- French-speaking West Africa’s agribusiness sector presents robust investment opportunities, according to Evelyne Dioh Simpa, managing director of investment firm WIC Capital.
- From trading with small-scale farmers to building a goat meat empire, these five companies are tapping into the potential of Zambia's agribusiness and food industry.
- A significant opportunity exists to supply the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a market of approximately 100 million people, with products from Zambia.
- Rozelle Abramson, co-owner of South Africa’s Fynbos Fine Foods, highlights numerous benefits of the private label approach over exclusively promoting one's own brand.
- Fynbos Fine Foods started in the kitchen of co-owner Rozelle Abramson. Today, the company produces a range of hot sauces, pestos, chef salts, and jams that are sold worldwide.
- L’histoire édifiante d’une industrielle du sciage entreprenante de la RDC qui a encouragé son mari, sa famille et l’Afrique tout entière à dépasser la tradition, à sortir de la pauvreté et à faire le choix d’une vie meilleure est en train de s’écrire.
- With the increasing popularity of AI, observers affirm that innovative progress in Africa could well match up with the rest of the world sooner rather than later.
- In an age where digital transformation drives business expansion, the need to harmonise this progress with environmental and societal considerations is paramount.
- Alexis Caude, a managing partner of Africa-focused private equity firm Adenia Partners, was struck by the large number of investable companies in South Africa.
- Jérôme Lapaire, founder of the Africa-focused eyeglasses company Lapaire, emphasises the importance of being willing to close down a business unit that isn't working.
- From Rwandan avocados and chillis to Nigerian cashew nuts and ginger, we highlight nine companies that are successfully exporting African food products to the global market.
- How American-born Carl Jensen and his co-founders at Good Nature Agro built a business with $10 million in revenue by collaborating with smallholder farmers in Zambia.
- Financing for farmers, logistics services for the agricultural sector, and growing food for export to surrounding countries. These are some of the agribusiness opportunities in northern Nigeria.
- The Zayed Sustainability Prize, the UAE’s pioneering global sustainability and humanitarian award, has officially announced that the 2025 cycle is now open for submissions.
- Debby Lawson, founder and COO of Fastizers, a Nigeria-based producer of cookies and snack foods, had not initially planned to start her own business.
- “We believed many of the stereotypes around northern Nigeria were wrong, and that there were bankable ideas and executors that weren’t getting funded.”
- The co-founders of Aduna Capital recognise significant untapped potential in northern Nigeria, a region that encompasses about half of the country's total population but attracts only a small portion of startup funding.
- During a session at the recent SuperReturn Africa conference, a group of African investors were asked to identify a frontier market they are optimistic about.