Agro-processing is the single most commercially powerful investment opportunity in Africa’s agricultural sector. It captures the manufacturing margin that currently flows out of Africa at the farm gate — transforming raw cocoa into chocolate, raw cashew nuts into packaged snacks, green coffee beans into specialty roasted products, and raw palm fruit into refined edible oil. Africa’s governments are actively incentivizing domestic agro-processing through grinding mandates, export restrictions on raw commodities, tax holidays for processing facility investment, and industrial zone infrastructure development. This category covers investment opportunities across Africa’s agro-processing and food manufacturing landscape, from small-scale value addition facilities to large industrial processing operations serving both domestic and export markets.