Partnerships are at the heart of everything we do. Solving Africa’s agricultural challenges requires a systems approach — one that brings together government, private sector, investors, development institutions and farmer communities to co-create scalable impact.
Our Strategic Partnerships and Special Projects division initiates, structures and executes multi-stakeholder programmes that transform food systems, unlock finance and deepen agro-industrial value chains.
What we do
Government and state-level engagements
Co-developing inclusive agricultural transformation programmes with state governments; designing subsidy, input delivery and aggregation schemes; supporting climate-smart agriculture and food security mandates; and providing policy advisory with technical implementation support.
For example: Nest’s appointment as operational and technical partner under Niger State’s ₦2 billion export initiative, via Niger Foods Ltd and NEXIM Bank.
Development partner collaborations
Structuring donor-aligned projects for livelihood improvement, food resilience and gender equity; executing last-mile delivery and farmer support programmes; and handling data collection, monitoring and evaluation, and impact validation for scale-up. We partner with IFAD, the World Bank, ECOWAS and regional agencies.
Private sector and corporate collaborations
Joint ventures with agro-processors, retailers and logistics companies; last-mile distribution programmes for agro-inputs and technologies; data-sharing agreements and embedded services models; and contract farming and offtake structuring.
Investor and export-linked initiatives
Value chain diagnostics and structuring of export pipelines; technical support to aggregators, exporters and SMEs; project readiness support for access to BOI, AfDB, AGRA and NIRSAL-backed financing; and trade corridor partnerships for regional integration.
Special projects and innovation pilots
We design and test scalable models for bird repellent deployment across the grain belts, drone-enabled extension services, traceability systems for export crops, fertilizer subsidy schemes linked to field trials, and farmer digitisation with bundled input–output models.
Our role
- Lead implementer — direct execution of field-level and logistics activity
- Aggregator — organising farmer clusters, cooperatives and community networks
- Advisor — policy guidance, strategy development and programme design
- Data partner — capturing impact metrics, dashboards and field intelligence
Current partners
- Niger Foods Ltd and Niger State Government
- All Farmers Progressive Association (AFPA)
- A.M. Sabiq Ltd
- Cultivos Capital
- DJI Agriculture
- BOI and NEXIM Bank
- Independent donor consultants and development finance institutions
What we deliver
Greater market access for farmers, institutional capacity building, integrated value chain development, inclusive growth and financial inclusion, and measurable returns for investors and partners.