AgDevCo is a social impact investor and project developer working in the

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

n agriculture sector. The company supports

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(SMEs) involved in

farming Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled peop ...

, agriprocessing, and

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, with the aim of creating jobs and income-earning opportunities for African

farmers A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials. The term usually applies to people who do some combination of raising field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry, or other livestock. A farmer ...

. With a

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of more than 50 debt and

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s across ten countries (average investment size of USD3m), AgDevCo is one of the most active SME investors in the African agriculture sector. AgDevCo is backed by the

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, and operates on a

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basis; all

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s are recycled into new projects.

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