Warc Africa
PRACTICE AREA
Investments
REGION
Ghana
INVESTMENT YEARS
2020-Present
IN 2022
- 6x growth in farmers (2021/22 to 2022/23); serving over 7,000 smallholder farmers
- Access to market provided for farmers with 8x growth in commodity sales in 2022/23 through the sale of 11,000 metric tonnes of maize
Warc Africa (Warc) has operated in West Africa for over ten years. Founded in Sierra Leone, Warc expanded its operations to Ghana in 2019 and over this time has continued to develop its business model to solve poverty and hunger at scale whilst seeking financial sustainability. Warc aims to unlock the potential of farmers by removing barriers and selling inputs as a service, knowledge building and access to markets. In 2020, Small Foundation supported Warc’s expansion in Ghana and in 2022 provided a guarantee to help unlock short-term debt financing which has supported Warc’s growth.
Warc’s team visits business partner Koudijs Ghana Ltd’s feed processing factory. September 2022, Tema, Ghana.
Systems lens
Recognising the depth of expertise developed by Warc after a decade of experience working with smallholder farmers in rural Sierra Leone, Small Foundation was keen to support its expansion to Ghana and pursuit of impact through a commercially viable model. Warc continues to explore innovative approaches to effectively serve rural farmers including the application of regenerative agricultural practices and implementation of gender-focused strategies. Small Foundation’s systems vision is for Warc’s success to act as a demonstration to others which evidences and propagates a scalable, sustainable approach to serving rural farmers.
Partner perspective
“Small Foundation has been instrumental in supporting Warc’s growth since the beginning of the partnership and over the last year. Through this partnership we were able to refine our model, which had been born in Sierra Leone, and put it into practice in Ghana. We have since continued to refine the model, scaling our work significantly in the Upper West of Ghana, serving smallholder farmers with better inputs, helping conversion to better practices and regenerative agriculture and fair and transparent markets.”
Christopher Zaw,
CEO Warc Africa
30 Merrion Square North
Dublin 2, D02 VE40
Ireland
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