Agriculture remains one of the largest employers and most politically sensitive sectors in most African economies. Land tenure, input subsidies and export policy are rarely settled questions, and they move with the political cycle rather than the growing season.
Agriculture and Agribusiness
For investors and operators, this means the commercial case for a project can be sound while the political case is not. Land disputes, subsidy changes and export bans have derailed agribusiness investments that looked secure on paper.
How we assess land and policy risk
We assess who controls land allocation, how subsidy policy is administered in practice, and which value chain actors hold informal power, drawing on the same fieldwork and sector specialists we apply across other markets. This sits alongside our core services, stakeholder mapping, political economy analysis and market entry advisory, applied specifically to land, input and export dynamics.
What clients gain
A read on land and policy risk that goes beyond the agronomics, giving investors and operators a realistic view of what it will take to secure and hold a position in the market.
Where we're typically brought in
Investors assessing land and licensing risk before committing capital. Corporates managing supply chain relationships with smallholders and cooperatives. Development institutions designing programmes that need to work with existing land and market structures, not against them.