Creating Economic Opportunities

Where it Matters the Most.

Every year, we invest in thousands of smallholder farmers, particularly youth and women in the most rural and underserved communities; enabling them to grow their harvests, increase their income earnings, and sustain their livelihood.

VISION

Every farmer is equipped with the knowledge and resources to grow their harvest, increase their incomes, and live a dignified life.

MISSION

We grow and sustain income earnings for smallholder farmers especially youth and women.

Financing Youth Farmers

1
Community Savings and Lending
We organize smallholder farmers into community-driven savings and lending groups that offer collective savings and microloans, enabling them to meet their production needs.
2
Access to Credit
We provide smallholder farmers with affordable and flexible loans for inputs, equipment/tools and working capital to boost their productivity and increase their incomes and improve livelihoods.

De-risking Youth Farmers

1
We Organize
We organize smallholder farmers into agribusiness clubs.
2
We Build
We build the capacity of smallholder farmers to engage in profitable and scalable agriculture business.
3
We Empower
We provide access to technology powered support infrastructure to deliver essential services to smallholder farmers.

Our Approach

Our Impact

1 K
PEOPLE IMPACTED
1 +
FARMING INPUT ACCESS
1 X
RETURN ON INVESTMENT
1 %
WOMEN PARTICIPATION

Hear From Our Community

“ACADES has provided soybean market for us. Even non-ACADES farmers are also accessing this market,”
“The economic sustenance of young people has actually improved in my district,”
“What I have seen here is innovation.-finding solutions from within.”
“From $1.1 to $3 a day per family – a remarkable uplift in livelihood!”
“The process of the model they use to adapt to empowering the youth economically is very structured.”
"They started from scratch and created employment opportunities for others!"
“Malawi needs more stories like ACADES to tell the world,”
“The most impressive thing is to see so many young people working together with such passion, creating jobs for themselves and making sure they can develop their own business,”
“I like this partnership so much because it takes off with ideas that come from the communities themselves,”
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ACADES is a social enterprise that is investing in rural youth farmers, enabling them to create sustainable economic opportunities through agriculture.

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