Deadline Date: December 14, 2025
The Home-Grown Solutions Agribusiness Accelerator is a COMESA regional initiative designed to strengthen growth-stage agribusinesses that offer scalable and impact-driven solutions across Africa’s agricultural value chain.
The focus areas of the programme include: being legally registered and operational in a COMESA member state, aligning with the programme’s preference for women-owned or led enterprises and youth-owned or led enterprises, being an African-owned or African-led growth-stage company, demonstrating a proven and innovative business model with an annual turnover close to USD 100,000, operating within inclusive high-potential agribusiness value chains such as high-value crops excluding primary production, input supply, agro-processing, value addition, commercialisation, import substitution, aggregation, logistics, distribution, market access services, digital agriculture, and climate-smart inputs, showing clear potential to access regional or international markets with strong scalability prospects, maintaining audited financial accounts for at least the last 3 years and basic compliance structures, prioritizing inclusive participation by engaging youth, women, people with disabilities, and refugees while contributing to food security and nutrition goals, contributing to HGSA-A’s broader development objectives of driving sustainable agribusiness growth that promotes Africa’s stability and prosperity, and actively pursuing and promoting green growth in line with the OECD Green Growth Strategy through climate-smart, resource-efficient, and sustainable agricultural practices.
The Home-Grown Solutions Agribusiness Accelerator supports agribusinesses that are ready to expand within regional markets and strengthen their investment readiness. Through its structured support, the programme enables enterprises to refine their business models, enhance financial sustainability, and prepare for engagement with investors across Africa.
The initiative further helps companies increase their competitiveness under the AfCFTA framework by supporting them to unlock opportunities for regional trade. This includes developing market linkages, improving cross-border expansion strategies, and strengthening their operational capacity to meet international standards.
Eligible businesses span multiple segments of the agricultural value chain. These include enterprises involved in input supply, aggregation, processing, storage, logistics, distribution, market access services, digital agriculture, and value addition. By supporting such a wide scope of activity, the programme emphasises holistic development of the agricultural ecosystem.
This opportunity is particularly designed to uplift African-owned companies that are already operational and seek to scale their impact. Through its focus on inclusivity, the programme ensures meaningful participation of women, youth, persons with disabilities, and other underrepresented groups within the agribusiness sector.
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