Programmes

Education – Capacity building skills and Reorientation seminars for the street roaming youths, special beneficiaries and targeted prospects to tap and use for the sustenance of agricultural production.

Supervisions and Mentoring programs – We provide platforms that inspire and motivate young people to take up careers in Agriculture.

Funding and Support – Through strategic alliances with contextual projects, special grant support and our membership investment projects we provide funding and support for our membership and programs.

Introduction

ACAF is an extraordinary non-profit that supports high-potential young farmers in the cultivation of specific agricultural produce like castor beans and the cultivation of forestry plantations.

ACAF provides opportunities for the underemployed young people in rural areas that offer them with the capacity to build their skill and tap into the emerging trends in agricultural business.

ACAF highly charged and ready for action is currently attracting interests and partnerships while at the pre-incorporation stage with the Corporate Affairs Commission – CAC, Abuja.

Background

Agriculture plays a significant role in achieving global food and nutrition security, increasing economic growth, and attaining environmental sustainability. Representing close to 40% of the global workforce, agriculture is the world’s largest provider of jobs, employing over 1.3 billion people. To transform agriculture into a more productive, sustainable, competitive, and efficient sector, demands modern knowledge and skill transfer to develop talent in agriculture. It means up-skilling and re-tooling of the current agricultural workforce. It means retaining people with skills. It means attracting new personnel and expanding the range of career opportunities available in the agriculture-food-nutrition-environment nexus. Most importantly, it means creating incentives and campaigns that encourage young people to see agriculture as a one of the best options for a career choice.

About Us

The broader goals of AFRICAN CASTOR ACRES Foundation are to support the vitality and sustainability of the region’s agriculture, to build a long-term economic self-reliance and food security among participants and their communities, and to expand access to high-quality, culturally appropriate foods in under-served areas through production of locally-grown foods.

AFRICAN CASTOR ACRES Foundation will provide diverse services for the youths such as locating farmland, education, training, business development, production and marketing assistance through strategic alliance with the big players in the global market. The project provides opportunities for disadvantaged farmers, preserves farmland and promotes agriculture.

This project will be the first initiative in this direction nationwide to assist the Nigerian youths and small –scale farmers to develop commercial farming opportunities and interests in castor beans production and distribution in the global market.

Our work focuses primarily in Nigeria and especially the south eastern parts of the country due to the suitability of the soil for the cultivation of the castor beans and because of their population makeup, a strong interest in agriculture amongst the people, and the support of community organizations.