AGRA is an African-led, Africa-based institution whose stated mission is to catalyze and sustain inclusive agriculture transformation in Africa by increasing incomes and improving food security for 30 million smallholder households.
The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) is an African-led, Africa-based institution founded in 2006 and headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. It works to transform African agriculture by putting smallholder farmers — men and women who typically cultivate staple crops on two hectares or less — at the center of the continent's economy, turning farming from a solitary struggle to survive into a business that thrives. AGRA takes an integrated value chain approach, addressing input markets (seed, fertilizer), farm-level productivity, post-harvest handling, access to finance and output markets, and agricultural policy support. It works through partnerships with African governments, researchers, development partners, the private sector, farmer organizations, and civil society, implementing mainly via local grantees and partners, and had awarded over 789 grants since inception as of its 2018 factsheet. Its work emphasizes four cross-cutting themes: resilience, women's empowerment, youth empowerment, and capacity development. Under its 2017–2021 strategy it prioritized 11 countries across three African agro-ecologies, with a 2025 policy brief referring to work in 12 countries.
