Kenya O-Farms Accelerator Program 2021 | IKEA Foundation

Kenya O-Farms Accelerator Program 2021. O-Farms is an African SME accelerator completely focused on circular agribusiness with the goal of making circularity a mainstream approach for improved rural livelihoods and sustainability.

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The proan initiative funded by the IKEA Foundation to help scale circular agribusiness innovations in East Africa led by Bopinc and Village Capital, is focused on accelerating the next generation of innovative circular agribusinesses in Ethiopia and Kenya. Agri-circularity creates a more sustainable food system that drives innovation through developing innovative business models that reduce agricultural losses thereby creating new economic opportunities and jobs in the region. In this regard, Kenya is able to sustainably feed its growing population, without depleting the natural resources. In doing so, O-Farms will build innovation support infrastructure that enables circular agribusiness to grow and develop.

Kenya O-Farms Accelerator Program ELIGIBILITY

• Be an enterprise in the agricultural sector
• Have an innovative or disruptive solution/business model that reduces food losses, or valorises the by-products generated in food production or processing, back into the food system for human food or animal feed, or into biodegradable packaging materials for the food industry, or into compost/organic fertilizers or into bio-energy.
• Be a growth-stage enterprise with an existing customer base (post-revenue)
• Be a Kenyan registered enterprise with at least one of the founding team members being Kenyan

Benefits

For the first cohort, up to 12 enterprises will be selected to join the program. The enterprises can expect to receive the following benefits:

1. Customized training program on agri-circularity business
2. Technical Assistance to embed circularity principles in the business model including strengthening the systems and processes.
3. Coaching and Mentorship – personalized and group coaching to unpack training into business implementation
4. Links to financial and investment opportunities
5. Networking and peer learning to strengthen innovations and build a community of best practices in agri-circularity.
6. Competitive peer-to-peer awarded seed grants of up to Euro 50,000 (for 2 cohort selected enterprises)
7. Networking opportunities to showcase your solution and meet with investors and other stakeholders.

How To Apply

applications is open till the 10^th October 2021 Midnight EAT Visit the Official Webpage of the O-Farm’s Accelerator Program 2021 

For queries, send an email to accelerator.kenya@e4impact.org

 

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