To unlock the potential of food resilience on the African continent, we need three paramount resources:
The purpose of our podcast is to bring the most leapfrogging and impactful ideas and entrepreneurs forward, while also inspiring the next wave of exceptional African entrepreneurship.
The podcast will feature breakthrough technologies, entrepreneurs, and organizations that quickly scaled food system solutions benefitting African communities. In addition, the podcast will highlight approaches to challenges and specific strategies to achieve success. We will prominently feature the topics of building complementary teams, scaling ventures, and business building.
The RootsToFoods podcast is a rich resource hub and community of:
entrepreneurs, executives, and investors in the agtech, food systems, and climate adaptation sector in Sub-Saharan Africa.
AV Ventures is ACDI/VOCA’s for-profit subsidiary. We provide innovative, catalytic financing to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) with strong potential for growth and impact in Africa, Central Asia, and Latin America. Such investments contribute to more competitive, resilient, and inclusive market systems and provide better economic opportunities for marginalized communities. With offices in Accra, Ghana; Nairobi, Kenya; and Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; AVV is building on the existing global foundation of more than 60 years of its parent organization, ACDI/VOCA.
