Egypt scores 3.4/10 and is not on track in implementing the Malabo Declaration on Agriculture transformation in Africa.
Highlights of the 5 key areas of strong performance of the country
14%
of public agriculture expenditure as a share of total public expenditure.
100%
of men and women engaged in agriculture having access to financial services.
4.5%
of the population is undernourished.
42%
of rural women have access to productive assets in agriculture (empowered).
100%
of farm, pastoral, and fisher households are resilient to climate and weather related shocks.
Highlights of the 5 key areas that require the country's attention
29.0%
for CAADP Process Completion.
7.4%
official development assistance (ODA) disbursed to agriculture, against ODA commitments.
15.1%
increase of the size of irrigated areas, from its value of the year 2000.
0.5%
annual growth of the agriculture value added (agricultural GDP).
0.5%
increase of agricultural value added per arable land.
Recommendations
- Egypt needs to accelerate its national CAADP Process so that the National Agricultural and food Security Investment Plan delivers on appropriate Malabo Decalaration Targets including: Ending Hunger, Reducing poverty by half through agriculture, Enhancing Resilience to Climate variabilities, and strengtehn data systems and statiscs in Agriculture.
- Egypt should put more efforts in expanding its irrigated areas accompanied with the application of inputs, more specifically fertilizer.
- The country should continue efforts to strenghten resilience through more investments in resilience building and establishment of insurances for farmers.
COUNTRY SCORECARD
Overall country score: 3.09
2017 Country Scorecard for implementing Malabo Declaration
| Malabo Commitments Areas (T) | Commitments Categories (C) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Item | Score | Mimimum Score | progress | No. | Item | Score | Mimimum Score | progress |
| 1 | Re-committing to CAADP Process | 0.95 | 3.33 | Not on Track | |||||
| 1 | Completing National CAADP Process | 2.86 | 3.33 | Not on Track | |||||
| 2 | Establishing CAADP based Cooperation, Partnership & Alliance | 0.00 | 3.33 | Not on Track | |||||
| 3 | Establishing CAADP based Policy & Institutional Review/ Setting/ Support | 0.00 | 3.33 | Not on Track | |||||
| 2 | Enhancing Investment Finance in Agriculture | 7.37 | 6.67 | On Track | |||||
| 1 | Public Expenditure in Agriculture | 4.74 | 10.00 | Not on Track | |||||
| 2 | Enhancing access to finance | 10.00 | 3.33 | On Track | |||||
| 3 | Ending Hunger by 2025 | 2.52 | 3.71 | Not on Track | |||||
| 1 | Access to Agriculture inputs and technologies | 3.61 | 5.53 | Not on Track | |||||
| 2 | Doubling agricultural Productivity | 0.18 | 1.00 | Not on Track | |||||
| 3 | Reduction of Post-Harvest Loss | 0.00 | 1.00 | Not on Track | |||||
| 4 | Strengthening Social Protection | 7.12 | 10.00 | Not on Track | |||||
| 5 | Improving Food security and Nutrition | 1.67 | 1.00 | On Track | |||||
| 4 | Halving Poverty through Agriculture by 2025 | 3.18 | 2.06 | On Track | |||||
| 1 | Sustaining Agricultural GDP for Poverty Reduction | 2.72 | 3.25 | Not on Track | |||||
| 2 | Establishing Inclusive PPPs for commodity value chains | 0.00 | 1.00 | Not on Track | |||||
| 3 | Creating job for Youth in agricultural value chains | 0.00 | 1.00 | Not on Track | |||||
| 4 | Women participation in Agri-business | 10.00 | 3.00 | On Track | |||||
| 5 | Boosting Intra-African Trade in Agriculture Commodities | 1.62 | 1 | On Track | |||||
| 1 | Tripling Intra-African Trade for agriculture commodities and services | 0.00 | 1.00 | Not on Track | |||||
| 2 | Establishing Intra-African Trade Policies and institutional conditions | 3.23 | 1.00 | On Track | |||||
| 6 | Enhancing Resilience to Climate Variability | 5 | 6 | Not on Track | |||||
| 1 | Ensuring Resilience to climate related risks | 10.00 | 2.00 | On Track | |||||
| 2 | Investment in resilience building | 0.00 | 10.00 | Not on Track | |||||
| 7 | Mutual Accountability for Actions and Results | 2.95 | 4.78 | Not on Track | |||||
| 1 | Increasing country capacity for evidence based planning, impl. and M&E | 0.00 | 1.00 | Not on Track | |||||
| 2 | Fostering Peer Review and Mutual Accountability | 0.00 | 3.33 | Not on Track | |||||
| 3 | Conducting a Biennial Agriculture Review Process | 8.86 | 10.00 | Not on Track | |||||