Program Updates

Leading Resilience Learning in Kenya

Posted by 2017, Capacity Building, East Africa, ESA Updates, Featured, Program Updates
Drought emergency, human conflict, and endemic poverty is a chronic risk for communities in Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs). Spanning 23 counties and representing 89 percent of the country’s […]
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Impact Evaluation: “Don’t Lose the Plot” Data Collection Process

Posted by 2017, East Africa, ESA Updates, Featured, Program Updates
Machakos, Kenya (3 October 2017): Africa Lead (AL) conducted a data collection exercise to evaluate the impact of Don’t Lose the Plot (DLTP), a TV reality show that was broadcast […]
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COMSHIP Mutual Accountability 2ND Core Team Meeting

Posted by 2017, East Africa, ESA Updates, Featured, Program Updates
Nairobi, Kenya (28 September 2017): The commitment of Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) member states to harmonize regional seed policy, improve seed sector infrastructure, and address seed […]
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Africa Lead Q3 Quarterly Report April-June 2017

Posted by 2017, Continental Updates, Program Updates, Quarterly Report, Report,
This report covers the program’s major accomplishments and outputs from April through June 2017, which is Quarter 3 of Africa Lead’s fourth year of implementation. It highlights the support, facilitation, […]
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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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Strengthening Kenya’s “Digital Harvest”

Posted by 2017, Capacity Building, East Africa, ESA Updates, Featured, Program Updates
Devolution – the delegation of power from the national government to county governments – is a central pillar in Kenya’s new constitution set into law in 2010. Seven years later, […]
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“Don’t Lose the Plot” – East Africa’s agriculture reality TV show launched

Posted by Agriculture, East Africa, ESA Updates, Featured, Impact Story, Program Updates
Youth agribusiness and entrepreneurship took center stage at the recent launch of the first ever competitive reality TV show focused on agriculture in Africa, ‘Don’t Lose the Plot’.  The show […]
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Red carpet for Tanzania’s women and youth in agriculture – Kumekucha film premiere

Posted by East Africa, ESA Updates, Featured, Program Updates
The real heroes of Tanzania’s agriculture sector – women and youth – were front and center at the red carpet premiere of the film Kumekucha TUNU, held this past April […]
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East Africa: Launch of “Don’t Lose the Plot” reality TV show to highlight youth agribusiness movement

Posted by ESA Updates, Program Updates
In East Africa, agriculture is often perceived as a livelihood reserved for older adults, and while in countries such as Kenya the average age of farmers is 61, this reality […]
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Ghana Livestock Sector Boosted by New Policy

Posted by Featured, Program Updates, WA Updates
Key stakeholders in Ghana’s livestock and animal production sector breathed a huge sigh of relief in September when the Cabinet of Ghana approved the Ghana Livestock Development Policy and Strategy Document, which will officially launch in Accra on November 9.
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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
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