Foreword

Through the Malabo Declaration on “Accelerated Agricultural Growth and Transformation for Shared Prosperity and Improved Livelihoods”, African leaders strongly voiced their determination that Africa should be able to feed itself by 2025. This ambitious agenda, aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), stresses the need to increase public and private investments in agriculture, necessary to boost production and productivity. There is also a focus on making diets more nutritious and food systems more resilient to external (climate) shocks, as captured in Africa’s overarching policy framework for agricultural transformation and food security, the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP).

Sustainable Development Goals:

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