A new report marks the 20th anniversary of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), arguing that the Western-led initiative has not met key targets in participating countries. The report says AGRA is failing to double agricultural productivity and incomes and to halve undernourishment, as it originally promised.
AGRA, established in 2006 with support associated with Western philanthropic groups such as the Gates and Rockefeller foundations, has been promoted as a way to expand agricultural yields. Across the coverage, outlets link the anniversary reporting to a reassessment of outcomes for farmers in countries where AGRA has been active. While both sources emphasize the initiative’s shortcomings, they focus on different aspects of the same claim: that the promised improvements in production, income, and hunger reduction have not materialized at the scale expected.
No other contrasting data or viewpoints are presented in the supplied excerpts, so the coverage centers primarily on the report’s negative assessment of AGRA’s performance since its launch.
