Our Focus
We do not accept assignments that simply check a client’s project or task box. Rather, we are interested in positive, sustainable systemic change.
Sub-Saharan Africa is a wide and varied collection of agricultural and ecological zones, governing systems, farming cultures, and commercial opportunities. Each crop and country represents a different set of circumstances. Understanding this, we take a highly customized approach to our work; the services we offer for each client assignment are individually and uniquely determined.
Our consulting practice is just that – a practice, similar to a medical or legal practice which is team-oriented and based on continuous learning and updating. We focus on collaborative partnerships with our clients to improve smallholder farmer access to high quality seed of modern crop varieties.
Our Focus
We do not accept assignments that simply check a client’s project or task box. Rather, we are interested in positive, sustainable systemic change.
Sub-Saharan Africa is a wide and varied collection of agricultural and ecological zones, governing systems, farming cultures, and commercial opportunities. Each crop and country represents a different set of circumstances. Understanding this, we take a highly customized approach to our work; the services we offer for each client assignment are individually and uniquely determined.
Our consulting practice is just that – a practice, similar to a medical or legal practice which is team-oriented and based on continuous learning and updating. We focus on collaborative partnerships with our clients to improve smallholder farmer access to high quality seed of modern crop varieties.
Why Agri Experience?
We focus on assignments that have strong potential to materially and sustainably improve seed systems
We carefully develop recommendations that are grounded in behavioural patterns and evidence
We bring deep, based-in-Africa, experience and expertise to our assignments
We understand that farmer empowerment a major force for positive change
We are passionate about embedding our work and recommendations with permanent stakeholders in the seed sector through a collaborative, public/private approach
We have first-hand knowledge of systemic change, and what is required to achieve it
What We Believe
We believe that agriculture is one of the most important sectors in the world, with major impacts on health, nutrition, the environment, security, economies, and social development
We believe that sub-Saharan Africa has vast untapped agricultural potential, and that African farmers and entrepreneurs should be given the opportunity and tools to tap this potential
We believe that practical solutions to agricultural challenges, based on deep experience and not just theory, can deliver significant results in sub-Saharan Africa
We believe that Africa’s women farmers should play significant roles in developing agriculture in their countries
What We Believe
Services and support provided to clients have included:
- Identification of regulatory bottlenecks and solutions
- Supporting implementation of regulatory change
- Strategic and operational support for private sector players, including production, processing and marketing support
- Operational support for quality control practices, in both public and private sector
- Surveys of market sector participants (farmers, seed producers, agrodealers, regulators, other)
- Development of industry benchmarking tools
- Capacity building for industry associations, for seed and other agricultural inputs
- Development of sms-based farmer feedback tools related to seed quality
- Operational support for agrodealer-led climate smart demoes
- Reviews of development partners’ proposed or ongoing work
- Design and implementation of radio campaigns related to seed awareness and adoption
- Agrodealer education and development
- Training for seed companies, breeders, and others
- Training in best practices for regulators
- Development of seed-related ICT tools for stakeholders
- Design of evidence collection and analysis tools
Our team of consultants has made over 250 field visits for seed-related work in 21 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, including the following countries: Burkina Faso, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of South Africa, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Our team of consultants has made over 250 field visits for seed-related work in 21 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, including the following countries: Burkina Faso, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of South Africa, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.