Our work

Our work: Adult learning

Our purpose is to help African food processors grow. Here is a selection of our work: who supported it, what we did and what changed.

Workers sort freshly picked mangoes into crates under the orchard trees
Pictured: mangoes sorted into crates in the orchard
Type of work
Value chain development5Market studies4Commercial innovation1Export coaching3Business development services6Business modelling3Adult learning5Responsible business2Food safety3
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Women transplanting rice seedlings in a flooded field
Ghana, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire

Rice Miller Business Academy

42rice mills trained and coached in four countries

A four-course business academy and coaching for 42 rice mills in Ghana, Nigeria, Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire.

Two women in hairnets and white coats at work in a small food processing room, Malawi
Malawi

Safer food in Malawi (IMAGRI)

20companies on personalised food safety pathways since May 2026

Food safety training, audits and coaching for small processors in Malawi, and the design of a follow-on support programme.

A forklift moves stacked crates of fresh mangoes in a processing plant, Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso

Burkina DryMore: processing beyond the mango season

2containers of fonio shipped to the Netherlands

Helping Burkina Faso's dried mango processors add fonio, ginger and hibiscus so their factories work all year.

Farmers and a Sense consultant inspect a compost heap during a training, Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso

HortiPlus: horticulture businesses and compost

Coaching for horticulture businesses and a quality plan for compost producers in Burkina Faso.

Farmers bring milk in cans and buckets to a village milk collection point
Eritrea

Linking dairy production to markets (CSARIDE)

1facilitator manual for milk collection centres

Value chain, food safety and business work that linked Eritrea's dairy farms to markets under the EU-funded CSARIDE project.

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