The CAADP Kampala Declaration: Building Resilient Food Systems

The Kampala CAADP Agenda aims to transform Africa’s agrifood systems by boosting production, expanding value addition, facilitating intra-Africa trade, and creating jobs to build resilient systems while leveraging sustainable practices and inclusive policies. The framework includes 22 boldly defined targets to set ambitions and aspirations for AU Member States toward improved agrifood systems.

CAADP and national food systems pathways

For the members of the African Union, the CAADP programme is a highly important continental policy framework, which aims to deliver on their ambitions to build resilient agrifood systems in Africa. The Kampala CAADP Declaration Strategy and Action Plan will be among the key policy frameworks for the period 2026-2035. The CAADP process has embraced the food systems approach; it recognises the concept of food systems, and it is incumbent on governments to develop and align their policies in accordance with CAADP as well as with the UNFSS process.

National food systems pathways, about which country delegations will report at the UNFSS+4 Stocktake in Ethiopia in July 2025, are among the important other policy frameworks countries work with to deliver on their policy targets, amongst others for food and nutrition security. In collaboration with stakeholders from business, civil society and research, at national level and at subnational level, governments will shape the necessary agendas, lead the implementation, and be accountable for the progress on the different policy targets.

Key activities to follow: 

Discussion meeting in the Netherlands on 12 June 2025, hosted by foodFIRST. Read more.

Africa Food Systems Forum in Dakar, Senegal September 2025. Read more. 

Further reading:

The CAADP Years: Agricultural and Economic Performance among African Countries since 2000. By Ousmane Badiane, Wondwosen Tefera, and Julia Collins. Policy Brief Series No. 1 Akademiya 2063 Click here