Come January 2018, Africa Union (AU) member states will be required to submit progress reports on agricultural commitments to the Ethiopia-based commission for review.
At the end of the 13th Partnership Platform Meeting of the African Union flagship Comprehensive African Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) at Speke Resort Hotel in Kampala on Friday, a set of 43 indicators, to be used in the review, were spelled out.
“It is important that we push for development with this mutual accountability to which the Heads of State and governments agreed, as a factor that will contribute to the realisation of the targets that we have,” Josefa Sacko, the African Union Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture said.
According to Ernest Ruzindaza, advisor to the Agriculture Commissioner, the AU member states are guided by CAADP as the continental framework agreed upon at the heads of state summit in Maputo, Mozambique in 2003. The one that followed was made in Malabo, 2014, he says.
Ruzindaza says the Heads of State agreed to pursue targets of 6% annual growth in agricultural GDP and an investment of at least 10% of their respective national budgets to agriculture.
source: newvision.co.ug
