From 2007 until 2026 revisiting our Past to chart our future
We began work in 2007 to address a problem exemplariy of the oppertunities Ethiopia provides. With the introduction of agricultural inputs at scale created a boom in agricultural productivity. A side effect being a skyrocketing post harvest loss rate.
Cottage industry mango jam production in Asosa 2008
In this, however, there was an opportunity: value addition to preserve products. Therefore, we scaled up more than 14 production centers across the country and trained more than 10,000 farmers in value-added manufacturing. For us, co-ownership has always been key. By utilizing a margin-share model, we are able to rapidly expand the number of farmers we work with while improving people’s livelihoods.
This is what stands at the core of everything we do: identifying structural problems in the market for which the solution creates a win-win-win scenario, for the local community, for our firm, and for the country.
Leading up to the crisis that affected the country starting in 2018, Ecopia Group had expanded from food processing into cosmetics, policy making, and regional consulting, with our CEO assisting the first government of South Sudan in its disarmament process. Furthermore, we spearheaded the organic and traceable farming movement in the region.
products developed in Ethiopia and successfully brought to market in the EU.
The civil war in Ethiopia was mostly fought in the countryside, which is were operating. In the post Covid and Post conflict world we needed to drastically restructure and realign our focus.
Ecopia Group is now focused on key industrial sectors that manufacture critical inputs for the Ethiopian economy, particularly within the healthcare and national defense sectors, in order to contribute as a corporate citizen to the long-term stability of the country. Furthermore, we are expanding into new frontiers in the software and finance sectors. What we once did with pen and paper for our farmers, we now seek to scale with a Pan-African scope, starting in Ethiopia.
Making coffee to celebrate the start of a new chapter at our historic first office in Addis Ababa
However one thing has remained constant since 2007 our operating ethos, find problems of which the solution sustainably benefits local communities, our firm as well as the country as a whole.