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Opportunities for agribusiness in African agriculture
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SVCDC - KenyaIDPA - UgandaCURAD - UgandaCAF - MaliAgBIT - Zambia CCLEARr - Ghana
through the Universities, Business and Research in Agricultural
Innovation (UniBRAIN)
• a pan-African initiative supported by Denmark
Wide scale investment in agribusiness and agro-industry in Africa is presently constrained by: Human and institutional capacity deficits
African universities are not sufficiently geared to meet the needs of industry
Graduates often cannot find employment while many small businesses lack staff with the education and skills needed to drive innovation
Essentially the relationship between the demands of the private sector and what universities teach is too weak
Nowhere are the these deficiencies more critical than in agriculture, Africa’s dominant industry
However, studies show that when university graduates do business they create more jobs than those without university education
Opportunities for agribusiness in African agriculture
Background to UniBRAIN
UniBRAIN will break the barriers and foster collaboration between universities, business and research to create cultures and environments that will:
• value, encourage and enable innovation
• produce graduates who are problem solvers
• who are potential entrepreneurs
• especially women and youths
UniBRAIN will establish aagribusiness incubators as
organizations for accelerating the creation of successful
enterprises by providing them with a comprehensive and
integrated range of support, including incubator space,
business support services and clustering and networking
opportunities
Opportunities for agribusiness in African agriculture
Purpose of UniBRAIN
UniBRAIN is a pan-African initiative supported by Denmark
UniBRAIN’s development objective is:
to contribute to enabling African countries to create jobs and raise incomes through sustainable agribusiness development
UniBRAIN’s Immediate Objective is:to enable universities, business and agricultural research institutions to commercialise agricultural technologies and produce graduates with entrepreneurial and business skills through agribusiness incubator partnerships
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UniBRAIN’s objectives
UniBRAIN’s objective will be realised by:
Output #1: Commercialisation of agribusiness innovations supported and promoted
Output #2: Agribusiness graduates with the potential to become efficient entrepreneurs produced
by tertiary educational institutions
Output #3: UniBRAIN’s innovative outputs, experiences and practices shared and up-scaled
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UniBRAIN’s outputs
UniBRAIN Partners
The Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) with the Sub Regional Organisations (SROs):
The Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in East and Central Africa (ASARECA)
The Conseil Ouest et Centre Africain pour la Recherche et le Développement Agricoles/the West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development (CORAF/WECARD)
Centre for Coordinating Agricultural Research and Development in Southern Africa (CCARDESA)
The African Network for Agriculture, Agro forestry and Natural Resources Education (ANAFE)
The Pan African Agribusiness and Agro Industry Consortium (PanAAC)
The Agribusiness Incubator Initiative of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ABI-ICRISAT)
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UniBRAIN Agribusiness Innovation Incubator Consortia
1. The Consortium for enhancing University Responsiveness to Agribusiness Development (UniBRAIN-CURAD) focusing on plantation cash crops; Specific value chain: Coffee
2. The Incubation and Diversification of Banana Products for Agribusiness (UniBRAIN-IDBPA) focusing on Smallholder staple food and cash crops; Specific value chain: Banana
3. The Sorghum Value Chain Development Consortium (UniBRAIN-SVCDC) focusing on smallholder dry land food grains; Specific value chain: Sorghum
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UniBRAIN Agribusiness Innovation Incubator Consortia
4. The Creating Competitive Livestock-bias Entrepreneurs in Agribusiness (UniBRAIN-CCLEAr) focusing on Smallholder livestock; Specific value chain: Livestock
5. The Innovative Centre for Agro-forestry (UniBRAIN-CAF) focusing on agro-forestry products; Specific value chains: non-timber forestry products, cereals and fruits
6. The Agri-Business Incubation Trust (UniBRAIN-AgBIT) focusing on tropical fruit; Specific value chain: Mango
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UniBRAIN CAF
UniBRAIN CCLEAR
UniBRAIN AgBIT
UniBRAIN SVCDCUniBRAIN IDBPA
UniBRAIN CURAD
UniBRAINAgribusiness incubators
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Why and how will African universities link with agribusiness
UniBRAIN will support universities, businesses and research institutions to establish agribusiness incubators, which will provide:
• facilitation for creating competitive agribusinesses through technology development and commercialisation
• handholding services starting from business conceptualization to implementation and scaling up
• support for realising business concepts from university faculty and graduates, researchers and agribusinesses
• consultancy services to agribusiness
• help in accessing financing for SMEs and start-ups approaching impact investors and social capitalists
Opportunities for agribusiness in African agriculture Functions of the Agribusiness Innovation Incubators
Example Incubator Client Categories and Services
Start Up Growth Expansion MatureNetworking
(domestic and International)
Technologically capable, Productivity driven and Globally
competitive
Assistance in Brand
Development
Assistance and linkages to funding and market
Handholding through business coaching, mentoring, consultancy and training on mindsetting, Business plan,
Accounting, marketing, communication skills etc
Biotech; Agribusiness;
Production assistanceIncubation
services and shared facilities
Selection/ Assessment
Pre-incubation/ Preseed
•Technology commercialization•Product and process improvement•Technology Transfer Office•IP Management
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Diagramme by ANAFE
Functions of the Agribusiness Innovation Incubators The mission of the incubator is to facilitate the creation of competitive agribusiness enterprises through technology development and commercialization
The incubator, helps new entrepreneurs and enterprise clients with handholding services starting from business conceptualization to implementation and scaling up
It is up to the clients to choose the kind of services they want from the incubator
The agribusiness incubators will provide institutional frameworks for:
the realisation of business concepts from university faculty and graduates, agricultural research and agribusinesses of all sizes
consultancy services to agribusiness
help in accessing financing for SMEs and start-ups by approaching banks, impact investors and social capitalists
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Summary
The UniBRAIN Agribusiness Incubators will become operational in 2012
They are being established to create opportunities for agribusiness
They want to raise awareness that they exist of the value chains they will be working in about what they are going to offer
The are looking forward to meeting the African agribusiness community to get advice and information share ideas to meet potential business partners
Opportunities for agribusiness in African agriculture
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