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The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP)

The Comprehensive African Agricultural Development Programme (CAADP)—a project within the NEPAD framework—is an agricultural development initiative that aims to reform the African agricultural sector. CAADP intends to reduce hunger and poverty in Africa by the establishment of capacity for economic growth and export expansion.  CAADP specifically focuses on the following objectives:

1. Increasing area under sustainable land management and reliable water control systems;
2. Improving rural infrastructure and trade related capacities for market accesses;
3. Increasing food supply, reducing hunger, and improving responses to food emergency crises; and
4. Improving agriculture research, technology dissemination and adoption.

CAADP's objectives are to be met through priority investment "pillars."  The implementation strategies will require support from both the public and private sectors.  The second of CAADP’s four Pillars—Rural Infrastructure and Trade-Related Capacities for Improved Market Access—will especially require proactive engagement by members of the African and global private sector in upcoming policy discussions, as well as calls for the facilitation of working business linkages in the priority areas to be articulated by each REC.

In 2006, the Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) partnered with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to form the Public-Private Agricultural Initiative (PPAI).  This partnership will allow CCA, in cooperation with its members and strategic partners, to pursue the following goals:

• Strengthening the capacity of the Regional Economic Communities (RECs) to sustain the facilitation of public-private partnerships and direct investment;
• Engaging the private sector and increasing its voice in the policymaking processes; and
• Facilitating business and trade linkages regionally and globally to the benefit of African agricultural producers.