Agri Actu: Eradicating hunger in Africa

Agribusiness TV

24/07/2025

From 10 to 12 June 2024 in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), the Non-State Actors Group (NSAG) of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) organised a strategic workshop on the Kampala Declaration.

The workshop brought together representatives of the Non-State Actors Group, young people committed to agriculture, farmers' groups, media actors, the private sector and NGOs.

As a reminder, the CAADP is a programme led by the African Union, which aims to eradicate hunger and poverty on the continent.

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00:00Musique

00:13Food security is an ideal that the African continent is working hard to achieve.

00:18One of the continent's major initiatives is the Comprehensive Africa Agricultural Development Programme, CADEP.

00:24Ce programme est soutenu par l'Union africaine,

00:28whose ambition est claire pour éradiquer la hauteur et la pavardie sur le continent.

00:33CAADAP est le programme de développement de l'agriculture et de développement de l'agriculture,

00:37et il a été l'un des blueprints plus efficaces et impactifs

00:42avec une acceptation universelle au continent.

00:45Le objectif principal est vraiment

00:48de transformer l'agriculture des systèmes alimentaires dans les pays.

00:52Le programme a été créé en 2003 à la seconde session de l'agriculture

01:10de l'Assemblée en Maputo, Mozambique.

01:13Durant cette rencontre, les États-Unis et les gouvernements formidés et adoptés commitments

01:18contenés dans le Maputo Declaration sur l'agriculture et la sécurité en Afrique.

01:23Dans cette déclaration, ils pledgedient, entre autres,

01:26d'allocer au moins 10% du budget national pour l'agriculture et le développement de l'agriculture.

01:32Each country was to develop a national agriculture investment plan,

01:35and that plan was supposed to be used in conjunction with national development plans

01:42to set the stage for member states to transform agriculture within the countries.

01:47In 2014, on went to Malabo.

01:50Unfortunately, at Malabo,

01:51african heads of states and government realized

01:53that member states had not been doing what they promised to do.

01:56the expenses in agriculture goes to recurring expenses like fuel from vehicles, salaries,

02:02and so forth.

02:03So, what some of us have been saying is that a portion of that 10% should go directly to

02:09agriculture investment.

02:11From 2003 to 2014, more than 10 years after the Maputo Declaration,

02:17no significant progress had been made.

02:19Most states had not achieved the promised and agreed 10% budget allocation target.

02:24Moreover, many member states had not drawn up their national agricultural investment plans.

02:31This led to further declarations after periods of program evaluation

02:36to better adapt the objectives to the realities of the continent.

02:41Maputo was 2003, and then Malabo 2014, and the Kampala Declaration,

02:47which has just recently been endorsed by the heads of states and government of the African Union.

02:53And basically, the Kampala Declaration is not very different from the previous declarations.

03:00It builds on the last two.

03:03But the major change is now that we are focusing more on agro-food systems,

03:08rather than agriculture, as we did in the past, rather than agriculture production.

03:14We now have the Kampala Declaration of 2026 up to 2035.

03:20And in January 2025, a heads of state summit was held in Kampala, Uganda,

03:27and they approved two things, the tenure, Kampala, KADAP strategy and action plan,

03:33and the Kampala Declaration.

03:35We are not starting anything new.

03:37We are continuing from where we have been.

03:39We just consolidated the issues.

03:42The new Kampala Declaration includes six strategic objectives.

03:52The first one is around agro-food systems, food production, industrialization, and trade.

03:58The second one is about increasing finance in agriculture.

04:02The third one is about ensuring food security and nutrition.

04:06And the fourth one is advancing inclusivity, equitable livelihoods.

04:11We have a fifth, which is around building resilient food systems, resilient systems, livelihood systems.

04:19And then the sixth strategic objective is about agro-food systems governance.

04:24With the Kampala Declaration and the KADAP 10-year action plan, 2026 to 2035,

04:30now approved by the heads of state to transform Africa's agricultural systems and boost food security,

04:37all that remains is implementation.

04:40With this new declaration, they commit to increasing Africa's agri-food production by 45% by 2035.

04:48If you have a vision, then you have a direction.

04:51So when it comes to whether the targets that have been set in Kampala are realistic,

04:57what is important is that we know where we are going.

05:00And now it is our role, all of us, to play that role of ensuring that those targets

05:06are translating into practical implementation actions.

05:10If it's been put there, there's science to back it.

05:14But there's also goodwill from the national governments to ensure this is achieved.

05:18What is most important is that progressive realization of those targets.

05:24So if we have said 45% in year one, where were we?

05:29If we were at 5%, what has been the jump?

05:32Let's draw lessons.

05:34How do we put more effort to get to 15%, to get to 20%, to get to 30%?

05:39And by the time we're doing five years, we are closer to that 45% target.

05:45It all takes commitment and dedication, but also focus.

05:49The main question that remains is how to get African states to actually meet these commitments.

05:58For some years now, the implementation of this program has benefited from the participation

06:03of the CADEP Non-State Actors Group.

06:05Made up of CSOs, NGOs, farmers' organizations, journalists and private sector players,

06:12this entity plays a crucial role in running the program.

06:15It mobilizes local players and influences policy by holding government to account.

06:21The CADEP Non-State Actors Group is a collective of several entities that have come together

06:28to have a unified voice when it comes to transforming agri-food systems on the continent.

06:33So everyone who is not government is part of our collection and our collective.

06:39So CNG's role is to ensure that we broaden accountability,

06:44we strengthen accountability of the CADEP commitments that were made by the heads of state

06:51and the declarations that have the 10-year plans.

06:54Our role as non-state actors is to ensure that governments stick to those commitments,

06:58the 10% allocation, but also that commitment to have agriculture growth based on productivity increase,

07:07but also increasing intra-trade amongst African nations,

07:12but also boosting indicators such as food security and nutrition security for the people of the continent.

07:19We organize joint events where we are disseminating the results at the regional level,

07:25at the country levels, trying to ensure that countries and the regions

07:29uptake the recommendations coming from the African Union at the end of every bi-annual review cycle,

07:36so that as they are planning or reviewing the agricultural budget of the preceding year,

07:42they are able to integrate some of these issues.

07:45One key thing for the stakeholders that we were engaging were the parliamentarians,

07:49because we also knew that they had a role to play.

07:52You know, they were the ones that legislated the budget into laws,

07:55they were the ones that also enforces that agricultural budget allocation,

08:00you know, is made and made in the proper way.

08:02From June 10 to 12, 2025, the CADEP non-state actors group organized a strategic workshop

08:13on the Kampala Declaration in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

08:17The aim was to draw lessons on CADEP implementation,

08:20harmonize priorities, refine the group's collective action strategy

08:24for inclusive CADEP implementation and approve the group's rule of procedure.

08:30So we said as non-state actors, we were given slots of what our roles should be.

08:35Let us come together and strategize on how we are going to show up.

08:40Lessons that we have learnt from the past two decades of implementing Malabo, of implementing Maputo.

08:47How do we bring it together to ensure the next 10 years lead to real changes,

08:52building from the lessons learnt.

08:54So this is a very opportune time because we want to be fully armoured to ensure

08:59that we work together as a collective, share ideas,

09:03but ensure that this network is growing stronger in countries where we're probably working in isolation.

09:09This workshop still underscores the importance of inclusivity in the CADEP process.

09:15Looking at the way CADEP has been implemented over the years, the last 20 years,

09:19there has been a noted continuous improvement when it comes to stakeholders' engagement.

09:24and the best stakeholders are making reference to the non-state actors.

09:27The workshop brought together representatives of the non-state actors group,

09:31young people committed to agriculture, farmers group, media players, the private sector and NGOs.

09:39We have solidified and affirmed our commitment to the process,

09:44but also we realise that this is not a destination, it is a process and we continuously evolve.

09:51But as we are evolving, we look at where are the different voices that are representing farmers,

09:57that are representing youth, that are representing women, that are representing all the actors,

10:01so that we can all collectively engage in this space.

10:05And another key takeaway is really to say that as we mobilise at continental level,

10:11we can only make meaningful impact and noticeable change

10:16when non-state actors are also engaging at national level.

10:21Having learnt lessons from Malabu and what Malabu has done,

10:25we definitely identified some key gaps that we hope that Kampala is going to address.

10:30The impact are, we are actually getting to meet with farmers and know their challenges.

10:36We are able to advocate to the government and push them to pay more attention into agriculture

10:43and also nutrition security, because if we have good food, people will be healthy.

10:49So we are actually advocating for better systems, better educational systems,

10:53better food and nutrition systems, better partnerships.

10:57The objectives have been defined and the path seems to have been mapped

11:04towards a more climate resilient African agriculture geared to the continent's prosperity.

11:10CADEP is therefore a strategic tool through which the African Union intends

11:15to encourage states to honor their commitment to achieving food security and reducing poverty.

11:20While CADEP's most ambitious objectives have yet to be achieved,

11:25growth in agricultural production remains positive.

11:29According to the 2010 report on trends and prospects in the agricultural sector

11:34by the regional strategic analysis and knowledge management system risks,

11:39agricultural growth in West Africa was 6.5% in 2008, compared with an average of 4.4% during the period of 2003 to 2007,

11:49and 3.2% in the 19th.

11:52My call to action is that each and every sector that finds itself as part of this CADEP strategy and action plan for the next 10 years,

12:03find your space and implement what you have seen you need to do.

12:08If we all implement what we need to do, I am so sure that African development through agriculture will grow greatly.

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