Mauritius scores 5.0/10 and is on track in implementing the Malabo Declaration on Agriculture transformation in Africa.
Highlights of the 5 key areas of strong performance of the country
81 out of 100
as trade facilitation Index (TFI).
100%
response to spending needs on resilience building initiatives, from the government budget.
17.6%
of farm, pastoral, and fisher households are resilient to climate and weather related shocks.
100%
of rural women have access to productive assets in agriculture (empowered).
3%
for domestic food price volatility
Highlights of the 5 key areas that require the country's attention
2.8%
of public agriculture expenditure as a share of total public expenditure.
0.1%
increase of yield for the country's priority agricultural commodities.
7.5%
increase of agricultural value added per agricultural worker.
0.1%
of agriculture land under sustainable land management practices.
-18.7%
increase of the size of irrigated areas, from its value of the year 2000.
Recommendations
- Mauritius should increase public expenditure in agriculture to meet the CAADP Malabo target of 10% as well as funding for agricultural research and development in order to enhance agricultural productivity.
- The country should increase the area under sustainable land management practice to strengthen resilience to climate related risks.
- Mauritius should also strengthen agriculture data collection and management systems to ensure that required missing indicators are reported in the next round of the Biennial Review Reporting.
COUNTRY SCORECARD
Overall country score: 4.48
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 | 8.09 | 3.33 | On Track | |||||
| 1 | Completing National CAADP Process | 10.00 | 3.33 | On Track | |||||
| 2 | Establishing CAADP based Cooperation, Partnership & Alliance | 6.50 | 3.33 | On Track | |||||
| 3 | Establishing CAADP based Policy & Institutional Review/ Setting/ Support | 7.78 | 3.33 | On Track | |||||
| 2 | Enhancing Investment Finance in Agriculture | 5.55 | 6.67 | Not on Track | |||||
| 1 | Public Expenditure in Agriculture | 1.09 | 10.00 | Not on Track | |||||
| 2 | Enhancing access to finance | 10.00 | 3.33 | On Track | |||||
| 3 | Ending Hunger by 2025 | 1.44 | 3.71 | Not on Track | |||||
| 1 | Access to Agriculture inputs and technologies | 6.67 | 5.53 | On Track | |||||
| 2 | Doubling agricultural Productivity | 0.54 | 1.00 | Not on Track | |||||
| 3 | Reduction of Post-Harvest Loss | 0.00 | 1.00 | Not on Track | |||||
| 4 | Strengthening Social Protection | 0.00 | 10.00 | Not on Track | |||||
| 5 | Improving Food security and Nutrition | 0.00 | 1.00 | Not on Track | |||||
| 4 | Halving Poverty through Agriculture by 2025 | 3.13 | 2.06 | On Track | |||||
| 1 | Sustaining Agricultural GDP for Poverty Reduction | 2.50 | 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 | 4.93 | 1 | On Track | |||||
| 1 | Tripling Intra-African Trade for agriculture commodities and services | 0.79 | 1.00 | Not on Track | |||||
| 2 | Establishing Intra-African Trade Policies and institutional conditions | 9.07 | 1.00 | On Track | |||||
| 6 | Enhancing Resilience to Climate Variability | 6.47 | 6 | On Track | |||||
| 1 | Ensuring Resilience to climate related risks | 2.94 | 2.00 | On Track | |||||
| 2 | Investment in resilience building | 10.00 | 10.00 | On Track | |||||
| 7 | Mutual Accountability for Actions and Results | 5.4 | 4.78 | 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 | 9.17 | 3.33 | On Track | |||||
| 3 | Conducting a Biennial Agriculture Review Process | 7.02 | 10.00 | Not on Track | |||||