IITA is an award-winning, research-for-development (R4D) organization, providing solutions to hunger, poverty, and the degradation of natural resources in Africa. Since 1967, IITA has worked with international and national partners to improve livelihoods, enhance food and nutrition security, increase employment, and preserve natural resource integrity.

Prototyping and driving sustainable business models for scale IDH brings together over 600 companies and governments to drive new sustainable production and trade models in emerging economies. Reaching over 4 M farmers in 30 countries.

Alitheia Capital is a private equity fund manager that embodies the philosophy of true profit with a purpose. We invest private capital in SMEs that address business, social, or environmental needs.

Bureau Veritas has been a global leader in inspection, laboratory testing, audits and certification for over 30 years now, supporting our clients across the entire seafood supply chain in ensuring the traceability, quality and health safety of products, from fishing vessels and aquafarms, through port loading and unloading, processing, distribution and retail.

The Cassava: Adding Value for Africa (C:AVA) Project is developing value chains for High Quality Cassava Flour (HQCF) in Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda, Nigeria and Malawi to improve the livelihoods and incomes of at least 90,000 smallholder households as direct beneficiaries including women and disadvantaged groups. The project is led by the Natural Resources Institute of the University of Greenwich working closely with: University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria; Food Research Institute, Ghana; Tanzania Food and Nutrition, Tanzania; Africa Innovations Institute, Uganda; and Chancellor College, University of Malawi and a range of other partners. C:AVA is supported by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to the University of Greenwich.