Africa Eats lowers hunger and poverty in Africa by investing. We do this using a unique three part business model. The video above explains those three parts in two minutes, and the Berkshire Africa book explains it in 100 pages.
Berkshire Africa
Luni and Jumaane, the co-founders of Africa Eats have published a book, “Berkshire Africa” that explains how our unique investment company has applied the learnings of venture capital, business accelerators, and Berkshire Hathaway toward solving hunger and poverty across Africa. We’ve explained this before, in brief, but now have a 160-page book with far more details, including...
Agriculture is the Biggest Industry
Over half of all working age Sub-Saharan Africans work in agriculture. More than 1/3rd in Nigeria, the most populous country. 1/3rd in Kenya. Even 19% in South Africa, despite its head start development. As a comparison, less than 2% of Europeans and less than 2% of Americans work in agriculture. The contribution of agriculture to GDP disproportionate, but that is an artifact of the way GDP is...
Innovating Investment in Africa
Business unusual: business and investment pioneers
An increasing number of pioneering businesses and investors operating along forest and agriculture supply chains are leading the charge to transform the deeply flawed dominating economic models for the benefit of people, nature and climate. This report documents and highlights success and lessons learnt from 18 inspiring examples of businesses and investors who are progressing from ‘business as...
Visiting Goldenpot
Visiting Swahili Honey
Visiting Rogathe Dairy
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$36+ million of annual revenues
A year ago we touted $24 million in aggregate annual revenues from the bizi for calendar year 2022, up more than three-fold from 2019. For 2023, that total exceeded $36 million, which is more than 5x in four years, and up 60x over the last decade. The bigger growth stories in 2023 were: TRUK Rwanda, which tripled in 2023 to $6.4 million in annual revenues, up from zero four years earlier as the...