Our unique skill-set brings new perspectives to solving systemic and specific issues, effectively.

Jolene Dawson

Founder & Director

Thrive Agriculture and Nutrition is a global consulting firm, focussed on the agriculture sector.

Our goal is to be a catalyst for change that helps the world, primarily Africa, to forge a new approach to agriculture that honours sustainability, regeneration and productivity as the fundamental tenets.

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Our Vision & Mission

We believe in leading the way to a redefined agricultural and nutrition norm; one that is resilient, reliable, nutrient-dense and naturally productive, where supply chains are trustworthy, transparent and efficient and value is accessibly and equitably shared amongst contributors.

Our mission is to be a trusted partner who works with businesses, governments and the development sector to enable this change and pioneer the cultivation of an agriculture and nutrition system that sustains the world and all our children.

Our Ethos

Integrity

We do things with honour, trust and loyalty.

Accountability

We apply ourselves and work to excellence, while remaining responsive to and responsible for our commitments.

Curiosity

We explore things, find the facts, follow the information and do our work with passion.

Positivity

We approach all things with a mindset of learning and continuous improvement; we turn adversity into opportunity.

Practicality

We focus on what works, the implications of the local context and don’t fix what isn’t broken.

We believe that agriculture is the master key that unlocks the pathways to true sustainable development, eradication of poverty and gender equity and equality.

Individually and collectively, we are first living beings with basic needs, connected to the planet and all other life. Without consistent and reliable access to affordable and nutritious food, all other development interventions tend to fall short of their intentions.

We work with our business clients at the strategic and operational levels to approach projects and programmes with pragmatism. We help ensure that any design that is implemented is practical, appropriate, relevant and efficient for the business, for the geography and for the stakeholders. We help bring your vision to life, plan for and enable growth through data-driven approaches that enable effective decision making.

We work with our development sector clients to help them work towards their purpose by helping to capacitate, structure and enable teams, processes and technology to effectively deliver on their mandate. We help to contribute towards the development agendas of governments and development actors, bringing a practical approach to delivering tangible short, medium and long-term impact.

We believe that no one entity is better alone than the power of the collective, so we work to ideate, implement and improve multi-stakeholder partnerships that have audacious goals and transformative capabilities for the agriculture industry and broad development agenda, simultaneously.

We support the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals

Thrive Agriculture and Nutrition support almost all United Nations’ seventeen sustainable development goals. Our work in agriculture and nutrition allows us to provide a direct contribution to three of the SDGs:

Zero Hunger

We strive to making a contribution towards ending hunger, improving food security and nutrition, and promoting a sustainable agricultural sector. We work to influence efficient supply chains, capacitate communities to be resilient, climate smart and sustainable.

 

Partnerships for the Goals

Global partnerships are key to sustainable development. We work with partners to leverage core capabilities of entities that would not typically work together so that they can pool resources efficiently and collaborative effectively to solve the world’s biggest challenge. For us, it’s about helping organisations work smarter, not harder.

No Poverty

Vulnerable communities are ultimately the key beneficiaries of our work by helping our clients to build greater efficiency in their programmes. We help to uplift fragile communities through interventions to contribute to decreasing social inequality.