I read a fairly recent report published by the World Bank titled Growing Africa: Unlocking the Potential of Agribusiness. It was quite a large document and I think sharing all the information in one post will be a bit too much. In this post I will highlight the current state, potential, and challenges of the agribusiness […]
So my new friends over at Jamili Afrika (http://www.jamiliafrika.org/index.html) were kind enough to reblog my post (http://www.jamiliafrika.org/1/post/2013/07/who-are-the-next-generation-african-farmers.html). A little about them…well I’ll prefer you stop over on their site and read the about page (http://www.jamiliafrika.org/index.html) :-). However I have to share their philosophy ‘Jamili Afrika’s philosophy is to promote a mindset that says we are no […]
So as I dug deeper into the literature and I came to realise that when we get down to basics there is no real difference between an Entrepreneur and Agripreneur. But I still like the term Agripreneur :-). The Next Gen African Farmers are entrepreneurial farmers. Entrepreneurial farmers are people who are able to create […]
Just so you know 4 new firms per 1,000 people are launched per year in industrialised countries, 1 in Latin America and the Caribbean and fewer than 0.6 in sub-Saharan Africa 80% of small business start-ups fail within 2 years of launching 87% of entrepreneurs who have received incubator support stay in business What does […]
According to the World Bank, growth in the agriculture sector is 2.5 times as effective at reducing poverty as growth in any other sector. According to the World Bank Agriculture is essential for sub-Saharan Africa’s growth and for achieving the Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty by 2015. Agriculture employs 65 – 70% of Africa’s […]
There is a lot of talk about the next generation of farmers. In many ways they will be different from the previous generation. I read a Policy Brief from the Future Agricultures website and it had some interesting facts that I would like to share with you. As at 2010 approximately 70% of Africa’s 1 […]
