Botswana exceeds Maputo Declaration on food

The Minister of Finance and Development Planning, Kenneth Matambo, said this in Parliament after the member for Kgalagadi North, Phillip Khwae, asked whether Botswana was part of the commitment undertaken at the African Union’s 2003 Maputo Declaration on Agriculture and Food Security to allocate 10 percent of their national budgets to agriculture and rural development.

Matambo said Botswana was part of the commitment and had always committed more than 10 percent of its budget to agriculture and development in the past 10 years.