Following a successful strategic plan that Genesis developed for the Agricultural Finance Corporation (AFC), the government’s development financial institution re-engaged Genesis to help with the implementation of its new business model.

Genesis Analytics was commissioned by a prominent bank to advise on the various scenarios of land reform in South Africa; help the bank assess the impact of these scenarios and guide the bank’s strategic position.

Genesis was contracted to conduct the final evaluation of a Tanzanian project of  International Coffee Partners (ICP), an initiative by eight leading European coffee companies whose vision is to improve smallholder coffee farmers’ livelihoods

DFID contracted IPE Tripleline and Genesis Analytics to assess the contribution that AgriTech Catalyst has made to development outcomes and impacts through encouraging agricultural innovation in developing countries.

The Rockefeller Foundation appointed Genesis as the Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (MERL) partner for the Food Initiative’s East Africa portfolio.

Genesis Analytics, through the support of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), advised the Solidarity Fund on if, and how, it could support a sustainable food production intervention that addressed the persistent experience of hunger by the most vulnerable households in South Africa (which has been aggravated by Covid-19).

The Solidarity Fund was set up in March 2020 to fund a range of initiatives that addressed the Covid-19 crisis in South Africa. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) funded Genesis Analytics to provide extensive and wide-ranging technical support for the fund to ensure that the investments made by the fund had the greatest possible impact.

Sappi, with its long-standing commitment to sustainability, needed a coherent strategy to further scale business and societal value creation. An important consideration, as one of the country’s largest land owners, was its relationship with rural communities.

Genesis is providing technical support to Uganda's Presidential Taskforce on the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) to formulate a national 4IR strategy to guide the country on areas where 4IR technology can be domesticated to achieve development objectives.

Genesis partnered with an international donor organisation to compare the operational processes of a group of agri-SME lenders to identify ways of serving the agricultural value chain more effectively.

The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) appointed Genesis to conduct an end-of-programme evaluation of their Market Access Program (MAP) that was implemented in 14 countries in Africa between 2008 and early 2019.

Genesis was appointed by HZPC and Wesgrow to assess a complaint against their firms over access to the Mondial genetic material and saleable seed potato and the subsequent referral by the Competition Commission to the Competition Tribunal.

Genesis was contracted by the Rockefeller Foundation to unpack the learnings from the YieldWise programme in Kenya, Nigeria and Tanzania and package these in an accessible toolkit, serving as a “how to do guide” for informing investments in food loss and waste reduction.

Genesis conducted the final evaluation of an ILO's project to support Syrian refugees' and Jordanians' access to “green work” in the agriculture sector using an employment-intensive method. Its goal was to promote better living conditions for Syrian refugees and Jordanians through increased decent work in the agricultural sector and an improved environment.

Land reform is the most pressing and emotional political issue in South Africa. Genesis Analytics was approached by a banking client to design a solution to support rural land reform and to transform the farming sector. The purpose of the fund was to support the transformation of sustainable large-scale commercial agricultural businesses owned by black South Africans.

Genesis was engaged by Technoserve to provide MEL support to the Commercial Agriculture for Smallholders and Agribusiness Technical Assistance Facility (CASA TAF).

Genesis was appointed to conduct the mid-term evaluation of the Rural and Agricultural Finance Learning Lab established by the Mastercard Foundation as the official learning partner to the Fund for Rural Prosperity (FRP) and their grantees.

Vision Fund Rwanda (VFR) commissioned Genesis to do a market assessment of youth-targeted financial services in rural Rwanda.

Genesis was commissioned by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) to find a way to make young people more effective in agriculture.

Genesis has been retained by the Swiss Development Corporation to sit on a strategic advisory committee (SAC) that advises the corporation on private-sector-led systemic approaches to agricultural development in Mozambique.

Genesis was contracted by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) to conduct a feasibility study in Mozambique to determine strategies that would foster the widespread adoption of soybean processing at SME level and consumption at household level.

Genesis and The Springfield Centre were contracted by Mercy Corps and the MasterCard Foundation to conduct the mid-term evaluation of AgriFin Accelerate (AFA), a six-year, USD 24.7-million programme in Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia.

Genesis has proposed the development of a digital-credit scoring tool for micro, small and medium enterprise lending in Zimbabwe. The tool will be developed to enable financial service providers to lend to previously excluded entrepreneurs and MSMEs across a number of economic sectors using alternative data and non-traditional sources of data.

Genesis developed a seed business-development strategy for the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) as a tool that will guide, orient and define expected outputs in how the project interacts and collaborates with seed stakeholders in Mozambique.

Genesis has been comissioned by DFID to conduct an 18-month climate-smart agricultural education and policy support project that aims to support the governments of Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.  

Genesis was appointed by two of the world’s top fast-moving consumer goods brand to evaluate the economic pros and cons of a multi-billion-rand mega-transaction in the FMCG sector.

Genesis was contracted to conduct an end-of-project evaluation of YieldWise Scale-Up to assess the extent to which the project had achieved expected results in reduction of post-harvest losses (PHL) for mango farmers.

USAID has commissioned Genesis to be a lead support to the export competitiveness and agribusiness components of their flagship project, the Southern Africa Trade and Investment Hub (SATIH).

Vuna commissioned a Climate Smart Agricultural (CSA) innovation models impact analysis to assess select Vuna Agriculture Development Facility (ADF) projects and identify intervention pathways to sustained climate resilience at scale.

Genesis was appointed by Vuna to work across a number of stakeholders to coordinate the implementation of a community-level seed production and distribution model in semi-arid districts of Zimbabwe.

Genesis was contracted to conduct a mid-term evaluation of the Financial Inclusion for Smallholder Farmers in Africa Project, which is aimed at improving food security and incomes of over 700 000 smallholder farmers in Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania. 

TechnoServe commissioned evaluations of their Strengthening Rural Youth Development through Enterprise (STRYDE) programme to understand their impact, learn from the implementation of both phases, and test the sustainability of their roll-out model.

Seven successful cases of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) in Zimbabwe, documented by Genesis, are to be included in a manual being written for the country’s eight agricultural colleges. Genesis was contracted by Vuna, a regional DFID-funded programme on CSA to document these cases.

Genesis was engaged by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) to research a business case for engaging the private sector in designing and delivering climate-smart solutions.  

Genesis has become an important source of independent analysis and advice to the South African Poultry Association (SAPA) and, through these engagements, also to decision-makers in South Africa’s International Trade Administration Commission (ITAC), the Department of Trade and Industry (the DTI) and the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF).

One Acre Fund and the MasterCard Foundation engaged Genesis to conduct the mid-term evaluation of their programme to extend financing, technical support and other services to smallholder farmers. 

Genesis was hired by TechnoServe, Inc. to conduct monitoring and evaluation and redesign of the African Agriculture Fund's Technical Assistance Facility.

Genesis worked with the TGVCI Farmer Support and Linkages project to link smallholder farmers to established retail markets through emerging commercial farming hubs that act as collection, standardisation and distribution points of product, as well as a source of inputs, market information, technical advice and training.

Ethiopia has witnessed rapid economic growth with real gross domestic product (GDP) growth averaging 10.9% between 2004 and 2014. Enterprise Partners employed Genesis to provide technical support in their programme to further bolster growth over the next six years through integrating the poor, especially women, in sustainable economic enterprises that create jobs and improve incomes.

Genesis was employed to provide market systems development advisory services to DFID's programme in the Niger Delta, which is Nigeria’s second poorest region and where the concentration of oil industries has created wage and commodities inflation, raising the cost of living and intensifying poverty among the poor.

The South African Sugar Association (SASA) asked Genesis to assist by examining a concern expressed by the International Trade Administration Commission (ITAC) that SASA’s application for increased protection against imported sugar would harm consumers.

Genesis was commissioned by the Zimbabwe Agricultural Development Trust (ZADT) to develop and pilot financial products suitable for direct access by smallholder farmers. Small-scale farming is the backbone of the rural livelihoods in Zimbabwe but the farmers often struggle to access finance for agricultural production, locking them into low input- low output production models

Genesis was retained by the South African Poultry Association to provide expert advice on a number of economic issues raised by SAPA's objection to proposed Namibian quotas on poultry imports.

Genesis was contracted to review PropCom Mai-Karfi array of interventions from a climate lens and advise them on how to “climate-proof" its intervention activities in light of regional and national policy and implementation practices.

Genesis applied its experience in value chain analysis to determine which South African agricultural value chains presented the highest potential inclusive business models for international donor organisation, GIZ. Three value chains were selected, and their inclusive business model design investigated to identify what type of facilitation efforts GIZ could adopt to support model replication and scaling. 

Genesis has become an important source of independent analysis and advice to the South African Poultry Association (SAPA) and, through these engagements, also to decision-makers in South Africa’s International Trade Administration Commission (ITAC), the Department of Trade and Industry (the dti) and the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF).

Genesis supported the design, development and initial implementation of the monitoring and results management (MRM) system of DFID’s private-sector development programme in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Genesis was retained to advise a foreign sugar producer on potential investments in the local sugar industry.

A BEE consortium approached the PIC, the largest asset manager in Africa, to fund the purchase of a poultry company. The PIC, in line with its developmental investment strategy, wanted to ensure that the social value of the transaction was maximised and asked Genesis to produce an independent social-impact strategy for the transaction.

Genesis  was retained by Suidwes Holdings to provide an economic assessment of the competitive effects likely to arise as a result of its planned hostile merger with Agrinet Holdings. 

Genesis was retained to provide an independent expert assessment of the proposed acquisition of a wholesale agricultural suppliers company by a cooperative, SWK. 

Genesis was retained by Afgri, a major South African agribusiness, to prepare an expert economic report for the proposed leasing of grain and oilseed silos from MGK. The Competition Commission had previously investigated grain and oilseed storage practices, and had referred an abuse of dominance complaint against Senwes. 

Genesis was commissioned to provide expert economic analysis in relation to a proposed joint venture between Senwes and Afgri.  

Genesis was commissioned by the South African Poultry Association (SAPA) to support its application to the International Trade Administration Commission (ITAC) to increase most-favoured nation (MFN) tariffs on five frozen poultry products: whole birds, carcasses, boneless cuts, offal and bone-in portions.

Genesis was appointed to provide economic analysis to Pioneer Hi Bred International and Pannar Seed in a case for a proposed horizontal merger relating to the breeding, commercialisation and distribution of hybrid maize seed before the Competition Appeal Court.

In a high-profile prohibited practice case in the grain storage and trading markets, Genesis was commissioned to provide testimony and an expert economic report on pleaded complaints of alleged price discrimination and exclusionary conduct.

In a merger of agricultural cooperatives BKB and ECAC, Genesis was retained to conduct an in-depth competition analysis of the likely effects of the transaction. 

Genesis was commissioned to assist one of the largest suppliers of mining support products, Bedrock Mining Support, in its bid to oppose a Competition Commission prohibition of its acquisition of hardwood plantations owned by Mondi.

Genesis was commissioned to provide an expert economic report related to the filing of the acquisition of the MGK agricultural cooperative by Senwes, another former cooperative. The acquisition raised potential concerns with respect to both grain trading and storage.

Genesis was commissioned to assist one of the country’s largest dairy producers in responding to allegations by the Competition Commission that it was involved in price fixing in its milk procurement activities. 

Genesis was commissioned to conduct an independent economic assessment of efficiency claims relating to the parent stock breeding programme that was part of the Elite joint venture between Supreme Poultry and Astral Foods.

Genesis was commissioned to evaluate the acquisition of several oil mills by a producer of branded vegetable oil products, which, at the time, did not own any mills. 

Genesis was commissioned to provide an assessment of the potential competitive effects of Rainbow Chickens’ acquisition of Bushvalley Chickens, a small poultry processing facility in Tzaneen.