Home-Grown Solutions Agribusiness Accelerator (HGSA-A) 2025 – YOA

Deadline: December 14, 2025

Applications for the Home-Grown Solutions Agribusiness Accelerator (HGSA-A) 2025 at the moment are open. The Home-Grown Solutions Agribusiness Accelerator (HGSA-A) is a COMESA regional initiative that helps progress-stage agribusinesses delivering scalable, revolutionary, and affect-pushed options throughout Africa’s agricultural worth chain.

The HGSA-A seeks to advertise inclusive and sustainable agribusiness progress by scaling African-owned and -led enterprises addressing meals insecurity, local weather challenges, and commerce obstacles. The programme supplies tailor-made help to strengthen funding readiness, improve fundraising capability, and increase regional commerce underneath the AfCFTA framework.

Benefits

Selected corporations obtain:

• Context Specific Advisory help
• Access to Regional and Global markets
• Investment Readiness and Capital linkage
• Technical Assistance and Mentorship from sector consultants
• Networking alternatives with friends, consumers, and traders

Eligibility

• Be legally registered and operational in a COMESA member state.
• Align with the programme’s choice for ladies-owned or led enterprises (70%) and youth-owned or led (18-35) enterprises (30%).
• Be an African-owned or African-led progress-stage firm.
• Demonstrate a confirmed and revolutionary enterprise mannequin with an annual turnover near USD $100,000 (varies by nation).
• Operate inside inclusive, excessive-potential agribusiness worth chains similar to excessive-worth crops (excluding main manufacturing), enter provide, agro-processing, worth addition, commercialisation, import substitution, aggregation, logistics, distribution, market entry providers, digital agriculture, and local weather-good inputs.
• Show clear potential to entry regional or worldwide markets with sturdy scalability prospects (e.g., export linkages, COMESA partnerships, replicable fashions, or regional growth methods).
• Maintain audited monetary accounts for not less than the final 3 years and primary compliance constructions.
• Prioritize inclusive participation by partaking youth, girls, individuals with disabilities, and refugees whereas contributing to meals safety and vitamin objectives.
• Contribute to HGSA-A’s broader improvement aims of driving sustainable agribusiness progress that promotes Africa’s stability and prosperity.
• Actively pursue and promote inexperienced progress (in step with the OECD Green Growth Strategy) by local weather-good, useful resource-environment friendly, and sustainable agricultural practices.

Eligible Businesses

The Accelerator helps corporations working throughout the agricultural worth chain concerned in:

• Input provide
• Aggregation
• Processing
• Storage
• Logistics
• Distribution
• Market entry
• Digital agriculture
• Value addition

Application

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For extra data, go to HGSA-A.