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At Tropical Horticulture Foundation, we believe in the power of horticulture to transform lives and communities. Our mission is to combat unemployment and food insecurity in Africa by empowering young professionals with the skills and resources they need to thrive in the agricultural sector in cameroon and Africa Globally.
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Empowerment Through Education
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Food Security
With your help, we can develop community gardens and agricultural projects that provide fresh, nutritious food to families in need.
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Donations fund initiatives that promote sustainable farming techniques, conserving natural resources and protecting our planet for future generations.
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We combat unemployment and food insecurity in Africa by empowering young professionals with the skills and resources they need to thrive in the agricultural sector.
- Trained Over 200+ Young Professionals
- Established about 15+ successful projects
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FOCUS AREAS AT THOF
We believe these three facets are pillars to successful entrepreneurship. Hence, to complete our program we walk the individual through the three steps. Our understanding from field experience shows that most young starting farmers/agriculture business owners have limited access to vital services like these.
Mentoring helps a mentee to develop social capital to complement their development of technical and intellectual capital. This is all about providing professional guidance and support to early-career farmers or agripreneurs. The main goal of this focus area is to assign a mentor to a young farmer leading them to take the necessary steps needed to pursue their goals as an agriculture entrepreneur. The process of mentoring involves a mentor and a mentee which in the modern sense is reciprocal i.e. takes two ways (back-n-forth). It is an exchange process where the two parties involved benefit immensely from the relationship. In other words, a mentor contributes something to the life of an early career farmer and vice versa.
Peer Mentoring:
In addition to having a mentor-and-mentee relationship, there is the second level of relationship known as Peer Mentoring; here an early career farmer will be connected to a peer within the foundation network for exchanges as well. It is presumed that talking to a peer will help build confidence in early career mentees as peers are usually young and within the age group of an early career farmer. This focus area helps early-career farmers/agripreneurs to know those in their age group who are actively making progress in agriculture business.
Counselling in agriculture entrepreneurship is inevitable because agriculture is a domain with huge challenges. These challenges are usually not static, although some may be recurring the early-career farmer or young agripreneur may not have the experience to deal with some of the peculiarity of these issues. At times seeking external help may be the best solution, by inviting an agriculture counsellor to advise on the current happening. It may be an issue of diseases or management or some accounting detailing, these are real issues that our foundation helps early-career farmers to deal with thereby avoiding huge loss in business.
According to the online platform Investopadia “Networking is the exchange of information and ideas among people with a common profession or special interest, usually in an informal social setting”. Therefore, our goal is to facilitate this aspect of the agriculture business among early careers and investors in the sector. Networking is a strong tool in the development of every sector and to expand a little, it usually begins with a common point of interest and grows into a large web of professionals and investors. In a nutshell, it improves the strength of every sector as many skillful persons are acting to solve a common problem. Networking brings about partnership development and bigger investment, so we drill our mentees and members to develop the sense and responsibility of a healthy network.
“Communication – we can’t resolve problems if we don’t know about them. This is part of doing science. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes. That too is part of doing science” Richard A. Wable, PhD
Agriculture is one of those sectors in every society that has the potential to absorb an infinite number of persons as there exist many different subsectors and activities for anyone to fit in (niche availability). A modest way for one to get a meaningful solution in the agriculture domain is to think creatively and build a resilient enterprising ability. Thus, at the Tropical Horticulture Foundation, we know how to help early careers and young investors build attitudes towards the agriculture business. Many people think that Africa has got untapped resources; the Tropical Horticulture Foundation shares this view and we think the agriculture sector in Africa is one of such sectors which has not been fully exploited. Our interest in horticulture and other subsectors in agriculture is to fully harness the potential and build human capital around it. Therefore, the horticulture sector being at the foundation level (very much undeveloped) is a great area to venture as a smart entrepreneur ready to take the risk and change the present state of things. Here we focus our energy to make the youths see the present potentials of these subsectors, the future growth in terms of quality services and resilience.
We strongly advocate and promote social justice to create the necessary equity and balance in society where farmers and other actors in the food system will enjoy an equitable share of the resources and benefits. We believe society will only function best when everyone accesses a fair share of the opportunities a sector can provide in every sense. Hence, social justice in this sense means breaking all barriers that limit individuals or institutions to receive the basic benefits including quality market, fair distribution of wealth and equal opportunities for our farmers and actors in the food system.
One of our main objectives is to improve perception and help change policy at all levels. At the Grassroot level, we focus on mainstreaming agriculture in the youthful population. Similarly, we strongly believe that policy change will encourage youths to venture into agribusiness. Furthermore, we are conscious of the fact that policy change must be accompanied by lobbying and advocacy campaign, so we are committed to building capacities of young agripreneurs that will champion some of these changes at the grassroots, national and regional level.
“Africa has the potential to become the world’s powerhouse in agriculture and can play a dominant role in feeding the world. To realize that, we need leadership from African governments and partnership with the private sector”. IFAD
The research component for our organization is a fundamental pillar. We strictly commit to building the Citizen Science approach in food system research. This is crucial for us to understand and build a better database of common challenges especially during this era of climate modification where certain diseases and environmental conditions turn to record unusual scenarios. Therefore, using Citizen Science and community engagement methods in tackling these challenges, we are sure of better field reports and faster analysis. This will safeguard stronger communities and resilient production systems.