Scaling Seeds and Technologies Partnership Will Accelerate Progress to Reduce Hunger, Poverty in Africa (AGRA – Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa)

(Source: AGRA – Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa) Dakar, Senegal- Today, USAID and the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) announced the Scaling Seeds and Technologies Partnership, a $47 million, three-year partnership intended to accelerate smallholder farmer access to transformative agricultural technologies. The Partnership will work in four countries within the G8's New Alliance for Food Security -- Ethiopia, Ghana, Mozambique, and Tanzania -- where it will help governments strengthen their seed sectors and promote the commercialization, distribution and adoption of improved seeds and other key technologies. The Partnership aims to increase production of...