The development indicators of the three sub-regions in Africa vary widely. There are big differences in terms of population growth, income/capita, agricultural yield increases and public investment in agriculture. Unlike in the other two regions, the governments in Africa have developed a common vision for agricultural development based on the CAADP. This initiative is African-owned and African-led. At the same time, donor initiatives to promote CD for agricultural innovation are highly concentrated on the African continent [23]. Africa thus plays a very important role in this needs assessment, not only because it is the largest recipient of funding for CD for agricultural innovation, but also because it is the continent that has so far only made slow progress in reducing poverty, hunger and malnutrition in the past two decades, even though many African countries have performed rather well in recent times. The questionnaire-based perception survey on the challenges and opportunities of the national AIS was completed by 33 stakeholders across all three aforementioned sub-regions in Africa—out of 107 stakeholders that were contacted. The relatively low overall response rate is attributed to the difficulty to reach the participants by phone or e-mail. However, there were great differences between countries. The response rate ranged from very low in Ethiopia, Kenya and Angola (around 14 percent) to very high in Lesotho (100 percent) and in Zambia and Rwanda (71 percent). Figure 2 reveals that agribusiness stakeholders are not represented in surveys conducted in CCARDESA and CORAF/WECARD countries whereas the share of stakeholders representing agribusiness in ASARECA countries amount to 31 percent.