Flagship Programme

GROW helps women farmers build stronger businesses, fairer markets, and climate resilience.

GROW — Growing Resilient Opportunities for Women is WEDGE Africa’s six-month agribusiness transformation programme for women vegetable farmers. It combines field-based accompaniment, digital recordkeeping, climate-smart practice, market readiness, and enterprise planning.

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6 Month

Structured accompaniment per cohort.

40 Women

2026 Pilot cohort in Mpatasie and Deikrom.

2030

A pathway to 800-1000 women reached

Programme overview

GROW is a field-based agribusiness transformation journey.

GROW works with women who are already farming and supports them as entrepreneurs on a development journey. It focuses on practical decisions: keeping records, understanding costs, reducing losses, negotiating more confidently, using accessible digital tools, and planning for enterprise growth.

The 2026 pilot begins with women vegetable farmers in Mpatasie, Atwima Kwanwoma District, Ashanti Region, with tomato as the primary commodity for testing the model deeply before scale.

PROGRAMME FORM

Three-stage, six-month accompaniment model

PILOT COHORT

40 women vegetable farmers

CORE OUTPUT

Personalised Farm Business Plan

MARKET APPROACH

Voluntary, fair, brokerage-based market linkage

The Programme Model

Three stages that build from foundations to enterprise growth.

Each stage adds a new layer of capability while reinforcing practical learning through field visits, peer accountability, and participant-owned tools.

Stage 1 · Months 1–2

Foundations

Build agribusiness thinking, cost awareness, records, and confidence with digital and analogue tools.

  • Agribusiness orientation
  • Farm record book introduced
  • Peer clusters formed
  • Mobile money orientation
Stage 2 · Months 3–4

Market Activation

Apply records to pricing, post-harvest decisions, buyer readiness, and market engagement.

  • Pricing and negotiation
  • Post-harvest loss action plans
  • Market price alerts
  • Buyer engagement support
Stage 3 · Months 5–6

Entreprise Growth

Translate evidence and learning into a personalised business plan and resilience strategy.

  • Profitability analysis
  • Risk and resilience planning
  • Farm Business Plan completion
  • Community Facilitator pipeline
Evidence by design

The 2026 pilot is built to learn, test, and improve.

GROW’s pilot is not only a delivery exercise. It is an evidence-generating programme designed to test tools, document behaviour change, understand adoption barriers, and strengthen the model before scale.

Support GROW at the stage where evidence can shape the future.

WEDGE Africa welcomes funders, companies, research partners, and mission-aligned institutions ready to support a practical women-first agribusiness transformation model.