Ubuntu Farms operator at the controls of a tractor over open soybean fields in Nasarawa

About

Stewards of the land

From a family plot behind Oyan Dam to mechanised programmes in Nasarawa. This is how Ubuntu Farms grows food, trust, and shared prosperity.

01
The philosophy
Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu.A person is a person through other persons.We run our farms the same way: nobody prospers alone.

Open books

We share our costs line by line with the partners and communities we work with. Trust is cheaper than mistrust.

Farmers at the center

Programmes are designed around the people who do the growing: their land, their labour, their upside.

Shared prosperity

A harvest only counts as a success when the field crew, the community, and the buyer all come out ahead.

02
Where we began

It started behind a dam.

In 2018, a family plot at Ubuntu Cove in Ibaro Village, behind Oyan Dam in Abeokuta North, became a working organic farm. No headquarters, no grand plan: just a commitment to grow food in a way that left the soil, and the people around it, better off.

The farm grew the way Ubuntu says things grow: together. Training with farmer cooperatives. Biogas units replacing smoky kitchens. Market access so a good harvest actually became a good income. Each step taught us the same lesson: agriculture works when everyone it touches has a stake in it working.

The Ubuntu Farms team at Ubuntu Cove, Ibaro Village
2018
Founded at Ubuntu Cove, Ibaro Village
  1. 2018

    Ubuntu Cove

    A family plot at Ibaro Village, behind Oyan Dam, becomes a working organic farm, and a promise about how to treat land and people.

  2. 1,000+

    Biogas in rural kitchens

    Clean-energy units that cut cooking costs and indoor smoke. Impact you can feel in a kitchen, not just a spreadsheet.

  3. Digital

    FieldOS & UbuntuScore

    Our own tools go to the field: farm operations software and a credit platform built around real farming activity.

  4. 2026

    The soybean pilot

    A 100-hectare mechanised programme in Nasarawa: disciplined agronomy, certified inputs, open books.

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A season in the field
The 2026 soybean season. A 100-hectare pilot in Nasarawa State, grown for a leading food manufacturer. Mechanised from harrowing to combine harvest, insured, and governed milestone by milestone with open books.
Tractor with a boom sprayer working the soybean rows
Crop protection pass. Nasarawa, August 2026
Operator on a tractor under a dramatic sky over open fields
Between passes, before the rain
Ubuntu Farms team with community members and elders under a large tree
Crew and community under the meeting tree
Team member seated on a tractor in the field
Leadership drives too. Every pass counts

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  • 100 hectares under Ubuntu Farms management
  • Mechanised end-to-end: harrowing, mechanised planting, combine harvesting
  • Certified SeedCo seed with Nodumax inoculant
  • 2.5 MT/ha planning yield, 250 MT planned output
  • Aggregated in Nasarawa State, insured, milestone-governed
04
How it works

One mechanism, three tools, each built for the people who use it.

For buyers & processors

The farm

Disciplined, mechanised, insured production programmes: certified inputs, professional agronomy, and open-book reporting from planting to delivery.

For farmers & lenders

UbuntuScore

An 8-layer credit model that turns real farming activity into a verifiable credit history, plus an escrow-backed marketplace.

Ubuntu Farms is part of the Imakandi ecosystem, built on a simple conviction: strategy without execution is incomplete.

05
Numbers we stand behind
100 ha
Under management, 2026 pilot
250 MT
Planned soybean output
1,000+
Biogas units installed
4
States of operation

The cooperative networks we work through reach well over a hundred thousand smallholders across Nigeria, Cameroon, and Ghana. Our direct numbers are smaller, and we publish them as they grow, because that is what open books mean.

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What we hold
01

Ubuntu

Interdependence as strategy, not sentiment: our programmes only work when farmers, communities, and buyers all win.

02

Open books

Integrity in sourcing, pricing, and partnerships, with costs shared line by line with the people we work with.

03

Regeneration

Soil, biodiversity, and rural livelihoods built together, so the land that feeds us today can feed the next generation.

04

Discipline

Certified inputs, professional agronomy, crop insurance, and milestone governance on every programme.

Visit us

Ubuntu Cove, Ibaro Village, Behind Oyan Dam
Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors

Map shows the Abeokuta area; exact farm gates are shared with partners and visitors by appointment.

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