AGRA works to achieve a food secure and prosperous Africa through the promotion of rapid, sustainable agricultural growth based on smallholder farmers. Smallholders--the majority women--produce most of Africa's food, and do so with minimal resources and little government support. AGRA aims to ensure that smallholders have what they need to succeed: good seeds and healthy soils; access to markets, information, financing, storage and transport; and policies that provide them with comprehensive support. Through developing Africa's high-potential breadbasket areas, while also boosting farm productivity across more challenging environments, AGRA works to transform smallholder agriculture into a highly productive, efficient, sustainable and competitive system, and do so while protecting the environment.

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Stories from the Field

After years of searching far and wide through the West African frontiers for money-making opportunities, Mr Able Traore has met fortune in the last place he expected: his farm.

Traore, 65, used up most of his youthful years traveling across borders to make a quick buck selling everything from jewelry to soap to fend for his 22 children. He had to make extra money to purchase food and supplement what was harvested from his piece of land located outside of Bamako city in Mali.

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