Zimbabwe is open for your business:

The Danish Agriculture & Food Council in partnership with Access2innovation, Afrika Consultancy and the Danish Representation in Zimbabwe are pleased to invite your company to participate in this 2025 delegation to Zimbabwe in conjunction with the African-Nordic Foreign Ministers Meeting.

Why Zimbabwe?

After many years of political and economic instability, Zimbabwe's agro-industrial and hospitality sector has been subject to significant progress and, therefore, once again represents interesting opportunities for Danish businesses. Since 2009 the country has experienced significant GDP growth, greater consideration to the needs of the business community and greater efforts to attract foreign investments. Most recently, Zimbabwe has worked to rejoin the Commonwealth, which helps to underpin political and economic stability.

There is a strong political desire for investment and efficiency improvements in horticulture, aquaculture, cattle breeding, crop cultivation (especially sugar sorghum, millet and tobacco) and a focus on developing the food processing industry. This development is also seen in other sectors such as tourism and hospitality, digital transformation, health and sanitations etc.

The agricultural sector is increasingly integrated with regional markets in Kenya, Botswana and Mozambique, but also international markets in Europe and North America.

What is unique about this mission?

The delegates will have an opportunity to meet and explore synergies with government representatives and industry organizations as well as one-on-one meeting with relevant commercial partners in Zimbabwe.

Moreover, the delegation trip will be arranged to coincide with the African-Nordic Foreign Ministers Meeting at the Victoria Falls and participants, who are interested, can take part in the business track, which runs parallel to the ministerial meeting.

Who should join?

The delegation is open to participation from companies working within the tech, hospitality and agribusiness industry, e.g.: 

• Food production and food processing technology.
• Agricultural materials, quality control and food safety.
• Agro-services, machinery, equipment.
• Biomass energy & solar.
• Tech-solutions in support of food production.
• The tourism and hospitality sector.

Early bird advantages

A visit will yield the best results to your business if it is tailor-made to your company’s profile. By signing up early, your company will get early bird advantages in which our Zimbabwean partners will assist in tailoring the visit to your profile – with no extra costs. Early bird advantage deadline is 23 June 2025.

Your benefits

• Get to know the Zimbabwean market for agriculture and agro-industry technology.
• Meet the right stakeholders including decision makers, relevant industry association as well as importers and manufacturers of the agro-industry.
• Participate in tailor-made site visits and visits to potential new partners.
• Promote your company widely in Zimbabwe and expand your network.
• Learn about best practices in Zimbabwean and the region.

Programme

The below programme is preliminary and will be finalised one month before the delegation.

Sunday 28 September (Arrival)

• Arrival at the airport in Harare.
• Hotel check-I and introduction to participants and the delegation program.

Monday 29 September

• Presentations by industry experts on business opportunities in Zimbabwe.
• Meetings with the Danish representation in Zimbabwe as well as Zimbabwean government representatives.
• Meetings with Zimbabwean business associations, industry organizations and sector experts.

Tuesday 30 September

• Individually organized meetings with company representatives and industry organizations.

Wednesday 1 October

• Individually organized meetings with company representatives and industry organizations.
• B2B follow-up meetings.
• Wrap-up in the afternoon with lessons learned and follow-up plans.
• Option of return to home country or continued participation in parallel sessions to the African-Nordic Foreign Ministers Meeting’s parallel business meeting.  

Thursday 2 October

• Travel to Victoria Falls for the African-Nordic Foreign Ministers Meeting (the parallel business meeting).
• Join the meetings for the afternoon.

Friday 3 October

• Participation in the African-Nordic Foreign Ministers Meeting (business session).
• Wrap-up and return home.

Price

The total price for participation in the business delegation to Zimbabwe is 9,500 DKK excl. flight, hotel and VAT per company for one representative. Extra representative is 2,000 DKK per person.

NOTE: The Danish company is free to have its local representatives represent your company in full during the event. On the registration form you can, if relevant, therefore add the contact information of the local participating person/company. However, only Danish companies in Denmark with a Danish CVR number can register for participation, and the invoice will always be issued in DKK to the Danish company address.

We reserve the right to offer you participation at a different price should any of the above criteria change. Should this result in a higher price than quoted, you have the right to cancel your participation. Other expenses not mentioned above are at own expense including visa, flights, dine & drink, and hotel.

NOTE: The price is based on 7 participating companies, who are all eligible for subsidy, and 75 percent subsidy (already granted) from the Trade Council of Denmark.

If your company is not eligible for subsidy due to de-minimis issues (having received more than 300,000 Euro in de-minimis subsidy within the past 3 years, including the present), you are obliged to pay the full price without the subsidy. The same conditions apply, if you do not wish to receive subsidy.

Hotel and travel information

Flights and hotel are not included in the price. Upon registration, you will receive a travel suggestion.

Registration

Please register at the top of this site no later than 23 June 2025 for the early bird advantage and no later than 8 August 2025 for the general programme.

The organizers

Danish Agriculture & Food Council
Jeppe Søndergaard Pedersen, Chief Advisor
E-mail: jspe@lf.dk, tel: +45 2331 7450

Access2innovation
Thomas Augustinus, Program Manager
E-mail: ta@access2innovation.com, tel.: +45 2096 1460

Please be aware photography and video recording will take place during the event. The organizers may use these on various media channels. Please let us know if you do not want to be included.