Africa's agricultural future, built by Africans.
We recruit Africa's top agribusiness students, train them for six months, and deploy them home in pods that build revenue-generating businesses with the farmers they train.
Not a relief organization.
An institution-builder.
Built to outlast us.
households reached
verified · 2019–2026
Most farmers will never meet the person paid to help them.
1:10,000
Extension agent to farmer ratio
A cassava farmer in Lira District will go her entire career without meeting a single extension officer.
5%
Rural households reached by conventional extension
Nineteen out of every twenty smallholder families are solving climate, soil, and market problems alone.
257M
Food-insecure people across the continent
More than the population of every country in the Horn of Africa, combined.
We recruit Africa's top agribusiness students, train them for six months, and deploy them home in pods that build revenue-generating businesses with the farmers they train.
The leverage math · 1 → 5 → 30 → 150
A model built to compound, not to hand out.
From classroom to community.
Top students form five-member pods, train with African and U.S. mentors, then transform the communities they came from.
Youth-Led Initiatives
African solutions to African problems, led by young agricultural enthusiasts.
Academic Partnerships
Collaboration with top-tier institutions to blend academic insight with practical interventions.
Changemaker Pods
A scalable, group-based training model where each pod trains 30+ farming households.
Sustainable Economic Focus
We aim to increase farmer incomes by at least 20%.
One network, two continents.
We leverage cross-continental support from the US and Africa.
School
Gulu University
Home
Awich, Gulu — Northern Uganda
Study
B.Sc. Procurement & Supply Chain
Cohort
Change Maker · 2025
Abaliwano Vivian
Change Maker · Gulu Chapter
“Change is possible with a change in mindset.”
Her journey
“If Roots Africa ceased operations today, these businesses would keep running.”
We don't measure success by what we run. We measure it by what keeps running without us. Help us build the next chapter.
rootsafrica.org · partners@rootsafrica.org · 240-350-2325