{"id":655,"date":"2017-03-11T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T09:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esaff.org\/?p=655"},"modified":"2017-03-11T09:00:50","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T09:00:50","slug":"hon-bazivamo-there-is-no-excuse-for-any-eac-state-to-dishonour-malabo-declaration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/hon-bazivamo-there-is-no-excuse-for-any-eac-state-to-dishonour-malabo-declaration\/","title":{"rendered":"Hon Bazivamo: there is no excuse for any EAC State to dishonour Malabo Declaration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>06\/06\/2016<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<b>Hon<\/b><b> <\/b><b>Bazivamo<\/b><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">: there is no excuse for any EAC State to dishonour Malabo Declaration<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">*Legal commitments to increase agriculture funding should be made by domestication of Malabo Declaration<\/span><\/b><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">By ESAFF Correspondent<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Progressive agriculture is what can propel majority of East African farmers to improved livelihood, better than any other sector, including the famed oil and gas sphere.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<span lang=\"EN-US\">He was speaking at the EAC Budget Summit in June 2016 in Arusha, Tanzania.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">With that picture in mind, <\/span>Hon. Christophe Bazivamo<span lang=\"EN-US\">, the Head of the Committee On Agriculture for the East African Legislative Assembly, has become a passionate advocate for small holder farmers, who comprise largest demographic group in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/esaff.org\/images\/hon._bazivamo.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">African smallholder farmers need dedicated and passionate law makers about taking the\u00a0 agenda of improving the economic wellbeing of smallholder farmers to the next level.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cMore investment in agriculture\u2026 honouring Malabo Declaration and other continental and regional commitments on the sector would mean improved economic fortunate of millions of farmers in East Africa,\u201d noted <\/span>Hon Bazivamo<span lang=\"EN-US\">, in an interview with media during the EAC Small Scale Farmers<\/span>\u2019 <span lang=\"DE\">Summit 2016 in early this year in Arusha<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<span lang=\"EN-US\">At another event, EAC Agriculture Budget Summit 2016 hosted jointly by ESAFF, ANSAF and ActionAid International, <\/span>Hon Bazivamo <span lang=\"EN-US\">put up a strong case for domestication of Malabo Declaration. He said it was\u00a0 paramount for all EAC states to up <\/span>resources <span lang=\"EN-US\">for agriculture to and beyond <\/span>10%<span lang=\"EN-US\"> of national budget threshold.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<span lang=\"EN-US\">He acknowledged that Rwanda and Burundi have reached the threshold, and there was no excuse of the other members states not to follow suit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cThere is no excuse for states not to put 10 percent of the national budgets to agriculture,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hon. Bazivamo <span lang=\"EN-US\">also urged farmers representatives including civil society and smallholder farmers as well as Members of parliaments in East Africa to continue with advocacy activities to ensure Malabo goals are met.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>06\/06\/2016 \u00a0Hon Bazivamo: there is no excuse for any EAC State to dishonour Malabo Declaration *Legal commitments to increase agriculture funding should be made by domestication of Malabo Declaration By ESAFF Correspondent Progressive agriculture is what can propel majority of East African farmers to improved livelihood, better than any other sector, including the famed oil&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/hon-bazivamo-there-is-no-excuse-for-any-eac-state-to-dishonour-malabo-declaration\/\" 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":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}