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10 Lessons from Year 3 – Africa Lead Annual Report

Posted by Africa Leading Blog, Featured, Program Updates
With the release of Africa Lead’s Year Three Annual Report, we are looking back at 2016 to share some of the key lessons learnt from Feed the Future’s capacity building program for food security. The Annual Report covers the program activities from October 2015 through September 2016.
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An Emerging Voice for Kenya’s Agriculture Sector Non-State Actors

Posted by ESA Updates, Featured, Program Updates
For years, Kenyan non-state actors (NSAs) in the agriculture sector – input suppliers, producers, research and academic institutions, civil society and agribusiness, and women and youth – have struggled to […]
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Kenya’s Dairy Champion

Posted by East Africa, ESA Updates, Featured, Impact Story, Updates
When Alex Gitonga graduated from Nairobi University with a degree in Food Science and Technology, he struggled to find a meaningful way to use his education. It wasn’t until he participated in Africa Lead’s agricultural leadership training, “Champions for Change” in 2010 that he’d find the right direction. Little did he know at the time, it would be his of love of milk that would help shape his future.
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Champions for Change Help Women in Ghana Exercise Their Rights

Posted by Featured, Impact Story, WA Updates, West Africa
As originally featured in the August 2016 Feed the Future newsletter. Water pollution is a potential consequence of mining, and in Ghana—where safe water is already scarce—such pollution can make […]
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USAID, ASNAPP initiate agricultural internship programme

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The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in partnership with Africa Lead has initiated an Internship Partnership Network dubbed Entrepreneurship for Opportunity Actualization (EOpAct). This is to build entrepreneurial […]
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Kenyan Counties Make Big Strides in Leadership

Posted by ESA Updates, Featured, Impact Story, Program Updates
There is a saying, “The tragedy in Africa is poverty of leadership”, however the result of the work of Kenya's Counties to engage in the Champions for Change leadership training, shows that Kenya's counties are on the right path, and there is no tragedy in that.
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To Farm or Not to Farm? Helping Youth Discover Opportunity in Agriculture

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It wasn’t easy for Florence in the big city. Nairobi was a tough place for a young person to make it. Jobs weren’t easy to find, opportunities were few, and […]
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Opening Communication Channels to Move Farming Forward

Posted by ESA Updates, Featured, Program Updates, Updates
Mozambique’s New Alliance Business Advisory Group (BAWG) was launched in 2014. It is the first group of its kind in the country, enabling investors in agriculture to discuss their needs […]
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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.