July 09

G8 must travel the shortest path to African food security: through Africa’s breadbaskets

June 09

AGRA and JICA cement new partnership to double Africa’s rice production

April 09

AGRA launches fund to jumpstart African seed industry - African Seed Investment Fund to boost 20 homegrown African seed companies, avail one million farm households with improved seed

February 09

Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) partners with the International Finance Corporation to boost agricultural growth in Africa, alleviate hunger and poverty

August 08

AGRA’s Program for Africa’s Seed Systems

July 08

Statement by AGRA Chairman on EU proposal to spend unused EU budget to help African farmers

June 08

AGRA and the Millennium Challenge Corporation launch a historic collaboration to provide Africa's farmers with technologies, infrastructure and financing

Boosting food production in Africa’s "breadbasket areas" - New collaboration among Rome-based UN agencies and AGRA

May 08

Kenya launches revolutionary US $50 million farm programme to provide small-scale farmers and farm businesses financing and credit

April 08

Meeting of rice breeders from 10 African countries sets forth strategy to boost rice production in the face of rising food prices and import crunch
Les exploitants agricoles africains obtiennent l’accès à des variétés de riz ‘pluvial’, résistantes aux maladies

January 08

Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) commits US$180 million to revive depleted soils of small-scale farmers
L’Alliance pour une révolution verte en Afrique (AGRA) promet 180 millions de dollars US pour revitaliser les sols appauvris des petits exploitants

November 07

African farmer and world agricultural leader announced as President of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)

October 07

African cassava breeders network moves to derail spreading epidemic of devastating crop virus

Top maize breeders in Southern and Eastern Africa urge governments to speed approvals of new crop varieties needed by farmers
Les principaux sélectionneurs de maïs en Afrique orientale et australe exhortent les gouvernements à accélérer les autorisations pour les nouvelles variétés de cultures nécessaires aux agriculteurs

September 07

African partnership announces the launch of a critical PhD program for crop breeding in Africa

July 07

African scientists and agricultural organizations welcome AGRA clarification on biotech research

Kofi Annan, Chair of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa holds first of fact-finding missions with African smallholder farmers to boost agriculture

June 07

Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa appoints former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan as Chairman of the Board

September 06

Nairobi to host evaluation and monitoring centre of the Program for Africa’s Seed Systems

Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa: a strategic partnership between the Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Bill & Melinda Gates, Rockefeller foundations form alliance to help spur "green revolution" in Africa - Major effort begins with a $150 million investment to improve Africa’s seed systems
 

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