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Jackline Tanti

Agronomist

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Issah Alhassan

Project Accountant

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Robert Borzah

Farmer Connector

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Johnattan Tuah

SDU client

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Tenneh Cummings

SDU client

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Leah Gbao

Farmer Connector

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Maddame Saffie

Section Chief

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Victor Amara

Moringa farmer

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Joseph Mjonyu

Farmer in Ghana

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Mijamba Karyi

Farmer in Ghana

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Portia Asamoah

Junior Agronomist (Ghana)

22,000

Farmers


39%

Women
Farmers 


37,000

Volume of Grain Traded


10.1m

USD paid in cash to farmers


250

Team

Members


Getting subsistence farmers in Africa out of poverty

Transforming farmers into the world’s climate heroes

  • 2024 - 2024

    2024

    2024

    Warc successfully raises a $7.5m Series B for continued expansion and industrialisation. Now serving over 20,000 farmers, Warc establishes modern infrastructure at the community level.  
  • 2023 - 2023

    2023

    2023

    Warc reached over 15,000 farmers through Trading Hubs in 80 communities, aggregating 25,000 MT. Warc starts expansion out of the Upper West and incorporates shea nut into its offerings.

     

  • 2022 - 2022

    2022

    2022

    We served over 8,500 in Ghana with high quality inputs, training and transparent markets. Warc traded and sold over $5.3m in commodities from 60 communities in the Upper West.
    FOOP is launched in Sierra Leone, taking over Warc’s mission from the last 10 years.

  • 2021 - 2021

    2021

    2021

    Expanded to the Upper West of Ghana in partnership with USAID and West Africa Trade & Investment Hub and provided SDU services to 1,800 farmers in maize and soybeans. Our team crosses 50 people in Ghana

  • 2020 - 2020

    2020

    2020

    Warc wins an award for continued smallholder commercialisation in Ghana, supporting 500+ farmers in Sierra Leone.

    Warc raised $1.7m to support our growth in Ghana with Small Foundation, AV Ventures and Mulago Foundation.

  • 2019 - 2019

    2019

    2019

    Acumen and Ceniarth invest in Warc and they launch the Service Delivery Unit, providing a bundle of inputs to 1,000 smallholder farmers in Sierra Leone.

    Warc partners with Lartirigoyen and Essential Energy to scale production in Ghana.

    Warc’s CEO is named a Rainer Arnhold and a Cordes Fellow.

  • 2018 - 2018

    2018

    2018

    Warc breaks through and proves 3 potential farming seasons in Sierra Leone without irrigation; rotating crops, using data, and shifting the crop calendar.

    Warc commences its regional expansion and sets up an entity in Ghana.

  • 2017 - 2017

    2017

    2017

    Warc establishes 2 satellite farms and manages over 10,000 smallholder farmers in multiple value chains, while scaling its own production to 1,500Ha.

    Warc Consulting partners with GIZ InS to implement the EU’s flagship program in Sierra Leone.

  • 2016 - 2016

    2016

    2016

    Warc is granted a courtesy membership to the Clinton Global initiative, and receives its first institutional investment from CordAid, a Dutch-based investment fund.

    Warc becomes a USAID sub-grantee to provide technical assistance to 10,000 rice-maize farmers in Sierra Leone.

  • 2015 - 2015

    2015

    2015

    Warc’s founders don’t give up and partner with CRS to restart farming operations with 50 smallholders. Warc Consulting is founded and deliver projects in 3 countries.

  • 2014 - 2014

    2014

    2014

    Ebola decimates Sierra Leone and forces WARC to put operations on hold.

    At the same time, Warc’s CEO named 40 Chances Fellow by the Howard G. Buffett, Tony Blair, and World Food Prize Foundation.

  • 2013 - 2013

    2013

    2013

    Yale University and FAO recognize Warc’s efforts in gender equity and transparent land acquisition practices. Warc introduces its outgrower model designed with the support of students from Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs.

  • 2012 - 2012

    2012

    2012

    Warc develops its first 350Ha of rice and employs 150 people.

    The Warc Foundation is also established to execute social impact and development programs.

  • 2011 - 2011

    2011

    2011

    Founders relocate to Sierra Leone and start Warc’s story. They dream with wealth being created in rural areas in West Africa. They dream with food security and a farming system that goes beyond being sustainable and that contributes to the regeneration of the environment.

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  • 2021
  • 2020
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  • 2016
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Investors

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Ceniarth

Technical Partners

Princeton in Africa

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