Framework for African Agricultural Productivity (FAAP) - FARA

f r a m e w o r k f o r a f r i c a n a g r i c u l t u r a l p r o d u c t i v i t yForewordThe Framework for Africa’s Agricultural Productivity is a product ofextensive consultations among diverse stakeholders at different levelsin Africa, including the development partners who have continuouslysupported Africa. The FAAP process did not end when the African Headsof States endorsed it (African Union Summit, Banjul, Gambia, June 2006)but rather it marks the beginning of hard work required to make it the toolfor implementing CAADP pillar 4. FARA will primarily work with theAfrican Union and NEPAD so that the African vision is well articulated inits implementation. But at the same time FARA will have to work with theAfrican government’s concerned ministries and regional economic bodiesand will still depend on the subregional research organizations (SROs ---ASARECA, CORAF/WECARD and SADC-FANR) and national researchsystems to ensure that the principles of FAAP are aligned to the existingand future programmes on agricultural productivity.The FAAP process will work based on lessons learnt from similar ongoinginitiatives such as the national poverty reduction strategies and regionaleconomic communities’ strategy for agricultural productivity. As thenational programmes are aligning their programs to FAAP, the SROsare working closely with the RECs, to develop their own Multi-countryAgricultural Productivity Programme (MAPP) at the subregional level.The national programmes will be the basic block, and anything that hascross-border advantages will be passed on to the subregional level.Foreword