Episode

408 Ivan Mandela - Unicorns can wait, African farmers can't

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Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food
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Mar 10, 2026
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Summary

It’s a very interesting time for African agriculture and food, the continent is realising it’s potential to help feed the world, money is flowing into infrastructure to unlock this, more and more talent is coming into the space and the realisation that agro ecology or regenerative agriculture is no longer a nice niche with big margins but has the potential to become the predominant way of agriculture is performed. After putting over $20 million to work in East Africa, Ivan Mandela, foun...