A Sting In The AGRA Tale: Independent Expert Evaluations Confirm That The Alliance For A Green Revolution Has Failed

Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)

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Abstract: In July 2020, an alliance of five African and five German organizations published the study “False Promises: The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)”. It is the first study to scientifically assess the impacts of AGRA – an agricultural alliance registered in the US, which is supported by numerous international organisations, governments in the Global North and some African governments. Central to the study was the question whether AGRA has achieved its own goals of doubling agricultural yields and the incomes of 30 million small-scale food producer households, thereby halving both hunger and poverty in 20 African countries by 2020. The study’s findings clearly revealed AGRA’s failure. There is now new evidence of this failure from AGRA itself. Following a request based on the US Freedom of Information Act, AGRA had to publish both the internal mid-term evaluation and another eleven country evaluations on its website.