Making agricultural policy in Subsaharan Africa: Understanding and improving CAADP and APRM processes

The project will look into the policy-making (at the political, institutional, administrative level) in the context of agricultural policy in Subsaharan Africa.


Project Team:
Michael Brüntrup

Roukayatou Zimmermann

Time frame:
2007 - 2010 / completed

Co-operation Partner:

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Tegemeo Institute of Agricultural Policy and Development
University of Ghana, Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness
Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF), Uganda

Project description

The project will analyze, in two countries, in what ways the new participatory pan-African policy initiatives, the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), and the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) influence national agricultural policies and sectoral agricultural framework conditions. The project will seek to identify factors that influence both the processes and their outcomes, focusing in particular on the role played by scientific information, which is, or should be, absolutely essential for effective policies.

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