Strategy Development
Strategy Development
About
Cultivo Advisory
A Botswana based boutique advisory firm established in 2019 to bridge cash generating and impact-oriented companies with capital, value creation and growth. Our existing and targeted clientele are Commercial Farmers, SMEs and Large Enterprises that demonstrate Social, Environmental and Economic impact in Botswana and the SADC region.
We provide advisory services, mainly Strategy Development, Capital Facilitation, Investment Operations and Value Creation.
Our hands-on approach gives us the platform to assess and understand the client’s operations internally and externally allowing us to develop business and implement strategies that cultivate the business’s value creation and growth in the long-run.
Priority Sectors
Adopting the UN Sustainable Development Goals to develop, build and manage sustainable business models that can calculate and demonstrate impact
Green Growth
Green industrial production, renewable energy, energy efficiency, water management, waste management, waste-water management and bio-refinery.
Agribusiness
Crop farming, nurseries, livestock farming, value addition, agro-processing, logistics and distribution, storage, agricultural services.
Why Botswana?
- A stable government
- Top 3 most peaceful countries in Africa
- An emerging economy that is still driven by mining activities, government is promoting economic diversification by facilitating for investment in agriculture and other sectors that are currently under-developed and under-capitalized
- Unemployment rate is estimated just under 25%, worsened by the Covid-19 pandemic
- Botswana still depends on imports for food supply, horticulture import bill stood at +USD80 million in 2018 (source: BITC investor handbook)
- Centrally located within SADC region, duty free access to a broader market segment i.e. +350 million people
- Effective tax regime and a corporate legal framework in line with the international standards
- Investment freedom, trade freedom, fiscal freedom and progressive eradication of corruption
- BITC One Stop Service Centre, Spedu and IFSC platforms have been set up to attract international capital for investment in Botswana and the SADC region
- The newly constructed Kazungula One Stop Bridge offers Botswana based businesses an export opportunity to Zambia, DRC, Zimbabwe
