The Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System (ReSAKSS) supports the successful implementation of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) by providing policy-relevant data, facilitating dialogue among stakeholders, monitoring progress in reviewing goals, and strengthening mutual accountability processes at continental, regional, and national levels.

Africa remains very vulnerable to effects of climate change. Mitigation and adaptation actions are needed and will be crucial because Africa will be facing intensely repeated droughts, floods, desertification, and change in rainfall patterns that will affect the continent’s agricultural calendar, productivity of crop and livestock systems, food security and thereby the livelihoods of millions of farmers particularly in Africa south of the Sahara.

Four series of two- to four-day technical clinics were organized by IFPRI’s West and Central Africa office (WCAO) from September 2016 to May 2017 at the IFPRI office in Dakar, Senegal. The clinics were delivered as part of the support that IFPRI and ReSAKSS provide to the African Union Commission (AUC) and the NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency (NPCA).  

As the main platform for monitoring CAADP implementation, ReSAKSS tracks progress on over 30 core CAADP indicators through its flagship Annual Trends and Outlook Report (ATOR) and an interactive website, http://www.resakss.org. The ReSAKSS website has been completely redesigned to improve its appearance and functionality and better meet data and analytical needs of CAADP and its stakeholders.

 A New Innovative and User Friendly Website for CAADP Data and Knowledge Products

At the African Union Summit in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea in June 2014, Heads of State and Government adopted a remarkable set of concrete agriculture goals to be attained by 2025.

The Malabo Declaration on Accelerated Agricultural Growth and Transformation for Shared Prosperity and Improved Livelihoods is a set of new goals showing a more targeted approach to achieve the agricultural vision for the continent which is shared prosperity and improved livelihoods.

 "Using an analytical model to explore potential gendered dimensions in agricultural innovation systems". ReSAKSS Working Paper No. 39. 2016.

"Assessing the participation of men and women in cross-border trade in agriculture: Evidence from selected East African countries". ReSAKSS Working Paper No. 38. 2016.