- The Malabo Declaration deadline has expired with only a handful of African countries on track.
- Of 51 AU member states, only Rwanda is on course to achieving the 2014 Malabo commitments on financing agriculture.
- In year’s Africa Food Systems Forum in Kigali, authorities cited a myriad of challenges in achieving key goals.
Africa food systems are failing but there is still optimism. This is despite the fact that we are only one year away from the Malabo Declaration’s deadline and only six years to the end of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
In June 2014, the Malabo Declaration was made in Equatorial Guinea, where all African countries made a commitment to spend 10 per cent of their annual national budgets on agriculture.
“Only four countries achieved the Malabo target of allocating 10 percent of public spending to agriculture (Burundi, DR Congo, Ethiopia and Mali),” writes Moumini Savadogo for Farming First …
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