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Private Equity play: African food value chains

While everyone is crowding into AI and US equities, the highest risk-adjusted returns in the next decade may be in African food value chains.

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The shift from commodity dependence to value-added manufacturing and services

The African opportunity: structural not speculative

While institutional capital crowds into AI and US equities, the highest risk-adjusted returns of the next decade may be hiding in plain sight — in African food value chains. 

Africa is home to the world's youngest and fastest-growing population, urbanising at unprecedented speed, with 2.5 billion people projected by 2050. Its food system needs to double. 

That gap is not a development problem — it is a private equity opportunity of generational scale.

The food value chain framework: where to invest and why

Phatisa has spent 15 years, three funds and 700+ deals learning exactly how to capture it — what works, what doesn't, and what comes next. Join us for a masterclass in African food value chain private equity, from one of the few managers on the continent with the track record and the honesty to tell you the whole story.


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