Impact Capital Partner’s Overview
FOR INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS ONLY – An investment alongside our EM Private Debt manager, this grain trading and processing company operating in Uganda has a vision to feed East Africa sustainably through a regionally-integrated formal system for grain production and exchange that helps transform rural lives and creates stakeholder value. Established in 2012, the company sources, processes, and stores maize before selling to off-takers, such as the World Food Programme, across Uganda, Kenya, and Rwanda. The company’s off-takers use the maize to produce products, including nutrient-enriched, therapeutic food, to meet the nutritional demand of the region’s growing population. Additionally, the company sources a portion of its maize from smallholder farmers through one of the company’s holdings, which maintains support centers in western and southern Uganda. These support centers drive tremendous social impact for disadvantaged Ugandan communities by offering farmers a location to sell their maize through a reliable process at fair pricing, as well as helping to provide them access to competitively priced and certified agricultural inputs, knowledge, demonstrations, extension services, and loans for working capital. To date, these centers have provided over 45,000 farmers with agricultural finance, markets and/or inputs.
Impact Themes / Objectives
- Productivity / Competitiveness Empowerment
- Job Creation
- Wage Increases
- Capacity Building
- Agricultural Productivity
- Food Security
- Access to Financial Services
UN Sustainable Development Goals
- SDG 1: No Poverty
- SDG 2: Zero Hunger
- SDG 4: Quality Education
- SDG 8: Decent Work & Economic Growth
Transaction Details*
Additional Resources
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- Pitch Deck – Upon Request
