Agricultural Engineering In Africa A Key Driver For Transforming Agriculture To Deliver Food Security And To Support Economic Prosperity Afroageng by Afroageng 9781527296503, 1527296504 instant download after payment.

In June 2014 at the African Union Summit in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, Heads of State and Government adopted an extraordinary set of concrete goals for agriculture to be attained by 2025. The Malabo Declaration on Accelerated Agricultural Growth and Transformation for Shared Prosperity and Improved Livelihoods articulates a new set of goals showing a more targeted approach to achieve the agricultural vision for the continent which is shared prosperity and improved livelihoods for the African Continent. In effect, the Malabo Summit reconfirmed that agriculture should remain high on the development agenda of the African Continent, and that it is a critical policy initiative for Africa’s economic growth and poverty reduction. 
-
To achieve its ‘Commitment to Halving Poverty by the year 2025, through Inclusive Agricultural Growth and Transformation’, the leaders agreed on the need to sustain annual agricultural GDP growth of at least 6%, and to create job opportunities for at least 30% of the youth in agricultural value chains. Similarly, while committing to ending hunger in Africa by 2025, African leaders resolved to facilitate, among others, sustainable and reliable production; supply of appropriate knowledge, information, and skills to users; efficient and effective water management systems notably through irrigation; suitable, reliable and affordable mechanization and energy supplies; and to halve the current levels of postharvest losses, by the year 2025,