Extracting greater value from avocados with Origen Fresh

EA Foods made significant impact for its farmers in 2024, increasing their focus on gender balance, and onboarding 15,357 new farmers (38% women and 37% youth) to grow their smallholder network by 137% to 25,090 (10,100 of whom are women). The company further enhances farmers’ capabilities, crop quality, and yields with targeted training programs, and boosts their income through quality grading. EA Foods’ more efficient supply chain affords consumers greater access to high-quality fresh produce. They grew their gross margins across the year, now serving over 7,600 vendors, 445 hospitality clients, and 802 supermarkets across urban Tanzania. All these improvements are reducing post-harvest losses, increasing smallholder incomes, and cutting greenhouse gas emissions through efficient routes-to-market. EA Foods improves the market- and climate resilience of all their stakeholders, from farmers to vendors to customers.

In 2023, Chicoa completed a merger with Lake Harvest, forming the largest vertically integrated tilapia aquaculture group in Africa, with farms in Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique, and a sales joint venture in Malawi. The company plans to expand capacity to 15,000 tonnes per year, strengthen cold chain logistics, and achieve full ESG certification for its processing facilities.