Exhibit 640 · University working paper
Failing Africa's Farmers: An Impact Assessment of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (GDAE Working Paper 20-01)
We find little evidence of widespread progress on any of AGRA’s goals
Uses national FAO and World Bank data because AGRA declined to provide its monitoring and evaluation data. Reports maize yields up 29 percent over 12 years, staple crop yields up 18 percent, and FAO undernourishment up 30 percent in AGRA's 13 countries; AGRA received about $1 billion, two-thirds from the Gates Foundation. A working paper that was not peer reviewed; the research was supported by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (note 1), which also published the NGO report "False Promises."
- Source
- Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University (Timothy A. Wise)
- Date
- July 2020
- Quoted from
- Abstract, p. 1
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.tufts.edu/dist/0/5123/files/2020/07/20-01_Wise_FailureToYield.pdf
- Accessed
- 2026-11-09
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Not peer reviewed. Grade is primary because the exhibit is the issuer's own document; the text must say it is an assessment by one research group, not an adjudication.