Agriculture

The Agribusiness Challenge Fund is a rolling call for proposals open from 18 March 2024 to 22 November 2024, with three application harvest periods in between. The challenge will is open to SME applications from any country as long as the projects are being implemented in at least one of the 20 focus countries the Fund is targeting and meets the eligibility criteria.

AWIEF Growth Accelerator for South Africa, in partnership with Nedbank is calling for application for the 2024 cohort. 

AWIEF Growth Accelerator is a flagship enterprise development programme designed to support early-stage and high-growth-oriented women-owned and women-led small and medium-sized enterprises (WSMEs) with growth strategy training, corporate advisory, mentoring, networks, and access to finance.

Applications are invited from WSMEs operating in; 

The Savant Build Programme is looking for early-stage startups that are solving complex, green economy focused problems through science and engineering-based technology to join their Build Programme 2024 and receive credibility backing and support from Savant and USAID Mobilizing Investment. 

Agri Seed Capital is calling on smallholder farmers to apply for business support services and production credit. 

Agri Seed Capital is a Micro Finance Institution (MFI) that exists to address the problem of financial inclusion affecting subsistence and small-scale farmers.

The Agri Seed Capital three-year incubation programme aims to establish a pipeline of future finance-ready farmers. Our support services include:

The BRICS Young Innovator Prize is a special recognition of young talented entrepreneurs and researchers, whose outstanding innovations (inventions, products, applications, and services) will make a profound impact on the socio-economic, environment and condition of life in BRICS societies.  The BRICS Young Innovator Prize is a platform for BRICS young scientists and entrepreneurs to share their best practices in innovation and venturing. 

Prizes

The Agro-Processing Support Scheme (APSS) aims to stimulate investment by the South African agro-processing / beneficiation (agri-business) enterprises. The investment should demonstrate that it will achieve some of the following:
Increased capacity, employment creation, modernised machinery and equipment, competitiveness and productivity improvement and broadening participation.

Benefits;