Import dependence, climate volatility and rural unemployment are one problem with one answer: producing more, closer, with less. We help governments turn that answer into strategy, a working proof of concept, and commercially run farms — with jobs and skills that stay in the country.
A climate-smart agriculture strategy grounded in agronomy and market reality, not policy abstraction.
A working facility on your soil — modelled on our own Grootvlei centre, which went from ground-breaking to first harvest supplying national retailers within a season.
Scaling from proof to production — with Drylands as anchor developer and operator, and structures that crowd in private and development capital.
FIG. 02 — STRATEGY → PROOF → SCALE. EACH STAGE STANDS ALONE; TOGETHER THEY ARE A NATIONAL PROGRAMME.
All partners gain access to the same proprietary systems we use to select, design and run our own farms—from decision-grade climate simulation to real-time performance, fulfilment and workforce training.
EXPLORE OUR PROPRIETARY TOOLS →High-tech greenhouse agriculture has been promised to Africa for a decade; our team is among the very few to have actually delivered it. Founders who have built and financed infrastructure businesses across the continent, and growers who have designed and operated over 100 hectares of high-tech production across EMEA and East Africa, took our Grootvlei centre — part of South Africa's Just Energy Transition, developed with Eskom, local government and the support of the Kingdom of the Netherlands — from ground-break to national retail shelves in a single season. That delivery capability is what a government programme actually buys.
From first briefing to commercial farms is a multi-year undertaking. We structure it as discrete, decision-gated phases — your government commits one phase at a time, with a concrete deliverable at every gate.
A working session with your ministry or agency: food security objectives, priority regions, fiscal envelope.
Our team in-country with yours: climate, water, energy, land and market data; stakeholder and funder mapping.
Crop, technology and region masterplan; import-substitution priorities; policy & incentive framework; investment plan built for DFI participation.
Design, build and commission a working facility; training academy from day one; offtake agreements with domestic retailers.
Drylands as anchor developer and operator; public investment structured to crowd in DFI and private capital, farm by farm.
FIG. 04 — EACH PHASE IS SEPARATELY CONTRACTED AND GATED. STRATEGY WORK STANDS ON ITS OWN; THE FULL PROGRAMME RUNS TWO YEARS OR MORE.
Every strategy we write is constrained by what we know works in the field — because we run the field. Our own capital and reputation sit behind our recommendations.
Training and local capacity are designed in from the start, not added for the press release. Our Grootvlei cohort is the working model.
Our own projects are financed alongside development finance institutions. We structure programmes the way funders need to see them — because we've sat on your side of that table.