What we do
Advisory that is answerable to an operating business.
HAGRO runs one consultancy practice and four operating divisions. The consultancy leads client engagement. The divisions supply the evidence, the field access and the delivery muscle that most advisory firms have to subcontract.
Practice one
Food systems and value chain advisory
Our core practice. We take a commodity, a geography and a question, and we come back with an answer a board or a funder can act on. The work is grounded in primary data and in what the chain actually costs to operate, because we operate in it.
Typical assignments run from six weeks to six months.
- Sub sector and value chain studies across crops, dairy, livestock, poultry, horticulture and aquaculture
- Market systems diagnostics and constraint analysis
- Feasibility studies and business cases for processing, aggregation and cold chain investment
- Service delivery model economics: what it truly costs to serve a smallholder, and at what scale it breaks even
- Investment readiness and capital raising support for agri small and medium enterprises
- Policy and regulatory analysis at national and county level
Practice two
Programme design and delivery
We do not stop at recommendations. HAGRO takes delivery contracts, and we are structured to take them: field teams, county relationships, aggregation infrastructure and a farmer network that already exists on the day the contract is signed.
This is the practice that makes us useful to a consortium. A prime bidding a multi year programme needs someone who can actually be in Kakamega on Monday.
- Component design for donor and government financed agriculture programmes
- Farmer mobilisation, group formation and producer organisation strengthening
- Aggregation and market linkage models, including contract farming structures
- Extension and training delivery, including curriculum design
- Input access and last mile distribution models
- Public private producer partnership structuring, where HAGRO can act as the committed offtaker
Practice three
Farmer data, monitoring and evaluation
The scarcest thing in East African agriculture is not opinion. It is farm level data that somebody can stand behind. HAGRO collects it directly, from farmers who know us, with consent recorded for the specific use.
Our documentary practice has spent years publishing real farm income and cost figures on camera. That discipline carries into every dataset we deliver.
- Baseline, midline and endline surveys
- Farm level enterprise budgets, gross margins and cost of production analysis
- Quantitative and qualitative field research, including enumeration, sampling and translation
- Monitoring frameworks, indicator design and management information system specification
- Gender, youth and nutrition sensitive assessment, aligned to how funders now score programmes
- Climate vulnerability and adaptation assessment at farm and landscape level
The operating divisions
Where the evidence comes from
Three businesses that predate the consultancy and continue to run commercially. They are the reason our advisory work is grounded rather than theoretical.
Trade services and commodities
Sourcing and aggregation from smallholder producers, quality management, storage, and linkage to domestic and export buyers. This division carries inventory, meets specifications and absorbs real risk.
Commodities handled: [COMMODITY LIST]
Construction and agritech
Post harvest and storage infrastructure, water and irrigation works, and appropriate technology for smallholder operations. When a programme needs a store built rather than described, this is the division that builds it.
Information services and media
Market intelligence, documentation, and field documentary production through AOG Media. Communications deliverables that funders increasingly want, produced in house rather than bought in.
How we package it
Three ways to engage HAGRO
Study or diagnostic
A defined question, a fixed scope and a written deliverable. Value chain studies, feasibility work, baselines and evaluations.
Typical duration: six weeks to four months.
Delivery contract
We implement a component or a workstream inside a larger programme, as a prime or as a named consortium partner.
Typical duration: one to five years.
Co investment partnership
HAGRO brings its own capital, offtake commitment or infrastructure alongside a public programme or an investor.
Structured case by case.
Not sure which of these you need?
Send us the terms of reference, or just the problem. We will say plainly whether it is a study, a delivery contract, or something that should not be procured at all.