Jul 12, 2019

The Socent Podcast: Moving Smallholder Farmers into the Middle Class

The Socent Podcast: Moving Smallholder Farmers into the Middle Class

In this episode of The Social Enterprise Podcast, Carl Jensen, co-founder and CEO of Good Nature Agro, chats with Rupert Scofield about agricultural solutions for smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa.

Good Nature Agro is a Zambia-based social enterprise that aims to grow smallholder farmers’ net incomes and bring their families firmly into the middle class. It does so by partnering with farm families to improve their productivity through soil-enriching legume farming and links them to a high-value legume seed market.

This episode: How did the social enterprise get started? What’s it like tackling the entire value chain? How do you go about developing a market?

Watch the full discussion below.

Originally published on The Social Enterprise Podcast and available on Apple Podcasts and SoundCloud.