Commercial AgriYouth Chamber (CAYC) in collaboration with DAFF, ARC and NEPAD Planning and
Coordinating Agency. YPARD is coordinating CAADP National Consultative Workshop to canvass youth voice in the procecess laeding to South Africa adopting a Comprehensive CAADP Compact and ultimately long-term Agricultural Investment Plan. The event is scheduled for 13th - 14th November 2013, will take place at ARC Hatfield Head Office, will be attended by 60 young agricultural professionals across 9 provinces.
WHAT IS CAADP? In July 2003, the African Heads of States, South African included,
endorsed the African Union-NEPAD’s flagship initiative known as Comprehensive
Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) as the continent’s framework
for agriculture–led growth and development to address food insecurity. CAADP
takes a multi-stakeholder and collaborative approach to development hence
Consultative Stakeholder Workshops to solicit inputs from various
constituencies that will ultimately feed into its final products, the CAADP
National Compact and Long Term Agricultural Investment Plan. You may want to find out more by droping us a line on: agriyouth@gmail.com
To learn more about CAADP you are at liberty to consult this link here
Learn more about CAYC participation in CAADP here
African youth speaks here