Also known as: AGRA · AGRA programmes
Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa — agricultural development organization advancing food systems transformation and smallholder farmer resilience across Africa.
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Joy Online
… For Ayishetu, that opportunity came through a livelihood skills training programme implemented by Kosmos Innovation Center with support from AGRA in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, under the Youth Entrepreneurship for the Future of Food and Agriculture (YEFFA) initiat …
Give young people skills and the systems to create jobsDaily Guide
… Organised by AGRA, the 20th edition of the Forum will bring together more than 5,000 stakeholders from over 50 countries under the theme “Investing in Africa’s Agri-Food Systems: Nourishing Nations, Growing Jobs, Building Resilience.” The timing could hardly be more appropriate. …
Africa’s Youth Are Looking For Jobs: The Food System May Hold The AnswerJoy Online
… Organised by AGRA, the 20th edition of the Forum will bring together more than 5,000 stakeholders from over 50 countries under the theme “Investing in Africa’s Agri-Food Systems: Nourishing Nations, Growing Jobs, Building Resilience.” The timing could hardly be more appropriate. …
Africa’s youth are looking for jobs: The food system may hold the answerJoy Online
… Tilahun Amede is Director of Climate, Sustainable Productivity and Resilience at AGRA, an African-led institution driving inclusive agricultural transformation across the continent since 2006.
Africa keeps rebuilding its food security every time a shipping lane closesJoy Online
… It may be the accumulated knowledge the continent has yet to organise, institutionalise and deploy more intentionally.Reflecting on AGRA’s twenty-year journey reinforces this perspective. …
Africa’s next economic frontier will be built from already accumulated knowledgeJoy Online
… In a communique issued at the end of the three-day dialogue organised by AGRA, Mastercard Foundation and the Government of Ghana, the youth called for urgent, coordinated and accountable actions to translate AAYS and YAPI commitments into laws, budgets, programmes, and measurable …
Youth demand greater share of food systems investments at National Agribusiness DialogueJoy Online
… Speaking at a ceremony during which the Foundation awarded AGRA the prestigious Norman E. …
Africa’s future would have to be shaped by African solutions – World Food Prize Foundation PresidentJoy Online
… In my work supporting AGRA programmes, I have seen how often good policy falters at the point of delivery. …
Africa has right policies for Agri-Food Systems transformation but lacks capacity to implement themJoy Online
… Eight Million Hungry in a Nation Swimming in Grain Perhaps the most damning statistical indictment of this entire policy failure comes from AGRA’s November 2025 Food Security Monitor. …
The paradox of plenty: How Ghana’s farmers are being sacrificed on the altar of a cheap import agendaJoy Online
Ecobank Group and AGRA today announced a strategic partnership aimed at strengthening Africa’s agricultural ecosystem. …
Ecobank and AGRA forge strategic partnership to transform agricultural value chainsGhana's youth comprise roughly 38% of its population and the country needs to create about 300,000 new jobs yearly, but young people face barriers including skills gaps, limited access to affordable capital, and weak market linkages that prevent them from turning ideas into viable businesses.
21 August 2026 · Joy Online →
Ghana's youth comprise roughly 38% of its population and the country needs to create about 300,000 new jobs yearly, but young people face barriers including skills gaps, limited access to affordable capital, and weak market linkages that prevent them from turning ideas into viable businesses.
21 August 2026 · Joy Online →
International Youth Day highlights young Africans' shared aspirations for decent work and sustainable futures amid high unemployment. The continent's youngest-in-the-world population—more than 60 per cent under 25 in sub-Saharan Africa—faces an urgent need for job creation, with the food system being considered as a potential source of employment.
17 August 2026 · Daily Guide →
Africa has the world's youngest population, with more than 60 per cent of sub-Saharan Africans under 25, but faces an urgent employment challenge to absorb millions of young people entering the labour market. The food system is presented as a potential source of jobs and opportunities for youth seeking decent work and sustainable futures.
14 August 2026 · Joy Online →
Shipping disruptions at the Strait of Hormuz raised urea prices sharply, doubling fertiliser costs in African markets where food already consumes about half of household spending. The article argues that Africa's reliance on imported fertilisers—the third major supply shock in five years—reflects structural dependence rather than a single crisis, and that existing technologies and institutions on the continent could reduce this vulnerability.
14 August 2026 · Joy Online →
Africa's next economic frontier will be built by transforming accumulated knowledge into institutions that enable enterprise and create shared prosperity, rather than by discovering new resources. The challenge is no longer discovering what works, but converting that knowledge into institutions capable of attracting investment and enabling enterprise.
24 July 2026 · Joy Online →
A National Youth Dialogue on Ghana's domestication of the Africa Agribusiness Youth Strategy and Youth in Agrifood Systems Performance Index concluded in Accra, with youth calling for greater investment in food systems programmes and pressing the government to move beyond mentioning youth in agricultural policy to creating funded, measured, and accountable commitments across flagship programmes including the Feed Ghana Programme and National Agricultural Investment Program.
13 July 2026 · Joy Online →
The World Food Prize Foundation President Mashal Husain awarded AGRA the Norman E. Borlaug Medallion at an event in Nairobi, Kenya, recognising the organisation's two decades of advancing agricultural transformation and strengthening food systems for smallholder farmers across Africa.
6 July 2026 · Joy Online →
African nations have strong policies for agricultural transformation and food systems, but struggle to implement them effectively. The gap between policy ambition and farmer-level delivery—marked by delayed input supplies, weak extension services, and poor system coordination—reflects execution failures rather than lack of vision.
16 June 2026 · Joy Online →
An investigative analysis argues that over five million Ghanaian smallholder farmers are being harmed by macroeconomic policies and institutional failures, including artificially cheap imported rice and maize flooding the market and defective hybrid seeds from the government's Feed Ghana Programme.
18 May 2026 · Joy Online →
Ecobank Group and AGRA announced a strategic partnership to strengthen Africa's agricultural ecosystem through improved access to finance for agribusinesses, farmer organisations, and value chain actors. The partnership will use blended finance and tailored financial products to support agribusiness SMEs, smallholder farmers, and women and youth-led enterprises.
11 May 2026 · Joy Online →
Stakeholders in Ghana's food systems sector say evidence-based data is crucial to strengthening climate adaptation and resilience. AGRA's Climate Vulnerability Assessment Tool (ClimVAT), developed following a climate assessment exercise conducted between 2024 and 2025, combines climate, soil, and socio-economic data to generate spatial maps of climate exposure, agricultural sensitivity, and adaptive capacity to support climate-resilient agricultural planning and investment decisions.
7 May 2026 · Joy Online →
The Skoll World Forum highlights that Africa's ambitious food policy frameworks often fail to translate into results at scale due to weak implementation capacity and coordination gaps across ministries and system actors, despite strong political declarations like the Kampala Declaration.
29 April 2026 · Joy Online →
AGRA's Youth Entrepreneurship for the Future of Food and Agriculture (YEFFA) programme trains young people to own and operate agricultural machinery while providing mechanised services to local farmers, addressing youth unemployment and improving farming productivity in rural communities.
28 April 2026 · Joy Online →