Maputo Protocol commitment and improvements in the rural sector

ECA Policy Brief No. ECA/18/004
Maputo Protocol commitment and improvements in the rural sector

In Maputo in 2003, the Assembly of the African Union resolved to implement the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme and committed themselves to allocating at least 10 per cent of national budgetary resources to agricultural and rural development.2 This target has since become a benchmark for measuring whether African Governments are sufficiently dedicated to improving their agriculture. The Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2011– 2020 (A/CONF.219/3/Rev.1) also included the target as important for national food security and agricultural development. The target was also made a part of the African Union’s Agenda 2063.