Most funding for African agriculture buys outputs: a training, a scheme, a season. DNC offers something different, capital that becomes infrastructure and keeps generating opportunity after the funding is spent.
The model, briefly
DNC buys maize from smallholder farmers at a fair price, pays quickly, and records every transaction in Panjiia. Trade earns trust, trust produces verified data, data becomes financial identity, and identity unlocks finance. Each step earns the next. We build deliberately, season by season, in Zambia’s Eastern Province.
The evidence so far
Every transaction we have made is recorded and verifiable. Around 60 percent of the farmers we buy from are women. Our early input lending carries a zero-default repayment record. We publish what we learn as research, drawn from the ground, because knowledge is part of the infrastructure too.
What funding does here
Grant and blended capital extends the buying season, brings more farmers into the registry, and funds the boreholes, storage and financial tools that farming communities need. Because every kwacha flows through recorded transactions, funders see exactly where the money went and what it built. Impact is the point, and it is measurable.
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We work with grant funders, development finance institutions and impact investors who take the long view. Reach us through the contact page and we will share our plans, our evidence and our numbers, with their sources and status stated plainly.