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SADC Multi-country Agricultural Productivity Programme (MAPP) Document

Agriculture in the SADC region is the primary source of subsistence, employment and income
for 61 percent of the peoples of the region. Despite a diversified natural resource base, overall
agricultural growth and productivity have remained low over the past twenty years. The urgent
implementation of broad-based programmes to reverse the overall decline in the productivity of
the agriculture sector is a central priority in setting SADC Member States on the path of fast
economic growth and poverty reduction. The diversity of the region’s farming and livelihood
systems presents great challenges to policymakers in formulating sound agriculture development
strategies. But, even given this diversity, many countries in the region share similar problems
and opportunities. Cooperation in some of these key areas can yield significant benefits – as can
greater economic integration by taking advantage of natural comparative advantages.

SADC MAPP is designed as a comprehensive 15-year programme of change, arranged around
three 5 year phases. The overall programme goal is to bring about pluralistic and strengthened
agricultural technology generation and dissemination, together with strengthening linkages
among agricultural institutions in the SADC region in order to accelerate smallholder
productivity. The result will be market- and smallholder-responsive and accessible agricultural
technologies which will create agricultural growth, and increase incomes especially amongst the
rural poor.

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  SADC_MAPP_Programme_Document-_April_08.pdf

  Type: Documents & Publications, SADC Technical & Thematic Reports

  Date Signed: 2008-04-01