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By: Sashnee Moodley Despite some strides having been made over the past decade to enhance agricultural development across Africa, there is no escaping the reality that the continent continues to face serious challenges of hunger, malnutrition and rural poverty. This has prompted the African Union (AU) Assembly of African Heads of State and Governments to declare 2014 the Year of Agriculture and Food Security shop selling out of date food in Africa.
The AU hopes that by giving high-level focus to the issue, it will encourage countries to increase shop selling out of date food food security, reduce poverty, promote economic growth and create wealth through agricultural upliftment.
As part of its declaration, the AU will call on all member States to strengthen the policy environment in a bid to help spur national, regional and international investment in agriculture. It also aims to highlight policy and strategy implementation and track and measure progress.
The Year of Agriculture and Food Security in Africa is an attempt to secure a recommit- ment to agriculture and to implementing policies and strategies highlighted following the implementation of the AU’s shop selling out of date food Compre-hensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), developed and adopted in Mozambique by African heads of State and governments in 2003.
Since its implementation, the CAADP was launched in more than 40 African countries, with 34 committing to a common vision and strategy called the CAADP Compact; of these 34, 28 member States are moving towards establishing their own National Agriculture and Food Security Investment Plans.
Performance Assessment AU department of rural economy and agriculture chief adviser and CAADP team leader Boaz Blackie Keizire states that the AU has led the process of assessing agriculture-sector performance since the CAADP was endorsed.
The CAADP was created to focus on sustainable land and water management, infrastructure for market access and enhanced agricultural shop selling out of date food trade, ensuring resilience and food and nutrition security, as well as on managing vulnerability to risks and putting in place agricultural technologies with mechanisms for innovation and their adoption.
“The lessons learnt and experiences gained in the last ten years of CAADP implement-ation helped us reach a common under-standing to build on the strong policies and strategies established in the last decade and to focus on implementation and impact. This will define a set of activities for 2014,” he says.
Further, to attract shop selling out of date food stakeholders to assess and declare results as part of the CAADP results framework, the AU has commissioned studies to understand what constitutes the drivers of success in agricultural transformation in Africa.
The AU is assessing several African countries with notable agricultural success and this will assist in defining key parameters that will result in the successful transformation of the agriculture sector.
Keizire notes that a change is needed in the original CAADP commitment, which targets shop selling out of date food the allocation of 10% of a country’s year