Across Africa, governments are increasingly turning to specialised delivery institutions to bridge the gap between ambitious agricultural strategies and tangible results. This report, commissioned by the African Agricultural Transformation Initiative (AATI), presents one of the first comparative analyses of Agricultural Transformation (AT) models in Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Togo, drawing additional insights from Nigeria’s Food Security War Room.
Using a mixed-methods approach, the study examines how institutional design, anchoring, governance arrangements, and delivery practices influence performance across different country contexts. The findings show that while AT institutions share core functions such as coordination, problem-solving, and analytics, their effectiveness is shaped by political sponsorship, clarity of mandates, strength of analytical capacity, and the degree to which they are embedded within public systems.
The report shares lessons relevant to both mature and emerging AT models and offers practical tools to support governments and development partners seeking to design and sustain resilient, country-owned delivery systems capable of accelerating agricultural transformation at scale.
