Value Chains
TEV Africa Foods is committed to transforming Africa’s agricultural potential into sustainable prosperity by strengthening key food value chains. Our work spans the entire journey from farm to market, empowering farmers, improving processing systems, and connecting communities with nutritious, high-quality food products.
For the beans value chain, we support smallholder farmers with improved seeds, climate-smart practices, and dependable markets to boost yields and meet rising demand for nutritious legumes. Across the groundnuts value chain, we enhance quality and safety especially through aflatoxin-controlled production—while promoting value-added processing that increases farmer incomes and competitiveness. Within the cassava value chain, we drive innovation through high-yield varieties, efficient aggregation, and modern processing that strengthens food security and creates new opportunities for rural enterprises.
Common Beans
Our common bean line is focused on white haricot, red speckled and NUA 45 varieties. Initially, focus was on the white haricot variety, which was cross sold to existing peanut customers. A new strategy has resulted in red speckled and NUA 45 varieties being added to the product range, driven by customer demand.
Groundnuts
TAF focuses on improved varieties suitable for value added products such as roasted and blanched peanuts, as well as peanut butter and peanut cooking oil. Effective 2025, in a departure from past strategy, TAF will lead its peanut product line with value added products, primarily roasted nuts and peanut butter.
Cassava
Similar to the peanut and bean strategy, TAF’s medium term objective is to build on its cassava agronomy to achieve forward integration into value addition, specifically, high quality cassava flour, cassava starch and sorbitol. Current initiatives are centered on seed multiplication to achieve sufficient scale to enable large scale agronomy in central Malawi. Multiplication fields have to date been established in Kasungu (8 ha) and Thyolo (40 ha), with a further field to be planted in Zomba (20 ha), by the end of January 2026.
The company has also launched construction of two tunnels in Lilongwe to rapidly multiply cassava cuttings under Semi-Autotrophic Hydroponics (SAH) techniques pioneered by the IITA. Once completed, these tunnels will be the first privately-owned facility of its type in Southern Africa.