Unlocking the Potential of African Agribusiness!

AAIN CEO Prof. Alex Ariho is spearheading a delegation including Steven Orchard, Danneil Lee, Nathenel Abital, Jeongwoo Kim, Junpill Beack, Mark Ford, and Dr. Anannia Admasu, among others from EarthFix Australia and ISU Korea, visiting African countries to foster international collaborations, enhance sustainable development projects, and explore investment opportunities in Africa’s agribusiness value chain through incubation and acceleration models. The delegation today held a partnership meeting hosted by Hanna Kim, Director General of the Commercial Section, and Jun Seok Seo, Team Leader of the Marketing Commercial Section, Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Both EarthFix and ISU are AAIN international members and seek to establish the African Innovation Valley, which will focus on increased agriculture production and productivity, enhanced food security, incomes, and job opportunities among youth, women, farmers, and traders in Africa. The program will contribute to efforts to accelerate the AU Agenda 2063 of inclusive growth and sustainable development for Africa’s transformation.

The consortium, which will include the African Union Commission, African Agribusiness Incubators Network (AAIN), Earthfix, ISU, Training and Research Center Ethiopia, CHADET, Excel Hort Consult Agribusiness Incubator (EHCAI), Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA), the Ethiopian Ministry of Agriculture, the Ethiopian Ministry of Trade and Investment, and other development and private sector stakeholders, will implement the program in phases and in close partnership with the Korean government and African governments, starting with Ethiopia, Uganda, Ghana, Zambia, Burundi, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, and Tunisia.