Since September 2014 , she has served as president of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa ( AGRA ) , an African-led organization whose mission is to improve the food security and incomes of 30 million faming households in 11 African countries by 2021 by , among other things , providing access to better seeds and credit . Kalibata has held multiple roles in MINAGRI , Rwanda 's Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources ; she was appointed Permanent Secretary of the Ministry in 2006 , Minister of State in Charge of Agriculture in 2008 , and full Minister of Agriculture and Animal Resources in 2009 . She has also held numerous other positions including chair of the Board of the Institute of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry and chair of the Rwanda 's National Clinical Research Center . She served on the International Food Policy Research Institute 's Advisory Council and managed a World Bank project in Rwanda . Kalibata has been a member of the International Fertilizer Development Center ( IDFC ) 's Board of Directors since 2008 , where she chairs the board 's Africa Committee and is a member of their Executive and Audit Committees . She is also a member of many national and international boards including for the University of Rwanda , Africa Risk Capacity , the World Economic Forum 's Global Agenda Council , the Global Commission on Adaptation and the Malabo Montpellier Panel of Agriculture and Food Security Experts . Kalibata has been instrumental in advocating for gender equality in Rwanda , emphasizing the economic benefits of encouraging women to play a more public role in society as Rwanda recovered from the 1994 Rwandan genocide that killed 800,000 people in three months and left Rwanda 's population 60 % female
Rwandan genocide
Rwandan genocide
Agnes Kalibata