2010 CAADP Africa Forum

The CAADP Africa Forum is a platform that enables a direct exchange between countries and CAADP institutions on matters of agriculture and development, with the aim of building a bridge between the realities on the ground in African countries and the pan-African CAADP Framework1. Participants to the forum range from farmers and their representatives to policy makers at national, regional and pan-African level. Purpose of the forum is: Sharing and learning on progress among farmers, and experts from different agricultural sub-sectors and policy decision makers to foster the up scaling of best practices across Africa as an input into country driven development of the agricultural and rural sector.

The 2010 CAADP Africa Forum was held in Ouagadougou from 4 to 8 October. The forum represented a major step towards a closer and better-coordinated cooperation between Farmer Organisations and CAADP by being the first forum to be driven entirely by Farmer Organisations both in terms of content as well as participants.