Growing the next generation of Agripreneurs in Africa

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The Agripreneurship Alliance is a Swiss based non-profit organisation launched in 2017.  Working with key partners, the Agripreneurship Alliance has developed a ground-breaking course that enables young African entrepreneurs within the agri-food sector to develop or enhance their business ideas and create a high-quality business plan to support the launch or growth of their agri-business.  

This 'Entrepreneurship in Agribusiness' course is currently offered in French and English languages within nine universities in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Namibia and Somaliland and it has also been facilitated as an enhanced online course to participants across sub-Saharan Africa.

The Agripreneurship Alliance has also piloted an approach to reach out to emerging farmers and will be developing a programme based upon this approach that can support small-holder farmers and other rural groups 'at the bottom of the pyramid' to enhance and grow their businesses, moving away from subsistence and supporting the growth of the rural economy.

The Agripreneurship Alliance also acts as an advocate and thought leader for the African entrepreneurial sector and undertakes research for select clients including the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation.

In 2022, the Agripreneurship Alliance has taken its next step in its journey as an African focused international non-governmental organisation.  We are now formally registered in Uganda and our new local team members are working from our base at CURAD in Namanve, Kampala.
Impact Story No.1 - Naswirah Nalukwago

Impact Story No.1 - Naswirah Nalukwago

This is the first Impact Story in our new series highlighting the work of young entrepreneurs who are alumni of our Entrepreneurship in Agribusiness course in 2023. This story introduces Naswirah Nalukwago and her Ugandan rabbit farm.

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Impact Story No.2 - Tadeo Monday

Impact Story No.2 - Tadeo Monday

This is the second Impact Story in our new series highlighting the work of young entrepreneurs who are alumni of our Entrepreneurship in Agribusiness course in 2023. This story introduces Tadeo Monday and his piggery business in Uganda.

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Impact Story No. 3 - Jane Lewinsky Mozere

Impact Story No. 3 - Jane Lewinsky Mozere

The third Impact Story in our series highlighting the work of young entrepreneurs who are alumni of our Entrepreneurship in Agribusiness course in 2023. This story introduces Jane Lewinsky Mozere, who is working hard to develop a Mulberry tree plantation so that she can provide Mulberry Tea to the people of Kenya.

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Impact Story No. 4 - Cornelius Kipruto

Impact Story No. 4 - Cornelius Kipruto

The fourth story in our Impact series is about Cornelius Kipruto, a young entrepreneur from Laikipia University in Kenya who has launched a bio-fuel business to combat climate change by using cow dung to produce clean and efficient biogas.

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Impact Story No.5 - Sandra Ankunda

Impact Story No.5 - Sandra Ankunda

In our fifth impact story we would like to introduce Sandra Ankunda. Sandra’s business, started in 2020 with the support of her family, is called Sandra Matooke Enterprise Limited, and is located in Mbarara, western Uganda. It processes matooke, a variety of starchy green banana (plantain), into instant matooke flour and raw matooke flour.

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Impact Story No.6 - Armiye Ahmed Mohamed

Impact Story No.6 - Armiye Ahmed Mohamed

Our sixth Impact story explores Ugbad Garlic Production, a farm business led by Arimye Amhed Mohamed in Somaliland aiming to provide high quality garlic to local markets.

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Impact Story No. 7 - Sylivia Natandula

Impact Story No. 7 - Sylivia Natandula

In the seventh story of our Impact series we explore the work of Sylivia Natundula and how Goshen Maggot Farm is producing Black Soldier Fly as a cost effective, safe and nutritious animal feed in Northern Uganda.

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Impact Story No. 8 - Victor Ssenabulya

Impact Story No. 8 - Victor Ssenabulya

The eighth story in our impact series features Victor Ssenabulya from the Uganda Christian University in Mukono, Uganda. Victor is further growing his rabbit business, focusing on the production of soil improvers, fertilizers and pesticides based upon rabbit droppings and urine. There's an old saying in Yorkshire "where there's muck, there's brass" and Victor is ably demonstrating that animal waste can indeed be turned into a profitable business.

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Impact Story No. 9 - Dortea Nakandjibi

Impact Story No. 9 - Dortea Nakandjibi

Dortea Nakandjibi is the focus of our ninth, and penultimate, Impact story from Cohort 5 (2022/23) of the Entrepreneurship in Agribusiness course. Dortea is a student at the University of Namibia and aspires to launch the first digital market app in the country, linking small holder farmers directly with markets in the countries capital.

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Impact Story No.10 - Hamse Abdirahman

Impact Story No.10 - Hamse Abdirahman

Our final story in our series highlighting the impact of young African agri-food entrepreneurs who have completed our 'Entrepreneurship in Agribusiness' course is about 'Hamse Abdirahman'. Hamse is studying veterinary sciences in the remote community of Sheikh in Somaliland, where he is establishing a sheep fattening business with the support of his university which he then aims to continue after graduation.

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Agripreneurship 101

Our friends at the UN-FAO have recently added a new course to their online learning academy. Agripreneurship 101 aims to provide guidance on how to start or improve an agribusiness. It shows how to identify, evaluate and pursue opportunities in a given agri-food value chain.

 To learn more about this free course and to register to follow it please use this link: https://elearning.fao.org/course/view.php?id=908