{"id":412,"date":"2017-03-10T07:37:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T07:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esaff.org\/?p=412"},"modified":"2017-03-10T07:37:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T07:37:45","slug":"eac-parliament-promises-to-institutionalize-relations-with-smallholder-famers-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/eac-parliament-promises-to-institutionalize-relations-with-smallholder-famers-group\/","title":{"rendered":"EAC parliament promises to institutionalize relations with smallholder famers\u2019 group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>25\/4\/2012<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Smallholder farmers can look for better times as far as their involvement is concerned in implementation of Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP) processes.<br \/>\nIn April, 2012, East and Southern African Farmers\u2019 Forum (ESAFF) met members of Agriculture, Tourism and Natural Resources (ATNR) committee of the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA), in the Kenyan Parliament in Nairobi, to share about their involvement in agriculture processes.<br \/>\n\u201cWe are very happy, we received a letter dated 3rd May, 2012 from the clerk\u2019s office at EALA, which promised to address our concerns,\u201d said\u00a0 Mr. Moses Shaha, the chairman of ESAFF.<br \/>\nThe letter acknowledged that EALA speaker had received ESAFF\u2019s proposal, and he promised the assembly\u00a0 would move to institutionalize relationship between ESAFF and\u00a0 agricultural and natural resources committees in the assembly.<br \/>\nOther concerns of ESAFF, the letter said, had been forwarded to the EAC Secretary General for action.<br \/>\nIn the meantime, at a meeting in Nairobi\u00a0\u00a0 attended by ESAFF chair and vice chair (Moses Shaha &#8211; Kenya and Elizabeth Mpofu \u2013 Zimbabwe) various stakeholders met with the special rapporteur of the United Nations Secretariat on the right to food.<br \/>\nIt emerged that failure by countries to adhere to Maputo Declaration of 2003 is a show of lack of political commitment by governments to move agriculture to higher levels.<br \/>\nOn the regional level, renewed efforts were placed into the Comprehensive African Agriculture Development Program (CAADP), established by the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) in 2003 to focus on improving and promoting agriculture across Africa. The CAADP aims to \u201cHelp African countries reach a higher path of economic growth through agriculture-led development\u201d and seeks to bring together diverse players across the continent to improve co-ordination, to share knowledge, successes and failures, to encourage one another, and to promote joint and separate efforts to eliminate hunger and reduce poverty through agriculture. In order to achieve these goals, the CAADP calls on African government \u201cTo increase public investments in agriculture by a minimum of 10 per cent of their national budgets and to raise agricultural productivity to at least 6 per cent growth rate annually.\u201d<br \/>\nRwanda was the first country to sign the CAADP Compact in 2007, and as of May 2011, 26 countries had signed the CAADP Compact, and in doing so, incorporated the CAADP into their domestic agricultural strategies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>25\/4\/2012 Smallholder farmers can look for better times as far as their involvement is concerned in implementation of Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP) processes. In April, 2012, East and Southern African Farmers\u2019 Forum (ESAFF) met members of Agriculture, Tourism and Natural Resources (ATNR) committee of the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA), in the Kenyan Parliament&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/eac-parliament-promises-to-institutionalize-relations-with-smallholder-famers-group\/\" class=\"excerpt-read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}