2.4. Weak political will to support agriculture
Underlying these negative factors was a lack of political will amongst Africa's senior policy makers and donors toward agricultural development. This is now changing with the adoption of the Comprehensive African Agricultural Development Program (CAADP) by African governments under which countries committed themselves to invest at least 10% of their national budgets into agriculture. While many of these pledges have yet to be realized, nevertheless some individual countries have made substantial increases in their spending on agriculture (e.g., Ethiopia, Malawi, Uganda, and Nigeria). The world food crisis, which created social and political upheavals in many African countries, appears to have become a tipping point to a renewal of attention toward greater focus and investments in agriculture.