AGRA rebranding an “admission of failure”
On October 25, the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) released a statement rejecting the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa’s new strategy and “rebranding” as a “cynical diversion” from the urgent need to shift donor support to agroecology. As I report in the following analysis for Food Tank, AGRA offers no explanation or even acknowledgment that it took the “green revolution” out of its name, rebranding it simply as AGRA. The failure to own up to the change suggests that “AGRA and its donors are concealing their retreat from a failing strategy,”
You can also catch me on Pacifica Radio’s COVID, Race & Democracy Show, Global Food & Fertilizer Crisis, And don’t miss.IATP’s Uprooted podcast series: Talking COP27, which had IATP’s Shiney Varghese and me talking about “climate-stupid agriculture” in Africa. A new podcast drops each Thursday. And get updates on the AGRA campaign on IATP’s “Beyond the Green Revolution” web page.
See related:
- Beyond Africa’s Green Revolution: Time for donors to shift funding to agroecology
- The “Green Revolution:” Its Essence, Achievements & Aftermath
- Global Balliol – T. C. Weiskel
- Some Troubling Chapters in The Political Ecology & History of West African Agriculture
- Who Really Feeds the World?: The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology: Vandana Shiva
- Failing Africa’s farmers: New report shows Africa’s Green Revolution is “failing on its own terms” | IATP
- “The Truth about the Green Revolution,” contribution to GTI Forum “Technology and the Future,” Great Transition Initiative (February 2022).
and - The Malthus Insight and the Global Limits of “Green Revolution” Food Production
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