The document discusses progress and challenges in implementing the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) over the past 10 years. It notes that while agricultural GDP growth has reduced poverty, progress has been insufficient to achieve CAADP's goal of 10% budget allocation to agriculture and 6% annual growth. Ongoing challenges include financial dependency on donors, weak market integration and coordination. The conference aims to accelerate transformation by enabling private investment, science and technology, and building implementation capacity.

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FAO 28th Regional Conference for Africa
24 – 28 March 2014, Tunis (Tunisia)
State of Food and Agriculture in the Africa Region and
CAADP Implementation with a Specific Focus on Small
Holder Farmers and Family Farming

2. ARC-28 African Youth In Agriculture and Rural Development
Progresses have been made but there still remains a lot to do:
“Although agriculture grew at a moderate rate, this growth has contributed to
significant reductions in poverty in many African countries”
•Average GDP growth
was 4.8% between
2000-10
• Compared to 2.1%
in the previous
decade (1990-99)
•The Ag sector annual
GDP growth rates
were 3.2% and
•3.0% respectively for
the two decades
Poverty rates
declined marginally
from 56% in 1990 to
49% in 2010, leaving
388 million in
extreme poverty
(more than 50% and
239 million
chronically
undernourished)

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2014 is at the heart of Agriculture in Africa
International
Year of Family
Farming
AU year of
Agricultural
and Food
Security
10 years of
CAADP
implementation

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10 years of CAADP implementation:
Engagement in the CAADP
process
CAADP Compacts signed
Investments plans formulated
Business organised
46 countries launched CAADP
process
40 countries compacts
3 Regional compacts
28 National Investment Plans
2 Regional Investment Plans
25 business meetings
1 Regional business meting
Mobilisation of resources
15 received GAFSP funds
2003-2010: 13 countries met or
surpassed 10% in any single year

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In addition:
• CAADP serves as an important point of departure for governments in their
engagement with domestic international private investors;
• Agriculture is linked to the political and policy agenda;
• Political commitment to increased budgetary allocations;
• Mobilised African stakeholders around a common agenda;
• Promoted regional integration and coordination and reinforced the
capacities of continental and regional institutions.
“However, progress has not been enough to achieve CAADP target of both a
10% budget share and 6% annual growth for agriculture”

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Still more challenges to overcome and
opportunities to be seized:
• High expectations of mobilization of new external resources, creating a
financial dependency to which only donors could respond;
• Insufficient attention on making markets work;
• Weak inter-ministerial and inter-sectoral coordination;
• Non-alignment of donors programmes with CAADP national policies
and programmes and strategies;
• Insufficient involvement of African financial institutions (Banks, private
equity and investment banking);
• Consistent application of measures promoting regional integration.

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CAADP 2014-2023 RESULTS FRAMEWORK
Level 1 – Contribute to Africa socio-economic development
(Wealth Creation; Resilience; Improved Food and Nutrition Security)
Level 2 – Sustained Inclusive agriculture growth: agriculture growth, jobs, poverty reduction
Level 3 – Transformational Change as a result of CAADP: Conducive environments; systemic capacity
INPUT: CAADP SUPPORT, TOOLS, PROCESSES, CAPACITY BUILDING, PEER REVIEW MECHANISMS
Impact to which
CAADP
contributes
(indirect link)
Changes in African
agriculture
resulting from the
implementation
of CAADP
approach are
measured at this
level
2.1 Increased
agriculture
production and
productivity
2.2 Better
functioning
agriculture
markets, increased
markets, access
and trade
2.3 Increased
private sector
investment along
the agriculture
value chain
2.4 Increased
availability and
access to food and
access to
productive safety
nets
2.5 Improved
management of
natural resources
for sustainable
agriculture
production
Added value of
CAADP support
and
interventions to
institutional
transformation
and CAADP
operational
effectiveness is
measured at this
level
3.3 More
Inclusive and
evidence based
agriculture
planning and
implementation
processes
3.2 More
efficient /
stronger
institutions
3.1 Improved
and Inclusive
policy design
and
implementati
on capacity
3.4 Improved
partnership
between
private and
public sector
3.5 Increased
public
investment in
agriculture
achieving
better value
for money
3.6 Increased
access to
quality
data, informat
ion and an
informed
public

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CAADP's success will depend on:
• Strengthening policy and programme implementation capacity;
• Promoting policy and regulatory measures to stimulate private investment;
• Mobilising domestic resources for catalytic government investment;
• Facilitating public-private partnerships;
• Strengthening non-state actor involvement;
• Coherent results frameworks and accountability mechanisms to achieve
impact.

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The Conference’s discussions and decisions should focus on three priority
areas of action needed to accelerate agricultural transformation:
• Provide a stable, enabling environment for investment by the domestic
private sector, including smallholder and family farmers;
• Invest in a home-grown science, technology and learning agenda that is
responsive to the needs and goals of farmers, especially smallholder
farmers and family farmers; and,
• Identify how CAADP can more effectively contribute to building systemic
capacity for results-oriented action and implementation.
• .

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Key recommendations to be considered:
• Integrate nutrition goals and nutrition-sensitive agriculture investments into
agriculture sector plans;
• Increase public investments in agriculture in respect of the Maputo;
• Intensify efforts to address the binding constraints to improved productivity,
incomes and food security of smallholder farms and family farmers;
• Promote inclusivity and effective joint engagement of state and non state
actors at regional, national and local levels to foster accountability,
transparency, performance, and competitiveness of the agri-food system
and commodity value chains.
• Stronger coordination with private sector and civil society