Expressions Africa
It is welcome to see the response by the chair of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa’s board, former Ethiopian prime minister Hailemariam Desalegn, to concerns raised recently by the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) and others about the impacts of AGRA and other Green Revolution investments on African food producers.
The conciliatory tone is welcome, as is the open admission of some of the program’s disappointing results and the need to incorporate agroecology into AGRA’s revised strategy, expected soon.
What is still missing from the discussion, however, is evidence of AGRA’s positive impacts. AFSA members, including the Biodiversity and Biosafety Association of Kenya, wrote to AGRA a year ago after my research found no evidence that AGRA was meeting its stated goals of doubling yields and incomes for 30 million smallholder households while cutting food insecurity in half by 2020.
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