The mission of the Africa Agriculture and Trade Investment Fund (AATIF) is to realize the potential of Africa’s agricultural production and related manufacturing, service provision and trade through sustainable investments across the entire value chain. By providing financing where it is most needed, the Fund aims to contribute to inclusive growth and environmental sustainability increasing productivity, primary agricultural production, local processing, trade, employment, local value addition, knowledge transfer, and resilience, for the benefit of farmers, entrepreneurs and workers, men and women alike.

AATIF is guided by principles of sustainability and additionality, combining development and market orientation. It does so by directly financing economically sound projects and by refinancing local financial intermediaries, such as banks. With this approach, AATIF also strives to assist the local financial sector in offering more reliable and sustainable solutions for smallholder farmers, cooperatives, and commercial farms.

Parallel to AATIF, technical assistance resources are made available through the AATIF Technical Assistance Facility ("TA Facility"). Among other tasks, the TA Facility (i) provides investment-specific support to Partner Institutions and Final Beneficiaries, and (ii) promotes compliance with the Fund's Social and Environmental Policy and AATIF’s Development Policy Statement.

The Agroforestry Technical Assistance Facility (ATAF) was created by Moringa Partnership to provide technical assistance in relation to investments of the Fund with the goal to amplify and upscale positive environmental and social impacts triggered through Moringa investments. Moringa is a partnership between Edmond de Rothschild Private equity and ONF International. Moringa advocates agroforestry to enable a transition toward sustainability: advancing ecologically intensive agriculture while contributing to local development and economically viable business development.

ATAF is a grant-based mechanism parallel to the investment of the Moringa Fund. ATAF’s vision is to become a unique and innovative tool to remove the barriers to the development of viable agroforestry systems and the inclusion of smallholders in pioneering outgrowing scheme. By providing farmers with access to training, supporting innovative research and development programs and by assisting commercial initiatives, ATAF will create an enabling environment to increase the resilience of farmers and landscapes in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa.