• Capacity Development Provider

Hivos

The Hivos Food & Lifestyle Fund targets food companies in Southern Africa. We invest to create a sustainable food system from farm-to-fork to allow people in Southern Africa to have a healthy, diversified diet with local foods that are produced in ways that increase biodiversity and restore soils.

  • Stages of Support

    • Idea
    • Start-up
    • Early
    • Growth
    • Mature

  • Nonfinancial support delivery mechanism

    • Seat on the Board

  • Nonfinancial Support

    • Performance management
    • Exit strategies

  • Investment Instruments

    • Equity

  • Intervention Type

    • Invest Directly

  • Sectors of Focus

    • Agriculture & Food

  • Stakeholder or Business Model Focus

    • Base of the pyramid
    • Social enterprise
    • Gender inclusion
    • Ethical sourcing

  • Impact objectives

    • Agricultural productivity
    • Employment generation
    • Food security and nutrition
    • Income/productivity growth
    • Equality and empowerment
    • Natural resources conservation
    • Sustainable land use
    • Pollution prevention and waste management

  • Verticals

    • AgTech
    • E-commerce
    • FinTech
    • Software as a service (SaaS)
    • CleanTech
    • Biotech
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