Agriculture and Africa's challenges

Africa's leaders placed agriculture high on the agenda at the African Union Heads of State and Government assembly last month by signing the Malabo Declaration.

Included in the Declaration is:

• A call for governments to recommit to the Comprehensive African Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP). The CAADP calls on countries to commit 10% of their national budgets to agriculture.  
• An undertaking to increase both public and private investment finance in agriculture

Agriculture holds out a solution for a number of the challenges affecting Africa, specifically food security and youth unemployment.

We know the theory; can we put it into practice?

Africa and agriculture is the opening chapter in the 2013/14 edition of The Agri Handbook. Find it here.