Author: Ibnou Ndiame

ReSAKSS Annual Conference / Articles posted by Ibnou Ndiame

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January 21, 2026

Over the past two decades, the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) has catalyzed investments, enhanced accountability mechanisms, and elevated agriculture within the continental development agenda. Yet, emerging challenges—such as stagnating productivity growth, escalating climate risks, and persistent structural barriers—demonstrate that incremental approaches are inadequate. Africa now demands a bold transition toward innovation-driven, data-informed, and institutionally empowered transformation. The Kampala CAADP Declaration embodies this new direction by positioning the agenda as a whole-system transformation, anchoring science, technology, and innovation as core strategic assets for Africa’s future food systems. Unlocking the continent’s vast potential will necessitate a new wave of investments, institutional reforms, and innovation strategies rooted in robust evidence, systems thinking, and forward-looking digital governance. The 2025 Annual Trends and Outlook Report...

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January 7, 2026

[embed]https://youtu.be/wHLNWqr9Lw8[/embed] The 2024 Annual Trends and Outlook Report (ATOR) addresses the pressing question of how Africa’s agrifood systems actors can be better equipped to tackle the impacts of climate change while simultaneously reshaping and transforming economies to align with sustainability standards and nature-based solutions. The report seeks to clarify the convergence between the climate change and bioeconomy agendas in the context of the Post-Malabo CAADP Agenda. It provides an overview of the latest data and analytics needed for better-informed programmatic instruments for sustainable climate-centered interventions and to harness the potential of the bioeconomy as a new paradigm to sustainably transform agrifood systems in Africa. Almost all African countries have responded to the global call for mitigating and adapting to climate change impacts by...

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September 13, 2024

The continent is not achieving the goals set ten years ago in Malabo. Nevertheless, there has been growth, albeit on a lower level. New guidelines for public investment in agriculture are required. Harvest in Senegal. Mechanisation in African agriculture stands at about ten percent. 65 percent of labour is performed by humans, about 25 percent by draught animals. © AfDB via Flickr   Most African countries have not reached the Malabo target of investing 10 percent of their national budgets in agriculture. But focusing only on the Malabo target disguises the fact that public investment in agriculture has nevertheless risen significantly. To make African agriculture more resilient to shocks and improve food security and agri-food systems, more public and private investment is urgently...

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September 13, 2024

The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme Biennial Review: An innovative accountability and reporting tool The Biennial Review (BR) process of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) has underscored the need to strengthen data systems and capacities and to promote evidence-based policymaking and decision-making. As part of the mutual accountability process, every two years, African Union (AU) member states compile and report data on over 300 data parameters to assess their progress toward achieving the Malabo Declaration’s agrifood system transformation goals by 2025. The country assessments are consolidated into a continental CAADP BR report that is presented during an AU Heads of State and Government Summit at the end of each BR cycle. After four cycles, the CAADP BR has generated...

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September 9, 2024

After four cycles, the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) Biennial Review (BR) process has generated not only four continental BR reports, but also a large cross-country time series dataset (2014-2022). Yet, despite the growing knowledge products, uptake of the BR data and results by CAADP stakeholders for evidence-based policy and decision-making remains rather low. Why the low uptake of BR data? The challenges The low uptake of CAADP BR data can be attributed to a host of challenges ranging from limited data availability, access, awareness and capacities to low data quality and, thus, reduced reliability of the data. For example, a recent independent assessment of the CAADP BR process noted inadequate dissemination of BR results following the release of the continental report,...

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September 9, 2024

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QO-aErCHsY"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]2023 marks 20 years of implementing the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), which was launched with the Maputo Declaration in 2003. With CAADP, African leaders committed to promoting agricultural growth as a key catalyst of broader economic development. After the first decade of CAADP implementation, characterized by strong agricultural and economic growth across the continent, the CAADP agenda was broadened under the 2014 Malabo Declaration on Accelerated Agricultural Growth and Transformation for Shared Prosperity and Improved Livelihoods. The Malabo Declaration reaffirmed the commitments of African heads of state to the original CAADP targets of achieving a 6 percent agricultural growth rate and a 10 percent agricultural expenditure share, while adding further commitments to be achieved by 2025 in...

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August 24, 2022

Through the 2014 Malabo Declaration, African leaders committed to conduct a biennial review (BR) to track country progress toward achieving commitments aimed at steering agricultural transformation by 2025. With Africa now having successfully conducted three cycles of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) BR, have the results, good or bad, helped to trigger any policy adjustments to ensure that countries stay or get on track to achieve the commitments by 2025? Anecdotal evidence gathered from key CAADP stakeholders by researchers from the Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System (ReSAKSS) points to policy and programmatic changes in several countries following the first and second BRs in 2017 and 2019, respectively. These include the governments of Lesotho and Mozambique recommitting to...

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August 24, 2022

Since March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused major disruptions to life as we know it, with wide-ranging spill-over effects permeating various sectors. While Africa fared better than predicted in terms of health impacts, COVID-19 has severely affected the continent’s agri-food systems and jeopardized 20 years of economic recovery, reversing years of progress in improving the livelihoods of millions of people. Amid the triple threat of COVID-19, climate change, and fragile food systems, the Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System (ReSAKSS) at AKADEMIYA2063, in partnership with the African Union Commission (AUC), convened the 2021 ReSAKSS Annual Conference from November 15-17, 2021. The discussions focused on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on African food systems and policy options to...

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