AU to launch agriculture transformation scorecard

ADDIS ABABA, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- The African Union (AU) said Thursday it would launch the Africa Agriculture Transformation Scorecard (AATS) during the Assembly of the AU heads of states at the 30th AU Summit.

The pan-African bloc will also present the inaugural biennial report on the implementation of the June 2014 Malabo Declaration on accelerated agricultural growth and transformation for shared prosperity and improved livelihoods, said AU in a statement.

The Assembly of the AU heads of states is scheduled to take place from Jan. 28 at the AU headquarters in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa.

The AATS, the first of its kind in Africa, captures the continent's agricultural progress based on a pan-African data collection exercise, said the statement.

In the Malabo Declaration, AU member states committed to report on a biennial basis, the progress in achieving the seven commitments of the declaration with the first report to be presented at this year's AU Assembly of heads of state and government. Enditem