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Afriseed secures additional funding for scaling up its operations in the legumes business

IAP provides impact readiness and match-making support targeting impact investors. At the same time, IAP also facilitates linkages between the enterprises and local financing sources (grants and loans) such as national development banks, MFIs, and other donors and development partners. A good example of the latter is the grant awarded to Afriseed by the origination facility of the Dutch Fund for Climate and Development (DFCD) project managed by SNV.

SOGE receives clean energy award 2022 and attracts more funding

Solar Green Energy Ltd (SOGE), one of IAP’s investees in the Cambodia portfolio, won the 2022 Clean Energy Award for businesses. SOGE is a solar energy company that provides a wide range of quality solar products combined with installation and maintenance services.

Local solutions for acute horticultural seed shortage in Ethiopia

Jemma Agrotech has taken the bold step of testing an out-grower seed multiplication model for onion and potato, making it the first in Ethiopia.

Truluv secure €680,000 in investor funding

Truluv Granola has secured an additional investment of EUR 680,000 within the first year of their IAP partnership. This debt and equity financing was made by the Dutch Good Growth Fund and a group of angel investors.

API scales up its production of biodiesel

As one of the main sources of greenhouse emissions globally, the African Power Initiative in Uganda is working towards substituting fossil fuels with biodiesel derived from kukui, or candlenut, seeds

Truluv secure €680,000 in investor funding

Truluv secure €680,000 in investor funding

Truluv Granola has secured an additional investment of EUR 680,000 within the first year of their IAP partnership. This debt and equity financing was made by the Dutch Good Growth Fund and a group of angel investors. IAP was the first external investor in this small...

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API scales up its production of biodiesel

API scales up its production of biodiesel

As one of the main sources of greenhouse emissions globally, the African Power Initiative in Uganda is working towards substituting fossil fuels with biodiesel derived from kukui, or candlenut, seeds. One of the major challenges for API is the operational costs of...

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Nutridense scale up processing

Nutridense scale up processing

What started out as a modest food production endeavour in the basement of Nutridense’s owner, Ms Alem Greiling, is now transitioning to a fully fledged food processing venture through automation and expansion of the company’s distribution channels. The multifaceted...

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IAP’s private sector support brings clean water

IAP’s private sector support brings clean water

Despite being essential for all life, globally some 2.2 billion people still do not have access to safe water for drinking and sanitation (WHO/UNICEF 2019). This sees over 1,000 children die each day from preventable diarrhoeal diseases. Despite its importance, few...

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Increasing yields and incomes through improved yield seeds

Increasing yields and incomes through improved yield seeds

East-West Seed introduced high-quality seeds and agronomical support services with the aim of improving farmers’ lives through increased agricultural productivity and raised incomes. Now, having conducted crop demonstrations to create and increase awareness of the...

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SOGE increase incomes and reduce production costs

SOGE increase incomes and reduce production costs

Solar Green Energy saw the first harvest supported by their innovative solar irrigation technology in June 2022. SOGE’s hybrid-solar systems provide year-round water supplies for rice farmers, through drawing water from nearby rivers and pumping it into canals that...

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HUSK open a new facility and double biochar production

HUSK open a new facility and double biochar production

Husk Ventures has begun operations at its new biochar production facility in Bosveng village. This new site, situated on the Amru Rice milling company premises, allows HUSK to double its biochar production whilst providing space for new equipment. Equipped with new...

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Super Farmers changing the face of Cambodia agriculture

HUSK’s focus is far from purely environmental, they work hard to see that their business has a meaningful social impact.

Gender Balance

Securing Land Ownership

Based the current pace of development, it is estimated that it will take another 170 years to achieve gender parity within companies and business at  large. This is particularly unsettling seeing as full gender parity in labour markets
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The Biogas Injera Stove

What started out as a prototype developed during the final years of university studies is today an innovative product with the potential to positively impact the lives of many women in rural Ethiopia
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Improving Yields with Green Energy

Solar Green Energy brings economic and social benefits for rice farmers through higher and more reliable yields, as an increased amount of farmland becomes available through irrigation
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Sanitation Africa

Having grown up in one of Kampala’s slums, experiencing for himself problems of poor sanitation, young and innovative Samuel Malinga started to develop an clean sludge
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Reducing Indoor Air Pollution

With an innovative Pay-as you-go business model, Wana Energy Solutions is transforming the market for clean cooking solutions, making it accessible and affordable to
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Signatures of Asia

Signatures of Asia (SoA) was founded in 2007 and is today not only one of the top ten organic rice and sugar exporters in Cambodia, but also the first company in the country to

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