Rural Enterprise and Economic Development in Southern Africa

For the youth..
..and for the future

Agriculture-focussed rural communities are depicted in the animation below, at the confluence of the socio-political and economic arenas. These communities find themselves at the base-of-the-pyramid (BoP) of both these arenas and the households, farmers and micro enterprises in these communities find themselves therefore on an isolated island - depicted in dark red below

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Development Divides

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The animation on the left depicts the various divides that constrain the isolated communities and indicates the effect of these divides

Our services are therefore aimed at providing solutions to overcome these gaps /divides. We have set the parametres in the animation below as the yardstick for the effectiveness of our solutions.

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Solution Parameters

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The animation on the left depicts the requirements for the network services and software solution that we provide

Our High Level Services

Research

We have conducted 70+ people-years of research in and with the CSIR - Africa’s leading science and technology institute.

Development

Team members have more than 55 person-years of technology development and 20 years of Small Business Development experience

Implementation

The team collectively has 40 years of community learning and engagement experience with the Kellog's and Mr Price Foundations, 24 years of change agent network deployment and 40 years of Agricultural development experience