Tawi Research Limited · Nairobi

Where Capital Meets African Agriculture

We bridge institutional capital and agricultural economies — integrating technical design, financial structuring, and ESG compliance into one advisory capability.

Our Framework ↓
$96B Agri-SME finance gap
30% Africa's GDP from agriculture
4% Captured by bank lending
350+ Years combined expertise
About the Firm

The financing deficit isn't about capital supply. It's about project preparation, risk engineering, and institutional architecture.

Tawi Research is a systems integrator for bankable agricultural investment. We advise financial institutions, sovereign entities, DFIs, and agribusiness principals on structuring programmes that meet the thresholds required by guarantee agencies, climate funds, and institutional investors.

Our methodology bridges four domains: value-chain diagnostics, investment-grade technical design, blended-finance structuring, and institutional capacity architecture.

We deliver the investment-grade architecture that converts agricultural potential into deployable capital — project by project, across the continent.

Advisory Framework

Three Pillars

Sequential pillars with documented deliverables and defined decision gates.

I

Diagnostic & Strategy

Resource assessment, value-chain economics, and policy landscape synthesis to validate investment concepts.

  • Stakeholder mapping
  • Value-chain diagnostics
  • Climate-stress modelling
  • Policy gap analysis
  • Go/no-go decision gates
II

Bankability Engineering

Investment-grade blueprints that satisfy DFI and institutional investor documentation thresholds.

  • Auditable financial models
  • Risk allocation matrices
  • IFC & Equator compliance
  • ISSB S2 & TCFD disclosure
  • Ecological optimisation
III

Implementation

Execution discipline and institutional durability — assets built to spec, organisations equipped to sustain performance.

  • Owner's engineer services
  • Operational frameworks
  • Governance architecture
  • Digital monitoring
  • Capacity transfer
Capabilities

Client Segments

Commercial Banks

Bankability packs, portfolio strategy, credit enhancement, and real-time monitoring for agricultural lending.

DFIs & Guarantee Agencies

Pipeline curation, blended-finance architecture, portfolio analytics, and distressed asset turnaround.

Governments

Systems diagnostics, bankable pipelines, sovereign financing strategy, and climate disclosure readiness.

Private Investors

Sourcing estates, traceability infrastructure, industrial corridors, and ecological resilience planning.

De-Risking

Credit guarantees, first-loss tranches, risk-sharing facilities, climate finance, and blended vehicles. We engineer the conditions under which these instruments deploy — mapping capital stacks, preparing documentation, and maintaining compliance throughout the lifecycle.

Digital Platforms

Data-Driven Governance

Real-time performance data and automated compliance — foundational to bankability.

Platform

Tawi Aggregator

Farm data, environmental monitoring, market insights, predictive analytics, and blockchain traceability in one cloud-native platform.

Mobile

Tawi-Doc

AI crop diagnostics by photo. Diseases, deficiencies, pest damage — with treatment plans and vendor links. Works offline.

IoT

TAWI-ANITRAC

Livestock traceability via BomaTrack, SokoTrack, ChinjaTrack. GPS, RFID, blockchain, and AI across the full value chain.

Leadership

Advisory Team

Chairman

45+ years in African business. Portfolio oversight via Crescent House Limited and SIDIL Group.

Chief Scientific Advisor

Professor of Agricultural Engineering. 25+ years in sustainable agriculture and water resources.

Livestock Lead

Decades in livestock agribusiness. Kenya Veterinary Board member.

Business Development

30+ years in food production. Pan-African market operations.

Lead Agronomist

20+ years optimising food systems. International certifications.

Contact

Speak With Us

For institutions seeking a credible partner for agricultural investment origination and structuring.

HQ Nairobi, Kenya
Coverage Pan-African