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AFEX Fair Trade Limited

Strategic pillar: Scale partnerships
Customer group: Smallholder farmer
Region: Africa
Partner since: 2024
Joint partners FCDO and USAID
FCDO funding type: CASEE
Technology: Multiple

About

AFEX Fair Trade is an agricultural supply chain solutions company creating inclusive, sustainable, and efficient food systems for Africa. With operations in farmer outreach, aggregation, and access to finance, a network of over 500,000 farmers, AFEX organises farmers to improve their productivity sustainably while enabling local and regional trade. 

Project Focus

Shell Foundation is partnering with AFEX to pilot a distribution model for a range of income-increasing productive energy assets such as solar water pumps, threshers, millers, and dryers, combined with input provision, extension services, and blended consumer finance to marginalised smallholder farmers in rural Nigeria.

For 25 years, Shell Foundation has partnered to scale clean energy solutions that boost incomes and cut emissions

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