The Citizen (Dar es Salaam)
3 July 2009
Sirte — African heads of states have been warned that the current pace of agricultural development was not compatible with requirements for economic growth.
Though told that there was progress in the agricultural sector in recent years, they were also reminded that the pace was not enough.
More efforts were needed to control conflicts which might impede the progress in agriculture, they were cautioned.
They were asked to increase their budgets for agriculture if they want to improve the pace of agricultural development to six per cent by 2015 as agreed in Maputo in 2003.
This was the message from the African Union Commissioner for Rural Economy, Ms Tumusiime Rhoda Peace, who presented a paper at the on-going 13th meeting of the heads of states.
The meeting's theme centred on the importance of agricultural development in Africa.
In her paper, the commissioner noted: "The current agricultural development rate is not enough to address poverty due to low productivity, weather fluctuations, lack of value addition to agricultural products, market problems and bad policies."
She said conflicts in some of African countries which caused a rise in prices was a testimony that Africa needs to maintain peace and invest more in agriculture.
The commissioner explained that Africa spends about $33 billion each year to import food.
Meanwhile, a law lecturer with the Mwanza-based St Augustine University, Mr Adelardus Kilangi, has been appointed a member of the African Union Commission on International Law.
He is among 11 Africans whose names were picked by foreign ministers when they met earlier this week ahead of heads of states meeting. He is the first Tanzanian to be appointed to the commission.
Its other members, who are all lawyers, come from Tunisia, Ghana, Burundi, Ethiopia, Algeria, Kenya, Botswana, Congo, Malawi and Senegal.
The meeting also appointed three members to the African Commission for Human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR). They are from Egypt, Rwanda and Tunisia.
The names of all of then would be presented to the heads of states.
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