N3F’s 2024 Nutrition Impact: Expanding Access to Nutritious Foods Across Sub-Saharan Africa
The Nutritious Foods Financing Facility (N3F) released its first impact report, underscoring a strong selection of impactful investees enhancing nutrition across Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2023, the N3F portfolio collectively produced or facilitated access to over 647 million servings of nutritious food products, reaching an estimated 3 million end-consumers, the majority of whom are low- and middle-income households.
A key achievement lies in the affordability of these products. On average, a nutritious serving from N3F-supported companies costs only 72% of the benchmark price for comparable foods group, supporting better access for vulnerable populations.
N3F’s portfolio includes 20 nutritious products and services, such as fortified cereals, legumes, chicken, fish, as well as essential agricultural inputs and cold chain services that sustain food quality and safety.
Operating in four base countries and delivering impact across ten additional countries, N3F is steadily building a footprint that supports nutritious, affordable, and accessible foods across the region.
N3F is delivering on its goal of being a ‘proof of concept’ for investing in nutrition, and we look forward to inspiring more capital to flow towards nutrition investments.