Abstract

Agricultural research in Africa has had numerous remarkable successes but the sector has continued to perform badly. This has contributed to falling incomes, increasing food insecurity and continuing degradation of land and water resources. To realise the potential of agriculture to contribute to achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) NEPAD has developed the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP). Two major projects are being developed to support CAADP by promoting new concepts for the conduct of agricultural research in Africa and providing the required resources. The Multi Country Agricultural Productivity Programme (MAPP) is intended to underpin CAADP’s agenda for reform of agricultural research by providing incentives and means for enhancing the ef?ciency of agricultural technology generation, transfer and adoption. Its goal is to double annual spending on agricultural technology generation and dissemination in Africa by 2015 from about US$2.3 billion currently to about US$4.5 billion.

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