Dr. Ngongi Namanga Appointed AGRA President
By Elvis Tah
Dr. Amos Ngongi Namanga, a 
Cameroonian Agronomist and leader of African Farmers and World Agriculture, has been appointed president of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, AGRA.
Dr. Namanga was appointed in Ghana, on November 14, by Kofi A. Annan, Chairman of the Board of AGRA and former Secretary General of United Nations organisation, UNO, whom he had served as a special representative and head of the organisation's peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, from 2001-2003.
Dr. Namanga succeeds interim president, Dr. Gary Toenniessen, who has presided since the inception of AGRAs in September 2006.From Ghana where he was appointed, Dr. Namanga would be returning to Nairobi, where the headquarter of AGRA is situated.
Aims Of AGRA
AGRA is an African partnership of farmers and scientists of the government and private sector (civil society).Its aims and objectives is to significantly increase the productivity of small-scale farmers by supporting sustainable, innovative agricultural practices to alleviate poor farmers and their families from poverty and hunger.
The organisation's programmes focus on issues across the agricultural value; from seeds, soil, health, and water, to markets, agricultural education and public policy.It targets efforts to develop new varieties of Africa's food crops that are low-yielding and highly vulnerable to diseases.
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