The Global Farmer Network is capitalizing on its greatest resource, its farmers, and launching the Africa Agriculture Accelerator Pathway with an agripreneur showcase August 12–14, 2024, in Nairobi, Kenya.

Intentionally invited, Africa-based farmers will showcase their businesses – the challenges they are addressing, how they are rising to the challenge, their metrics to date, what they need to scale up, and their proposed next steps – to expand their business models and increase agricultural productivity through technology access.  Agripreneurs from East, West, and Southern Africa are presenting their work.

As seen in the photos above, several farmers are telling their agripreneur story--starting at the top left:

1) Meeting materials

2) "Landscape of Africa Agriculture" panel discussion featuring: Stella Thomas-Nigeria, Dave Okech-Kenya, Sibusiso Goodwill Gule-Eswanti, Moses Nganwani Tia-Ghana, and GFN moderator Ruramiso Mashumba-Zimbabwe

3) Amadou Sidibe-Mali presents on the work he is doing through greenhouse technology to support fresh vegtable and fruit access all year long and ag as career of choice for Africa youth

4) Ruramiso Mashumba introduces GFN to the group

5) Lucy Wangari Wanjiku-Kenya presents climate smart onion and garlic production

6) Jorge Lopez Menendez-Argentina/West Africa explains how farmers are the solution

7) Dr. Shirley Tarawali, Asst. Director General welcomes the group to ILRI

8) Olawale Rotimi Ooeyemi, JR Farm-Nigeria discusses using technology for coffee trade and how agribusiness will build wealth in Africa.

Other topics to be covered during the week include:

By connecting Africa-based agripreneurs with partners, potential investors, and one another, the GFN aims to amplify our members’ impact within the agricultural community by scaling up their work to increase agricultural productivity.