Toward African Renaissance: Renewed Partnership for Unified Approach to End Hunger in Africa by 2025 within the CAADP Framework - High level meeting of african and international leaders

The African Union Commission, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Instituto Lula have organized a meeting of African and international leaders to deliberate and endorse a radical approach to end Hunger in Africa by 2025, building on renewed partnerships within the CAADP Framework, and lessons learned from the experience of Brazil and other countries that have made substantial gains in their ‘zero hunger’ programs. The meeting was held from the 29th June – 1st July 2013 at the AU Conference Centre in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

The head of States and the other participants to the meeting published a joint declaration of principles, policies and strategies recalling their commitments for increased prioritization in the agricultural sector and pledging to target budget lines for social protection with attention to nutrition.

This meeting was preceded by, a multi-stakeholder dialogue with the participation of more than 150 representatives of the civil society, of producer organisations, of the private sector, cooperatives, of the research in Africa and other non-State actors community. Various themes were discussed during these three days including the capitalization of Brazilian, Chinese, Vietnamese and African experience’s, on the financial mechanisms and State funding, and of the role of agriculture.

For further information, please consult the event's website, who you can find notably the speeches.