The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) is Africa’s policy framework for agricultural transformation, wealth creation, food security and nutrition. As part of NEPAD (The New Partnership for Africa’s Development) the policy framework was formed in 2003 in Maputo, Mozambique at an AU Summit. The overall goal of CAADP is to help African countries reach a higher path of economic growth through agriculture –led development, which, in the end, could eliminate hunger, reduce poverty and food insecurity. After the Maputo Declaration in Maputo Mozambique, another declaration was made. We take a relook at CAADP and the role it plays in realizing the Malabo Declaration.

What have been the challenges, if any, faced by the continent in the development of agriculture?