Author: Thomas Wallace

African Union CAADP & Biennial Review Toolkit

Posted by Africa Leading Blog, Continental Updates, Featured
During the official launch of the 15th CAADP Partnership Platform meeting in Nairobi by Kenya's Deputy President William Ruto, and H.E. Josefa Leonel Correia Sacko, the African Union's Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture (AU DREA), AU DREA and the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) launched the a new communications toolkit for CAADP advocates, leaders, and focal points entitled, "Catalyzing Action & Agricultural Transformation in Africa: Understanding CAADP & the Biennial Review"
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Balancing Africa’s food security scales with women-led agriculture; how media representations can lead to transformative change

Posted by Africa Leading Blog, East Africa, Featured, Impact Story
In sub-Saharan Africa women are heavily involved in food production, processing, and marketing. You don’t need a statistic about African women’s significant involvement in agriculture to know how much they […]
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Call for Applications: Executive Leadership Course for Africa’s Food Security (East and Southern Africa Cohort)

Posted by Continental Opportunities, ESA Opportunities, Opportunities
In partnership with African Management Institute‘s (AMI), Africa Lead is offering the Executive Leadership Course for Africa’s Food Security. Beginning in February 2019, the program will bring together 24 active executive leaders from across the private and public sectors in East and Southern Africa to learn the latest in leadership and management strategies. The deadline for applications is December 12, 2018.
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Africa Agriculture Status Report 2018 – “Catalyzing Government Capacity to Drive Agricultural Transformation”

Posted by Africa Leading Blog, Agriculture, Capacity Building, Enabling Environment, Featured, Institutional Strengthening, Report
During the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) held in Kigali, Rwanda (Sept. 4-8) the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) released the annual Africa Agriculture Status Report (AASR) 2018, this year titled and focused on "Catalyzing Government Capacity to Drive Agricultural Transformation".
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Workshop Generates Awareness and Skills to Combat the Fall Armyworm in Eastern Africa

Posted by ESA Updates, Featured, Program Updates, Updates
Rwanda’s Nicolas Uwitonze was part of the country’s initial rapid response to the devastating invasive pest: The Fall Armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda). In early 2017, Uwitonze was a staff member of […]
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East Africa’s Reality TV Show Crowns Top Youth Farmers

Posted by ESA Updates, Featured, Program Updates
If the finale of East Africa’s first-ever farming reality TV show and competition “Don’t Lose the Plot” were treated like a four person regional farming Olympics for East Africa, Tanzania […]
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Early Generation Seed Studies – Rwanda, Zambia, Kenya, & Nigeria

Posted by Agriculture, East Africa, ESA Updates, News, Resources, Seeds, Southern Africa, West Africa
Through a USAID and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) partnership, Africa Lead is addressing the longstanding problem of severe shortages of improved varieties and high quality seed in African […]
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Africa Lead Position: Communications assistant, East and Southern Africa

Posted by 2015, Archive
Location: Nairobi, Kenya (with in-country and periodic international travel) Period of Performance: August 01 , 2016 – September 30, 2018 (funding dependent) Background: The USAID Building Capacity for African Agricultural […]
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ABOUT AFRICA LEAD

Africa Lead is Feed the Future’s primary capacity building program in sub Saharan Africa. Feed the Future (FTF) is the U.S. Government’s global hunger and food security initiative.

The program works to help realize FTF's and the African Union’s Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP) goals of reduced hunger and poverty by building the capacity of champions, institutions and stakeholders to develop, lead and manage the structures needed for African-led agriculture transformation.

US Office

Africa Lead is working across sub-Saharan Africa, with offices and staff across West Africa, East, and Southern Africa. Africa Lead II's US office is based in Bethesda, MD, USA.

East & Southern Africa Regional Office

  • Acorn House, 97 James Gichuru Road, Lavington Nairobi, Kenya

West Africa Regional Office

  • 8, Route du Meridien President Almadies
  • Residence Rokhaya /49 Dakar, Senegal
The information provided on this website is not official U.S. government information and does not represent the views or positions of the U.S. Agency for International Development or the U.S. Government.