Malabo Commitment 4 aims at ‘halving Poverty by the year 2025, through Inclusive Agricultural Growth and Transformation’. To this end, it calls upon African Union member states to ‘establish and/or strengthen inclusive public-private partnerships for at least five (5) priority agricultural commodity value chains with strong linkage to smallholder agriculture’. Addressing the underlying challenges in agro-industry and agribusiness development and promoting competitive agribusiness value chains is therefore key to achieving Commitment 4.