Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa

Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) is an organization dealing with agricultural products in Africa. It is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as well as the Rockefeller Foundation. Broadly, it deals with improving agricultural products and supporting local farm owners and labor. 
History.
AGRA was founded in 2006 as an Africa-based and -led organization that works within the Comprehensive Africa Agricultural Development Program (CAADP), Africa's policy framework for agricultural transformation, wealth creation, food security and nutrition, economic growth and prosperity. 
Former UN Secretary General, the Late Kofi Annan, was the organization’s first chairman and he served until 2013 when Econet Wireless Founder Strive Masiyiwa took over. Masiyiwa’s term ended in 2019. He was succeeded by former Ethiopian Prime Minister H.E. Hailemariam Desalegn.
AGRA has 211 employees from 24 nationalities of whom 42% are female and 58% male. About 61% of AGRA’s workers are technical staff. The organization is led by President Dr. Agnes Kalibata, who has held the office since 2014. She is deputized by Dr. Fadel Ndiame.
AGRA is among the key conveners of the annual Africa Green Revolution Forum (AGRF), a gathering that brings together presidents, heads of state and government, ministers, scientists, farmers, private sector payers and members of the civil society to chart the way forward for African agriculture. The AGRF is now its 11th year.
Goals.
In 2011, AGRA's stated goals to be achieved by 2020 were:
In an interview with This Is Africa, Jane Karuku, President of AGRA, explained their focus: “The first and most important thing is that we have to continue building on the capacity of Africans themselves to do agricultural research. That requires investment in scientists and in research institutions, which receive very little funding by government, so that we can breed more seed varieties that are high yielding and resistant to pests and diseases.”
Critiques.
A "Voices From Africa" conference has suggested that AGRA was planned without African voices, and imposes quick-fix technological solutions on complex and historically deep social issues, that it will impose a regime in which farmers lose power over their own seeds and are forced to buy them back from large corporations year after year. This system may also contribute to the marginalization of women. The conference compiled a set of papers containing various arguments:
Most of these papers call for local control and food sovereignty as an alternative.
Other sources, including the African Centre for Biosafety, Ecoterra Intl. and The Guardian, have reported that the Gates Foundation, allied with Monsanto and Cargill, plans to aggressively promote strains of genetically modified soy in Mozambique and beyond. 
A conference titled "Living With the Gates Foundation" contained some criticism of Gates Foundation sponsorship. One author suggested that the foundation's influence on media and global health was so great it could chill almost all criticism.
Evaluation.
As AGRA has reached its 2020 dead line of its target of doubling crop productivity (100% yield increase) and income of small scale farmers and halving the hunger ( 50% reduction in no. of hungry) ; it has utterly failed in its target.It is only Ethiopia one country whose productivity has increase 73% ( agains 100% target) and hunger reduced by 23% ( against 50%) .In togetherness of various countries productivity increase is 18% but hunger of small scale farmers is on the other hand has average increase of 30% against 50% reduction.