Building a Warren Buffett-like holdco for food/ag in Africa

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January 10, 2023
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A conversation with Luni Libes, serial entrepreneur and investor, about the enormous opportunities of African food companies and on buying from smallholder farmers and selling into the local regional markets. We also discuss why the traditional venture capital model doesn’t make any sense and a holding company does, plus why and how he wants to take the holding company public in a few years’ time.

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BERKSHIRE AFRICA

For more details on these ideas, pick up and read a copy of Berkshire Africa, written by Africa Eats’ co-founders, Luni Libes and Jumaane Tafawa.

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A 2 Minute Overview

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3 months ago
1 Min read
10September
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Africa Eats lowers hunger and poverty in Africa by investing. We do this using a unique three part business model. The video above explains those three parts in two minutes, and the Berkshire Africa book explains it in 100 pages.

5 months ago

Berkshire Africa

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5 months ago
11 Min read
24July

Luni and Jumaane, the co-founders of Africa Eats have published a book, “Berkshire Africa” that explains how our unique investment company has applied the learnings of venture capital, business accelerators, and Berkshire Hathaway toward solving hunger and poverty across Africa. We’ve explained this before, in brief, but now have a 160-page book with far more details, including...

December 7, 2023

Fast-growing SMEs

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December 7, 2023
4 Min read
07December

If you have to summarize Africa Eats into just seven words… Africa Eats helps quickly scale up SMEs. Give us more words and we’ll talk about investing in the food/ag supply chain, filling in the gaps of business infrastructure, and our progress ending hunger and poverty. But we do all that by helping SMEs scale up from tiny to millions in annual revenues. Below are seven examples of...

November 1, 2023

Increasing Incomes and Improving Lives (II)

In Business overview, Impact
November 1, 2023
2 Min read
01November

Africa Eats’ mission is to lower hunger and eliminate poverty across Africa. Dropping post-harvest losses from 40% to 2% is one way to lower hunger. The other is increasing the incomes of farmers, which simultaneously and directly eliminates poverty. On average, the bizi double the income of their farmers. We’ve seen that proven in the first 60 Decibels report on the farmers of East...

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