Africa Leading Blog

Collective Impact for Resilience; Improving Collaboration and Learning in Northern Kenya

Posted by 2019, Africa Leading Blog, East Africa, ESA Updates, Featured, Kenya
Selina Akiru of Northern Kenya is the pure definition of resilience. A mother of eight and a member of the Moruese community in Kenya’s arid Turkana County, she had often […]
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Africa Lead Facilitates Final Learning Series Event on Facilitative Leadership in Nairobi

Posted by 2019, Africa Leading Blog, BFS, ESA Updates, Featured, Program Updates
Facilitative leadership, which has increasingly become the leadership style of choice in corporations worldwide, is now proving essential to effective development policies and programs throughout the African continent. This was […]
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Facilitative Leadership: The Cornerstone of Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration

Posted by Africa Leading Blog, Featured
This post is part of Africa Lead’s Final Program Year Learning Series and has been published in advance of the upcoming August 7th, 2019 Learning Series Event – Leadership for […]
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African Union CAADP & Biennial Review Toolkit

Posted by Africa Leading Blog, Continental Updates, Featured
During the official launch of the 15th CAADP Partnership Platform meeting in Nairobi by Kenya's Deputy President William Ruto, and H.E. Josefa Leonel Correia Sacko, the African Union's Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture (AU DREA), AU DREA and the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) launched the a new communications toolkit for CAADP advocates, leaders, and focal points entitled, "Catalyzing Action & Agricultural Transformation in Africa: Understanding CAADP & the Biennial Review"
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Why does Africa’s Continental Food Security Policy Framework Matter to Smallholder Farmers Everywhere?

Posted by Africa Leading Blog, Featured, Uncategorized
From Africa Lead's Learning Series: In a compelling article on and a YouTube video, Robert Ouma, Africa Lead's Senior Policy Advisor explores how CAADP puts smallholder farmers at the heart of food security policy solutions.
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The power of joy and African-led food security; a tribute to Dr. Washington O. Ochola PhD.

Posted by Africa Leading Blog, Featured
It is with great sadness that Africa Lead begins our April 2019 update with the news of the untimely passing on of one of Kenya’s great countrymen and champions of […]
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Africa Lead in Senegal Celebrates Women Leaders in Agriculture

Posted by Africa Leading Blog, Featured, Program Updates, WA Updates, West Africa
Women represent 52% of Senegal’s 15.4 million people. Agriculture is a key sector of the Senegalese economy, making up approximately 15 percent of the gross domestic product and is a […]
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Balancing Africa’s food security scales with women-led agriculture; how media representations can lead to transformative change

Posted by Africa Leading Blog, East Africa, Featured, Impact Story
In sub-Saharan Africa women are heavily involved in food production, processing, and marketing. You don’t need a statistic about African women’s significant involvement in agriculture to know how much they […]
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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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Kenya’s Agriculture Sector Finds Its Unified Voice

Posted by 2018, Africa Leading Blog, ESA Updates, Featured, Impact Story
The story of the Agriculture Council of Kenya (AGCK), an institution supported by USAID Kenya through Feed the Future’s Africa Lead program. AGCK was established in 2015 by six agriculture sector interest groups. Now the organization includes 10 apex organizations and 13 affiliate organizations, representing the interests of about 2.8 million individuals involved in agriculture across Kenya.
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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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