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Are you a MSME interested in championing food systems in Africa? Are you an African Agri food business with a game-changing approach to revolutionize food systems on the continent? Are you looking for investment opportunities ? Is your Agri food business ready to scale ?Are you driving innovation in Africa's agribusiness sector?Is your Agri food business poised for growth and scale? Are you driving innovation in Africa's agribusiness sector?Is your Agri food business poised for growth and scale? Is your Agri food business poised for growth and scale? The AFS Forum is looking for innovative youth and women led MSMEs that promote food systems transformation in Africa. Whether you're empowering smallholder farmers to increase their production, processing and marketing, advancing nutrition, health and diets, or streamlining market access, managing food waste …. we're looking for MSMEs like yours. Agribusiness will be selected based on the following critera: Sector: Agrifood businesses with a clear link to smallholder farmers. This could include, but is not limited to, companies involved in the provision of inputs, primary production, enabling (e.g., agriculture logistics, aggregation platforms, irrigation, cold storage, financial services), value addition, digital platforms, market access, nutrition, post-harvest management, renewable energy etc. Country: The enterprise must be directly active within the African continent or be planning to expand into the region in the next 12-18 months. Stage of business: Post-revenue/proof of concept with a product in the market and an existing customer base. The enterprise must have plans to scale operations in the next 12-24 months. Enterprises must have a clear business model and must also be looking for financing (e.g., debt, equity financing, etc.) Ticket size: Investment under 100,000 USD 100,000 USD to 500,000 USD, 500,000 USD to 1 million USD Above 1 million USD Financial instruments such as loan, grant, equity, guarantee, reimbursable grant. Innovation in agri-food systems: The proposal should demonstrate innovation, impact, and scalability it can brings to address low production, digital gap, environment and climate challenges, nutrition challenges. Application RequirementsIf you meet the above criteria, please click here to fill the template to submit your profile. Given the limited number of slots available, applications will be on a first-come, first-served basis and only SMEs that submit fully completed profiles will be considered for participation. HOW TO APPLY: If your business meets the above criteria, we invite you to fill out the profile submission template here Read more