An entrepreneurship network for Africa’s agribusinesses

The Africa Agribusiness Academy (AAA) fosters innovation and growth of small and medium-sized agribusiness firms in Africa, with the ultimate aim of contributing to economic growth, better rural incomes and food security.

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Our story

Who we are

AAA was founded in 2010 by a group of innovative agri-food entrepreneurs from Eastern Africa. We are active in five countries: Kenya, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.

Each country has its own country chapter, governed by a board. Each chapter is made up of business clubs located at important commercial hubs across the country. When fully established, an AAA business club has between 20 and 25 members. A country coordinator facilitates the work of the chapter and its business clubs, and each club has a leader who organises its activities.

  • Kenya
  • Ethiopia
  • Rwanda
  • Tanzania
  • Uganda

Our mission

We are an entrepreneur platform seeking to foster innovation and growth of small and medium-scale agribusiness firms in Africa, with the ultimate aim of contributing to economic growth and the improvement of rural incomes and food security in Africa.

Our vision

Stimulating entrepreneurship to increase food security in Africa.

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AAA Kenya

How AAA Kenya is organised

AAA Kenya coordinates its activities through business clubs organised by region. The clubs meet every month. Members share experiences on how to grow their businesses, learn through mentorship and coaching, use AAA and other networks to arrange business deals in regional and international markets, take part in in-house training and are linked to business service providers.

Sector-specific and thematic collaboration happens through five sector desks.

Business club regions

  • Nairobi Central
  • Lower Eastern
  • Upper Eastern
  • Western
  • Nyanza

Sector desks

  • Dairy
  • Poultry
  • Honey
  • Fruits and vegetables
  • Agro-inputs

From the Country Director

What changes after the support ends

AAA works with entrepreneurs building companies, members sharing markets and experience, institutions shaping the enabling environment, and partners providing finance and expertise.

Our newsletter, AAA Insights, is a record not of our activities but of what our community was able to do differently afterwards. We will measure progress on that basis.

Seven camel milk enterprises in Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands have moved from approved business plans to working operations under the TWENDE project — and, beyond Kenya, the AAA network has been building curricula, accelerating restoration enterprises and coaching agripreneurs across the region.

Our work is arranged around five themes: the land and climate work that restores the resource base; the curricula and digital learning that carry skills; the mentorship and incubation that build individual enterprises; the markets where those enterprises meet buyers; and the policy tables where the rules get written.

A machine is handed over, an activity is reported and attention moves to the next milestone. For the enterprise, delivery is only the beginning.

What connects these threads is a single conviction: knowledge, equipment, policy and finance create lasting value only when they are connected around a real commercial opportunity. That is the standard we hold ourselves to, and the one we invite our members and partners to hold us to.

Charles GitauCountry Director, AAA Kenya

Adapted from AAA Insights, Volume 1, Issue 1 (August 2026)

People

Our team

The AAA Kenya secretariat coordinates the chapter, its business clubs and its programmes.

  • Charles Gitau

    Country Director, AAA Kenya, and Vice Chair, Pan-Africa Board

  • Hildah Gichuru

    Projects Officer

  • Faith Njihia

    Finance Officer

Values

Our code of conduct

AAA members commit to the following code of conduct at all times.

How to become a member
  1. Cooperate with respect for each other.
  2. Respect confidentiality between members.
  3. Communicate openly and transparently, share knowledge and work collaboratively as a team.
  4. Feel ownership for AAA and care for its reputation.
  5. Act according to the country’s laws and regulations.
  6. Behave in a non-discriminatory manner, inside and outside the organisation.
  7. Act as a fair player in the market, with an open eye for the interests of all parties.
  8. Show leadership through integrity, trust and transparency in the business network.

Grow your agribusiness with AAA

Join a business club, partner with us on a programme or connect with AAA enterprises.