Africa Urged to Support Farmers

The Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network says that African governments should put their money where their mouths are when it comes to farming.

The Network CEO, Lindiwe Sibanda, told reporters at the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that in the 2003 Maputo Declaration, countries on the continent agreed to devote 10 percent of their national budgets to agriculture.

Sibanda argues that, "Eight years later, only 10 African countries have done this. We are not investing where our mouth is."

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