Approximately 75% of people living in Africa rely on agriculture. Increased agricultural productivity and improved integration of smallholder farmers into agricultural value chains is needed to improve food security and incomes for millions of people.
JAVA FOODS
Java Foods provides convenient, affordable and nutritious foods sourced from local farmers. Their goal is to become the leading food manufacturer in Southern Africa committed to providing high quality and nutritious food from local products at affordable prices.
ETHIOCHICKEN / UZIMA CHICKEN
EthioChicken and Uzima Chicken bring healthy and affordable eggs and meat to families across Ethiopia and Rwanda, and in doing so improve nutrition, enhance rural farmer livelihoods, and create income opportunities for our customers and partners. They are focused exclusively on reaching smallholder farmers, and have created an innovative, economically viable, and replicable distribution model to reach rural households.
TWIGA FOODS
Twiga Foods is revolutionizing urban Africa’s informal wholesale markets. Their mobile-based business-to-business (B2B) supply platform moves fresh fruits and vegetables directly from farmers to informal street vendors, providing a guaranteed market for farmers and less expensive goods for vendors.
HONEY CARE AFRICA
Honey Care Africa has a rich history as a pioneer of the honey industry in Africa, utilising a sustainable supply chain that benefits rural communities from every product purchased. They sell high quality and affordable pure, natural, authentic honey-based snacks that consumers love, while contributing to economic development by increasing rural farming families’ incomes.
SIDAI
For rural pastoralists, livestock are a critical source of food, income and savings. Sidai supplies quality veterinary and farming inputs and training in Kenya through a network of branded stores and franchise retail outlets involving livestock and farming professionals. Sidai aims to establish a quality, trusted brand that provides improved last-mile distribution of products and services geared toward improving livestock health.
COMACO
Comaco, under the brand 'It's Wild', sells high-quality and sustainable farmed products, including honey, peanut butter and rice. CAMACO works with its suppliers - smallholder farmers - to identify local solutions to diversify their crops, improve productivity and end poaching - and pays them 20% more than standard market rates for their produce.
UMILIKI
Umiliki (formerly African Wildlife Capital) was developed to support innovative conservation enterprises. Umiliki provides debt financing tied to clear conservation covenants to enhance the commercial viability of supported investments, drive conservation outcomes, and enhance local livelihoods in regions of high biodiversity value.
ROOT CAPITAL
Root Capital is a nonprofit social investment fund that grows rural prosperity in poor, environmentally vulnerable places in Africa and Latin America by lending capital, delivering financial training and strengthening market connections for agricultural small and growing businesses.
CROPNUTS
Cropnuts is Africa’s leading laboratory for agricultural and environmental testing, providing a wide range of analytical services to farmers, businesses and smallholders.