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About AgriBridge

Empowering African agriculture to feed the world

We started AgriBridge Africa to close the gap between farms doing exceptional work and buyers who never get to hear about them.

Our story

It began with a cocoa cooperative in Ashanti

In 2018, our co-founder Amara visited a cocoa cooperative outside Kumasi and watched a broker offer growers a third of the price the same beans fetched at a Rotterdam auction two weeks later. The farmers had no way to verify the gap, no direct line to a buyer, and no leverage to negotiate.

AgriBridge Africa was built to remove that information asymmetry. We put farm-gate verification, transparent pricing and export logistics on one platform so a grower in Kumasi and an importer in Marseille can trade as directly as the paperwork allows.

Six years on, we work with cooperatives and independent farms across 23 countries, covering coffee, cocoa, tea, spices, tree nuts and cold-pressed oils — always starting from the same question: does this deal make the grower better off?

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What we believe

Our values

Trust before scale

Every grower is verified in person before they ever appear in the marketplace. We'd rather grow slowly with integrity than fast with doubt.

Fair value, both ways

Farmers set transparent FOB pricing and buyers see the same numbers. No hidden middlemen margins on either side of the trade.

Land-first sustainability

We favour agroforestry, shade-grown and regenerative producers, and publish traceability data down to the cooperative plot.

Local knowledge, global reach

Our regional teams live in the communities they serve, pairing agronomy expertise with export-grade logistics know-how.

Where produce travels

Our trade routes

Verified harvests move from six origin regions to major European and US ports of entry, consolidated into full containers wherever possible.

RotterdamHamburgMarseilleNew YorkEthiopiaGhanaNigeriaUgandaKenyaMorocco
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The people behind AgriBridge

Our team

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Amara Okonjo

Co-Founder & CEO

Lagos, Nigeria

Former commodities trader who spent a decade watching smallholders lose margin to opaque brokers, and decided to fix it.

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Kwame Asante

Head of Farmer Verification

Kumasi, Ghana

Agronomist who has personally inspected over 900 farms and built our GPS-tagged verification protocol from scratch.

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Selam Bekele

Director of Logistics

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Fourteen years in freight forwarding across the Horn of Africa; now designs AgriBridge's container consolidation routes.

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Grace Nakato

Head of Buyer Success

Kampala, Uganda

Runs onboarding for every importer, translating buyer sourcing briefs into shortlists of verified growers within 48 hours.

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Tariq El-Mansouri

Regional Lead, North Africa

Marrakech, Morocco

Built AgriBridge's argan and citrus cooperative network and manages compliance for EU organic certification.

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Njeri Wanjiru

Head of Product

Nairobi, Kenya

Product lead obsessed with making the marketplace usable on a basic smartphone with patchy rural connectivity.

Ready to see it in action?

Browse verified farmers and harvests, or read exactly how sourcing and export work end to end.