This page contains independent evaluations, strategy documents, country reports, and other information from AGRA (formerly the Alliance for a Green Revolution for Africa). The group supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USAID and others, seeks to transform African agriculture by shifting farmers from highly diversified food production towards more specialized, market-oriented production involving a greater reliance on expensive inputs including synthetic fertilizer and commercial seeds.
With a recent website update, AGRA reports and evaluations went missing from the site and links were broken, including a recent critical independent evaluation conducted by Mathematica. We are posting the documents here for the public record. (AGRA has since made the documents available again via the publications section of their website.) See our recent Tweet thread for more details, and our May 2022 report, Gates Foundation agriculture project in Africa flunks review.
Independent evaluations
Partnership for Inclusive Agricultural Transformation in Africa (PIATA), Volume 1, Final Evaluation Report, Mathematica, December 8, 2021 (Volume II, Technical Appendices)
AGRA response to Mathematica evaluation, February 2020
Mid-term evaluation of AGRA’s 2017-2021 PIATA strategy implementation, ITAD, January 7, 2020 (summary is here)
Policy advocacy grid, from ITAD evaluation
Key findings of the 2015 independent institutional evaluation of AGRA; conducted by DAI, commissioned by the Gates Foundation. (This summary was included in the ITAD evaluation, page 51. The Gates Foundation has refused to provide a full copy of this document and we have been unable to obtain it via FOIA.
Strategy documents
AGRA’s five year strategy, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, The Rockefeller Foundation, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, USAID. 2017-2021 (summary)
AGRA corporate strategy overview for 2017-2021
Country-specific outcome monitoring reports
PIATA 2019 Outcome Monitoring Reports:
Uganda
Ethiopia
Ghana
Mali
Kenya
Malawi
Mozambique
Nigeria
Burkina Faso
Rwanda
Tanzania
Briefing papers
Feeding Africa’s Soils: Fertilizers to support Africa’s agricultural transformation, 2019
Soil health and climate change: Implications for food security in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2018
AGRA’s Program for Africa’s Seed Systems: The PASS Journey, 2017
Educating a new generation of African soil professionals, AGRA brief 1, August 2014
AGRA Annual Reports
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
Status reports
Accelerating African Food System Transformation, 2022
A Decade of Action, 2021
The Hidden Middle: A Quiet Revolution in the Private Sector Driving Agricultural Transformation, 2019
Catalyzing Government Capacity to Drive Agricultural Transformation, 2018
The Business of Smallholder Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2017
Progress Toward Agricultural Transformation in Africa, 2016
Focus on Staple Crops, 2013
Investing in Sustainable Agricultural Growth, 2011
Progress Report, 2007-2016
Progress Report, 2007-2014
Tax filings
Alliance for a Green Revolution Forum (AGRF)
Seize the Moment Campaign, 2016
