Our work

Our work: Value chain development

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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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.

Young people make compost with a wood chipper at a practical training
Burkina Faso, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique

Rural Youth Employment Accelerator

10+viable agri-business models for young people

Business models that young people can run in agri-food value chains, developed with GIZ in four countries.

Net cages in a farm fish pond, Malawi
Malawi

Women-led fish farming businesses

161stakeholders engaged across eight districts

A study of how women fish farmers in Malawi can move from subsistence ponds to profitable businesses.

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.

Bunches of green bananas hanging from a rail in a packhouse, Angola
Angola

Laying the foundations for a dried fruit sector

80+stakeholders brought together in Benguela

A feasibility study, buyer tests and a roadmap for a dried pineapple and mango sector on Angola's Lobito Corridor.

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