report has been prepared against the background of four key national developments relating to the ASWAp implementation, finalization of the development of the National Agricultural Policy, climate change induced humanitarian crisis involving 6.7 million people, and continued volatile macro-economic conditions that have significant bearing on the sector’s investments.