O-Farms Accelerator Program Circular Agribusiness in Kenya for SMEs

O-Farms Accelerator Program Circular Agribusiness in Kenya for SMEs

O-Farms is an African SME accelerator completely focused on circular agribusiness with the goal of making circularity a mainstream approach for improved rural livelihoods and sustainability. It is an initiative funded by the IKEA Foundation to help scale circular agribusiness innovations in East Africa.

O-Farms, led by Bopinc and Village Capital, is focused on accelerating the next generation of innovative circular agribusinesses in Kenya and Uganda. Agri-circularity creates a more sustainable food system that drives innovation through developing innovative business models that reduce agricultural losses thereby creating new economic opportunities and jobs in the region.

In this regard, Kenya is able to sustainably feed its growing population, without depleting the natural resources. In doing so, O-Farms will build innovation support infrastructure that enables circular agribusiness to grow and develop.

In Kenya, E4Impact Accelerator is implementing the O-Farm’s Accelerator Program targeted to Agri-circular SMEs, with the aim to support them to refine their innovations, strengthen their business models, access financing opportunities and create a founding community advocating for better adoption of a circular economy and supportive policies & legislation.

Program Benefits

For the second cohort, up to 10 enterprises will be selected to join the program. The enterprises can expect to receive the following benefits: