Agriculture Start-Up Local Village Aims To Create A Network Of Agri-preneurs Across The Continent
Agriculture Start-Up Local Village Aims To Create A Network Of Agri-preneurs Across The Continent. Local Village was founded on a vision for a network of vibrant, local agri-preneurs across the continent supplying equitably sourced and sustainably grown indigenous African ingredients to the global village. The company’s products include Superfoods, Ancient Grain and Gluten free flour ad Legumes.
The company was founded by Simphamandla Manqele, who is an Experienced Entrepreneur with a demonstrated history of working in the food production industry. She is skilled in Innovation, Strategy formulation and Leadership. She is inspired by the African continent, its diverse cultures and its quest for social and economic unity and she wants to play a role in the implementation of free and fair trade across Africa.
The company believes that the choices people make about what they eat has become a radical act. It also believes that food today has complex and wide-reaching impacts on individual and societal health, economics, and the planet. What people eat is at the core to humanity’s interconnected social, economic, and environmental challenges, this is why Local Village aspires to be part of a healthier food system, a living value chain that connects its diverse humanity, its traditions and cultures through food. The company describes its clients as people that belong to the Local Village and care about what they eat, the hands that cultivate, and how it is marketed and sold. They are conscious, pan-African, living in the cities of the world, but who crave the tastes of their rural homes. They are global citizens whose sophisticated palates are open to experiencing different tastes of the continent.
By supporting the company people can become part of the village and their membership will ensure they enjoy sustainably grown, indigenous ingredients. At the same time this secures livelihoods through maintaining the demand for the produce of small, rural agri-preneurs from the continent while helping the company to grow its market and platform for connecting people and sharing Africa’s abundance.
