The essence of media
participatory roles in scaling up the strategies of Comprehensive Africa Agriculture
Development Programme (CAADP) has been highlighted, reports NaijaAgroNet.
The CAADP coordinator, Mr. Komla
Bissi shared some insights with NaijaAgroNet on the importance of media in
achieving CAADP strategies, saying that farmers and related actors both states
and non-states should be regularly kept informed of CAADP initiatives, especially
developments projects capable of assisting them to improve on whatever is on
the ground at any particular time.
This, he said, gave AU and CAADP
precisely, the impetus to support the on-going first meeting of the Specialised
Technical Committee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Water and Environment in
Addis Ababa.
He also said that his office
would continue to work very closely with the communication units within the
African Union organs to ensure that media participate in most of the meetings
where initiatives are structured so as to carry the media industry along
thereby encouraging them to disseminate right and knowledgeable information for
the African people.
In addition, this will assist development
partners to keep a tap on African efforts in increasing agricultural
productivity and fight against hunger as well as enlightenment of citizens and
most essentially the farmers and farmers-based organizations adequately.
Equally, Bissi said, CAADP would
continue to seek better ways of collaboration to make media practitioners’ job
easier and CAADP initiatives based on AU policies easily adopted by the
stakeholders like on issue of climate change among others.
He urged journalists, precisely
those in CAADP Journalist Network to see their role as essential to bridging
the gap between African farmers and government policies.
NaijaAgroNet recollects that CAADP is a programme of the African Union in the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) established in July 2003 with focus on improving and promoting agriculture across the African continent as part of efforts aimed at eliminating hunger and reducing poverty through agriculture.
+Remmy Nweke (ITRealms) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
... Linking agrobiz, sustainable environs, people & technology
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