Africa: Africa's Food Systems - Twenty-Three Years After Maputo, What Has Changed?

[New Times] In July 2003, African leaders gathered in Maputo and made an important collective commitment. Agriculture would no longer be treated as a neglected sector of African development. Under the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme, commonly known as CAADP, governments pledged to allocate at least 10 per cent of national budgetary resources to agriculture and rural development. They also embraced the ambition of achieving sustained annual agricultural growth.