Dans notre pays, l'Afrique, près de 600 millions de personnes n'ont pas accès à l'énergie, tandis que beaucoup d'autres, près d'un milliard, utilisent des combustibles traditionnels et polluants pour cuisiner. Ce manque d'accès limite les opportunités, compromet les conditions de santé et réduit le potentiel d'un ménage à sortir de la pauvreté.
L'Afrique ayant besoin de plus de 70 milliards de dollars d'investissements supplémentaires par an jusqu'en 2030, il est clair que les niveaux actuels de financement du secteur public et d'aide ne permettront pas d'atteindre l'ODD 7 : accès à une énergie abordable et propre pour tous en Afrique.
At AECF, we approach poverty alleviation differently. As a pioneering African-based and focused development organization, we mobilize patient capital and an ecosystem of services to surface innovative, inclusive, small- and medium-sized enterprises to drive the energy revolution for those who need it the most. To date, we have invested, supported and scaled 175 clean and renewable energy businesses to deliver an energy revolution for nearly 2 million households, created over 9,000 direct jobs, and opened new markets that have attracted over US$370 million in private capital.
Real IPM was founded in Kenya in 2003 and mainly focused on servicing fresh produce exporters, including flower producers, with biological plant protection products such as predatory mites. AECF supported the company with scaling its production processes to enable it to more effectively reach smallholders.
In 2016, Real IPM established operations in Tanzania to provide biological products for smallholder farmers and was further supported by AECF in the development of innovative bio-coatings for seeds.
The business model aims at improving smallholder agricultural productivity, reducing production costs, ensuring food safety and sustainability by introducing bio-agents as solutions to address agricultural challenges faced by smallholder farmers in selected agricultural value chains of fresh fruits and vegetables, grains/cereals (especially rice and maize) and flowers. The innovation addressed crop protection, crop nutrition, and sustainable climate-smart agricultural (CSA) challenges through solutions that work for smallholder farmers.
Welcome to our 2021 Annual Report. The theme of this year’s report is Difficult Terrains, Real Possibilities.
In this report, we highlight the possibilities created by the private sector when the right financing and technical assistance are made available. Journey with us as we share with you updates from our programmes, investees, and beneficiaries.
This report was commissioned between August 2018 and March 2019 and conducted jointly by AECF and NIRAS. The study aimed to assess how best to mobilize the private sector within the ASALs of the sub-Sahara to guide “future investments in the ASALs, both through specific funding windows and more generally.”
COVID-19 has changed the playing field for businesses in Africa significantly. While the overall socio-economic impact of the pandemic is not yet well understood, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) estimates that 4 out of 5 businesses in Africa have been severely affected by lockdowns, travel restrictions, and supply and demand shocks.
AECF is pleased to publish its 2019 Annual Report, which sets out the achievements across its two flagship programmes – agribusiness and renewable energy and adaptation to climate technologies (REACT) – and the further work that lies ahead in supporting pro-poor businesses to reach under-served communities in Africa with essential services, products, and jobs.
AECF is pleased to publish its 2019 Annual Report, which sets out the achievements across its two flagship programmes – agribusiness and renewable energy and adaptation to climate technologies (REACT) – and the further work that lies ahead in supporting pro-poor businesses to reach under-served communities in Africa with essential services, products, and jobs.
B’Ayoba (pvt) Ltd is an AECF grantee in Zimbabwe dedicated to producing, processing, and marketing fruit from the baobab tree. The business model involves the collection and primary
processing of baobab fruits in remote rural areas in Zimbabwe. Villagers collect the whole baobab fruit from the trees for transport to B’Ayoba collection centers, where they are checked for quality before being transported to a central processing plant for export to North America and Europe. This case study examines the level of women’s participation and finds that they have been the primary beneficiaries of the project, receiving 63% of the total paid out to baobab collectors. The data used is drawn from B’Ayoba collectors in the Mount Darwin region, in the arid north of Zimbabwe.
The AECF at ten enters a new phase in its growth. Its focus is still very much on transforming the lives of the rural poor through agriculture and renewable energy, but with a renewed emphasis on those most difficult to reach groups. These have all too often, whether by reason of gender, age or geographical location, failed to benefit sufficiently from the impact of development.
Tanzania’s agricultural sector is central to the economy, but productivity is strikingly low, largely due to the limited adoption of recommended agricultural inputs such as improved seed, fertilizer, and agrochemicals (pesticides) by farmers. Agro-input prices are generally high, quality is often low, and availability is limited.
This study argues that a leading cause of dysfunction in the agro-input market is the protracted and costly process of registering and certifying new inputs and technologies. Shortening and simplifying the registration process would immediately and positively impact the input market, boosting supply, increasing competition, and enhancing product quality and availability for farmers. This, in turn, would boost agricultural productivity and incomes.
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