WACAAD

The West African Centre for Agribusiness and Apiculture (WACAAD) was conceived in 2018, by young scientists and agribusiness experts committed to an agribusiness renaissance in
Africa. These trailblazers include both African scientists and enlightened global partners, who
believed in Africa’s agricultural potential for food security and economic freedom for young people on the continent, but, was yet to be realised due to lack of focused energies from stakeholders in the private sector. WACAAD is a non-profit organisation with strategic collaborative relationships with other private sector players (NGOs and companies) and public sector organisations both home and abroad, with a common goal towards sustainable innovations in the Agribusiness and Apiculture sub-sectors, powered by innovation and research, led by the youth in the sub-region. Our main business objectives are centred on Training and Capacity building, Private sector-led commodity labels, Product Promotions, Agro-processing innovations and Market access for beekeepers and/or products (such as honey, bee wax, propolis and other hive products), in Ghana and West Africa. WACAAD promotes homegrown, tested solutions and innovations, with global acceptance, powered and led by homegrown experts, to ensure sustainability and real impact that encourage the youth in West Africa to aspire to greater heights in the various spheres of Agribusiness. These activities are wrapped in a global context, where trainees and registered members, are physically and practically exposed to time-tested and best practices in agribusiness value chain. This is done deliberately, to avoid making decisions based on theories that has not helped Africa for many decades. WACAAD also seeks to provide a platform for stakeholders in Agribusiness and Apiculture value chains to shape the vision and agenda for these sub-sectors. Such forums will only seek to promote what works in an African context. Meaning that innovations must be of a kind that could be promoted largely by resources from Africans, and not largely donor-sourced funds. Young people within the Agribusiness value chain West Africa, are encouraged only to venture into projects and innovations that works or that can easily be translated into business instead of just for publication purposes.