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New AAI Report: Pledges, Principles, and Progress: Aid to Agriculture Since L’Aquila

Just weeks prior to the G8 Summit, ActionAid has released a briefing paper analyzing trends in aid to agriculture since G8 leaders pledged increased support for agricultural development at the G8 summit in L’Aquila, Italy in 2009.
 
The report, Pledges, Principles, and Progress: Aid to Agriculture Since L’Aquila provides early evidence of the level of progress made by l’Aquila donors in increasing aid to agriculture and support of country investment plans, provides a case study of best practices since L’Aquila, and provides recommendations for the upcoming G8 summit. See the full report here.

Key findings of the briefing include:
 
  •  Aid to agriculture by L’Aquila donors increased by 60% in the first year after the L’Aquila pledge. The US, Canada, and Spain saw large increases while France, Sweden, and the Netherland actually cut their aid to agriculture.
  •  Despite a pledge by donors to back country owned agricultural development plans, such as those developed through the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP), poor countries with vetted country agricultural development plans got less than 25% of aid to agriculture from L’Aquila donor, with little change yet evident.
     
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