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A Stronger African voice in the Continent’s
Agricultural Transformation

The African Agricultural Leadership Institute (AALI) is an independent, non-profit international entity that provides an African perspective and voice to the diverse services required to accelerate Africa’s agricultural transformation, particularly among its political leadership, and for its women and youth beneficiaries.

We believe that by engaging, involving and valuing African expertise, the challenges facing the continent can be better addressed with contextualized and adapted responses.

AALI envisions a vibrant and bold African leadership, supported by experienced African Agricultural Professionals.

AALI's vision is “Advancing Leadership in African Agricultural Transformation.”

Success in agriculture requires strong leadership, as demonstrated in Nigeria between 2011-2015, but also in Ethiopia, Rwanda, Ghana and Malawi.  During this period in Nigeria, with the former Minister of Agriculture, Akinwumi Adesina, and with strong support from the President of the Republic, Goodluck Jonathan, we proved to the world that it is possible to rapidly increase agricultural productivity.

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AALI Youth Brigade

Empowered to drive change

The Youth Brigade is an agricultural task force set up in December 2022 by the African Agricultural Leadership Institute (AALI) to accelerate agricultural transformation in Africa, with a focus on agribusiness and leadership. It's about agriculture driven by and for young people in the agro-pastoral and fishing value chains.

Inclusivity & Equity

Agricultural Transformation

The transformation of the African agricultural sector is an inclusive issue. We believe that a genuine agricultural transformation can only take place in countries with the combination of research, delivery, agribusiness, willing and well-informed policy preparation, and an enabling environment.

Outcomes & Impact

AALI’s impacts are based upon its comparative advantage and where synergies add value to the work performed by others. We offer the following outcomes;

Better positioning of youths as engineers of economic growth

African Youths are better positioned to operate in their own interests as engineers of economic growth and to persuade political leadership and their governments to effectively operate on their behalf and in their interests.

Governments will have access to reliable advice and solutions

Leaders of African governments become more confident that they can access reliable advice and solutions from AALI necessary to improve agricultural production and meet critical development agendas

Genuine commitment of Government Officials to Agriculture

Commitment to agriculture by government officials becomes more genuine and the abilities of national governments to chart their food systems performance and agro-ecosystem resilience improve over time.

Raising Young Agribusiness Leaders

We have operationalized the Youth Brigade initiative, in close liaison with the Agricultural Transformation Agenda of the Democratic Republic of Congo (ATA-DRC). The Youth Brigade covers the following thematic areas: Vocational Agriculture, Crop Production, Livestock Production, Agricultural Education, Communication, Digital Agriculture, Monitoring and Evaluation.

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