TY - JOUR
T1 - Mechanisms implemented for the sustainable development of agriculture
T2 - an overview of Cabo Verde performance
AU - Varela, Danilson Mascarenhas
AU - Monteiro, Filipa
AU - Vidigal, Patrícia
AU - Silva, Luís
AU - Romeiras, Maria M.
N1 - Funding agencies: Fundacão para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) and Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) under the project CVAgrobiodiversity/333111699. Fellowships SFRH/BPD/114664/2016, SFRH/BD/135354/2017 to FM and DV, respectively, were funded by Portuguese National Funds through FCT, Portugal, also to research units: UID/AGR/04129/LEAF (LEAF), UID/BIA/00329/2020 (cE3c).
PY - 2020/7
Y1 - 2020/7
N2 - In 2005, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) adopted the Common Agricultural Policy of ECOWAS (ECOWAP), as an instrument for implementing the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP). The main goals of ECOWAP/CAADP were set to promote agriculture development and end hunger by 2025. In this study we focused on the Cabo Verde archipelago as one of the best performing countries within ECOWAS in terms of overall sustainable development. In this paper, the evolution of the ECOWAP implementation and of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) associated with agriculture in Cabo Verde, were assessed by semi-quantitative (e.g., agricultural policies, agrarian periodical literature) and quantitative (modeling regression of ECOWAP implementation and Sustainable Development Goals-SDGs-performance) analyses. Our integrated results suggest that the agriculture development strategies, the signature of ECOWAP/CAADP by the national government, and political stability might explain the progress made towards poverty reduction and the improvement of food security. The results also show that agriculture-related SDGs in Cabo Verde are higher than the mean values obtained from the remaining West African countries, well above the top 25% WA countries. Nevertheless, Cabo Verde public expenditure into agriculture under the ECOWAP was generally below the targeted 10% of the national budget, with food import required to meet internal food demands.
AB - In 2005, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) adopted the Common Agricultural Policy of ECOWAS (ECOWAP), as an instrument for implementing the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP). The main goals of ECOWAP/CAADP were set to promote agriculture development and end hunger by 2025. In this study we focused on the Cabo Verde archipelago as one of the best performing countries within ECOWAS in terms of overall sustainable development. In this paper, the evolution of the ECOWAP implementation and of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) associated with agriculture in Cabo Verde, were assessed by semi-quantitative (e.g., agricultural policies, agrarian periodical literature) and quantitative (modeling regression of ECOWAP implementation and Sustainable Development Goals-SDGs-performance) analyses. Our integrated results suggest that the agriculture development strategies, the signature of ECOWAP/CAADP by the national government, and political stability might explain the progress made towards poverty reduction and the improvement of food security. The results also show that agriculture-related SDGs in Cabo Verde are higher than the mean values obtained from the remaining West African countries, well above the top 25% WA countries. Nevertheless, Cabo Verde public expenditure into agriculture under the ECOWAP was generally below the targeted 10% of the national budget, with food import required to meet internal food demands.
KW - Agriculture policies
KW - Economic community of West African states (ECOWAS)
KW - Economic development
KW - Food shortage
KW - Sustainable development goals (SDGs)
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U2 - 10.3390/su12145855
DO - 10.3390/su12145855
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85088641362
SN - 2071-1050
VL - 12
JO - Sustainability
JF - Sustainability
IS - 14
M1 - 5855
ER -