What We Do

We train young women and men aggregators across our five counties in the skills aggregation work demands — from sourcing produce from smallholder farmers to handling it well on its way to market. Our work sits within Arabuko Limited’s Aggregator Enhancement Program, implemented in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, which has trained 600 aggregators to date.

We speak with one voice for young women aggregators. Women make up nearly half of the agricultural labour force in sub-Saharan Africa, yet the rural wage gap between men and women runs from 11 to 60 percent — and we raise our members’ interests wherever decisions affecting their trade are made.

Beyond initial training, we work with members to strengthen how they run their aggregation businesses over time. We do this as an association, so members learn from each other’s experience across our five counties as much as from any single session.

We connect our members and the produce they aggregate — vegetables, fruits, cereals, poultry and eggs, and herbs — with local, regional and global markets, working toward our vision of becoming the premier hub linking farmers, aggregators and exporters.

We make learning materials available to members so that training does not end when a session does. Members can return to what they have learned and keep building on it in their own time.

We help members understand and meet the standards that buyers and regulators expect of fresh produce, preparing them for local, regional and global trade rather than local trade alone.