AFRICA AGRICULTURE STATUS REPORT 2016

Table 2.1: Trends in selected CAADP indicators, annual average
Indicator 1995–2003 2003–2008 2008–2014
Region/economic Poverty headcount group ratio at $1.25/day (PPP, % of population) Level Change (%) Level
Africa 45.5 -1.34 42.0 -1.36 38.2 -1.42
Low-income less-favorable agriculture 71.7 -3.60 57.4 -3.33 48.3 -3.25
Low-income more-favorable agriculture 60.1 -1.78 49.8 -1.61 47.3 -1.98
Low-income mineral-rich 63.8 -0.92 59.0 -1.46 55.9 -1.59
Middle income 32.7 -0.68 30.5 -0.54 29.8 -0.74
Poverty gap at national poverty lines (%)
Africa 15.5 -1.79 14.0 -1.46 12.5 -2.64
Low-income less-favorable agriculture 26.3 -3.13 20.4 -4.42 15.3 -6.10
Low-income more-favorable agriculture 17.3 -2.46 13.4 -2.46 12.5 -3.85
Low-income mineral-rich 25.8 -3.70 19.8 -1.70 18.6 -5.85
Middle income 13.1 -1.08 12.1 -0.45 11.5 -1.63
Prevalence of undernourishment (% of population)
Africa 24.3 -2.15 20.3 -3.56 17.6 -1.96
Low-income less-favorable agriculture 32.4 -4.59 24.6 -2.71 20.5 -3.82
Low-income more-favorable agriculture 41.2 -2.18 32.5 -3.47 30.3 -2.18
Low-income mineral-rich 36.1 1.97 36.1 -1.12 34.5 -1.98
Middle income 12.3 -3.02 8.5 -5.55 7.6 -1.55
Prevalence of underweight, weight for age (% of children under 5)
Africa 24.6 -1.24 22.2 -1.66 20.6 -0.70
Low-income less-favorable agriculture 32.3 -1.09 31.0 -0.51 31.0 0.45
Low-income more-favorable agriculture 27.4 -2.04 22.4 -1.99 21.3 -1.36
Low-income mineral-rich 28.6 -1.08 23.8 -1.69 22.6 -1.59
Middle income 20.5 -0.86 18.2 -1.80 17.6 -0.30
Prevalence of stunting, height for age (% of children under 5)
Africa 42.0 -1.10 39.1 -0.96 36.6 -1.02
Low-income less-favorable agriculture 45.4 -0.24 45.1 -0.11 45.4 0.50
Low-income more-favorable agriculture 48.5 -1.60 42.1 -1.60 40.6 -1.00
Low-income mineral-rich 47.4 -1.12 43.8 -0.85 42.9 -0.55
Middle income 35.8 -0.99 31.7 -0.71 30.4 -1.69
Prevalence of wasting, weight for height (% of children under 5)
Africa 10.9 -1.26 10.0 -0.31 9.4 -0.15
Low-income less-favorable agriculture 15.7 -3.84 13.1 -2.23 12.4 -0.59
Low-income more-favorable agriculture 9.2 -1.71 8.0 -1.50 7.7 -0.27
Low-income mineral-rich 13.1 0.09 9.8 -1.73 8.8 -2.97
Middle income 10.6 -0.79 10.3 1.25 10.3 0.62
Source: Bahiigwa et al. (2015)
(MAFAP) database on nine countries in SSA from 2006 to
2013 covers different categories of agriculture-specific and
agriculture-supportive expenditure (FAO, 2015).
NEPAD also has set a national agricultural R&D investment
target of at least one percent of agricultural value-added.
Close to 40 percent of the 37 countries covered in SSA
in the ASTI database met that target, with Botswana,
followed by Mauritius, Namibia, and South Africa having
the highest shares of at least 2 percent per year (Benin,
Nin-Pratt,&Wood, 2016), all of which have relatively wellestablished
and well-funded agricultural research systems
and relatively small contributions of agriculture to GDP
(Beintema &Stads, 2011).
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