Agroecological Entrepreneurship is growing in East Africa as one of the ways of promoting agroecology – many entrepreneurs are starting and looking to grow businesses that enable farmers to practice agroecology. Many entities including funders, investors and BDS providers are also gaining an interest in enabling these agroecological entrepreneurs to build successful businesses, but there is still a lot to learn, and many are learning independently.
Some of the questions that we have encountered include: How to measure the impact of an Agroecological Enterprise; How to build a successful agroecology enterprise business model; The journey of growth of an agroecological enterprise; How enterprises can support the transition to Agroecology (their own and those of farmers); How to structure an Agroecological Enterprise to successfully support agroecology farmers; How to structure investment into an Agroecological enterprise; and many others.
As we build The Neycha Accelerator & Fund, and having interacted with multiple players in Agroecological Entrepreneurship, we see an opportunity to amplify and accelerate all our learning in Agroecological Entrepreneurship by bringing all our heads and resources together under one umbrella, to build common knowledge, insights, materials and tools around Agroecological Entrepreneurship, in turn accelerating East Africa’s transition towards Agroecology.Â
Because we would like to collaborate with other players to build this Community of Practice, we convened a co creation session with a select group of individuals and organisations to discuss ideas on how we can best approach the set up of this CoP. This concept note shares our ideas and plan to build the Community of Practice, incorporating all input from the co creation session.
If you are interested in being part of the AEE CoP, let us know through this link
