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New movie features Africa’s everyday superheroes, women farmers

Posted by ESA Updates, Featured, Impact Story
Farms and fields across sub-Saharan Africa are full of everyday heroes. Smallholder farmers, both men and women, overcome incredible odds every day to feed their families. Many times women are […]
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Kenyan Youth Find Voice in Agriculture Policy Through Technology

Posted by East Africa, ESA Updates, Featured, Impact Story
Youth Consortium Chair Emmanuel Ngore presents youth priorities to 75 stakeholders developing the new “Agriculture Sector Growth and Transformation Strategy” in Naivasha, Kenya. Photo Credit: Africa Lead Naivasha, Kenya (6 […]
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Chicken and the Egg: Africa Lead Helps Youth Entrepreneur Prepare for Investment and Expansion

Posted by 2017, East Africa, ESA Updates, Featured, Impact Story
Former Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) Fellow, 29-year-old Eugene Kavishe is the owner of Vonkaby Agrocompany Limited in Morogoro, Tanzania. Here Eugene collects eggs from the layer cages at his […]
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Enhancing Collaboration for Improved Resilience in Northern Kenya

Posted by 2017, East Africa, ESA Updates, Featured, Impact Story
Veni Mayaka of REGAL-AG (in red) shares information during a monthly PREG meeting in Isiolo County. Photo Credit: Africa Lead Veni Mayaka is a program assistant with USAID Kenya’s Resilience […]
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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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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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Champion for Change Transforms Lives of High School Graduates and University Students

Posted by 2017, Capacity Building, Impact Story, WA Updates, Youth
Moses Awuah (left), CEO of Youth Arise Organisation with technical team members during a training event. Moses Baffour Awuah is a young entrepreneur and president of Youth Arise Organization(YAO). YAO […]
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Strengthening Tanzania’s food security leaders and trainers

Posted by ESA Updates, Impact Story, Updates
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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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.
  • 7600 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 200
  • Bethesda, MD 20814, USA
  • +1 301 771 7600
  • +1 301 771 7777
  • info@africaleadftf.org

East & Southern Africa Regional Office

  • Acorn House, 97 James Gichuru Road, Lavington Nairobi, Kenya
  • +254 727 405 020

West Africa Regional Office

  • 8, Route du Meridien President Almadies
  • Residence Rokhaya /49 Dakar, Senegal
  • Off: +221 33 820 3388
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