Food security has become one of the international development agenda’s top priorities, enjoying a particular boost after the 1996 World Food Summit, the setting of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000, and even more so after the 2007-2008 world food-price crisis, signalling the need for a stronger food security agenda. The focus on agriculture has been prominent within this agenda. In its World Development Report 2008, the World Bank emphasised that agriculture offered the best return on investment to eradicate poverty, as well as an opportunity to create synergies for the sustainable management of natural resources. Consensus on the need to boost funding in agriculture (through aid, public spending or private investment) has grown over the years, as has the trend towards increased national budget allocations to agricultural development. In Africa, raising agricultural productivity by at least 6 % from 2003 to 2015 was defined as the main objective of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP).