On-line Training Entrepreneurship in Agribusiness

Expanding Access to Entrepreneurship training

The Entrepreneurship in African Agribusiness (EiAA) course is a flagship learning resource designed to empower current and aspiring agripreneurs with the entrepreneurial skills, business tools, and strategic perspectives needed to succeed in Africa’s dynamic agribusiness sector. The English version of the course is now available on a dedicated Agripreneurship Alliance website, offering accessible, high-quality content for entrepreneurs, students, educators, and agribusiness professionals across the continent.

Applications will soon open for a facilitated delivery of the Entrepreneurship in African Agribusiness course.  Beginning on July 7 2026, participants will join a 29-week online learning programme combining the EiAA curriculum with weekly live sessions. practical tools, discussion, and peer learning. The course is designed to support aspiring and early-stage agrifood entrepreneurs, as well as those working to support entrepreneurship within universities, incubators, and development programmes. Participation will be free of charge, with places allocated through an application process.

To further broaden access and engagement, the Agripreneurship Alliance is exploring the development of French and Arabic versions of the EiAA course. This work is being advanced in partnership with our colleagues at universities in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Morocco, whose collaboration is helping us expand the course’s reach to more entrepreneurs in diverse linguistic regions of Africa.

Through these efforts, we aim to make entrepreneurial education more inclusive, strengthen agribusiness ecosystems, and support the next generation of innovators driving sustainable agricultural transformation across the continent.

The Agripreneurship Alliance's CEO Steven Carr recently completed a highly positive and productive visit to Uganda and Kenya, focused on strengthening relationships with universities, innovation centres, and entrepreneurship ecosystem partners working to support the next generation of African agripreneurs. In Uganda, the visit included meetings with Makerere University Technology and Innovations Centre (MUTIC / formerly UNIPOD), CURAD, the Innovation Village, and the School of Agricultural Sciences at Makerere University.  

AAAM also spent time with CURAD, our lead ecosystem partner in Uganda, where discussions focused on agribusiness incubation, entrepreneurship training, and opportunities for future collaboration. CURAD continues to expand its activities and facilities, including new incubation and training initiatives linked to formal sector employment and agribusiness development across multiple value chains.

In Kenya, Steven visited Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology (JOOUST) in Bondo, where he worked directly with faculty and student entrepreneurs from the School of Agricultural and Food Sciences. The visit included intensive entrepreneurship workshops, student pitching sessions, and mentoring activities linked to their implementation of the Entrepreneurship in African Agribusiness training. A particular highlight was watching students move from initial hesitation to confidently delivering structured business pitches within just a few days. The workshops explored agribusiness innovation, value addition, and entrepreneurship opportunities linked to activities such as coriander, mushroom, groundnut, pumpkin, and seedling production. The visit also included engagement with JOOUST’s Centre of Excellence in Insects as Food and Feed, where the university is undertaking innovative work around black soldier fly, cricket, and locust farming as part of future food and protein systems.

Across both countries, the visit reinforced the importance of strong institutional partnerships, practical entrepreneurship education, and ecosystem approaches that connect students, entrepreneurs, researchers, and support organisations.

Links:

• Link to the Training Platform

In December 2025, the Agripreneurship Alliance formally launched the Entrepreneurship in African Agribusiness (EiAA) course in Botswana. The launch took place alongside the RUFORUM Annual General Meeting, a gathering of more than 180 African universities working in agrifood systems, agribusiness, and related research across Africa.

A clear message emerged from RUFORUM this year. Universities play a vital role in high-quality scientific research, but they also need to place greater emphasis on application. Research must connect more directly to food systems, markets, A core principle of EiAA is accessibility. The course has been designed as a free resource, available to any entrepreneur, or any organisation that supports entrepreneurs, who wishes to strengthen their understanding of agribusiness entrepreneurship. By removing cost barriers and focusing on practical relevance, AAAM aims to support wider adoption and shared learning across institutions and countries.

EiAA is not a finished product. It is a living resource that will continue to evolve through use, feedback, and collaboration. Its launch in December marked an important milestone, but its real value will be measured by how it is used to support entrepreneurs and educators in the months and years ahead. The next steps are to translate the training into French and into Arabic and we are seeking funding to accomplish this. It will allow a wider reach into North, West and Central Africa.

We would like to thank the individual entrepreneurs, volunteers, and supporters who have given their time, insight, and energy to AAAM’s work. We are also very grateful to those who have supported us through GlobalGiving campaigns, and to the Rotary Club Montpellier Etang d'Or,France, for their commitment and solidarity.