Making Agribusiness Work
Building trust in agribusiness relationships for sustainable growth
Making Agribusiness Work provides participants with practical competencies necessary to build trust in agribusiness relationships for sustainable growth.
There are two editions currently open for enrollment:
- Making Agribusiness Work: 8 month learning trajectory
- Making Agribusiness Work: Facilitation and Coaching, a 3 month course
Are you in a leadership position? All of iCRA’s Making Agribusiness Work courses can be topped up by our Making Leadership Work masterclass designed to boost your leadership skills.

Course Information
Making Agribusiness Work:
Facilitation and Coaching
Are you an agribusiness professional seeking to improve your facilitation and coaching skills? Do you want to build and manage partnerships more effectively? Do you seek to have deep impact on whole agricultural supply chains?
This course consists of 1 week intensive face-2-face training in Kenya and 3 months of weekly interactive sessions online. You will learn through practise by applying the new skills you gain to your own real-life cases.
Through live sessions, practical individual and group assignments, personal mentorship, and individual feedback from our trainers, you will learn how to best:
- Build trust among stakeholders working together in the supply chain.
- Facilitate collaboration and keep everyone engaged towards reaching common goals.
- Support stakeholders finding or redefining a common vision or direction.
- Manage disagreements and support stakeholders to take decisions based on common ground and win-win principles.
- Coach implementation of activities and enable the actors involved to find their own shared solutions.
This course is designed for all agribusiness professionals who want to improve their facilitation and coaching skills and aspire to have impact on whole supply chains.
Practical Details
Full NUFFIC Scholarships are available for this course. Apply for either an OKP or MSP scholarship from 28th June until 5th September 2023.
Course Duration: February 2024 – June 2024
Start Date: February 1st 2024
Face-to-face training: Kenya, February 5th – 13th 2024
Price = € 4797
Applications receiving a scholarship will have all course costs covered.
‘Making Agribusiness Work’ has given me better exposure,
skills and experience that are yielding better results at work.”
– Oluwatoyin Zaka, Making Agribusiness Work: Facilitation and Coaching Alumni 2023
Making Agribusiness Work:
8 Month Learning Trajectory
Do you want to be an agribusiness coach who creates market value, builds trustworthy business relationships and generates a stable income?
This 8 month course consists of 1 week intensive face-2-face training in Kenya and weekly online interactive sessions. You will gain practical skills and the mindset to thrive as an agribusiness coach and facilitator.
Through live sessions, practical individual and group assignments, personal mentorship and individual feedback from our trainers, you will learn how to best:
- Establish and manage sustainable business relationships among farmers, agri-entrepreneurs, input/service providers by building trust and pursuing common interests.
- Create market value in the supply chain you operate in.
- Use and improve your negotiation skills for better contracts and business deals.
- Secure a stable flow of income for your support services.
- Manage group dynamics, prevent and resolve possible conflicts among stakeholders.
This course is for those working in an agri-sector business context who want to contribute to local entrepreneurial development and food security, are ambitious and want create impact.
Practical Details
There are currently no scholarships available for this course. Registrations for self-paying or participants are still open.
Course Duration: September 2023 – June 2024
Start Date: September 2023
Face-to-face training: Kenya, February 5th – 13th 2024
Price = € 6497
Are you in a leadership position? We invite you to join the executive version of this course: Making Agribusiness Work: 8 month learning trajectory plus the Making Leadership Work masterclass.
“A beautiful course that ties all the loose ends together! It was so diverse, so wide, so impactful even beyond the scope of agribusiness.”
– Rahmat Eyinfunjowow, Making Agribusiness Work: 8 Month Learning Trajectory Alumni 2023
Course Fees
Making Agribusiness Work (8 months blended program): € 4797
Making Agribusiness Work: Facilitation and Coaching: € 6497
Certification
These courses are recognised NUFFIC course and therefore can qualify for scholarships. If you are awarded a scholarship you will receive a certificate of attendance after successfully completing the course.
Contact
iCRA The Netherlands (HQ)
Lawickse Allee 11, 6701 AN Wageningen
info@icra.global
+31 (0)317 422 938
iCRA France
1101 Avenue Agropolis, BP 5098
34093 MONTPELLIER Cedex 05
icra-montpellier@icra.global
+33 (0)467 61 26 60