On 13 February 2025 the Founder and Executive Director of ACCORD, Dr Vasu Gounden met with H.E. Hailemariam Desalegn, the former Prime Minister of Ethiopia, and current Chair of AGRA, to discuss food sustainability in Africa. AGRA, formerly known as the Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa is an African-led African-based organization that seeks to catalyse Agriculture Transformation in Africa.
AGRA is focused on putting smallholder farmers at the centre of the continent’s growing economy by transforming agriculture from a solitary struggle to survive into farming as a business that thrives. As the sector that employs the majority of Africa’s people, nearly all of them small-scale farmers, AGRA recognizes that developing smallholder agriculture into a productive, efficient, and sustainable system is essential to ensuring food security, lifting millions out of poverty, and driving equitable growth across the continent.
