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septembre 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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septembre 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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septembre 13, 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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octobre 12, 2021

Africa’s rural transformation is hampered by the difficulties and missed opportunities farmers face in accessing markets. Many of these problems can be traced to farmers’ individual struggles—i.e., a lack of economies of scale—in consistently procuring inputs and marketing their outputs. Collective action mechanisms such as producer organizations could facilitate smallholders' access to input and output markets....

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octobre 12, 2021

Food safety has never featured prominently on Africa’s development agenda. When it is an issue, typically the focus has been on high-value food items produced for export, while food safety in domestic markets has been largely neglected, both by governments and development partners. This must change. Recent research has shown that the health and economic consequences of foodborne diseases in Africa are significant and growing, as urbanization and income growth prompt dietary changes that increasingly expose consumers to food safety hazards....

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octobre 12, 2021

The rapid proliferation of information and communication technologies (ICTs) offers great promise for transforming smallholder agriculture in Africa. Going beyond the narrow view of “technologies” as a tool, the broader concept of “digitalization” is a potential game changer. Building climate resilience for smallholder farmers to boost productivity; improving access to financing for all stakeholder groups to increase profitability along the value chain; and addressing social inclusion gaps for youth, women, and other marginalized groups are some of the areas that digitalization can be effectively deployed in building more efficient food systems....

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octobre 12, 2021

By Tsitsi Makombe Last in a series of blog posts on the release of the 2020 Annual Trends and Outlook Report (ATOR) during the virtual 2020 ReSAKSS Annual Conference Nov. 3–5. The theme of the 2020 ATOR is "Sustaining Africa’s Agrifood System Transformation: The Role of Public Policies." Read the other posts here, here, here, and here. Transforming agrifood systems provides the best opportunity for achieving the Malabo Declaration goals of ending hunger and malnutrition, reducing poverty, and enhancing the resilience of agricultural production systems and livelihoods. This kind of transformation is a complex undertaking in which policy choices play a critical role, as they have to constantly adapt to a changing global landscape, the complexity of local economies, and the challenges and opportunities posed by economic and climate shocks as...

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octobre 31, 2020

Africans have always recognized the importance of farm mechanization. Many who have grown up in rural areas have, at some point, worked on a farm or watched others do so, and know firsthand the back-breaking labor involved. Mechanical power that can provide relief from such drudgery has always been desired and appreciated....

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