About Stella

Stella Prisca Keleve is an international agriculture food security specialist with more than 12 years of experience designing, leading, and managing programs to increase the availability of food. Her expertise spans regenerative agriculture, increasing productivity and diversifying production, climate-resilient agriculture, women’s empowerment in agriculture, and strengthening market access.

Stella has designed climate-smart agriculture, economic development, and financial sector strengthening programs in more than a dozen countries across sub-Saharan Africa. She has worked with governments, cooperatives, NGOs, associations, and civil society to link agricultural producers and small businesses to markets, while also assisting them in designing innovations to engage young people in agriculture and increase earning opportunities for smallholder farmers.

Prior to joining CEND, Stella has worked with Grow Africa, as programs development, monitoring and evaluation officer. Grow Africa is an innovative agricultural development partnership between the World Economic Forum, the African Union and NEPAD that accelerates private sector investment into African agriculture. GrowAfrica runs over 40 programs in different value chains across 12 countries in Africa with an ambitious growth plan to take the Grow Africa model across all countries in Africa.

 Stella received her B.Sc. Agriculture programme from University of Cape Coast and her Master of Science (MSc) in Agricultural Economics from University for Development Studies (UDS).