Our partnerships
Corporate partnerships
Farm Africa creates purpose-driven partnerships with companies to meet social and environmental goals, while creating lasting change for rural communities in eastern Africa.
Businesses that partner with Farm Africa are changing people’s lives and protecting the planet using the power of sustainable farming.
Farm Africa will work with you to create a mutually beneficial partnership that aligns with your brand, values and goals.
Below you’ll find more information about how you can partner with us. Get in touch with our team to find out more at [email protected].
Strategic partnerships
With our shared purpose as a starting point, our experienced and friendly team will use a collaborative approach to develop a tailored partnership that meets your business objectives and delivers impact.
77%
of companies say their sustainability initiatives increase customer loyalty. 63% have seen growth in sales.
Brand partnerships
Demonstrate your brand values through a cause-related marketing campaign that connects your products or services with our cause and build your brand awareness, drive sales and customer loyalty, whilst raising funds to transform lives and reduce deforestation.
Sabrina Elba, co-founder of S’ABLE Labs, talks to Farm Africa’s Stephen Muguna, during a tour of a nursery in Western Kenya. Photo: Lisa Murray.
Food industry partnerships
Farm Africa has a long history of partnering with businesses in the food and farming sector who have raised millions of pounds to support our work. These funds have helped increase the incomes and resilience of farming families in eastern Africa, strengthening supply chains and protecting the environment.
A partnership with Farm Africa offers a range of benefits including a dedicated account manager, regular updates on our work, networking opportunities and the chance to join our unique, challenge-based overseas trips, which include visits to our projects. We offer tailored partnership opportunities that add value and align with your business values and goals.
To discuss how a partnership with Farm Africa can support your business contact Louise in the partnerships team at [email protected]
Overseas challenges
The GROW for Good challenge team in Kenya.
Farm Africa takes leaders and rising stars in the food industry from diverse backgrounds to take part in once-in-a-lifetime overseas challenges in eastern Africa and see our work first-hand. Our exclusive challenges hone skills in leadership, teamwork and problem-solving, support cross-industry networking and give participants a deeper understanding of life in rural Africa. Through these challenges you will have fun, learn new skills and make friends for life. Recent challenges include the GROW for Good challenge and the Mahale Mountains challenge.
If you want to create positive futures for women and men in eastern Africa and build their resilience to climate change, get in touch with the partnerships team at [email protected]
Our partners are helping smallholder farmers to gain the tools and knowledge they need to develop their resilience to climate change, reduce deforestation and improve their livelihoods using sustainable practices. They’re helping empower women farmers and making farming into a viable business proposition for young people.
Meet some of our existing partners
Waitrose Foundation
Since 2017, Waitrose Foundation and Farm Africa have been working together to improve the lives of over 20,000 farmers and workers in vegetable and flower farmers and workers in the Waitrose supply chain in Kenya and Tanzania with community-led projects. We were proud to win a Third Sector Business Charity Award for our partnership in 2023.
“A wonderful initiative. This is a good example of what all food and beverage retailers should be doing to ensure sustainability right through the supply chain.”
Third Sector Business Charity Awards judges
Farmer J
Farmer J, a health-focused quick service restaurant chain, is supporting Farm Africa through sales of fieldbowls across all their restaurants. With a shared commitment to sustainable and ethical food practices, we’re working together to bring positive change to smallholder farmers.
Food industry partnerships
Over the last ten years, our food industry partners have raised more than £2.5 million for Farm Africa as part of our former Food for Good programme. Their support enabled us to invest funds where the need was greatest to drive impact for rural farming communities.
