Our local partners
Local agripreneurs:
They are looking to become successful vegetable farmers, meeting the local challenges they face. They get trained through us and our partners in areas like water saving vegetable cultivation, farming knowledge, basic entrepreneurship skills, basic food processing, envision and structure processes, business growth and how to pass on knowledge.
After participating in our online training, Mike from Kenya built and operated two Wicking Beds. He was able to cultivate vegetables even during the dry season. Within two harvest cycles he was able to pay back the investment including all operational costs.
Local operating NGO's:
They have their own projects to train their partners in different farming methods. Successfully growing and selling vegetables includes much more than the farming part itself. We help our partners to better understand their local food system. Looking at the food system from an entrepreneurial viewpoint helps them to move from receiving aid relief work (which often results in dependency on ongoing input) to to start their own self-sustaining small business operations. Our work helps to identify the project impact and to stipulate further growth.
Eliya from Tanzania runs a small NGO who trains young people on how to do farming. He participated in our training with the hope to get access to funding. The new skills learned in our training helped him to achieve 1—2 more harvest cycles per year, with a better and healthier yield. He experienced a mind shift and learned how to grow his organization on his own, and to pass on his knowledge to many young people and families.
Local entrepreneurs with social impact:
They are native entrepreneurs who built successful business operations in their respective countries on their own initiative, strength and finances. A big focus of theirs is on training young people which often come from poverty background. They are locally rooted, have worked faithfully on their projects for years and have experience in vegetable cultivation. These entrepreneurs pursue a big vision: they want to change the course of their country to a better future. Global Food Garden helps them with strategic frameworks, building a supportive team, network and structure for training and scaling up, with business model development, investment plans and sales network to successfully market their produce. We include the knowledge and experience of network of international experts tailored to their needs.
Estefano from Mozambique grew up under very poor conditions. As an 8-year-old boy he learned to buy peanuts, roast them and sell them again. This was his start as an entrepreneur. From his father, a pastor, he learned that people need hope, but also means to support their families.
In all his business initiatives he looks to train as many young people from poor backgrounds as possible. Together we work on empowering him and his team to start his second training centre, the Mozambiquan Food Garden in Nampula.