The Great Lakes Investment Trade Conference will focus on cross border trade and investment corridors with private sector actors in the border regions as the prime participants. The areas to be covered include Agriculture, Mining, Energy and Services, including Tourism, and will involve five countries: Rwanda, DRC, Uganda, Burundi and Tanzania. Other countries of the Great Lakes region are also welcome. Learn More

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THE FIERCE COMPETITION

Azhar Tayabali

Kenya

I have always had a passionate desire to bring alive Kenya’s stunning bead craft to the global style gourmand. Using only the finest and most durable products, a dream was born in the year 2011, to bring this ancient craft to newly minted Kenya artisans.

Ian Kipkorir Rono

Kenya

I have witnessed time and time again low prices affecting our livelihoods even during bumper harvest periods. It is with this in mind that I started teaxchangeAfrica, an online tea store that provides a global market for local tea factories while offering a constant price for the produce. I believe as the company grows we will be able to impact our community by improving livelihoods.

Mwila Chanda-Kanema

Zambia

Yeathu seedlings business has been providing small scale farmers with good quality, well nurtured and affordably priced seedlings our product service also goes with crop management program and this has contributed to improved productivity, incomes and livelihood as the produce is usually good quality.

Joseph Oyugi

Kenya

started a web platform that shares farmers success stories to motivate other farmers, share news in agribusiness at the same time offer consultancy services. My website also goes further to solve the problem of access to reliable markets for farmers.We solve this by connecting farmers directly to consumers in urban areas ensuring farmers can earn better from their yields.