Uganda has agreed to host the summit 9th to 12th January 2025 according to details released by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA).
Taarifa has established that on Thursday AGRA in Uganda alongside a delegation from African Union paid a courtesy call to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Agriculture to discuss the post-malabo Kampala Declaration roadmap.
“Uganda has agreed to host the summit 9th to 12th January 2025. The Minister will now seek Cabinet and President’s endorsement,” AGRA said on Thursday.
African nations convened in Maputo, Mozambique, in 2003, and agreed on the Comprehensive Africa Agricultural Development Program (CAADP).
The pledge was to increase the growth of agricultural sector productivity by 6% and to allocate 10% of their national budget GDP to the agriculture Sector. to achieve the 6% growth.
As there was no marked progress, this pledge was followed by a ten-year strategy developed in Malabo.
While African leaders remain committed to delivering the CAADP framework, the four Biennial Review Reports have indicated that despite significant efforts in the implementation of the Malabo Declaration, the continent remains largely off-track to achieve the Malabo targets by 2025.
Furthermore, according to the SOFI report 2023, Africa remains the worst-affected region, with one in five people facing hunger on the continent, more than twice the global average.
As the two decades have ended, a process is underway to start a strategy for another ten years, to be called the Kampala Declaration, as the meeting will take place in Kampala in 2025.
However, Alliance for Food Sovereignty in africa is concerned that the African Union Commission (AUC) has embarked on the development of the post-Malabo agenda with limited participation of wider stakeholders in Africa, which is critical to yield constructive engagement and ownership by the people of Africa as envisioned in Agenda 2063, “The Africa We Want.”
“We want to remind the AUC that the failure to actively involve African farmers and citizens in the design and implementation is one of the reasons for the failure of CAADP and Malabo.”
“We are further concerned that the post-Malabo roadmap was communicated to wider stakeholders late (mid-May), with strict and unrealistic timelines,” AFSA said in a statement posted on its website.
