Member - Anteja ECG

Anteja ECG is a for-profit, consulting company with HQ in Ljubljana Slovenia, and offices in Nairobi, Kenya, Stuttgart, and Boston. The company has been working on sustainable development and sustainable biobased value chains for the past 15 years, with a focus on Africa and Europe. Anteja has extensive experience on agribusiness value chains leading projects for the likes of the World Bank, IFC, and GIZ. Anteja Africa is a sister company of Anteja ECG based in Nairobi Kenya and is in charge of the deployment of phy2app across East Africa. Our aim is to increase smallholder farmers’ income by including them in short and sustainable value chains through local value-adding agribusinesses. These companies can access markets that farmers cannot and offer farmers’ training and inputs. In addition to providing a reliable offtake of produce, they also employ farmers to work on their land and provide off-farm employment in their value-adding manufacturing facilities year-round. Agribusinesses play a critical role in connecting smallholder farmers to the high-value, regional, and international markets. As they rarely have a quality website and social media that can demonstrate the information that buyers are looking for, they struggle to establish trust and are often overlooked by serious buyers. Our solution, phy2app, is a digital transparency tool that promotes short and transparent value chains by guiding the agribusinesses to gather and organize information about the product's origin and the farmers, their production processes, as well as their social and environmental impacts.