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This study addresses two main questions: Is agriculture in Africa growing faster than in the past, and closer to the ambitious goal set in Maputo in 2003 of six percent growth per year? Equally important, is productivity in agriculture rising? Increased labour productivity will be critical for the transition of African countries from agrarian to urban economies. The focus here is on the countries that had by early 2014 joined the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal and Tanzania. The official statistics show that between 1990-1992 and 2009-2011, African agricultural production grew by an annual average of 3.2 percent a year, just ahead of population growth, so that per capita production expanded by 0.8 percent a year. Within the continent, North and West Africa did better than the average. Agricultural growth was faster …