Alwayslistening,Alwaysimproving

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we are creating opportunities for
everyone in the commodities ecosystem

OUR PRODUCT & SERVICES

Mission

Creating the right incentives and a shared platform to change the food systems in Africa - making them more inclusive, scalable and efficient, with shared prosperity and trust embedded.

Vision

Co-creating solutions to help Africa feed itself

We have built an organization that providesinnovative solutions for the Agricultural sector in Nigeria.

Our team of young, vibrant and ethical people seek to maximize the value that farmers and other market participants derive from their activities. This focus has led to the development and deployment of a number of solutions which have resulted in gains for Nigerian smallholder farmers, processors, exporters, investors and the Nigerian economy at large, which is benefiting from a growing commodities ecosystem. In this way, we are indeed growing markets and connecting trade.

Our Milestones

2019

We introduce Nigeria’s first ever commodities index – the AFEX Commodities Index (ACI) tracking the changes in price for three key agricultural commodities – maize, paddy rice and soybeans, We continue our capital market integration in earnest introducing the first ever market education platform for commodities – EdEX.

2018

We pilot the flagship #CodeCashCrop event, driving necessary conversation about the intersection of technology, finance and agriculture. We also begin onboarding non-bank financial institutions on the Exchange for farmer financing.

2017

Our trading platform powered by Nasdaq is launched, and is matched with a commencement in the distribution of our weekly commodities price data. We launch our agribooster product in a partnership with OCP Africa, targeting 5000 farmers and also take part in the CBN ABP loan programme as an aggregator.

2016

We launch the Grain Bank and Commodity Exchange project with West Africa Food Market (WAFM), targeting 100,000 farmers. Also launched is the first structured Grain for Fertilizer Programme in Nigeria, and we issue a GBP350,000 repo bond that is fully subscribed to by DFID