Strategy for agricultural transformation in africa

Business oriented approach: 
Critically, there needs to be a reorientation away from 
treating agriculture as a ‘way of life’ or social welfare system to a business, and look to 
frame a transformation agenda that is public-sector enabled and private-sector led; and, 
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Securing improved small holder agricultural 
livelihoods based on enhancing the value 
of their assets (land, labor, time) while assuring higher returns and household food security. 
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The vision of the Strategy is to transform African agriculture into a competitive 
and inclusive agribusiness sector that creates wealth, improves lives and secures the 
environment. 
The Strategy builds on momentum generated at the Feeding Africa High-Level 
Conference (HLC) organized by the AfDB to solicit success stories of agricultural 
transformation across Africa and reach consensus on the greatest priorities for scaling 
successful interventions. The HLC was organized in association with the Senegalese 
government, the African Union Commission (AUC), and the United Nations Economic 
Commission for Africa (UNECA) and held in Dakar, Senegal in October 2015. The Strategy’s 
overarching goals, enablers, and proposed approach reflect commitments made in the 2003 
Maputo and 2014 Malabo Declarations through the Comprehensive African Agricultural 
Development Program (CAADP).
Box 1. Commitments and Goals by African Heads of States and Government in 2014 
Malabo-Equatorial Guinea
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1. Recommitment to the principles and values of the CAADP process 
2. Recommitment to enhance investment finance in agriculture 
(a) Uphold 10% public spending target
(b) Operationalize the African Investment Bank
3. Commitment to ending hunger by 2025 
(a) At least double productivity (focusing on Inputs, irrigation, mechanization)
(b) Reduce PHL at least by half

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(c) Nutrition: reduce and underweight to 5 % and stunting to 10%