Scoping missions, company assessments & strategic planning

Services and accompaniment to be delivered by Agriterra's agribusiness team are envisaged mainly in the phase of business planning, the improvement of the financial management, match-making with investors and financial institutions, backstopping and technical support and in the monitoring of progress, once the business is established. For the advisory services Agriterra will tap mainly from the knowledge and expertise of the Dutch agricultural cooperatives and agribusiness. Potential clients for the team Agribusiness are those with the opportunity for developing a clear business case and the possibility to fund an increasing part of the business with investments or loans. The type of client is the business-oriented cooperatives or any other type of farmer-controlled companies with the following characteristics: (1) existing ventures, (2) coops with a fairly well established track record, (3) coops with ambitions to expand or innovate, (4) coops facing difficulties in mobilizing equity and debt in domestic market and (5) with 1000+ membership of small holder farmers. Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Peru, Tanzania and Indonesia have been selected as focus countries for Agriterra's team Agribusiness. 80% of resources (financial and human) will be targeting farmer-led businesses in these countries. Following previous experiences the team opts for the following sub-areas: dairy, food crops & seeds and banking & insurance. Any specialization on a sector does not exclude activities, like in previous years, in any other sector. Yet, in all cases we will now demand a clear business case and the possibility to fund an increasing part of the business with investments or loans. The underlying project aims to facilitate scoping missions as well as missions for company assessment in order to build up a client portfolio of farmer-led companies with good business potential and that are in demand of the services Agriterra is able to render