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Africa: World’s breadbasket

In 2000, we observed that malnutrition decreased in all developing world regions; affecting now less than 10% of the population (instead of 33% 30 years ago), except in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Yet, this part of the world sits on arable lands, water, sun and has workforce. Thus, we should apply the successful models that have been applied elsewhere, creating powerful fully-integrated operations and prices mechanisms ensuring growers a stable income.

For the ADVENS Group, this is an appropriate moment: since 40 years, there has been a drop in real prices of agricultural productions estimated to 56% between 1961 and 2007 by the World Bank, due to the excess of supply over demand.

Nowadays, the long-term trend is on the rise since market terms are reversed. The promotion of the lands available in the South Sahara is the only way to eradicate malnutrition in Africa and worldwide.

A fully-integrated operator

Independent and complementary sectors

The ADVENS Group is one of the rare independent groups whose activities generate incomes to 25 million growers and their families, distributed in the main countries of the Western and Central African Sub-Regions.

Its subsidiaries are set up in the main available areas of arable lands, whose development is essential for the satisfaction of local and global food consumption while complying with environmental concerns.

The ADVENS Group is in position to actively accompany the sustainable revamping of subsidiaries. It can implement valuable cotton/ subsistence synergies: cereal, oleaginous, animal feed production, farmers training, logistics (field – transport to the shipment port then to the final customer).

The ADVENS Group ensures, in a long-term vision, profitable investments and regular incomes to growers.

The ADVENS Group builds partnerships with the States, the economic interests involved: farmers organizations, private stakeholders form the farming sector, and international groups providing their expertise and funding.

From a trading activity whose goal is to put through customers and agricultural growers, the ADVENS Group has been positioning on the peanut, rail transport and cotton sectors since the mid-2000s, rapidly becoming a true industrial fully-integrated operator in those sectors. Since 2011, the ADVENS Group has been refocusing its activity on the cotton activity.

Cotton

By operating over the entire value chain, from research and development, growers trainings, managing and valorizing natural resources, to commercialization, including factory building, oil mill, logistics and trading, the ADVENS GEOCOTON Group is able to accompany the country’s rural, economic and industrial development where he is operating.

Infography

Today, after its restructuring, the ADVENS Group structured and consolidated its entities to establish a Group divided in 6 complementary axes: