Since the early 1990s, countries in Africa, and southern Africa in particular, have recognised the contribution that agriculture can and should play in achieving the first Millennium Development Goal (MGD1) targets of halving poverty and hunger by 2015. To this end they have set a number of targets under different initiatives to harness the roles of agriculture in reducing poverty and hunger and enhancing economic and household income growth. These initiatives include the targets set in the Africa Union New Partnership for Africa’s Development (AU/NePAD)’s Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) of achieving at least a 6% agricultural growth rate per annum by investing at least 10% of national budgets in agriculture under the Maputo Declaration (African Union, 2003). The other initiative, specific to the southern Africa, is the Southern African Development Community (SADC)’s Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan (RISDP), which includes regional integration and other national agricultural growth targets