In Keeping with the role of AGRA as the catalyst for a uniquely African Green revolution, this news dashboard seeks to increase information access on Africa's Agriculture Transformation by aggregating news from our partners, governments, private sector and all value chain actors.
Memunatu Alhassan is the proprietor of the Lowlandi Rice Processing Centre in Tamale, Northern Ghana. For more than a decade, Lowlandi has been aggregating rice from smallholder farmers in the region forprocessing and retail. L...
Africa needs fertilisers to help regenerate the production of crop biomass that can be ploughed into the soil, which are too degraded to give sufficient biomass to raise fertility. Most of the subsidies in Sub-Saharan Africa ar...
Ewadi Lazaro Chaula, 29, is a smallholder farmer from Mtitu Village in Tanzania’s Southern Highlands who is determined to succeed as a farming enterprise. A beneficiary of the AGRA-funded PIATA Tija Project, also known as Kil...
It’s counterintuitive to a lot of people, but Chinese and African agriculture has a lot more in common with one another than many first expect. For the most part, both are dominated by small family farms that have to battle mig...
AGRA Adopts Environmental and Social Management System for Enhanced Sustainability and Environmental Outcomes Agriculture and environmental management are frequently at loggerheads. However, when agricultural projects are caref...
Essong’olo village, in the heart of Vihiga County, is just like any other hamlet, with most households engaging in subsistence farming. Isaiah Bitoolo is one of the residents of this village and, like many of his neighbours, he...
Stepped up and concerted actions are needed in Africa if the Sustainable Development Goal of Zero Hunger and the more ambitious Malabo hunger target are to be met. The Malabo Declaration, adopted by African Union member states ...
Without changing the approach towards the efforts to end hunger, Africa risks remaining as the only continent struggling with hunger in 2030. This is the view from most experts who attended the launch of the 2020 African Green ...
In Mozambique, the National Investment Plan for the Agrarian Sector (PNISA) has stated its vision: to develop “a prosperous, competitive, equitable and sustainable agricultural sector”. It seeks to identify and prioritize key i...
Iringa, Tanzania: Magreth Aidan Sanga is a Hub agro-input dealer based in Iringa, a town in Tanzania’s Southern Highlands where she trades as Iwawa General Supplies. In business for the past 11 years, Magreth’s best-selli...