Assembly/AU/ /Decl.1(XXIII) Page 4 mobilizing and disbursing investment finance for priority agriculture related investment projects. III. Commitment to Ending Hunger in Africa by 2025 3. We commit to ending hunger in Africa by 2025, and to this end we resolve: a) to accelerate agricultural growth by at least doubling current agricultural productivity levels, by the year 2025. In doing so, we will create and enhance the necessary appropriate policy and institutional conditions and support systems to facilitate: sustainable and reliable production and access to quality and affordable inputs (for crops, livestock, fisheries, amongst others) through, among other things, provision of „smart‟ protection to smallholder agriculture; supply of appropriate knowledge, information, and skills to users; efficient and effective water management systems notably through irrigation; suitable, reliable and affordable mechanization and energy supplies, amongst others. b) to halve the current levels of Post-Harvest Losses, by the year 2025; c) to integrate measures for increased agricultural productivity with social protection initiatives focusing on vulnerable social groups through committing targeted budget lines within our national budgets for: strengthening strategic food and cash reserves to respond to food shortages occasioned by periodic prolonged droughts or other disasters/emergencies; strengthening early warning systems to facilitate advanced and proactive responses to disasters and emergencies with food and nutrition security implications; targeting priority geographic areas and community groups for interventions; encouraging and facilitating increased consumption of locally produced food items, including the promotion of innovative school feeding programs that use food items sourced from the local farming community.