ARDHI IG is an agribusiness start up with a purpose to provide safe, healthy and sustainable food and nutrition security for all. Our vision is to be Ghana’s foremost and most admired sustainable agribusiness

 

Ardhi IG is a for-profit Africa-based agribusiness start-up focusing on the development of climate smart agricultural value chains mainly through greenhouse and hydroponics farming and other innovative and efficient agricultural value chain development technologies and practices. Ultimately, the overall goal of ARDH IG is to significantly contribute to Ghana and Africa’s food security through the provision of healthy and nutritious food for every household in Ghana and in other African countries where we operate.

Ardhi IG developed from the vision and commitment of two Ghanaians, who after travelling the world and working for multinational and international development organizations for a total combined period of four (4) decades between them, decided to use their experiences acquired over the years to develop an innovative and technology based sustainable agricultural business (agribusiness) with minimal impact on the environment and greater impact on Ghana and Africa’s food security, nutrition security and also, employment opportunities for women the youth and the underprivileged.

Company Management

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Akofa Ata

Co-Founder and Managing Director

Akofa is a Co-Founder and Managing Director of Ardhi IG. Until recently, Akofa was the Managing Director (MD) of Unilever in Tanzania from 2015 to 2018 and has experience spanning over 18 years in Sales... Read full profile
Akofa is a Co-Founder and Managing Director of Ardhi IG. Until recently, Akofa was the Managing Director (MD) of Unilever in Tanzania from 2015 and 2018 and has experience spanning over 18 years in Sales, Marketing and General Management in Unilever, in senior-level roles including Sales Director for Unilever in Ghana, and Regional Brand Development Director for Africa. Akofa has extensive international experience working in West, South and East Africa, South East Asia and Nordics. Akofa holds a MA in Marketing from the Birmingham City University, UK and a Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing from the Chartered institute of Marketing.
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Kweku Fua Nipah

Non-Executive Director

Kweku Nipah is President and General Manager, Life Sciences and Environment at MANN+HUMMEL Group, a German automotive supplier headquartered in Ludwigsburg, Germany... Read full profile
Kweku Nipah is President and General Manager, Life Sciences and Environment at MANN+HUMMEL Group, a German automotive supplier headquartered in Ludwigsburg, Germany. The company develops, produces and distributes liquid and air filter systems, intake systems and thermal management components. He has extensive international experience working for MANN+HUMMEL in Germany, India, China and is currently based in Singapore. A Chemical Engineer by profession, as Director and Member of the Board of ARDHI Investment Group Ltd, Kweku Fua Nipah comes on board with sixteen years' experience in various roles with MANN+HUMMEL, including senior-level positions as Vice President and Group Vice President (respectively), Global Business and Technical Solutions; Vice President, Global Shares Services; and Vice President, R&D Asia Pacific and Head of Service Centre India. Kweku Fua Nipah graduated with a Dipl. - Ing (TH) (Equivalent to MSc. Engineering), in Product Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe in Germany. He is passionate about ARDHI's purpose - providing safe, healthy and sustainable food security for all.
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Mawutor Kwaku Letsu

Non-Executive Director

Mawutor Letsu is the Financial Controller (Mauritius and Kenya) for DXC Technology, the world's leading independent end-to-end IT services company. A Chartered Accountant by profession... Read full profile
Mawutor Letsu is the Financial Controller (Mauritius and Kenya) for DXC Technology, the world's leading independent end-to-end IT services company. A Chartered Accountant by profession. He is experienced in finance, auditing, operating and working capital management, and business compliance. As a member of the ARDHI Investment Group Ltd, he brings to bear, his fifteen-year experience in various roles, including senior-level positions as Senior Finance Business Controller, Africa Region (Maersk Logistics); Director and Finance Manager in the Goldex Group and Senior Financial Analyst, Africa Finance (Hewlett-Packard/ Hewlett-Packard Enterprise). In his various positions, he has interacted internationally especially within over a dozen countries in the Sub-Saharan Africa region (East, West and Southern Africa). Mawutor Letsu is a Chartered Accountant and a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants, holds a Bcom (Hons) in Accounting, Bcom (Accounting & Business Management) and a Postgraduate Diploma: Audit Specialist Course from University of Cape Town, South Africa.

The name ‘ARDHI’

Means ‘land’ in Kiswahili and it depicts not only the origin of our business idea (Tanzania), but also, our firm belief in the capacity of the land and in this case, agriculture, as the panacea to Africa’s economic underdevelopment, perennial food insecurity, malnutrition and low industrialization. Ardhi IG was incorporated as a business in Ghana in September 2018 and is in the process of setting up a 5068sqm greenhouse and hydroponic farm at Asutuare-Akuse in the Eastern Region of Ghana with full operations beginning in the second quarter of 2019. In addition, ARDHI IG has set up a 960sqm apprenticeship center in February 2019 for the training of young Ghanaians in greenhouse and hydroponics agronomy. Ardhi IG is aiming at using the most innovative and tropicalized greenhouse technologies developed purposely for tropical climates to increase agricultural productivity as well as produced vegetables of the highest quality for the Ghanaian market and other markets where we operate.

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Innovation

The big advantage that greenhouse farming touts is the innovative reimagining and utilization of space

Technology

Ardhi uses modern technology for farming that is developed to improve efficiency and profitability.

Sustainability

The goal of sustainable agriculture is to meet society’s food needs in the present without compromising the ability of future generations.