As an Association, AAVF is revitalising Africa's Farming Industry and transforming lives through Climate Smart agriculture practices.

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Our Mission:

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To establish cooperatives involving Women and Youth where Smart Agriculture Trainings are taught and enhanced along the entire value chain, creating jobs that will develop strong sustainable agricultural economies in Africa.

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 Current challenges:

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• Underperforming agriculture sector

• Lack of agricultural know-how, and access to finance.

• Farmers’ inefficiency due to land deformation (soil nutrient loss).and old farming practises.

 

• Agriculture education very theoretical, lack exposure to practical environments, hence not capacitating local youth and Women with entrepreneurial skills.

 

 Opportunities:

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• To develop true ‘social innovation’

• Form Cooperatives with local land-owners to capacitate them and make Land Reform an economic success.

• Introduce these Cooperatives to sustainable modern agriculture practises such as vertical farming to optimise their produce.

• Use these Cooperatives to educate and train local unemployed youth through a “Learn by Doing and Earning” methodology

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Our Objectives:

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Both AAVF & Partners seek to achieve:

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• Awareness – by making Smart Farming known and understandable by locals

• Education – by ensuring knowledge transfer, both theoretical and practical, of Smart Farming to locals, especially the youth.

• Sustainability – by achieving significant local buy-in and adoption of Smart Farming practises for competitive commercial production.

• Local Economic Development – by producing business savvy Agripreneurs

• Collaboration – by creating platforms where the community, government and corporate can work together to make Land Reform an economic success.

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Target Beneficiaries:

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• We have identified the Youth and Women of Africa to be our target beneficiaries.

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Our Plan

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What we have:

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• Land (In two communities)

• National and International Industry Network

• National Government and Community Network

• Educational/Skills Partner

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What we still need:

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• Funding/Investment Partners

• Various options are being considered

• Off-Take Partners

• Other - to be negotiated at a later stage from the Industry Network

 

Our success is determined by our ability to:

 

• Produce and Market quality products, and highly rated skilled workers that dominate the domestic and International markets.

• Dominate the national agriculture sector with a good reputation and be valued as an important industry stakeholder.