Entrepreneurship

Chilli exports challenge Rwanda’s post-harvest losses

by Aimable Twahirwa and Sophie Reeve

Young entrepreneur Diego Dieudonné Twahirwa is supplying global markets with his dry chilli and chilli oil products, whilst providing a ready market for local farmers.

Demand grows for plant-based Caribbean products

by James Karuga

Agri-processing companies in the Caribbean are making the most of indigenous fruits and plants to access a home-grown market for food, beverage and cosmetic products.

Youth opportunities in rural areas

by Sophie Reeve

Sub-Saharan Africa is experiencing a youth population bulge. To absorb the employment requirements and transform rural areas and the agriculture sector, there is a need to provide young people with agribusiness and digital opportunities.

The sweet smell of success in Madagascar

by Mamy Andriatiana

Mihanta Malala Randriantsoa, the owner of a spice and essential oil export business, is a firm believer in upskilling local staff and suppliers, and her strategy has paid off.

Dried fruits: Tapping into the snack market in Lagos

by Sophie Reeve and Oluyinka Alawode

To address unhealthy snacking in Nigeria, award-winning entrepreneur, Affiong Williams, is providing a healthy alternative with her range of nutritious dried fruit and nut products.

Ugandan women escape poverty through rice production

by Busani Bafana

Agnes Atim Apea’s social enterprise, the Hope Development Initiative, is helping poor smallholder women farmers achieve financial independence by providing inputs, technical farming services and a guaranteed market for rice.

Using drones to improve efficiency

An agri-tech start up in Côte d’Ivoire is using drones to help farmers increase production by intelligently managing their plots.

Supporting entrepreneurship in Africa

by Oluyinka Alawode

With a vision to economically empower Africa’s youth, the Tony Elumelu Enterprise Programme (TEEP) was set up in 2012. Beneficiaries are developing innovative agri-products and services and building more solid business structures with the knowledge acquired through the programme.

A passion for porcine production

Accounting for 38% of worldwide meat production, pork is attracting a new generation of African entrepreneurs – bucking the continent’s traditional aversion to the meat.

With Sooretul local products are just a click away

An e-commerce platform in Senegal offers agribusinesses and smallholder farmers access to urban clients looking to buy quality local products.

Ismaël Tanko turning tomato into red gold

Ismaël Tanko, a 33-year-old entrepreneur, has created a fast-growing company whose tomato purees are already on sale in several West African countries. The next step is a more industrialised production line and an increased number of sales channels.

Don’t leave technology to the men

Dr Eleni Gabre-Madhin, CEO and Founder of blueMoon – Ethiopia’s first youth agribusiness incubator – shares her experience as a woman entrepreneur in Africa’s agricultural sector and stresses the importance that agribusinesses ‘think digital’.