The 24th day of November 2020 marks the 10th anniversary of Sahel. The Sahel group consists of Sahel Consulting Agriculture and Nutrition Limited (“Sahel Consulting”), Sahel Capital Agribusiness Managers Limited (“Sahel Capital”), and Nourishing Africa. These companies are led by qualified individuals who have garnered decades of expertise working in national and international markets and value chains, with a common passion to transform Africa’s agriculture and nutrition landscape and to create strong agricultural sector-led economic growth within the region.
Sahel Consulting is transforming Africa’s agriculture and nutrition landscape through tailored, innovative, and market-based research, strategic advisory services, training, and project implementation. Over the past ten years, Sahel Consulting has partnered with government agencies, private sector companies, research institutes, and leading international development organizations including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Oxfam International, Technoserve, GAIN, Synergos, DSM, IFDC, ECOWAS, USAID, DFID, Mastercard Foundation, and Syngenta. The Sahel Consulting team has to designed and executed projects focused on agriculture and nutrition policy, strategy, value chain analysis, organizational design, ecosystem solutions, and growth. The company has worked in Benin Republic, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, and Togo. Sahel Consulting has also implemented several multi-year programs in partnership with other organizations including the Building an Economically Sustainable and Integrated Cassava Seed System in Nigeria (BASICS), Nigerian Dairy Development Program (NDDP), Yam Improvement for Income, and Food Security in West Africa (YIIFSWA), and Advancing Local Dairy Development in Nigeria (ALDDN) program.
Sahel Capital is a leading private equity firm focused exclusively on the food and agricultural sector, and is the fund manager for the Fund for Agricultural Finance in Nigeria (“FAFIN”) – an agribusiness fund with $65.9 million in capital from a range of development finance and institutional investors. FAFIN has invested in a range of agribusiness companies in Nigeria including Coscharis Farms, Crest Agro, Dayntee Farms, Polyfilm Packaging, Ladgroup, and L&Z Integrated Farms.
Nourishing Africa, a subsidiary of Sahel Consulting is a one-stop hub for African agri-food entrepreneurs, providing critical links to funding, technology and innovation in the sector, training and learning tools, data, events, talent match-making, and other resources to enable them to establish and grow sustainable and profitable businesses. Its mission is to drive the profitable and sustainable growth of the African agriculture and food landscapes by attracting, empowering, equipping, connecting, and celebrating over 1 million dynamic and innovative young African agri-food entrepreneurs.
We are proud of our roots and what we have achieved over the last ten years. We excitedly look forward to the expansion of the company’s footprint to many other African countries and contributing to strong agriculture-led economies.
Sahel warmly invites stakeholders to a virtual conference on November 24th, 2020, in celebration of its 10th anniversary. The conference is themed “Zero Hunger: Africa’s Private Sector Driving Innovation and Growth” which highlights the critical role of the private sector in driving growth to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture on the African continent.
The keynote speakers for the conference are Dr. Rajiv Shah, the President of The Rockefeller Foundation, and Dr. Agnes Kalibala, the President of Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) who will be speaking on “Creating an Enabling Ecosystem for Africa to Nourish the World” and Dr. Lawrence Haddad speaking on Food Entrepreneurs in Africa: Scaling Resilient Agriculture Businesses.
Over 20 panelists who are local and international entrepreneurs and thought leaders will be speaking on a range of panels including Agriculture Development and Economic Transformation from a Global Eye View; Leveraging Technology and Innovation to Leapfrog; The Impact of Big Data on The Food Ecosystem; Africa’s Rebirth: The Role of Agriculture in Economic Transformation; Women in Agriculture and Building Ecosystems of Support For Africa’s SMEs.
The conference details are as follows:
Time: 1 pm – 5 pm WAT
Venue: Online & Global
Register for free at sahelconsult.com/sahel-at-10/
Please visit the conference registration website sahelconsult.com/sahel-at-10 for more details.
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