africrops!

We do not ask “What does Africa need?”

We ask “What does Africa have that the world needs?”

Our philosophy is “Trade instead of aid – fair trade on eyelevel”. For us fairness means integrating marginalized groups into economic processes and enabling them to participate in global markets on equal footing.

Since 2013 the africrops! GmbH from Berlin promotes various African plant products through its own brand The Essence of Africa, as well as in bulk quantities to commercial clients. With the trade of these products we are pursuing the goal of promoting a sustainable development on the African continent. The interplay of developmental and commercial goals is decisive for us in this.

In our understanding sustainability is based on 3 pillars:

Environment, Social situation, and Financial situation

The future is our business.

africrops! producers are all consulted, audited and trained personally by us. Through this close cooperation we have been able to develop reliable long-term business relations.

Through our consulting and training that we offer our partners productivity and quality is raised and secured.

In our work we always consider the individual circumstances, requirements and possibilities of our partners.

Directly from Africa to the world.

africrops! products all have organic and raw food quality. This increases the demand in global markets and allows our partners to successfully participate in global markets. This greatly increases the income possibilities for the producers.

We always trade directly with our partners and avoid middlemen and speculators.

More than fair.

Our team possesses many years of experience in Africa, in particular the development sector, but also in the German industry.

We actively pursue the aim of making African partners independent of aid in order to work together in close and fair cooperation on eyelevel. The financial success of all our partners in the value chain is very important to us. In our understanding fairness is not only important in trade of the products, but throughout the entire value chain. This encompasses the producers, africrops! and the client!

We call it “fair cooperation on eyelevel!”