ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), which was established by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) in September 2006. AGRA is chaired by former United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Kofi Annan, and adopts the institutional form of the other development modalities; the cross-sectoral partnership-and is designed to replicate the advances in food production of the first Green Revolution, which took place in Asia and Latin America throughout the post-war era. The chapter seeks to deepen knowledge of the emerging mainstream development consensus, which sees private action as both normatively desirable and central to the governance of global problems. Behind the multi-sectoral partnerships that have emerged in recent years to tackle intractable transnational problems there has been noteworthy foundation support. Foundations have acted as key financers of partnerships, providing seed finance and periodic capital injections, while also acting as important interlocutors between the various agents.
