Commercial Agribusiness Solutions · East Africa

Innovative finance and expertise for
sustainable agriculture

ECA Agribusiness helps producers, cooperatives, and agribusinesses grow through innovative finance, carbon services, and technical expertise — creating measurable business, social, and environmental value across East Africa.

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€960,000 Disbursed through our prefinancing product
2.245M Tree seedlings distributed
50,684 Small-scale farmers reached

Smallholder farmer harvesting coffee cherries on her farm in East Africa

About ECA Agribusiness

Advancing sustainable production & market systems

ECA Agribusiness Solutions is a social enterprise providing innovative solutions to smallholder farmers, cooperatives, and Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises across East Africa. We empower rural communities to adopt and scale up good practices, driving profitability in value chains.

By leveraging Solidaridad East and Central Africa's supply chain expertise, our advisory services catalyse long-term sustainability and resilience, enhancing producers' adaptive capacities to climate and economic shocks. Through transformative financing models, we help smallholders improve efficiency, reduce costs, and access competitive markets.

Why We Exist

Sustaining impact beyond the project cycle

Too often, promising agricultural enterprises lose momentum when project funding comes to an end. ECA Agribusiness was established to bridge that gap — providing commercially driven finance, business advisory, and market solutions that enable farmers, cooperatives, and agribusinesses to continue growing long after development programmes have closed.

Business Solutions for Sustainable Agriculture

We are an agribusiness enterprise that transforms opportunities into sustainable commercial success. By combining finance, technical assistance, and market intelligence, we help agricultural businesses become more productive, competitive, and resilient.

Creating Value That Lasts

Our success is measured by the long-term growth of the businesses we support. We deliver practical solutions that improve profitability, strengthen supply chains, and create economic opportunities for farming communities across East Africa.

An Enterprise Built for Impact

We partner with producers, agribusinesses, investors, financial institutions, and development organisations to solve complex agricultural challenges through commercially sound, scalable solutions that deliver both economic and social returns.

Our Vision

To create a resilient and prosperous Sub-Saharan Africa where sustainable agriculture transforms markets, empowers communities, and drives lasting positive change.

Our Mission

We offer comprehensive advisory and financial services that strengthen sustainable agricultural practices, resilient value chains, and inclusive market systems that economically empower agribusiness and enhance their livelihoods.

Our Core Values

The principles that guide everything we do

Solidarity

We hold ourselves in deep solidarity with disadvantaged groups and individuals and are mindful of the effects of our behavior on others.

Impact Driven

We are fully committed to our mission and focused on achieving tangible improvements for small-scale farmers.

Solution Oriented

We are fully committed to our mission and focused on achieving tangible improvements for small-scale farmers.

Integrity

We adhere to the highest ethical principles and professional standards. We prioritize trust, transparency, and accountability.

Our Solutions

Commercial solutions for sustainable agriculture

We help agribusinesses, producer organisations, and farmers grow through innovative finance, carbon services, and technical expertise, which creates measurable business and environmental value.

Climate Advisory & Scope 3 GHG

We support companies and value chain partners in measuring, verifying, and reporting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions while developing credible carbon programmes that meet international standards and sustainability commitments. We provide actionable insights into emission sources and highlight climate mitigation opportunities, such as soil carbon sequestration through mulching and agroforestry.

Climate & Agricultural Finance

We provide innovative pre-financing solutions that enable smallholder farmers to invest in quality inputs, improve productivity, and strengthen climate resilience through affordable, market-based financing models. We also transition farmers and cooperatives to sustainable energy by providing solar-powered solutions, including irrigation systems, dryers, lamps, chaff cutters, drying canvas, and renewable energy solutions. To protect our Agri-MSMEs from production shocks, we bundle this service with tailored agricultural insurance and technical assistance.

Business Advisory

We provide practical advisory services, including enterprise development, financial literacy, business development services and accelerator programs that support sustainable production, strengthen value chains, and improve the performance of agricultural enterprises.

Hand harvesting ripe coffee cherries on a smallholder farm

Featured Solution

Carbon Finance for Climate-Smart Coffee Production

Our Carbon Finance solution combines sustainable agriculture with innovative financing to help smallholder coffee farmers invest in climate-smart practices. By integrating agroforestry with accessible finance, the model improves farm productivity, strengthens resilience to climate change, and creates opportunities to participate in emerging carbon markets.

Key Features

Climate-smart financing for smallholder farmers
Agroforestry and sustainable land management
Improved farm productivity and resilience
Access to carbon market opportunities

Our tailored solutions are designed to power agribusinesses forward.

Our Impact in Figures

Delivering measurable impact

From innovative finance to climate-smart agriculture, our solutions help farmers increase productivity, strengthen resilience, and build sustainable livelihoods across East Africa.

€960,000 Disbursed through our prefinancing product (USD 1,100,000+)

2,245,000 Tree seedlings distributed

50,684 Small-scale farmers reached, enabling them to adopt/scale agroforestry systems

€551,000 Carbon income paid to farmers (USD 646,000+)

3 Year Grace period loan restructuring

Our Team

Led by experienced professionals

Our multidisciplinary team brings together decades of experience in agribusiness, agricultural finance, market systems, and sustainable value chain development. We combine technical expertise with practical, on-the-ground knowledge to deliver solutions that create lasting value for our clients and partners across East Africa.

Leadership & Strategy

Experienced leaders driving business growth, strategic partnerships, and innovation to transform agricultural markets.

Advisory & Enterprise Development

Specialists providing business advisory, market intelligence, project delivery, and capacity strengthening to improve competitiveness and performance.

Technical & Field Services

Agronomists, value chain specialists, and extension professionals supporting producers and agribusinesses to increase productivity, adopt sustainable practices, and access new market opportunities.

Our Partners

Building impact through partnership

Strong partnerships are at the heart of our work. We collaborate with organisations across the public, private, and development sectors to unlock investment, strengthen markets, and build resilient agricultural systems.

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