Agribusiness in Sustainable Natural African Plant Products (ASNAPP)

Agribusiness in Sustainable Natural African Plant Products (ASNAPP) is locally registered international NGO. It is a value chain development organization established to enhance growth in the African Indigenous Plant Products and horticultural Industries by intervening and building capacity along the supply chain to boost productivity, competitiveness and increase private/public investments to reduce poverty and hunger. ASNAPP focuses on market assessments, works with communities and organizations to design and grow programs focused on economic development by leveraging our expertise around the globe, maximizing best practices and emerging technologies to create sustainable market‐driven and scalable programs.
Over the last 10 years, ASNAPP has helped create and develop successful African agribusinesses in the natural products and high value horticultural sector providing income, employment and development to rural communities in Western and Southern Africa.
In 2009/2010, ASNAPP assisted value chain actors across Ghana, Senegal, Zambia, Malawi, South Africa and Liberia to expand economic opportunities for rural communities by using world class science, technologies, partnerships and business approaches.
ASNAPP relies on its expertise in gathering, consolidating and translating market data into actionable agribusiness‐development strategies for farmer cooperatives, farm associations and agribusinesses along six service components.

• Conduct market assessments, providing market intelligent information and establishing market linkages among value chain actors

• Conduct market analysis of agribusiness ventures and technologies to determine their technical, commercial and economic viability, and to determine funding support

• Developing low cost, efficient and effective quality assurance and quality control systems to enable producers meet market requirements

• Building the technical and business capacities of Farmer Based Organizations and trade organizations to enhance productivity, increase profit margins and respond efficiently to market requirements

• Conducting applied research and transfer appropriate production and post harvest technologies to producers, processors and exporters

• Supporting policy dialogue and formulation

ASNAPP aims at contributing significantly in meeting the objectives of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) and the overall national governments’ agenda on income generation, employment creation, food security, alternate livelihood and agricultural export diversification.