Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Microfinance initiative for Smallholder farmers

Babban Gona (meaning “Great Farm” in Hausa) is an award-winning, high-impact, financially sustainable, and highly scalable social enterprise, part-owned by the farmers they serve. They contribute to creating a secure future for Nigeria’s young people by transforming agriculture into a job creation engine that can help them break the cycles of poverty and unemployment. Through the Babban Gona Direct Model, the enterprise provides training, financial credit, agricultural inputs, and harvesting and marketing support to member farmers to help them increase their productivity and profitability by roughly 2.5 to 3 times the national average. ​

Scale the impact of unlocking the power of youth entrepreneurship and technology to innovate on the current Babban Gona Direct model and scale the Trust Group Entrepreneur (TGE) model to create an ecosystem that provides employment for 560,000 individual smallholder farmers.​

Leadership Development Initiative: providing training and leadership programs to the Babban Gona team members that will provide coaching, mentorship and guidance to the Trust Group Entrepreneurs (TGEs).​
Entrepreneur Development Initiative: onboarding of successful apprentice TGEs from the Leadership Development Initiative stage and support them to build successful Trust Group Entrepreneur enterprises.
Women Economic Development Initiative (WEDI): To ensure a strong gender focus within the Entrepreneur Development Initiative, they will support women further through the Women Economic Development Initiative and Women Agricultural Business Incubator (WABI).