With the 2014 Malabo Declaration on Accelerated Agricultural Growth and Transformation for Shared Prosperity and Improved Livelihoods, African leaders recommitted their countries to the pursuit of agriculture-led growth and other principles and values of CAADP, including evidence-based planning, dialogue, and review.

Agreements on this Coordination mechanism and Continental Roadmap for submitting the Inaugural Biennial Report to the AU Assembly, were reached at the Sensitization and Member States and RECs' engagement workshop organized by the African Union Commission on 21-23 September 2016 in Dakar (Senegal) to harmonize ongoing processes on rolling out the Malabo Declaration' Biennial Review.

The Country progress Reporting Template has been prepared to support African Union Member States in collecting data for their agricultural transformation reports to the African Union Summit on progress made for implementing Commitments in the June 2014 AU Heads of States Malabo Declaration on Accelerated Agricultural Growth and Transformation for Shared Prosperity and Improved Livelihoods.

These guidelines have been prepared to support African Union Member States in preparing their agricultural transformation reports to the African Union Summit on progress made for implementing Commitments in the June 2014 AU Heads of States Malabo Declaration on Accelerated Agricultural Growth and Transformation for Shared Prosperity and Improved Livelihoods.

Statement by Ousmane Badiane
Director for Africa
The Inaugural CAADP Biennial Review Report: Launch of the African Agricultural Transformation Scorecard and Recognition of Five African Countries as Best Performers
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
29 January 2018
 

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is endowed with well over two million square kilometers (km2) of land, 800 thousand of which is arable, yet only 10 percent is currently under cultivation. DRC also has favorable climatic and ecological conditions, allowing several harvests of numerous crops per year. Nevertheless, few studies have looked at the country’s spatial heterogeneity in terms of economic activity, public goods, or the livelihood strategies of smallholder farmers.

During the ReSAKSS Annual Conference the African Agriculture Technology Foundation (AATF) organized a talk on the topic: Agricultural Technologies for Combating Climate Change in Africa. The goal of increasing agricultural productivity and enhancing food security in Africa to keep pace with projected population growth is being threatened by the impact of climate change.

At the ReSAKSS Annual Conference 2017 in Mozambique, SNV Netherlands Development Organization and IFPRI/ReSAKSS hosted a panel discussion, drawing from their experiences in evidence-based policy processes and on-the-ground implementation of innovative practices that strengthen climate information, and market systems for pastoralists. The objective was to provide a set of recommendations on suitable climate-smart practices, and policy considerations that can feed into evidence-based policy planning processes as well as investment plans.