The Green Climate Fund (GCF), and the Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) have launched a $100 million financing initiative to support ongoing efforts to improve food security in Africa and make the continent the world’s major food producer.
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The Country Director of Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa, AGRA, Rufus Idris, has revealed that over 11 million farmers have been reached with new agriculture technologies through AGRA’s agriculture extension model called Community Based Advisory.
As mentioned in the first part of this piece, the 2006 Africa Fertilizer Summit in Abuja was a turning point for African agriculture. The Summit’s impetus birthed the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). As the first Vice President of AGRA, Adesina led one of the boldest and most considerable global efforts and finance initiatives that leveraged over $4 billion in Bank finance commitments to Africa’s agriculture sector.
ASHENEWS reports that AGRA on Wednesday, September 6, 2023, announced the winners of the 2023 Women Agripreneurs of the Year Awards (WAYA2023) at the Africa Food Systems Forum, AGRF2023 held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Hunger is ransacking every nook and cranny of millions of households in Nigeria. The report of the National Bureau of…
Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), a consortium of agriculture support organisations, has unveiled resilience and capacity building programme…
The Kaduna state government, along with some stakeholders in the agricultural subsector, on Thursday concluded a two-day on-the-spot assessment visits…
By Tina George, Minna The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, AGRA, has distributed rice milling machines, sprayers and…
Top-12 finalist ventures and entrepreneurs this year hail from Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Morocco, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania…
Some African farmers have highlighted the negative impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the continent’s food system supply chain.…