HAGUSH
Another World is Possible.
- AN AVOIDABLE PROBLEM
Millions of smallholder farmers in Africa are trapped in cycles of avoidable poverty growing food on land that could yield far more.
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 of African smallholder farmers by making world-class agricultural support the rule, not the exception.
We bring farmers online. We connect them to world-class agri-solutions. We build context-specific support and anchor it to state systems.
Income Gains Within Reach in a decade.
2x
- 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.
- 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.
