Youth in Greenhouse Enterprise Project-(YUGEP)

YUGEP

It is envisaged that it will help increase the volume of vegetables available and significantly close price variations due to seasonality thereby reducing agricultural contribution to inflation, and reducing import of vegetables to Ghana.

Greenhouse Production in Ghana increased from about 1ha in 2008 to about 4ha in 2015-2017 to about 23ha in 2021. Ghana EXIM (GEXIM) Bank funded Greenhouses constitute 56% of all Greenhouses in Ghana and this can reduce tomato imports by 2% using tomato import from Burkina Faso as the reference.

Ghana

Entrepreneurship for Opportunity Actualization-(EOpAct)

EOpAct

Entrepreneurship for Opportunity Actualization (EopAct) was a USAID funded program implemented in five African Countries (Ghana, South Africa, Zambia, Senegal and Liberia) as part of the Africa Lead II internship-based Agribusiness Leadership Program (ALP). The program sought to provide distinctive services to graduates, youth and women to build their technical, managerial and vocational capacities to fit into agricultural value chains, job markets and business opportunities capacities.

Ghana
South Africa
Zambia
Senegal
Liberia

Entrepreneurship for Commercial Seed Incubation Business-(ECoSIB)

ECoSIB

ECoSIB sought to increase availability and accessibility of superior quality seeds to smallholder farmers through scaling up volume of breeder and foundation seeds and develop a cadre of seed business entrepreneurs with the requisite skills to engage in commercial production and distribution of superior quality seeds in Ghana.

Northern Region
Brong Ahafo Region
Ashanti Region
Eastern Region
Volta Region
Central Region

Inclusive Business and Financing Models

Inclusive Business and Financing Models

AIL offers Finance-led expertise in finding and exploiting growth opportunities for wholesalers, entrepreneurs and SMEs. This is aimed at streamlining their operations and making SMEs and youth/women entrepreneurs more financially sound. AIL provides beneficiaries with financial-based decision-tools to become more credit-worthy and facilitates stronger and formal linkages with Rural and Community Banks for more sustainable access to credit.

Market Facilitation and Market Linkages

Market Facilitation and Market Linkages

AIL recognizes the role of marketing in generating cash for sustainable business operations. It therefore adopts a market-first, science-based approach for providing end to end services in the management of enterprises or facilities. AIL undertakes market studies on value chains/firms and secure contracts to manage and understand the nature of the market (opportunities, challenges, size, etc), to ensure optimal utilization of facility/products, thus making the facility profitable.

Development of Agribusiness Investments

Development of Agribusiness Investments

AIL has supported governments to develop and review National Agricultural Investment Plans for ECOWAS countries to ensure conformity to the four set strategic policy pillars of land and natural resource management, rural infrastructure and market access, food and nutrition security and research for agricultural productivity. It has supported the development of West Africa Regional Agricultural Investment Plan (RAIP) for ECOWAS.

Value Chain Training

Value Chain Training

AIL has core competence in building technical and managerial capacities of youth, women, institutions and entrepreneurs in agri-business to become productive and competitive. Over the last four (4) years, AIC has offered such training for the East Africa Community (EAC), Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded projects, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)-Gambia and final year Agric students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST).

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