Roots of Resilience

As climate change continues to push millions deeper into poverty, smallholder farmers remain among the most vulnerable. Across sub-Saharan Africa, the impact first enterprises are going beyond business as usual to provide a suite of services that creates the enabling environment for farmers to thrive.

This report spotlights two such enterprises: Kentaste, an Acumen investee, which supports 4,500 coconut farmers in Kenya and Tanzania, and Uzima Chicken, an Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund (ARAF) investee,  a subsidiary of EthioChicken’s parent company, Hatch Africa, which has reached over 600,000 poultry farmers across East Africa. Their work offers a blueprint for building farmer resilience from the ground up.

With the right support from these companies, farmers are:

• Increasing production: 70% (Kentaste), 81% (Uzima Chicken)
• Growing incomes: 74% (Kentaste), 92% (Uzima Chicken)
• Building resilience: 77% of Kentaste farmers feel better prepared for climate shocks, and 100% of Uzima Chicken farmers gained access to improved breeds. 

“Since I started selling my coconuts to Kentaste my income has increased with more than half from 10ksh per coconut with the brokers to the current 15ksh with the company and now I am able to take care of my bills at home without struggling.”

Coconut farmer and Kentaste supplier

Read the full report to learn how these models are reshaping the future of agriculture.

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