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Donor-funded evaluation shows “AGRA did not meet its headline goal” to reduce hunger in Africa, says a press statement by IATP

-Press release by Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy (IATP)* dated March 4, 2022

A new evaluation has exposed the serious failures of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) — in its attempt to address hunger and farmer poverty. Funded by Gates, USAID, and western governments, for 15 years AGRA has promoted high-input agriculture, synthetic fertilizers, commercial seeds and subsidies to "catalyze a farming revolution in Africa."

This evaluation commissioned by AGRA's donors not only demonstrate AGRA's shortcomings to reduce hunger and raise farmer incomes, it invokes larger questions of whether these industrial agriculture, commodity-crop driven strategies are even valid at all. 

Please click here to access the press release from Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy (IATP) dated March 4, 2022. Please click here to access the corporate profile of Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) in 2021. Kindly click here to access an analysis (dated March 4, 2022) of the donor-commissioned evaluation by Timothy A. Wise of IATP. Please click here to access the study 'Failing Africa’s Farmers: An Impact Assessment of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa' by Timothy A. Wise, published in July 2020.

 

*Based in Minneapolis with offices in Washington, D.C., and Berlin, Germany, the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

 

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