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Africa Lead Lessons Learned Event

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20-23 February 2018; Nairobi, Kenya Africa Lead held a four-day Lessons Learned Event (LLE) in Nairobi, Kenya. The purpose of the event was to capture lessons learned and generate recommendations […]
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Africa Lead Annual Report FY 2017

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The report highlights Africa Lead’s support, facilitation, and training to improve institutional capacity and broader systems and institutional architecture to manage agricultural transformation as well to promote the effective, inclusive […]
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TASAI Presents Study on Improving the Regional Seed Sector at First East Africa Seed Network Webinar

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Ensuring learning, communication and collaboration among key stakeholders in the East Africa regional seed sector is essential for identifying challenges in seed trade and developments in seed policy processes and […]
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Ghana’s Agribusiness and entrepreneurship Training of Trainers Course

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Promoting the inclusiveness of youth and women in the advancement of agriculture transformation and building on its existing leadership training program, Africa Lead organized an entrepreneurship and agribusiness development Training […]
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Strengthening Tanzania’s food security leaders and trainers

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Justin Urassa, an associate professor at Tanzania’s Sokoine University, believes that agriculture is a pathway out of poverty, specifically for Tanzania’s rural youth. Ask him if he understood that three […]
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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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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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FY 2016 Quarterly Report – Q2: Jan – March 2016

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Africa Lead’s quarterly report for Jan – March 2016 is now available. Q3 Report – Final
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Opening Communication Channels to Move Farming Forward

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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.