Africa Invest – Scaling up private sector investment to increase agricultural productivity in Africa

Following a successful pilot in Malawi, Africa Invest, an experienced agricultural management company, will roll out its programme of agricultural revitalisation combined with poverty reduction to Sierra Leone, Mozambique, Zambia and Rwanda within two years, with a further seven countries by 2012. Africa Invest’s model of combining large scale commercial farms with financial and technical support for smallholder farmers, using private investment, will help eliminate rural poverty, establish food self sufficiency and stimulate economic growth through investment-led enterprise development.
In Malawi there are 8 large farms covering 2,600 hectares linked to smallholdings covering the remaining 4,000 hectares. This programme has around 2,000 direct employees and engages with around 5,000 smallholder families and has direct impact on around 70,000 Malawians. The extension of this scheme to four more countries will require (at a very conservative estimate) at least a further 8,000 direct employees, 20,000 smallholders and have a direct impact on around 280,000 families.

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