CNFA

Established in 1985, Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture (CNFA) is an international development organization dedicated to stimulating economic growth and improving livelihoods by cultivating entrepreneurship. CNFA is located in Washington, DC, United States with global offices across Africa, Central and South Asia, and Eastern Europe.CNFA Europe, CNFA’s European affiliate, is based in Brussels, Belgium. CNFA creates positive changes in the lives of smallholder farmers and rural entrepreneurs through initiatives that enhance:

Over the past 31 years, CNFA has managed over $600 million in donor-funded agricultural development programs in 44 countries.

Since its inception, CNFA has actively promoted public-private sector partnerships as a way to jump start economic growth. It specializes in engaging private sector investment in training, new technology and marketing as a means to increase overall competitiveness, expand exports and generate higher incomes all along the value chain for farmers, processors, and distributors.

CNFA was at the forefront of international development in the early 1990s building free market systems in the Newly Independent States (NIS) of the former Soviet Union under the Food Systems Restructuring Program. Part of its unique strategy for fostering global growth is built upon partnerships with U.S. and international businesses, thereby catalyzing entrepreneurship.

In the past three decades, CNFA has grown in both scope and impact. It has implemented programs in a total of 44 countries and impacted over 70 million people. It continues to deliver sustainable solutions that empower the private sector to drive economic development and improve rural standards of living. CNFA has grown from an niche agribusiness development enterprise to addressing the developing world’s needs through a broad-based approach that focuses on:

In doing so, CNFA has extended their geographic coverage from Eastern Europe into Africa, Central and South Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean while adapting to changing political and economic trends on both domestic and international fronts. CNFA continues to pioneer techniques for partnering with the private sector to engage the world’s disadvantaged in new income generating activities.

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