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New report- Agriculture and Food in West Africa : Trends, Performances and Agricultural Policies

This summary document, produced by ECOWAS with the technical support of Hub Rural, has a twofold ambition. First, it reports on the main shifts in the agricultural sector and the region’s food situation, to allow all the stakeholders a moment of perspective. It is in light of these trends that we can measure the policy’s overall impacts.

Second, the document examines the orientations and implementation of our agricultural policies to analyze and document our accomplishments and learn lessons for the future. This report raises numerous issues facing farmers, agrifood value chain stakeholders and consumers. It addresses the agricultural and food situation regionally and within each country. While it presents ECOWAP and its regional implementation, it also examines the national agricultural investment plans.

The sections devoted to lessons learned will help fuel the ECOWAS Commission’s policy dialogue in 2015 with the member States and professional stakeholders on the reforms to envisage to magnify and speed up the impacts of agricultural policies.

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