HAGUSH
Economies that outgrow poverty, built from the ground up.
- THE SYSTEM FAILURE
In spring of 2026, the World Bank acknowledged that its three-decade caution against industrial policy for developing nations had not aged well.
In its own words, it now has "the practical value of a floppy disk."
The support infrastructure smallholder farmers need to thrive was one casualty of that era. For most of Africa, state-supported extension services, credit access, and market linkages have been systematically hollowed. The result: smallholder farmers across the continent are trapped in cycles of avoidable poverty.
The policy gap has a price tag.
- AN AVOIDABLE PROBLEM
Millions of smallholder farmers in Africa are caught in a pinch: yields have stalled, and incomes with them.
African smallholder farmer yields are below half the world average and a fifth of that of the average American farmer. The reason? Lack of access to credit, extension services, reliable markets. The infrastructure that turns farming into a livelihood.
Only 6% of African smallholder farmers can access credit. Less than 20% use improved seeds. Approximately 40% struggle with access to extension services and reliable markets.
- THE SOLUTION
Hagush closes the yield and income gap by making agricultural support the rule in Africa.
We bring farmers online. We connect them to high-impact, validated agri-solutions. We build context-specific support and anchor it to state systems. Grassroots industrial policy, from the ground up.
Income Gains Within Reach in a decade.
2x
- WHAT WE DO
Grassroots industrial policy from the ground up.
EQUIP
We start with digital access. Affordable, connected devices are the entry point — unlocking extension services, credit, and market linkages for farmers who've never had them.
CONNECT
We connect farmers to the best available agricultural tools and services. Technology is the coordination layer — turning a fragmented landscape of solutions into reliable, context-specific support across the value chain.
ACTIVATE
We embed what works into state systems — taking validated solutions and making them part of how governments deliver agricultural support. Not a parallel structure. Part of the state's own infrastructure.
