CAADP Country Guidelines -2016

The Malabo Declaration on Accelerated Agricultural Growth and Transformation for Shared Prosperity and Improved Livelihoods reaffirms the central commitment of the Maputo era, namely to allocate 10% of public resources to agriculture. It also specifies more clearly a range of commitments in agriculture, such as increased irrigation and mechanization or in the form of curtailing post-harvest losses. So, in contrast to the Maputo Declaration, it contains many more commitments in areas like infrastructure, natural resources, land tenure, trade and nutrition. These areas are important to agriculture, but they are not (completely) under the mandate of the Ministry of Agriculture.

Thus, the Malabo Declaration is wider than its predecessor; at the same time though, it continues to view CAADP as the main vehicle for implementation of its commitments, as was the case in Maputo.

A Malabo Declaration that is wider than that of Maputo changes the scope of the CAADP agenda, which can now be divided into the following phases: A rather more single-sectoral Maputo CAADP and a more clearly multi-sectoral Malabo CAADP. Of course, the Maputo Declaration dealt not exclusively with agriculture, as it too was also about food security. However, implementation of that declaration did tend to focus on the Ministry of Agriculture and its mandate in the sector. So in some ways, one can speak of a ‘single-actor focused’ Maputo versus a multi-actor based Malabo CAADP.