Impact Story

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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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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Strengthening Learning and Collaboration for Increased Resilience in Northern Kenya

Posted by 2018, Africa Leading Blog, ESA Updates, Featured, Impact Story
Communities in northern Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs) face one big threat to their livelihoods: drought. In recent years, more frequent and intense droughts in the region have resulted […]
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Strengthening the foundation for food security in Kenya

Posted by 2018, Africa Leading Blog, ESA Updates, Featured, Impact Story
Houses are built with certain factors in mind; how big the family will be, what rooms are needed, how much the home owner can afford, and other considerations. Over time […]
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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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Chicken and the Egg: Africa Lead Helps Youth Entrepreneur Prepare for Investment and Expansion

Posted by 2017, East Africa, ESA Updates, Featured, Impact Story, Tanzania
Surrounding the Uluguru Mountains of Morogoro sits Vonkavy Agrocompany Limited, an agribusiness owned and operated by 29-year-old Eugene Kavishe. Eugene wakes up at 6 a.m. every morning to manage operations […]
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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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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.