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The objective of this chapter is to provide an overview of Africa's trade structure and trade policy. We first analyze recent performance in different markets and identify changes in the composition and direction of trade. Second, we examine both tariffs and nontariff measures faced by African agricultural exporters, using several sources of data for trade barriers. Our main findings show that, while agricultural productivity is low, the European Union remains the primary destination for agricultural exports, although its share is constantly decreasing. At the product level, the top 10 agricultural export products represent 39 percent of Africa's agricultural exports and include sesame seeds, black tea, cocoa paste, and fresh grapes. In terms of trade barriers, despite low tariffs faced by African economies, they are facing several nontariff measures (NTMs) ranging from sanitary and phytosanitary measures to conformity assessment and domestic support in other countries. Indeed, and in particular for agriculture products, unfair competition resulting from the domestic support in other countries affects the competitiveness of African countries' exports. ; PR ; IFPRI4 ; AFR

The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) is one of the main components of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD). CAADP is an initiative launched by the African Union Commission (AUC) in 2002 to serve as a continent-wide framework to facilitate faster agricultural growth and progress toward poverty reduction and food and nutrition security in Africa. CAADP seeks to promote policies and partnerships and raise investments in Africa's agricultural sector and achieve better development outcomes. It is an unprecedented, comprehensive effort to rally governments and other stakeholders around a set of key values and principles; create partnership mechanisms at continental, regional, and country levels; promote evidence-based and outcome-driven policy design and implementation; and establish inclusive dialogue and review processes to increase the effectiveness of the development process among African countries. This paper examines the new policy and investment planning and the review, dialogue, and partnership modalities and evaluates their likely impact on future growth and poverty-reduction outcomes. ; Non-PR ; IFPRI1; GRP44 ; WCAO

The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) is an Africawide framework for revitalizing agriculture and rural development in order to accelerate economic growth and progress toward poverty reduction and food and nutrition security. This study reviews CAADP and its strategic objectives, key players, implementation modalities, and approach to ensuring evidence and outcome-based policy planning and implementation. The study also lays out CAADP's common analytical framework at the country level and shares economic modeling results from member countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in which analysis was conducted to examine agricultural growth and investment options for meeting CAADP growth and expenditure targets and the Millennium Development Goal target of halving poverty. Finally, the paper discusses CAADP's review and dialogue mechanisms and knowledge support systems that have been put in place to facilitate benchmarking, mutual learning, and capacity strengthening that will improve agricultural policy, program design, and implementation. ; Non-PR ; IFPRI1; GRP32 ; WCAO