Investment by African Agricultural Capital Fund Wilmar Flowers limited is a well-established export floriculture business located in Thika, Central Kenya. The business is one of the major summer flower exporters at the Dutch auction from Kenya. The business model revolves around supporting smallholder farmers in central, Eastern, Rift Valley and Nyanza provinces produce commercial flower…
Investment by African Agricultural Capital Fund Midlands Limited is an agro-processing company, with the objective of adding value to temperate zone agricultural produce in Kenya. Situated on a 25 acre piece of land in South Kinangop, Nyadarua which is in the South rift valley, the crop range of the business included potatoes, carrots, cabbage, sukuma…
Mimea International Limited (MIL) is a private tissue culture SME agribusiness firm. MIL was incorporated in 2005 and started its operations in the same year.The firm is currently located in Kitengela Township, where it operates a tissue culture laboratory. In 2012, MIL secured a loan of US$ 350,000 from African Seed Investment Fund (ASIF) for…
Investment by African Agricultural Capital Fund NUAC is a large scale farm located in Nwoya District, Northern Uganda producing cereals for sale as seed and food grain in Uganda and the region.NUAC is pioneering mechanized production of soya, rice and maize in Northern Uganda and is currently farming just over 300 hectares of land. Our…
Investment by African Seed Investment Fund Alemayehu is a large scale commercial farm located in the Awash valley in the Oromia province, East of Ethiopia. The farm is located deep in rural Ethiopia, specializing in the production and marketing of grain seed especially seed maize, both hybrid and open pollinated varieties (OPV’s) as well as…
Welcome to 2021 and the first edition of the Pearl Capital Partners (PCP) Bi-Annual Newsletter in this new year. Another year has come and an eventful one has passed. We wish you a successful new year, new start and miles to go. Read More
In the 25 years since Clayton Christensen coined the term “disruptive innovation,” much has been written about the benefits of shaking up established business practices. Even before the current pandemic, there was a growing recognition that our food systems, too, needed to be reimagined. Today’s food systems must feed 7.8 billion people without compromising future…
The sector has however seen underperformance over recent years in comparison to other sectors within the economy due to the low level of value addition through processing facilities and also a lack of commercial private enterprises, thereby resulting in weak employment creation. Read More
In 2004, we set up African Agricultural Capital (AAC) with the ambition of stimulating investment inagricultural businesses in East Africa. AAC was one of the first agricultural impact investmentvehicles in the region. It inspired others and we learned many lessons along the way. I would like tocommend most highly the shareholders, Gatsby Charitable Foundation and…
Gatsby Africa, Pearl Capital Partners and Onward Resources International have released the AfricanAgricultural Capital (AAC) closure of fund report. The launch of the report was held virtually on the 28thOctober 2020 and presented to different stakeholders with interests in impact investing. Read More
