The Agribusiness Initiative (aBi) is one of the three components of the U-Growth Programme aimed at supporting agribusiness development in the private and agricultural sector to achieve the objective of the Government of Uganda’s (GOU) Competitive and Investment Climate Strategy (CICS).

This component is managed by the Agricultural Business Initiative Trust (aBi Trust), a registered corporate body under the Trustees Incorporation Act, Caption 165, founded jointly by the governments of Uganda and Denmark in 2010. The primary objective of the aBi component is building a self-sustaining export-led economy in which the benefits are shared by all Ugandans.

This component has three interrelated sub-components, namely; (1) Value Chain Development (VCD), (2) Financial Service Development (FSD), and (3) Cross cutting Gender for Growth (G4G), Green Growth, Social Responsibility and Rights based approaches. Through these three sub-components, aBi Trust is mandated to support the private sector actors to increase their contribution to the agricultural sector by increasing market competitiveness, and land and labor productivity; and by so doing contribute to poverty reduction through economic growth, wealth and employment creation.