Our Alummi
Clatural Wear LTD
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Clatural Wear LTD
Clatural Wear Limited is a Ghanaian, fully woman-owned, and female-focused social enterprise located in Spintex. Their mission is crafting signature pieces of eco-friendly, affordable, luxurious high-quality material that are ethically produced with a positive impact on their communities. It currently employs 25 workers and intends to employ precision fashion techniques to minimize the waste from its processes.
Leather on Call Gh LTD
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Leather on Call Gh LTD
Leather on Call Ghana is a green and lifestyle company that purveys plant-based/cork-leather footwear, gift items, and souvenirs made from environmentally friendly and biodegradable raw materials like wine cork stoppers, MDF, wood, jute and sawdust. They also offer laser engraving, eco-packaging, and branding services. They are working on converting sawdust into wooden boards for its raw materials. This innovation can reduce deforestation.
Bello Edu
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Bello Edu
Bello Edu is a women’s wear brand providing ready-to-wear and custom-order pieces. They use fashion waste from other fashion designers to create their products. They intend to implement precision fashion techniques to minimize the waste from its processes. They are very passionate about their work and believe that each of their creations serves a purpose in their customers’ lives. Also, they believe that their work and contributions have given confidence and strength to women in our society.
Salbix Foods
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Salbix Foods
Salbix Foods produces high-quality baby cereals, made with care and dedication, to support healthy infant and toddler nutrition. Some of their products are carrot pumpkin rice, beetroot rice, koko powder, and cereal legume mix. These cereals are made by processing farm produce into the finished product. With this method of production, they improve the shelf life of agricultural produce. They have also made it their social responsibility to give back to society. In 2020, the company donated 78 pieces of 1,200Kg packs of their products to Princess Marie Louise Children’s Hospital.
Akofresh
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Akofresh
Akofresh is a business that provides solar-powered cold storage to farmers to extend the shelf-life of farm produce. The IoT-enabled mobile off-grid cold storage preservation technology significantly prolongs the shelf life of perishable crops, extending it from the standard 5-day period to 21. Post-harvest losses of vegetables and fruits are pervasive throughout the supply chain, from storage after production to the food reaching the consumer’s plate. According to UNEP, approximately 15% of food waste-related CO2 emissions stem from inefficiencies in post-harvest cold chains. Sub-Saharan African countries face significant challenges, with up to 36% of their total harvested food lost, primarily due to inefficient supply chains accounting for as much as 94% of these losses.
K. Yeboah 04 Business Centre
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K. Yeboah 04 Business Centre
K. Yeboah 04 Business Centre is a snail farm located in Techiman. Compared to traditional sources of protein such as beef or chicken, snails are much more sustainable and leave a low carbon footprint. The business practices climate friendly techniques when farming.
Benyima Farms LTD
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Benyima Farms LTD
Benyima Farms Limited, a Ghanaian woman-owned business, has been operating since 2013 in Gomoa East District of the Central Region. Spanning 240 acres, they cultivate a diverse range of fruits and vegetables and process their fruits into juices. Utilizing solar energy and implementing efficient irrigation practices in farming epitomize climate-smart agriculture and offer a multifaceted approach to sustainability. This approach reduces greenhouse gas emissions, conserves water, maintains soil health, and enhances crop yields and quality. The company is dedicated to community development, employing locals, and providing training in farming techniques for sustainable agriculture.
Antanah Farms
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Antanah Farms
Antanah Farms is an integrated farm that is into the production and sales of poultry eggs and meat, catfish, pigs and crops. They have 2 dug-out ponds and 5 fabricated ponds with total breeding capacity of over 30,000 catfish. Antanah Farms is powered by solar and uses Indigenous Micro-Organism (IMO) technology for keeping pigs. With this technology, the pigs’ pens are filled with sawdust mixed with locally cultured enzymes which digest or decompose the pigs’ urine and excrement along with the sawdust turning it into rich organic manure for our organic farming.
Kingsworth Farms LTD
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Kingsworth Farms LTD
Kingsworth Farms is an agri-business that cultivates and delivers food crops and value-chain products to people and protects the environment. Their mission is to develop and innovate value-chain products to help people live healthily whilst protecting the environment and nurturing the local community. Their farms were once areas that had experienced deforestation. They were able to resort to these areas thanks to their communal planting, harvesting, and collecting models which help eradicate poverty, promote economic advancement, and improve the livelihood of the local community.
El-Giga Farms LTD
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El-Giga Farms LTD
El-Giga Farms is a commercial poultry farm with a current capacity of about 6000 birds. They are also into open-field vegetable production using poultry droppings and seek to transition to greenhouse farming. El-Giga Farms currently has a staff strength of 16 employees. Poultry farming is considered to have a relatively low carbon footprint compared to other forms of livestock production. However, it is still a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. The main factors responsible for these missions are feed production and manure.
Lili-Pat Yeenu Ventures
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Lili-Pat Yeenu Ventures
Lili-Pat Yeennu Ventures is an agro-processing enterprise that produces both plant and animal milk beverages with no preservatives or added additives. They also produce cereal and legume mix products. They carefully select ingredients that have extraordinary health benefits and will satisfy human consumption. Since 2007, their mission has been to build up and strengthen Africa’s startup community by connecting innovative entrepreneurs creating high-growth, high-impact businesses with knowledge, network, and funding their needs to succeed.
Agro Empire LTD
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Agro Empire LTD
Agro Empire plans to build greenhouses for its snail farming. Snails offer a highly sustainable protein alternative with a remarkably low carbon footprint compared to traditional meats like beef and pork. Additionally, snails primarily fed on food waste, reducing emissions from waste decomposition. They are committed to using sustainable agriculture and climate-smart techniques to ensure that their operations not only yield exceptional products but also contribute positively to the environment and local communities. They have over 45,000 live snails being raised and offer their products to 25 outlets.
AgriCentric Ventures
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AgriCentric Ventures
AgriCentric Ventures collaborates with both smallholder and commercial-scale farmers to purchase their farm waste and process it into premium organic products. By converting farm waste into organic products such as bio-fertilizers, livestock, fish dietary supplements, etc., they reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with waste decomposition while offering high-value-added solutions for agricultural production. Their collaborations also help promote sustainable waste management practices.
Maphlix Trust Ghana Limited
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Maphlix Trust Ghana Limited
Maphlix Trust Farms is a commercial farm located in Tadzevu. They have almost 3,000 acres of land on which several crops are cultivated both in open fields and greenhouses with the help of drip irrigation systems for both export and local sales. According to FAO, Agriculture that sustainably increases productivity, and resilience (to climate change), reduces/removes greenhouse gases (mitigation), and enhances achievement of national food security and sustainable development goals can be considered climate-smart agriculture. This business practices climate-smart agriculture.
Soko Bags
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Soko Bags
Soko Bags is a manufacturing venture specializing in ethically sourced, eco-friendly reusable bags made from cotton and jute fiber. They are dedicated to combating the plastic waste crisis while empowering women through sustainable job opportunities. These bags serve as an alternative to single-use plastic bags which are notorious for land and water pollution. Their products are designed to meet the highest standards of quality, durability, and style. The company currently employs 25 workers.
Smart Lakym Enterprise Limited
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Smart Lakym Enterprise Limited
Smart Lakym Enterprise is in Agona Kwenyako in the Ashanti region and currently practices open field vegetable cultivation. The business employs five full-time employees and aims to transition to greenhouse farming. Greenhouses mitigate climate challenges, enabling cultivation in new areas, reducing transportation emissions, mitigating supply chain disruptions, and conserving water and nutrients compared to traditional methods. Since deforestation and habitat destruction are shown to be among the main causes for the substantial environmental impacts of food production, learning to sustainably grow more food with less land is a real priority for business.
Envirotech Bamboo Limited
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Envirotech Bamboo Limited
Envirotech Bamboo Limited, located in Kumasi, is an enterprise that produces Bamboo bicycles. Bamboo stands out as a swiftly regenerating and renewable resource, enabling sustainable harvesting practices and offering an environmentally preferable alternative to conventional bicycle materials such as steel or aluminum, which demand energy-intensive manufacturing processes. Moreover, bamboo cultivation plays a role in carbon sequestration, aiding in the mitigation of climate change by actively absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. This dual benefit underscores the ecological advantage of utilizing bamboo in bicycle production, aligning with efforts to promote sustainability and combat climate.
Yesther Metal Works
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Yesther Metal Works
Yesther Metal Works is a business located in Kumasi that produces clean cooking stoves. The Clean Cooking Alliance (CCA) suggests that up to 1 gigaton of carbon dioxide equivalent is produced every year from burning wood fuels, equating to about 2% of global CO2 emissions. Firewood and charcoal consumption are a major contributor to the annual deforestation rate. Using clean cookstoves mitigates the emission issues and reduces the need to cut down more trees.
Time Will Tell Enterprise
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Time Will Tell Enterprise
Time Will Tell is in Takoradi and manufactures clean cookstoves for individual households. Their mission is to mitigate emission issues and reduce deforestation by making traditional cookstoves redundant. They produce on average 2,500 cookstoves in a month. They employ 10 workers.
Tahir Field Recycling
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Tahir Field Recycling
The rising demand for cars, heavy-duty vehicles, etc. throughout the years has led to an increased demand for lubricating oils. This results in the generation of large volumes of waste oils worldwide. Tahir Field Recycling seeks to recycle waste oils into useable engine oil for the automotive industry to reduce its generation by utilizing green technology and methods that meet industry standards. Currently, they are aiming to expand their production capacity to reach an output of 50,00 liters per day and recycle lithium batteries.
Ayinetogre Co Ltd
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Ayinetogre Co Ltd
Ayinetogre Company Limited is a waste management enterprise that recycles waste such as plastic into Bolga baskets and bags for local and international markets. They have 4 direct workers and indirectly employ about 20 women who work in groups as weavers.
Davnak Ventures
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Davnak Ventures
Davnak Ventures is an enterprise that collects and recycles sachet plastics. The practice was initiated when the CEO recognized the demand for such materials. Davnak Ventures is dedicated to offering high-quality products and is planning on expanding its range of said products and services by advancing its plans of setting up a plastic pelleting facility and registering as a sole proprietorship venture. Currently, the business employs three workers.
Chris Yao Ventures
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Chris Yao Ventures
Chris Yao Ventures is a plastic waste recycling venture located in Nsawam that collects plastic waste and crushes it into plastic flakes. They have adopted this recycling method to mitigate GHG emissions associated with plastic waste. This business employs 8 workers.
SDK Commodity Consult Limited
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SDK Commodity Consult Limited
SDK, located in Kade, recycles wastewater from artisanal oil mills. This wastewater mainly constitutes 20% oil, 70% water, and 10% fiber. Discharging the wastewater into water bodies causes severe damage to the environment and communities around the area. SDK seeks to recycle the wastewater to salvage oil for sale, evaporating the water and using the fiber as fuel.
Bluefields Farms and Logistics
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Bluefields Farms and Logistics
Bluefields Farms and Logistics is an agribusiness firm which cultivates livestock such as poultry and piggery in Takoradi. They faced many challenges and were forced to halt operations in 2017. However, they returned to business in 2022. They engage in ecotourism and operate an agro-training center.
Ayden Ventures
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Ayden Ventures
Ayden Ventures, established in December 2015, is an integrated farm which cultivates vegetables, catfish, and livestock. Their vegetable production system uses technology, innovation and sustainable farming practices employed from greenhouse farming and combine it with nature and indigenous farming experiences to produce healthy affordable food crops and vegetables. They harvest all year round with the help of an irrigation system.
Ecohezz Ventures
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Ecohezz Ventures
Ecohezz Ventures is an upcycling/recycling business addressing the challenge of waste tire pollution by providing furniture, home decor and interior design buyers with additional technology, bespoke and environmentally friendly alternatives eliminating the need for wood base interior products and making use of the waste polluting our environment.
Advanced Packaging
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Advanced Packaging
Advanced Packaging is a paper recycling company. Their state-of-the-art recycling factories convert wastepaper into items such as boxes and face masks. Their mission is to become a leading paper recycling company in Ghana, establish waste collection centers in all 216 districts in the country, and train 650 youths and women to operate these centers.
NAT-K Enterprise
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NAT-K Enterprise
NAT-K Enterprise offers farm management & marketing services to improve the profitability of smallholder oil palm farmers. Through the establishment of Rural Service Centers (RSCs), the company offers transactional services required by smallholder farmers, mills and traders in the oil palm value chain. Established in 2014, NAT-K supplies about 6000 MT of Fresh Fruit Bunches (FFB) and 1000 MT of palm kernel nuts annually to major oil palm processing mills and intends to expand its revenue streams through the provision of farm management services to smallholder farmers and provision of FFB and Crude Palm Oil (CPO) aggregation to oil palm mills.
Eco Fashion
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Eco Fashion
Eco Fashion is an eco-friendly company that provides holistic recycling solutions to plastic by recycling plastics into useful products and also provides repairs and remodeling services for customers’ damaged or old products. The company’s value proposition is to give customers durable, quality and functional upcycled and recycled plastic products which they wouldn’t have to dump to pollute the environment when they become old or damaged because they can bring them back for repairs and remodeling. Our customers and we are partners in saving and preserving the environment.
Pyramid Recycling Enterprise
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Pyramid Recycling Enterprise
Pyramid Recycling Enterprise is a plastic processing company that creates alternatives for wood out of waste plastics and fiber (rice husks, sawdust). Starting in 2007, the business has gradually grown from the processing of 1 ton of plastic waste per month to over 20 tons per month presently. Its end products include wood-plastic beams, chairs, shoes, curtain ropes, panels, pallets, sticks, poles, school furniture, and outdoor furniture.
Aquagreen
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Aquagreen
Aquagreen aims to inspire water drinking without plastic bottles, which harm the environment by clogging gutters, landfills, and oceans. The organization combats plastic waste in Ghana with mobile water dispensers, offering purified mineral water for various events. Aquagreen collaborates with eco-conscious individuals and organizations to provide water without single-use plastics. They also deploy smart water ATMs via the Tap app, allowing users to find nearby refill stations.
Kor.Le.Kour Accessories
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Kor.Le.Kour Accessories
Kor.Le.Kour Accessories is a sustainable and eco-friendly brand based in Ghana. Led by Priscilla K Agyeman, an expert in Industrial Art with nearly a decade of experience, they are dedicated to creating a sustainable fashion brand. With six years of commitment, they transform recycled materials into beautiful beads, sourcing 70% of their raw materials locally to support the economy and artisans. As an alumna of the Ghana Climate and Innovation Centre, Priscilla champions environmental consciousness and social responsibility.
Hamy Comfort
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Hamy Comfort
Hamy Comfort specializes in creating stylish bags and home decor items from environmentally recycled products. Their mission is to combine fashion and sustainability, offering unique, eco-friendly products that enhance everyday living. Committed to reducing waste and promoting green living, Hamy Comfort transforms discarded materials into beautiful, functional pieces, ensuring that every purchase contributes to a healthier planet.
Jumeni Technologies Limited
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Jumeni Technologies Limited
Jumeni Technologies Limited is a Software as a Service (SaaS) company dedicated to providing innovative software solutions for African consumers and SMEs, with a focus on waste management. Their flagship products include Dispose Green, an on-demand waste collection service, and Stride, an on-demand delivery service. Jumeni strives to deliver value and enhance operational efficiency for their clients through our cutting-edge solutions.
Biosewers Ghana Limited
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Biosewers Ghana Limited
Biosewers Ghana Limited specializes in the design, construction, and maintenance of biodigester systems for homes, institutions, and organizations. Their comprehensive services include maintaining existing biodigesters and septic tanks, as well as providing expert plumbing and general plumbing services. Biosewers is committed to sustainability and efficiency, offering innovative waste management solutions that contribute to a cleaner and healthier environment.
Green Campus
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Green Campus
Green Campus Ghana, founded in 2016 at the University of Ghana by Papa Yaw Agyekum Addo, is a youth-driven initiative from five tertiary institutions aimed at addressing sanitation and climate issues. They develop eco-friendly products and run projects promoting sustainability. Their Green Campus Trash bags facilitate waste management with color-coded bags: green for bottles/glass, white for papers/plastics, and brown for organic waste. To combat poor waste management practices, they conduct annual sanitation education campaigns and outreach programs, encouraging proper waste disposal and improved sanitation habits among Ghanaians.
Pure & Just Company Limited
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Pure & Just Company Limited
Pure & Just Company Limited is a dynamic, youth– and women–powered company facilitating rural-urban business by linking rural farm produce to local and foreign urban retail opportunities through agro-processing. Specifically, they transform fresh fruit from farmers into all-natural, tropical dried fruit (dried mango, dried papaya, dried pineapple, and dried banana) sold domestically and abroad.
Econexus Ventures Limited
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Econexus Ventures Limited
Econexus Ventures Limited is a Ghanaian-based social enterprise commercializing sustainable bio-ethanol fuel as a clean cooking solution in Ghana and the subregion. They transform organic waste and agro by-products into affordable, reliable, and clean-burning bioethanol fuels and stoves. Aiming to provide alternatives to polluting and expensive cooking fuels for about 860 million Africans by 2050, Econexus stands out as a leading manufacturer and distributor of ethanol biofuels and clean stoves. Committed to environmental impact and customer satisfaction, their high-quality, durable products are designed to reduce harmful emissions and promote a greener future.
CHAiNT Afrique GH LTD
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CHAiNT Afrique GH LTD
CHAiNT Afrique GH Ltd is a Change, Innovation and Transformation Hub that specializes in simplifying environmental, social and governance factors (ESG) for organizations, ensuring that they focus on material issues to innovate and achieve maximum returns from their sustainability investments. Their flagship initiative, EcoRewards-Africa, seeks to pioneer a circular economic platform that rewards positive actions across households, communities and businesses. It was founded by Venan A. Sondo, a passionate and social impact driven sustainability professional with over 14 years of experience in managing environmental impacts and ESG factors in traditional business environments.
Sumkoyus Limited
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Sumkoyus Limited
Sumkoyus Limited is at the forefront of sustainable innovation, transforming plastic waste into eco-friendly, reusable bags. Committed to combating environmental pollution, the company collects and recycles discarded plastics, giving them a second life as durable bags. By turning waste into a valuable resource, Sumkoyus Limited not only reduces plastic in landfills but also promotes a circular economy. With a focus on both quality and sustainability, Sumkoyus Limited is dedicated to making a positive impact on the environment and setting new standards in green business practices.
Sons Development Company LTD (SDCL)
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Sons Development Company LTD (SDCL)
SDCL is a Real Estate Investment Company and a member of Sons Development Group, a multi-purpose business entity with the focus of utilizing saw dust and plastic waste using Waste Maximizing Technology (WMT) for the manufacture of innovative building materials, suitable alternatives to cement block or concrete and plywood for sustainable national housing development. Their technology, branded “Sons Plastico”, involves recycling of saw dust and plastic waste into Wood Plastic Composite (WPC) used in the manufacture of innovative building materials. WPC can be formed into various shapes and colors and is thus used for various applications in the housing and allied industries including windows, doors, furniture, among others.
Nelplast Ghana Limited
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Nelplast Ghana Limited
Nelplast Ghana Limited is an integrated environmental and social impacting solutions company located in Katamanso in the Greater Accra region. It started as a plastic recycling and production company in 2013. The business is focused on ridding the Gulf of plastic waste and securing job opportunities for local plastic waste collectors. The business is founded by Nelson Boateng, an Engineer with over fifteen years of experience in the recycling industry.
Special Learning Materials Ltd
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Special Learning Materials Ltd
Special Learning Materials Ltd is a Ghanaian enterprise producing supplementary learning materials for basic education. Their products include games and puzzles that teach concepts in reading, mathematics and general knowledge. The products are made of wood and Wood Plastic Composites (WPC), containing recycled plastic. They are durable and align with the Ghanaian basic school curriculum. The company initially operated on a small scale until 2017, when new investments were made, new markets were explored, and the production process optimized.
Ripples Interior LTD
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Ripples Interior LTD
Ripples Interior Decor is an innovative startup founded by Jeffrey Kwabena Yeboah in Ghana with the core aim of promoting and adopting sustainable environmental practices through a unique business model which recycles car tyres into finished consumer products for the interior decoration of rooms, offices and any outdoor space. The unique concept of Ripples Interior lies in the ability to use damaged car tyres, locally made jute ropes and pieces of African prints to produce products such as wall mirrors, a variety of tables and other types of furniture.
Mckingtorch Creatives
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Mckingtorch Creatives
Mckingtorch Africa is a legally registered social enterprise that focuses on environmental sustainability and plastic waste management. Their work revolves around several key pillars, including influencing climate policies, circularity and plastic waste management policies, product and service innovations from plastic waste, global institutional research partnerships, recycling & upcycling training programs, public space installations from waste, sustainability advocacy, plastic waste recovery services, community and beach waste recovery and art installations from plastic waste. Since 2018, they have recycled over 100 tons of plastic waste and conducted research projects with academic institutions projects across different countries.
Kolics Ventures
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Kolics Ventures
Kolics Ventures is a social enterprise based in Takoradi, Ghana and owns the Koliko Wear brand aimed at providing customers with quality and affordable ladies and gent’s wear. Kolis Ventures uses recycled and upcycled materials to produce its shoes. They also train both skilled and unskilled young people in the community in innovative approaches to starting a business.
Loo Works
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Loo Works
Loo Works specializes in appealing and durable prefabricated toilet houses, called superstructures. They partner with local companies to provide an off-grid, odor-free waste management solution that takes up minimal space. By partnering with local digester suppliers who specialize in anaerobic, biological waste management solutions they ensure customers receive an off-grid toilet system suitable for their needs. They also work with local assemblies to educate community members on the long-term benefits of owning a toilet.
Yensom Enterprise
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Yensom Enterprise
Yensom Enterprise is a start-up which aims to create employment and wealth through recycling plastic waste. Its mission and vision are to reduce the amount of plastic waste in the environment by promoting individual and corporate responsibility and utilization of plastic waste as a resource.
Ecomake Innovations
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Ecomake Innovations
Founded in 2014, Ecomake Innovations emerged from a passion for engineering education. This company, comprised of certified and seasoned engineers, trains students with practical, hands-on skills. Ecomake Innovations provides effective STEM education at their maker space, preparing students for industry employment beyond their project work. Leveraging student projects and curated events, they deliver practical engineering skills that fit within academic calendars. Their dedication to excellence has made them masters of their craft, committed to student success in the mechanical engineering field.
Cibus Technologies Limited
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Cibus Technologies Limited
Cibus Technologies Limited is a renewable energy technology solution provider. GIZZEO Biogas system, the maiden product of Cibus Technologies, solves waste and energy issues in residential homes by recycling mostly kitchen waste into cooking fuel and garden fertilizer. The company aspires to become a household name in Africa for innovative solutions to domestic challenges through the usage of renewable energy technologies.
Neat Meat Enterprises
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Neat Meat Enterprises
Neat Meat Enterprises which produce Neat Eco Feeds was founded by Lincoln Winimi Peedah. Neat Eco-feeds gather waste from abattoirs and other vendors and recycles it to produce maggots. The maggots are processed and sold as feed; alive, dried and powdered forms. The by-product from the maggot production process is bagged and sold as compost. With Neat Meat’s intervention, farmers can produce larger quantities of poultry at a cheaper cost thus putting them in a more advantageous position of competing with the menace of influx of imported chicken.
Ecovon
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Ecovon
Ecovon is a green start-up that focuses on utilizing and turning waste into sustainable building materials. Ecovon is rethinking and re-designing how a new generation of building materials are made by developing sustainably sourced, newly engineered formaldehyde-free bio-based wood alternative made from coconut husk and sugar cane bagasse. This innovative technology positions Ecovon as the first manufacturer of non-additive, bio-based, renewable wood products in the local Ghanaian market.
Das Biogas Construction
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Das Biogas Construction
Das Biogas is a unique biogas company that completes the waste-to-energy cycle by developing innovative technologies that turn waste into a new form of high-value commodity for profitable returns to individuals and society at large. With an innovative mobile plant converting plastics to fuel and other technologies, Das Biogas is working towards reducing the ubiquitous nature waste scattered all over the environment is supporting the circular economy through recycling and value addition to waste at all levels.
Biogas Technologies
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Biogas Technologies
Biogas Technologies specializes in providing appropriate waste management systems that process organic waste into useful energy and nitrogen-rich plant fertilizer. Biogas Technologies also designs and manufactures manometers and biogas stoves. The business also provides biogas storage ballons and biogas generators. The business is driven by a concern for the practical and urgent need to address the survival of human, animal and plant populations of the African continent. The company is headed by Dr. John Afari Idan, a Sanitary Engineer and Gate and BORDA trained Biogas Technologist.
Atlas Business Energy System
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Atlas Business Energy System
Atlas Business Energy System is a leading provider of renewable energy. ABES provides supply chain management for different solutions in renewable energy such as solar, wind, and biomass. ABES also has a training and education center that provides training in design, installation, operation, maintenance and marketing of renewable energy technologies. The Center for Renewable Energy Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CREEIN) was started in 2010 but finally established in 2013 to address the gap in training technicians and entrepreneurs involved with renewable energy business.
Byhezz Ventures
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Byhezz Ventures
Byhezz is an upcycling business that produces interior decorative solutions from waste car tyres for individual and corporate use. Byhezz’s product line ranges from wall mirrors, tables, chairs and key holders. The operations of Byhezz reduces methane gas that would have been emitted when tryres are landfilled and offsets poisonous gases if same is burnt openly. Poor management of lorry tyres are results in air pollutions with resultant environmental and social hazards. The services of Byhezz helps to address these hazards through the upcycling of wastes lorry tryres into useful products of economic benefit. GCIC will be supporting Byhezz with incorporate technology and improved machinery into its production process as well as acquire tricycle for the transportation of raw materials and finished products.
Fibre Wealth Co. Ltd
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Fibre Wealth Co. Ltd
Fibre Wealth, established in 2014, is a waste management business which converts coconut shells and other agricultural wastes, which they collected from their community into “Cocopeat”, a growth medium that is designed to replace conventional soil for crop and vegetable cultivation. Their business helps reduce the emissions of methane gas and clear up waste made by coconut sellers and others within their community.
Mending Plantain And Banana Papers
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Mending Plantain And Banana Papers
Mending Papers is a company that produces biodegradable packaging to eliminate the use of plastic and polythene bags which are not biodegradable. The packaging is produced by using agro-waste such as plantain/banana stems, corn husks and rice straw, which would have unethically disposed of. They envision a future where supermarkets, malls, pharmacies, and other facilities/ businesses are transformed by using biodegradable paper bags.
Sesa Recycling Co. Ltd
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Sesa Recycling Co. Ltd
Sesa Recycling is a waste management company offering recycling services for businesses, corporations and households in Ghana. They encourage individuals to recycle and reduce waste pollution by incentivizing a positive change in behavior. Their clients can either sort their waste or collect it within their area and drop the waste at Sesa’s collection point or request for pickup. Then their clients can receive points, which can be redeemed for prizes (product or services), depending on the weight of their recycled waste.
Asa Nwura
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Asa Nwura
ASA Nwura is a waste management business which digitizes waste collection to create social, environmental and economic benefits. ASA Nwura provides cloud-based waste management solutions for municipalities, households, property managers, institutions, and recreational centers to sustainably manage their waste in a safe, environmentally friendly manner. They generate revenue from the direct sales of these recovered recyclables and upcycled materials.
Eazz Foods Ltd
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Eazz Foods Ltd
Eazz Foods provides a guaranteed market for eggs sourced from smallholder female poultry farmers. They process eggs into a powdered form, a product that is easier to use, transport, and ideal for various industrial purposes. They are committed to using eco-friendly practices and this even extends to their packaging. By using sustainable packaging material, they aim to minimize their environmental footprint and reduce waste.
Uvuko Company Limited
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Uvuko Company Limited
Uvuko Co.Ltd is a waste management business located in Tarkwa. They collect, shred and clean plastic waste and sell it to recycling companies. Their mission is to reduce GHG emissions by preventing the extraction, processing, and transportation of new raw materials and by reducing landfill waste, a major source of methane. They have 7 employees and have an installed capacity of 12 tons every month. With these results, Uvoko prevents 46,200 tons of carbon emissions per month from destroying the environment.
Premier Waste Services
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Premier Waste Services
Premier Waste Services, established in 2018, is a waste management business in Kumasi. They collect 20 tons of plastic waste every month, crush it, and sell it to recycling companies. Their activities prevent 77,000kg of carbon emissions per month from escaping into our atmosphere. Their goal is to produce products from plastic waste collected and recycled at their factory to create new products aligned with the principles of a circular economy, where material is reused and recycled, reducing the demand for new resources and minimizing waste.
Imogen Carly Ventures
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Imogen Carly Ventures
Imogen Carly Ventures, established in 2022, is a waste management business located at Berekum which produces ready to use recycled plastic materials and prevents GHG emissions. They collect, shed, wash and pelletize plastic waste which is then sold to plastic recyclers.
TekXul Company Ltd
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TekXul Company Ltd
TekXul Company LTD is a domestic and industrial water purification enterprise located in Kumasi. Their mission is to provide innovative technological solutions that ensure efficient, smart, and reliable water management systems. They develop and install systems that recycle wastewater for sustainable use, solving the issues of scarcity. They are dedicated to delivering solutions that not only meet but exceed the expectations of their clients.
Grow for Me
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Grow for Me
Grow for Me, located in Haatso, is an enterprise that delves in outgrower scheme and commodity trading. Established in 2020, the enterprise currently has 19 employees. Through its crowd funding approach, the company mobilizes funds from the public and invests the funds in its commodity trading scheme or outgrower scheme depending on the preference of their investor. Grow for Me’s activities help to reduce post-harvest losses which could decompose to release methane. Their new focus is on the production of sustainable aviation fuel from agricultural plants which would be an eco-friendly alternative to polluting jet fuels.
Printland Limited
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Printland Limited
Printland limited was established in 2003. They are into the manufacturing of paper packaging which serves as alternative to plastic packages, with two branches in Spintex and North Kaneshie. The currently employ 6 people. Printland churns out paper products which are biodegradable and a more sustainable alternative to plastics.
Christie Brown Limited
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Christie Brown Limited
Christie Brown is an award-winning women’s apparel and accessories manufacturer and retailer, with pieces ranging from statement ready-to-wear pieces to innovative accessories to bespoke creations. The brand is particularly keen to introduce sustainable and climate-smart processes into its manufacturing processes and supply chain.
Kaeme Body Care Limited
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Kaeme Body Care Limited
Kaeme is an indigenous Ghanaian cosmetic company specializing in premium quality shea butter and liquid black soap. Their products are handmade from raw, unrefined shea butter and authentic black soap sourced from a women’s cooperative in Northern Ghana. Kaeme is seeking to deepen its use of sustainable and climate-smart agricultural practices in its manufacturing processes and supply chain.
Kawa Moka Coffee Company
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Kawa Moka Coffee Company
Kawa Moka is 100% women owned Ghanaian Coffee Company that specializes in the production of artisan small batch roasted coffee. Their green beans are grown organically by over twenty women small farm owners in Leklebi in the Afadjato South District of the Volta Region of Ghana. Kawa Moka is seeking to deepen its use of sustainable and climate-smart agricultural practices in its manufacturing processes.
Midunu
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Midunu
Midunu is a sustainable food and catering business dedicated to creating unique culinary experiences where culture, community, and cuisine intersect with environmental sustainability and climate change awareness. Through innovative practices and a strong commitment to eco-friendly operations, Midunu fosters conversations and connections around important issues. By blending rich cultural traditions with sustainable methods, Midunu not only delivers exceptional dining experiences but also advocates for a greener, more responsible future.
Malindis
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Malindis
Malindi’s is a premium catering and events management company known for offering a diverse array of meals to its clients. Dedicated to sustainability, Malindi’s is keen to adopt more eco-friendly practices, particularly in food waste management. By integrating green initiatives into its operations, the company aims to minimize its environmental footprint while delivering exceptional service. Malindi’s commitment to sustainability aligns with its mission to provide high-quality catering solutions that are both delicious and responsible. Through continuous improvement and innovation, Malindi’s strives to set a new standard in the catering and events industry.
Ogla Shea Butter Company
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Ogla Shea Butter Company
Ogla Shea Butter Company is an SME that was established and fully registered 4 years ago. The shea processing company operates in a variety of business fields including farming. All production is done in the Northern part of Ghana, with its offices in both the Northern and Greater Accra regions. It produces various shea products, ranging from raw shea butter to shea butter based cosmetic products.
Shaq Express
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Shaq Express
ShaQ Express is a tech company that provides delivery services. In 2022, they embarked on a mission to reduce their carbon footprint. This was done by phasing out traditional fuel-powered bikes in favor of Electric Bikes. They also desired to break gender barriers within the male dominated industry by hiring female dispatch riders. They currently have 29 Eletric Bikes and 5 female riders, though they are recruiting for more.
Eco-Me Limited
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Eco-Me Limited
Eco-Me, established in 2019, is an enterprise which produces high-quality, ecofriendly and affordable reusable sanitary pads which are hygienic, comfortable to wear and easy to wash and dry. The pads were designed to promote good health, save cost and sustain the ecosystem. Eco-Me’s fabric based reusable sanitary pads contribute to the reduction of GHG emissions by reducing the need for single use- plastic infused sanitary pads and the production of landfill dumps of sanitary pads.
DercolBags Packaging Ltd. Company
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DercolBags Packaging Ltd. Company
Dercol Bags Packaging LTD, established in 2021, manufactures paper packages to serve as alternatives to plastic packaging. Dercol is also piloting the smart package exchange (SPex) program which aims to cut out single use plastic food containers. Their vision is to become a leading brand in sustainable smart packaging across Africa by 2030, adding value to products made in Africa for domestic and international markets.
AFB Golden Enterprise
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AFB Golden Enterprise
Since 2020, AFB Golden Enterprise has been manufacturing cosmetic products such as body cream, lotion, hair cream and bathing soap. The enterprise has been using local and plant-based materials in their product formula instead of toxic chemicals other cosmetic brands use which can pollute water bodies with plastic waste. By adopting this path, AFB Golden continues to build a healthy and eco-friendly cosmetic brand.
YomYom
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YomYom
YomYom, established in 2017, provides courier services for individuals and businesses within Tamale and surrounding communities. Motorcycles account for 21g of CO2 emissions per kilometer. YomYom aims to reach zero emissions by completely migrating to solar charged electric bikes. They currently have 8 electric bikes and 30 employees.
Shepherd Rice Mills
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Shepherd Rice Mills
Shepherd Rice Mills provides rice milling and polishing services to smallholder rice farmers and sells its rice bran as animal feed. Rice mills are known to consume a lot of energy and generate a lot of waste which when mismanaged can decompose to release methane gas. Shepherd Mills aim to improve waste management and employ sustainable energy sources that will help minimize their environmental impact. They also train smallholder rice farmers in improved parboiling techniques and have an installed milling capacity of 1.5 tons per day.
Suglo Suhudoo Enterprise
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Suglo Suhudoo Enterprise
Suglo Enterprise, established in 2015, produces shea butter, groundnut and cereals in Tamale. They train women who make shea butter their eco-friendly technique of the process. The traditional method of shea butter processing uses a lot of fuelwoods, which contributes to deforestation and generates emissions. Suglo aims at improving its processes and training to reduce environmental degradation and pollution impacts.
Kwamoka Farms & Processing Ltd
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Kwamoka Farms & Processing Ltd
Kwamoka Farms and Processing Limited was born in 2004 with the vision of reshaping the agricultural landscape through sustainable and innovative practices. Kwamoka produces bamboo seedlings for plantation projects and mine site rehabilitation. They also produce bamboo culms for construction and manufacturing industries and as a more sustainable means for production and construction. Kwamoka is also provides high quality cassava for the production of starch in the country.
Ghana Bamboo Bikes Initiative
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Ghana Bamboo Bikes Initiative
Ghana Bamboo Bikes Initiative located in Kumasi in the Ashanti region believes sustainable cycling is a way of living and not just a catch phrase. The business creates client-driven, technologically sensitive bamboo bicycles that are tailored to ever-changing transport needs and are responsive to the environment. They design and build a range of bamboo bicycles/frames with a touch of craftsmanship and sensitivity to service durability. As part of its commitment to reducing the emission profile of the transport sector, the business rents bamboo bicycles in urban and resort centers. The business also distributes bamboo bicycles for free to far-flung corners of Ghana, to support school children with limited mobility.
Farmable World Company Limited
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Farmable World Company Limited
Farmable is a social enterprise, crowd-farming cows on farms in Ghana. Farmable’s vision is to create a self-sustaining enterprise that empowers small holder farmers in Ghana to fight hunger without reliance on external aid or charity. Farmable supports farmers in emerging markets through crowd-farming to equip them with the tools and resources necessary to fight hunger and build a sustainable food supply system.
Moringa Connect Company Limited
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Moringa Connect Company Limited
MoringaConnect is changing the story for the 120 million small farming families in Africa using moringa, a crop known locally as the “miracle tree” for its nutritional, medicinal and economic value. The company uses its vertically integrated supply chain to turn nutritious moringa leaves into moringa-powered superfood beverages and snacks under their Minga Foods brand, and moringa oilseeds into clean beauty products under their award winning True Moringa brand. MoringaConnect increases the incomes of smallholder farmers, providing technical training, planting inputs, and guaranteed market they need to kickstart moringa tree farms.
El Balicon Limited
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El Balicon Limited
ELB Limited is an agribusiness dedicated to harnessing natural and agricultural resources in northern Ghana, transforming them into viable businesses. Located in Wa, in the Upper West Region, El Balicon Limited operates a mechanized vegetable farm with advanced irrigation systems. This setup ensures year-round production and addresses the persistent shortage of fresh vegetables in the Ghanaian market. ELB Limited is committed to enhancing agricultural productivity and sustainability in the region.
Green-Ef Eco Business Village Ltd
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Green-Ef Eco Business Village Ltd
Green-Ef Eco-Business Village Ltd (Green-Ef) is a new generation of environmentally friendly, community oriented and knowledge driven cluster of twelve business subsidiaries. Green-Ef offers unique products and services in eco-friendly agriculture and sanitation such as soil testing, rhizobium inoculants for legumes, biochar, soil and organic home gardening. Green-Ef also provides technical support in the design, construction and management of organic home gardens for households, hotels and restaurants to grow their own organic, safe and affordable vegetables that are free from contamination.
Unique Quality Product Enterprise
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Unique Quality Product Enterprise
Unique Quality Product Enterprise (UQPE) is a registered enterprise that specializes in the processing and marketing of Fonio. The company works with farmers, particularly women in the production and processing of Fonio. UQPE was formed with an idea of creating sustainable livelihoods for women farmers whose lands are degraded due to its excessive usage and creating a land management system where the lands can be regenerated and used to grow other crops. Through the initial involvement of ten (10) landless women the enterprise was born to promote the marketable indigenous climate resilient crop called Fonio.
So-B-Green
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So-B-Green
So-B- Green which stands for Social Business & Green, offers a comprehensive ecosystem of products and services that are environmentally, economically and socially sustainable. So-B Green supports smallholder farmers through their “Farmer Resilience Package” which offers traceable organic products grown in Ghana to professionals and to end-consumers. The business also invests in research and development to consistently provide its stakeholders with innovative solutions.
Hope Givers
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Hope Givers
Hope Givers is an agro-processing business which processes shea butter and promotes the sale of neem oil, baobab, castor oil and natural cosmetics. Hope Givers also converts tons of waste generated from shea, baobab seed and neem seed to organic compost for organic farming as an alternative to the chemical fertilizer. As a climate smart company, Hope Givers uses the energy saving stove and safeguards shea trees’ extinction via their outreach programs at the community level.
Tiyumtaba Farms and Investment Ltd
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Tiyumtaba Farms and Investment Ltd
Tiyumtaba Farms and Investment Limited serves as a platform to promote the availability, distribution and utilization of climate smart and resilient crops to the Ghanaian farmer. Tiyumtaba’s core objectives are to produce climate-resilient seeds that are drought-tolerant and resistant to shattering and lodging, promote their adoption among farmers in Ghana’s Savanna region, and collaborate with stakeholders to transfer sustainable agricultural practices to these farmers. Tiyumtaba also produces and supplies seed to various actors along the agriculture value chain such as the government, NGO’s, processers, and commercial farmers.
Mayiya Investments Company Ltd
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Mayiya Investments Company Ltd
Mayiya Investment LTD is an agribusiness value chain facilitation company that provides agribusiness, market linkage and off-takers services to farmers, consumers, promoting all actors along the value chains. It was incorporated under the Companies Act of Ghana, 1963 (Act 179) after several years of operations. As a business model, Mayiya integrates social enterprise, community development and environmental protection practices into their work. Mayiya is positioned to enhance the production supply capacities of small holder farmers by connecting and linking them to local and global markets guaranteeing customers good quality and safe products.
Timtooni Agro Supplies
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Timtooni Agro Supplies
Timtooni Agro Supplies is an agriculture and renewable energy business enterprise, which was founded by Osman Abdulai, a trained Agronomist and a Business Professional. Their areas of expertise include the production and sale of natural neem oil pesticide, sale of agricultural inputs including agro chemicals, fertilizer, improved seed and insecticides, and farmer training and education.
Vinmark Farms
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Vinmark Farms
Vinmark Farms is a seed hub located at Salaga, East Gonja Municipal in the Northen Region. Vinmark produces high yielding climate resilient hybrid seeds, seedlings and yam sets. The business also provides extension services to small holder farmers, farm mechanization, farm inputs, storage facilities and market linkages. They also work with farmer cooperatives to support farming support.
Tilaa Ltd
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Tilaa Ltd
Tilaa is limited liability company registered and incorporated under the laws of Ghana in 2015. Tilaa keeps bees for organic honey production and other products from bees for both local and international market. The administrative office of the company is in Tamale, whiles its operational area is at Tintang, a village under Mion district. Through its work, Tilaa has recruited out growers from its operational areas to train them on best beekeeping practices, signed an off-taker agreement with them and distributes beehives to them to be reimbursed.
Alliance for Seed Multiplication (ASM-Ghana)
The Alliance for Seed Multiplication (ASM-Ghana) is a seed producing company in the Northern Region of Ghana. The company’s main activities include multiplication processing and distribution of foundation and certified seeds of assorted varieties of crops such as maize, soybeans, cow pea, rice groundnut and sorghum for the local market and export. ASM supports smallholder farmer development to increase productivity and raise income levels.
Royal Citrus Growers
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Royal Citrus Growers
Royal Citrus Growers was started by growing and selling citrus seedlings to the public. Part of the money realized was reinvested and the rest was used to sponsor the producer’s education. At some point, sales of the seedlings went down since not many farmers in the area were into orange plantation. This encouraged the owner to get farmland to begin a citrus plantation. Royal Citrus Growers is now moving further to processing citrus to help cut down post-harvest losses and help farmers in the catchment area buy their fruits for processing. This will help them to have a ready market for their produce.
Oko Forests Services
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Oko Forests Services
OKO is an environmentally and socially conscious for-profit company that develops value added regenerative agroforestry systems. A key focus is on protecting forest reserves through the establishment of commercial agroforestry buffer zones that create wealth for the communities who live adjacent to the protected sites. Starting with a 40-hectare nucleus farm bordering the Kogyae Strict Nature Reserve (KSNR) Oko Farms processes cassava on site into cassava dough and gari for national and international markets. Oko Farms was founded in 2015 by Kofi Debrah, a graduate from the University of Southampton with a BSc in Social Anthropology.
Hikma Agro Services Ltd
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Hikma Agro Services Ltd
Hikma Agro Services is an agribusiness innovator based in Tamale, Northern Ghana established in 2018, with a commitment building a pathway to profitable smallholder farming through the provision of quality seeds to maximize the productivity and profitability of farmers. Hikma produces quality seed yams and pathogen-free sweet potato vines. Hikma has successfully set up a field production site with modern solar-powered irrigation for all year-round production, a rapid vine multiplication system using hydroponics and a green house. Hikma’s goal is to provide access to energy, water, sanitation and sustainable livelihood initiatives in rural areas.
Beau Monde Agriquatic Solutions
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Beau Monde Agriquatic Solutions
Beau Monde Agriquatic Solutions (BMAGSOL) is an integrated agribusiness that cultivates native African catfish and tilapia alongside vegetables to supply the ever-growing demand-deficit in northern Ghana. Their production systems embrace efficient utilization of energy and water reuse. Elevated pond wastewater from fish farming is recycled as fertilizer for multi-commodity crop cultivation. BMAGSOL aspires to become an agro-ecological resource pathway and a demonstration farm company.
Y&M Regeneration Ltd
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Y&M Regeneration Ltd
Y&M Regeneration Limited is a sustainable forestry and agro company that deals in forest and agricultural products in an environmentally friendly approach. The company produces poles and activates carbon from agro products. The company also grows seedlings (timber and cash crops) for plantation products. The company also harvests and supplies cash crops in raw and processed forms.
Agro Sourcing Limited
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Agro Sourcing Limited
Since its creation in 2004, Agro Sourcing has been a family company specializing in importing organic and fair-trade dried fruit and nuts. They search globally for high-quality fruit and meaningful projects, with a focus on producers and their social, ecological, and economic environments. Agro Sourcing builds and develops local programs, establishing supply chains from production to client distribution, making them specialists in organic dried fruit and nuts. In 2021, their commitment to social and environmental principles earned them the prestigious BioED label, reflecting their dedication to sustainable and ethical practices.
Sesi Technologies
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Sesi Technologies
Sesi Technologies provides technology solutions to help African farmers and agribusinesses maximize productivity, reduce losses and increase their income. They provide a suite of post-harvest technologies, mechanization services and market access to create a comprehensive end-to-end solution to post-harvest losses and low farmer income. They also provide effective, locally designed technologies and solutions that help agribusinesses measure moisture content, reduce post-harvest losses during storage and increase productivity.
AY Farms
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AY Farms
AY Farms aims to provide high-quality poultry products through sustainable and efficient farming practices. Their core activity is the rearing of poultry birds, including both layers and broilers. Starting with an initial stock of 200 birds in 2014, AY Farms has grown modestly over the last five years to a current stock of 2000 birds, demonstrating our commitment to sustainable growth and quality poultry farming. They are dedicated to expanding their operations and continually improving their processes to meet the growing demands of our customers and contribute to the agricultural sector.
Farm Cure Ghana Limited
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Farm Cure Ghana Limited
Farm Cure Ghana Limited is at the forefront of agricultural innovation, offering an integrated pest management system designed to help farmers optimize pesticide application and usage through the power of artificial intelligence (AI). Their advanced technology ensures efficient and effective pest control, promoting sustainable farming practices and enhancing crop yields.
Farminista Africa Ltd.
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Farminista Africa Ltd.
Farminista Africa is a female-led limited liability company founded by Debbie Ajei‐Godson to address key challenges within the agricultural value chain in Ghana. The business is reducing inequalities in the agricultural value chain by empowering female smallholder farmers in Ghana with arable land, capital for inputs and a ready market for their produce through a Farming-as-a-service model.
Gaia Greenfields Limited
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Gaia Greenfields Limited
Founded in 2018 and located in Pokukrom in the Eastern region, Gaia Greenfields is an all-encompassing agri-business company dedicated to growing produce—such as vegetables, fruits, and other staples—for the local market. Their commitment to sustainability drives us to employ the most eco-friendly farming practices, ensuring that our operations benefit both the community and the environment.
Green Gold Limited
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Green Gold Limited
Green Gold Social Enterprise Ltd is a for-profit, climate-smart, restorative agriculture company registered in Ghana. They work with smallholder/cooperative farmers to restore soil, sequester carbon by planting trees and promoting syntropic agriculture, indigenous food production and value addition. Green Gold offers training and support services to grow food commodities responsibly, efficiently, and sustainably even in the face of climate change.
Kete-Krachi Farms Ltd
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Kete-Krachi Farms Ltd
Kete-Krachi Farms Ltd is at the forefront of revolutionizing mechanized cashew farming in Ghana. They integrate modern technologies and utilize guaranteed high-yielding planting material to boost yields, improve quality, and promote sustainable farming practices that benefit both farmers and the environment. They are transforming the cashew farming landscape and setting new standards for productivity and sustainability in the agricultural sector.
Lakesyde Farms
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Lakesyde Farms
Established in 2010 originally as an export-oriented farm for fresh vegetables based in the Volta Region of Ghana, Lakesyde Farms has grown to evolve and become an agent for agricultural transformational change through innovation, research and development by offering both ready-to-use products and technical consulting services. The business provides innovative irrigation solutions, catering to farms, residences, and gardens, ensuring thriving landscapes and bountiful yields. They also undertake irrigation design, installation and sale for farms, homes and gardens.
Miji Enterprise
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Miji Enterprise
MIJI Enterprise is an agribusiness company based in the Northern Region of Ghana. The company recently diversified into the production and sale of fish cages and accessories, as well as tilapia fish production. They aspire to be a leader in the Fish cage industry by providing innovative products and services, relationship and profitability. This technology is an eco-friendly technology and poses no hazard to surrounding environment or flora-fauna. Cage aquaculture also plays a very significant role in increasing fish population in reservoirs, lakes, ponds and rivers. Mohammed Abdul-Ganiyu Shitu is the owner and manager of Miji Enterprise and he has over three years’ experience in cage fish farming system. He holds a BSc. Agriculture Technology and a Veterinary Assistants Certificate.
Nsoroma Farms Limited
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Nsoroma Farms Limited
Nsoroma Farms Limited is a dedicated agribusiness company specializing in the production, processing, and distribution of well-packaged, healthy catfish, snails, pigs, and poultry. Their comprehensive approach to farming and distribution ensures that they deliver high-quality, nutritious products to their customers, while maintaining sustainable and ethical farming practices.
Pure and Just Co. Ltd
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Pure and Just Co. Ltd
Pure and Just Co. Ltd (Catalysing Rural African Potential) is headquartered in Ghana’s dynamic capital, Accra and are primarily engaged in food production using climate-smart processes and in farmer support and development. The company employs 9 people, 7 of whom are female and all of whom are under 35. They currently work with 6 farmers in 3 regions of Ghana and are in the process of setting up an organic out-growers scheme with 25 farmers in Ghana’s central region. They also facilitate rural-urban business collaboration, by linking rural farm produce to local and foreign urban retail opportunities via their flagship company, Yvaya Farm Dried Fruit brand, which produces delicious, all-natural, locally produced dried fruit pouches. Our work stimulates economic growth by enhancing an under-developed local value-added agribusiness sector. A Stanford University (CA, USA) graduate, Yvette Tetteh (the CEO), brings analytical thinking and academic rigor to team leadership and business development through sales and investment securement. Within 5 years, she has raised over US$25k in various personal and business awards and grants. Born and raised internationally, Yvette moved to her native Ghana in 2015. Emmanuel Ampadu (the COO) is a multi-lingual entrepreneur. An Ashesi alumni, he started a foundation while at the university to teach good agricultural and organic practices to farmers in Berekuso – as well as starting a dried pineapple company. After graduating he brought his technical and social experience to his role with Pure and Just, managing operations and farmer liaisons.
Pure Organic Teamaker Limited
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Pure Organic Teamaker Limited
Pure Organic Teamaker Limited is dedicated to enhancing the well-being of consumers through our all-natural, 100% herbal, and carefully formulated multi-vitamin, multi-nutrition (MVMN) dietary supplements. They are committed to quality, purity, and the well-being of their customers. Their products are designed to provide comprehensive nutritional support, harnessing the power of nature to promote optimal health.
Selux Organics Limited
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Selux Organics Limited
Selux Organics is dedicated to producing natural and eco-friendly organic cosmetics, food products, essential oils, and more. Their mission is to promote healthier living by utilizing plants and organic farm waste, ensuring our offerings are both sustainable and beneficial for their customers and the environment. Selux Organics seeks to become a leading provider of organic and sustainable products, enhancing the well-being of our customers while preserving the planet for future generations.
Sugarland Limited
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Sugarland Limited
Sugarland Limited is an agro-based, horticulture company located in Ghana which started operations in 2008 and was incorporated in 2012. Their farm is an 80-acre lot situated on the Klebu Lake near Asutuare, in the greater Accra region of Ghana. From the outset, their mission has been to be the leading producer of high-quality fruits and vegetables with a value chain focused on environmental sustainability. To this end, they currently have 25-acre Mango, four-acre Guava and 14 greenhouses, under cultivation, all year round, producing seasonal vegetables in a smart and climate-controlled environment. Judith Esinam Agbenyega is the Co-founder and Marketing Director of Sugarland limited. She holds a BSC Admin (Banking and Finance) from the University of Ghana and a certificate in Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management from the Ghana Stock Exchange and worked briefly with a brokerage firm. She is passionate about supporting women in agriculture and is therefore currently working with 14 women as contract farmers.
Sysfarm Limited
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Sysfarm Limited
Padiki Ologo is a Tech Entrepreneur who has a passion for women and youth initiatives in Agriculture. She is a Cofounder of SysFarm. She has expertise in Nutrition and Food Science and has worked in multinational companies like Nestlé Ghana Limited as a domain expert. Frank Wilson is an industrialist expert with a passion to feed Africa and the world with certified produce. He is a Cofounder and Operations Lead at SysFarm Limited. He seeks to develop models and tools in Integrated Pest Management, Use of biopesticides to ensure safe and sustainable food production, food security and food safety in Sub-Saharan Africa. SysFarm Limited specializes in developing farmer-centric agriculture software mobile applications. We help farmers, Farmer Based Organizations (FBOs), aggregators and Agri-entrepreneurs realize the full potential of their farms. We support them from sowing to harvest by providing them with technology solutions and insights from farm analytics. The company’s agriculture software mobile applications help to manage the agriculture value chain all the way to the last mile, enabling smallholder farmers to participate in global markets. Real-time information allows management to increase operational efficiencies and reduce costs and contributes to “smart” agriculture and incentivizes smallholder farmer organizations to embrace technology and increase their production. SysFarm operates across several crops and currently building systems for farms in northern Ghana and has achieved the inclusion of fundamental best practices this cropping season. We work towards creating solutions meant for uplifting farmers and farming as a whole.
West African Feeds Limited
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West African Feeds Limited
West African Feeds is an agricultural firm that leverages zero waste techniques in converting food waste into insect-based animal feed and high-quality compost. They source post-production food waste from a carefully curated list of vetted food waste suppliers, process the waste using farm raised black soldier fly larvae then separate the compost and harvest the black soldiers fly larvae. West African Feeds is creating a sustainable and thriving African insect agriculture industry through insect-based bioconversion of post-production food waste.
Techshelta Limited
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Techshelta Limited
Techshelta Company Ltd is a service-oriented company that builds a suite of software and hardware to impact the agricultural and agribusiness industry by maximizing the efficiency of agricultural processes. They provide advisory, automation and maintenance services to farmers. Their web and mobile application provide market access linkage for vegetable consumers, wholesalers, retailers, and vegetable greenhouse farmers.
Fosuah Food Chain Limited
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Fosuah Food Chain Limited
Fosuah Food Chain Limited is an agribusiness and social enterprise dedicated to the production of quality planting materials to improve the livelihoods of farmers across Ghana and improve the state of food security. Its mission is to produce quality planting materials to supply smallholder farmers and commercial farmers in the Adaklu district and Ghana at large while improving the lives of the members of communities in the villages surrounding the farmstead and preventing food waste. The business does this using improved technology such as the Aeroponic System and Adaptive Minisett Technique.
Hendy Farms
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Hendy Farms
Hendy Farms is an emerging farm in Ghana, contributing substantially to the growth and development of the mango industry. The farm is upgrading the mango processing plant to offer market opportunities to at least 160 smallholder farmers within the Dodowa and Somanya mango enclave. This will minimize fruit waste and losses, increase export and diversify market opportunities for small-holder mango farmers.
Hon-Makem Ventures
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Hon-Makem Ventures
Hon-Makem Ventures is the sole proprietorship at Nkwanta in the Nkwanta South Municipality of the Oti Region. The business engages in the extraction of honey and beeswax which it markets in various cities. Hon-Makem Ventures engages in sustainable apiculture so that its beekeeping activities would positively impact the environment. It also provides advisory services on beekeeping to interested individuals or organizations and engages in the production and sale of lightweight cement hives.
Ropryn Company Limited
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Ropryn Company Limited
Using solar powered irrigation and water management systems, Ropryn Company Limited is a major supplier of fresh quality fruits, herbs and vegetables for the high-end market in Takoradi, Western Region. The company also works with farmers to address production-related challenges and create a consistent supply of quality fruits and vegetables to meet the current demand gap.
Sayetech Company Limited
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Sayetech Company Limited
Sayetech produces smart agriculture machinery for African smallholder farms. Sayetech tackles agricultural challenges such as harsh climate and soil conditions and small farm size, through a hardware-software ecosystem that combines robust, versatile and small agriculture tools and machinery with IoT and AI to provide customized solutions for each farm, thereby increasing productivity and quality of farm output. The company also designs, manufactures and provides maintenance and training, and empowers farmers with data to help increase their efficiency.
Green Gold Gardens Limited
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Green Gold Gardens Limited
Green Gold Gardens LTD Is a green design and horticultural and garden centre, retailing plants and providing sustainable horticultural advisory services for commercial and residential locations. The company uses biogas to recycle biofil digester to manage waste on site.
Agro Quorum Limited
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Agro Quorum Limited
Agro Quorum was incorporated in 2018. The company provides farm management services, inputs, planting materials, and trades various oil palm commodities among oil palm smallholder farmers and large corporate plantations. The company has three service centers located in the Eastern (Kade and Kusi) and Central regions (Jukwae). These are known as Palm Homes (Abefia) and provide comprehensive value chain systems for oil palm farmers. Currently, the company provides farm services for more than 2000 hectares of farmlands with a farmer base of more than 320 farmers, and 5 large co-op plantations.
Nat-K Company
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Nat-K Company
Isaac Ampofo is an agriculturist by training and an entrepreneur. He is the founder and Managing Director of NAT-K Royal Company Ltd. He has over fifteen years of senior management experience in both private and public sectors and extensive and practical knowledge in oil palm production, mango production, vegetable crops and agricultural marketing etc. He is a member of the Governing Board of Tree Crops Development Authority. holds a B.Sc. in Agriculture, and is ILO SCORE trained. NAT-K is involved in agribusiness value creation. The company provides farm management and marketing services to improve the profitability of smallholder oil palm farmers. Through the establishment of Rural Service Centres (RSCs), the company offers transactional services required by smallholder farmers, mills and traders in the oil palm value chain. Established in 2014, NAT-K supplies about 6000 MT of Fresh Fruit Bunches (FFB) and 1000 MT of palm kernel nuts annually to major oil palm processing mills and intends to expand its revenue streams through the provision of Farm Management Services to Smallholder Farmers and provision of Fresh Fruit Bunches and Crude Palm Oil (CPO) aggregation to oil palm mills. Website: https://natkcompany.com
HJA Africa
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HJA Africa
HJA Africa manufactures and sells Organic Farming Aid (OFA) through 140 partner agro-input shops across Ghana. OFA is incredibly cost-effective, easier to use, gives pest and fungal control benefits, and is up to 90% cheaper than synthetic options. Each liter of OFA used can save the farmer 500 cedis or more compared to synthetic fertilizers. OFA offers massive environmental advantages over synthetic agro-inputs. It is non-toxic and biodegradable, so it is much safer for farmers, consumers and the environment.
Garden360 Ltd
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Garden360 Ltd
Garden 360 Ltd is a horticulture and landscaping business with its core activities being landscaping (design, construction and maintenance), hardscaping (paving, laying of curbs, stone works) and the supply of indoor and outdoor plants. The services of Garden 360 improve air quality and reduces CO2 through the carbon sink capabilities of horticultural plants. Garden 360 also incorporates an e-commerce platform, where customers are able to order for plants and garden tools. Beyond the general entrepreneurial development support, Garden 360 wishes to be supported by GCIC to deepen its sustainable landscaping business through the adoption of solar irrigation, packhouse construction and the development of an organic compost media for growing its plants as well as for sale to its clients. The use of environmentally friendly energy alternative and the soil conservation method being adopted will also contribute to the reduction of carbon emissions in its operations.
Farmio Ltd
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Farmio Ltd
Farmio is an agribusiness focused on providing tech-enabled agribusiness solutions for people interested in building sustainable and profitable agriculture businesses. They provide a unique blend of technology and agriculture to provide the best of farming. Farmio leverages precision farming techniques, automation and circular economy principles to provide the “Farms of the Future” through the construction of vegetable greenhouses and snail shade houses to cultivate vegetables and snails at commercial levels with guaranteed yields all-year-round.
AI Scarecrow Tech. Ltd
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AI Scarecrow Tech. Ltd
aiScarecrow Technologies is a crop protection company that leverages on the power of technology to preserve cereal crops from consumption by pest birds. Their mission is to provide high quality eco-friendly pest control services at competitive prices using innovative technology and giving exceptional value to their customers and become a leading crop protection company in Sub Saharan Africa.
AB Farms
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AB Farms
AB Farms specializes in the production and export of Asian fruits and vegetables and is a member of the Ghana Association of Vegetable Exporters (GAVEX). The enterprise is now focused on improving its carbon footprint through the adoption of good agricultural practices (GAPs) and pest management and wishes to be supported by GCIC to replace its fossil powered irrigation and packhouse systems with solar energy systems.
H. A. Farms
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H. A. Farms
H.A Farms is a poultry business located in Mankessim in the central region of Ghana that cultivates poultry, rabbits, snails, vegetables, mushrooms, and catfishes and provides employment opportunities in the community and help improve the nutritional needs of consumers. They practice eco-friendly techniques such using natural organic ingredients and climate smart technologies to ensure that both humans and the environment. They aim to provide healthy and affordable meat and eggs to their customers.
Matpat Ventures
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Matpat Ventures
MatPat Poultry Farm is a licensed poultry farm and egg production company located in the outskirts of West Anaji-Takoradi in the Western Region of Ghana. They specialize in raising, processing, exporting and marketing chickens, chicken products and eggs. Their mission is to become one of the leading commercial poultry farms and egg production brands in Ghana, and soon the world.
Ebenmms Fungi
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Ebenmms Fungi
Ebenmms Fungi specializes in transforming agricultural waste into mushrooms for sale in supermarkets. In response to the concerning prevalence of bush burning and its subsequent impact on deforestation, the enterprise is dedicated to training farmers. Instead of burning agricultural waste, they are encouraged to give up valuable raw material for mushroom cultivation. This not only mitigates harmful pollution and emissions but also presents an eco-friendly protein source and helps in reducing methane generation associated with livestock rearing. Globally, around 32 percent of global human-induced methane emissions come from livestock.
SGA Farms
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SGA Farms
Sheila Akosua Gyesi (SGA) Farms is a Ghanaian family-owned business that has been primarily producing fresh organic coconuts, papayas & sweet potatoes since 2018. They set themselves from other producers by their 4 Point Pledge. The pledge is centered around product selection, quality, sustainability, and taste. Their pledge ensures that their customers are getting the best possible fruit every time. They are based out of an arable 350+ acre fully owned property at Teacher Mante which can be found in the Eastern Region of Ghana. Their papayas have a unique taste thanks to Teacher Mante’s weather and climate which is ideal for cultivation of various fruits.
Blessed Blooms Ltd
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Blessed Blooms Ltd
Blessed Blooms, established in 2017, a floral business which offers flowers such as Amazon Lilies, Solidago, Roses, etc. Their 7-acre farm is located at Akwatia Kwaso, in the Eastern Region. They are committed to using environmentally friendly practices to reduce their carbon footprint by cultivating their own flowers instead of imports, utilizing drip and fertigation systems and using their integrated solar energy systems in place of fossil fuels and traditional electricity sources.
Dakui Farms & Trading Limited
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Dakui Farms & Trading Limited
Dakui Farms is a leading provider of high-quality, affordable farm inputs, committed to sustainable and green agriculture. Specializing in vegetables, maize, and soya seeds, the business also offers a range of chemicals, fertilizers, push planters, tractor plough blades, and complete ploughs. Conveniently located opposite Habunga House in Tumu Rural Housing and near Tumu Nyaminjan’s Customary Land Secretariat, Dakui Farms ensures accessibility for local farmers. By promoting eco-friendly farming practices and providing essential tools and inputs, Dakui Farms supports the agricultural community in cultivating a sustainable future.
Bluefield Farms And Logistics
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Bluefield Farms And Logistics
Bluefields Farms and Logistics was established in 2013 and is into poultry farming with a 1000 bird capacity, a staff strength of 5 employees and is located in Takoradi. The enterprise is also expanding to include feed production in the businesses chain to enable them cut down on cost, improve supply reliability, and serve several other farmers within the Takoradi enclave. The transition objective of Blue Fields is to develop a climate smart poultry farm with emphasis on improving resource conservation and the reduction of GHG emissions.
Trisolace Company Limited
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Trisolace Company Limited
Trisolace Company, located in Dansoman, assists clients utilize spaces in urban and rural areas for commercial organic snail production in automated greenhouses. Their mission is to provide food security, employment and a sustainable investment using recyclable materials whiles creating a positive impact. Trisolace uses environmentally friendly methods such as recycling metals and car tires for farming to reduce production cost and provide food security and jobs. Their easy to install farm setups save clients time and money.
Emfed Farms and Trading Company LTD
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Emfed Farms and Trading Company LTD
Emfed Farms, established in 2017, provides farm management services to smallholder cocoa farmers and manufactures organic compost. They also aggregate cocoa beans. Instead of using chemical fertilizers, which releases Nitrous oxide and methane into the atmosphere, they create their own compost to improve produce growth. Composting is a climate-friendly practice that helps reduce GHG emissions from chemical fertilizers and diverts food waste from landfills to improve soil health.
Cornelius Farms
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Cornelius Farms
Cornelius Farms, established in 2001, cultivates rice, mango and vegetables. They own a 31-acre mango farm with 1,500 trees, 1-acre vegetable farm and 5-acre rice farm. Rice cultivation is a major source of methane emissions, and Cornelius farms can reduce these emissions by adopting climate smart rice farming methods.
Njema Edge Farms
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Njema Edge Farms
Njema Edge Farms was established in 2019 and uses greenhouse technology in the cultivation of high value vegetables. The company has three 5,000m2 and 1,700m2 greenhouses with crop population of about 3,000 plants each. Greenhouse farming can help to mitigate the environmental impact of food production by reducing deforestation, conserving water and nutrients, lessening the impact of supply chain shocks, and growing more food with less land.
Hildamen Ventures
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Hildamen Ventures
Established in 2017, Hildamen Ventures nurtures tree crop seedlings for commercial and smallholder farmers as well as government institutions. This promotes afforestation, which could help rejuvenate Ghana’s forest cover to act as carbon sinks. Their commitment to sustainability extends to providing training and support to farmers, ensuring optimal growth and productivity. By partnering with local communities and stakeholders, Hildamen Ventures plays a crucial role in enhancing ecological balance and contributing to the country’s environmental and economic development.
QET Organic Farms and Consult
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QET Organic Farms and Consult
QET, established in 2020, cultivates snails and mushrooms and produces mushroom products such as dried mushrooms and composts from the by-products of cultivation. Snails are a more sustainable source of protein compared to traditional meats like beef which releases GHG. Mushrooms are a climate-resilient crop as they have low ecological footprints and don’t require much time, space or resources to grow. The company currently has 7 employees.
Kukobila Nasia Farms Limited
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Kukobila Nasia Farms Limited
Kukobila Nasia Farms Limited is an integrated commercial farm established in 2005. Their farm is on a 40-acre land where they raise livestock and cultivate crops like rice, mango, maize and butternut squash using mechanized farming and irrigation. This enterprise has adopted climate-smart agriculture practices to help increase crop yields, build resilience to climate change, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. They currently have 9 employees.
DeCo Sustainable Farming
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DeCo Sustainable Farming
Deco Sustainable Farming, established in 2010, produces organic fertilizer and biochar. Composting is a climate-friendly practice that helps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through replacing chemical fertilizers and diverting food waste from landfills to improve soil health. The use of chemical fertilizer is known to significantly release Nitrous oxide and methane into the atmosphere.
Legendary Foods
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Legendary Foods
Legendary Foods is a food tech business in Ghana on a mission to deliver the nutrition of meat at the price point and sustainability of plant through palm larvae insect agriculture. Protein is an important micronutrient but traditional meats like beef and pork release GHG emissions. Compared to meat, Palm larvae are a nutritional powerhouse. They have protein, good fats, zinc, vitamin B, iron, magnesium and calcium and are more sustainable to farm. They have developed a unique sustainable farming system that delivers delicious and healthy palm larvae all year long. This ensures that they can avoid all deforestation practices traditionally used in palm larvae harvesting.
Mpampa Cereals
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Mpampa Cereals
Mpampa Cereals was established in 2022. The organization produces cereals and flour products such as tom brown, Hausa porridge, and buff loaf flour using environmentally friendly measures. It currently has 7 employees and has an installed production capacity of 300 kg per day. Production of products like flour and cereals generates a lot of waste, if not handled properly, and can lead to environmental pollution. Mpampa Cereals aims to improve its processes to be more sustainable.
Trimark Aquaculture Centre (TAC)
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Trimark Aquaculture Centre (TAC)
In most urban cities, domestic wastewater, especially black and greywater, is discharged into the environment untreated. This results in contaminated surface waters and underground water sources. They seek to solve this problem by recovering nutrients from the wastewater for fish culture and revenue. The short-term plan of TAC is to embark on full-scale commercial production (6,000kg/year) of the fish after which the business model could be replicated in other potential sites in Ghana and other African countries to sustainably address sanitation.