Agribusiness Sector

Africa’s agribusinesses are underperforming. Many developing countries such as Brazil, Indonesia, and Thailand now export more food products than all of Sub-Saharan Africa combined. Even as export shares are falling, import of food products is rising. Whilst this trend can be reversed through good policies, sustained public-private investment, and strong public-private partnerships backed by open, transparent procedures and processes along the entire value chain, other factors also come into consideration;

  • Unused Land and Water Resources

    Africa has more than half of the world’s fertile yet unused land and as well as water bodies/resources.

  • Limited Access to Major Markets

    Limited value addition activities and access to major international markets.

  • Inefficient Management Methods

    Inefficient energy and water management methods in addition to farm infrastructure challenges.

  • New Agricultural Technologies

    Lack of awareness, knowledge and adoption of new agricultural technologies by authorities and failure to encourage and embrace technologies suited to the African environment.

  • Quality and Safety Standards

    Challenges in setting quality and safety standards acceptable to the local, regional and international markets.

Significant scalable investment opportunities with a focus on ‘innovation’ exist whilst addressing above challenges in the small – medium sized food, beverage and agro business sectors i.e. commercially infusing new industrial technologies, adding value and opening up new markets, adopting new safety and quality standards, commercially infusing new water and energy management technologies adaptable to the African environment and most importantly structuring, arranging and financing integrated industrial agribusiness projects.