Agriculture

Education Village Tackles Food Insecurity and Poor Nutrition in Northern Tanzania’s Rural Schools

Posted by 2018, Agriculture, East Africa, ESA Updates, Featured, Program Updates,
In a remote Maasai village in northern Tanzania, Linda Simon, a 2014 Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI) Fellow, is working to ensure that no school child goes hungry. Linda started […]
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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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AgCK Business Plan Validation Meeting

Posted by 2018, Agriculture, ESA Updates, Featured, Program Updates, Updates
In 2018, Africa Lead continued to support institutional strengthening of the Agricultural Council of Kenya (AgCK) to consolidate membership, policy engagement, and dialogue. Through the hiring of an institutional sustainability […]
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Institutional Architecture Resources

Posted by 1Agriculture, Capacity Building, Institutional Architecture Assessment, Institutional Strengthening, Policy, Resources, Southern Africa, Study, Tool
Find below resource documents for IAA Workshop (Click to download) Bench-marking performance in agricultural transformation (BPaT) tool Ethiopia IA Assessment Rpt 9 9 13 Ghana IA Assessment Rpt 9 9 […]
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Africa Lead Intern Uses Experience to Launch Own Agribusiness Start-Up

Posted by 2017, Agriculture, Brief, Capacity Building, Featured, Impact Story, West Africa, Youth
Africa Lead Chief of Party, David Tartif-Douglin (right) listens intently as Boadu Owusu speaks of his internship experience and plans for his start-up, Accra, Ghana When Boadu Owusu graduated from […]
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USAID’s Jeff Hill Shares the Origin Story of Africa Lead

Posted by 2017, Africa Leading Blog, Agriculture, Featured, Videos
USAID’s Jeff Hill (left) with Carla Denizard, Africa Lead West Africa’s Regional Director (Center), and Maurice Lorka N’Guessan (right), CAADP Pillar IV Advisor (Rural Economy and Agriculture Department) African Union […]
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Youth Leader Empowers Women and Improves Livelihoods in Maasai Communities

Posted by 2017, Agriculture, Capacity Building, East Africa, Impact Story, YALI, Youth
Kisioki displays one of the energy-efficient cook stoves he makes . Photo credit: Craig Davis/Africa Lead Thirty-one year-old youth activist and director of the non-profit International Collaborative for Science, Education and […]
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Youth Combats Malnutrition and Promotes Food Security in Tanzania Village

Posted by 2017, Agriculture, Capacity Building, East Africa, Impact Story, YALI, Youth
Linda Simon Paulo in the Tingatinga School garden. Photo credit: Craig Davis/Africa Lead Twenty-nine year-old youth activist, Linda Simon Paulo, believes that malnutrition is the greatest threat facing Maasai communities […]
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Youth Entrepreneur Follows His Passion: Agriculture

Posted by 2017, Agriculture, Capacity Building, East Africa, Impact Story, YALI, Youth
Edson stands before his beef cattle on this 102-acre farm. Photo credit: Craig Davis/Africa Lead Thirty-six-year-old entrepreneur Edson Enos Mfuru is an agribusiness consultant and manager of his own 102-acre […]
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Passing the Torch: Building Capacity for Kenya’s County-Level Agricultural Sector Transformation

Posted by Agriculture, Capacity Building, ESA Updates, Impact Story
In traditional African kitchens, the pot serves as an essential tool for the welfare of the family. Girls fetch water from the river, mothers brew porridge for the younger children, […]
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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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