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NexGen Educational Scholarship

Training the next generation of African agribusiness leaders

Since 2023, AMRIC has paid for young Cameroonians to study abroad, so they can come home with the skills to keep more of the value of our cocoa, coffee and crops here, where they are grown.

Meet the 2026 scholars Help fund a scholar
2023First awards
4 to 6Scholarships a year
€15,500Each 2026 award
22026 scholars named
2026 recipients

Meet this year's NexGen scholars

Approved by the AMRIC Executive Board, each 2026 award is worth €15,500 towards tuition and living costs for an undergraduate degree abroad.

2026 NexGen Scholar

Fernandez Ekwede Edienjume

Studying
Undergraduate degree in International Business
Where
The Netherlands
Academic years
2027 to 2028
Award
€15,500

2026 NexGen Scholar

Tatuh Emeafuet Nji

Studying
Undergraduate degree in International Business
Where
The Netherlands
Academic years
2027 to 2028
Award
€15,500

Congratulations to both scholars. We look forward to seeing you put your training to work for Africa's agribusiness value chain.

Why an agribusiness company funds study

Cameroon grows the cocoa. Most of the value is made somewhere else.

A farmer in the South West can grow some of the best cocoa in the world and still receive only a small share of what a bar of chocolate sells for. The roasting, grinding, chocolate making, branding, trading and financing mostly happen outside the country, and that is where most of the money is made.

Changing that takes people who understand those steps from the inside: how buyers think, how contracts and shipping work, how a product is processed, packed, certified and sold. NexGen exists to train those people, and to bring them home.

“NexGen is an initiative of AMRIC aimed at empowering the next generation of business leaders in Africa through educational training.”

From the 2026 award letters, signed by Celvastine Tendi, CEO, AMRIC
From farm to market

Where young Cameroonians can make the difference

Every step between the farm and the customer is a job, a business or a skill Cameroon can own. These are the steps, in the order the crop travels.

  1. 1

    Farm and cooperative

    Agronomy, climate-smart farming, soil and seedling care, and running cooperatives that farmers trust.

  2. 2

    After the harvest

    Fermentation, drying, grading and quality testing: the work that decides whether beans sell as average or as premium.

  3. 3

    Processing

    Bean to bar chocolate, cocoa butter and powder, coffee roasting, herbal teas. Turning a raw crop into a finished product here.

  4. 4

    Brands and packaging

    Product design, food safety, certification and marketing, so a Cameroonian product can stand on any shelf.

  5. 5

    Trade and logistics

    Export rules, contracts, shipping and traceability, so the buyer knows exactly where a lot came from.

  6. 6

    Research and finance

    Market research, investment and credit for farmers: the work AMRIC itself does, and needs more people to do.

Learn abroad, build at home

The point is the journey back

We send scholars abroad because the best place to learn international trade is next to the buyers, processors and markets our crops end up in. But a scholarship only pays off for Cameroon when that knowledge comes home.

Our hope for every NexGen scholar is that they return to strengthen the value chain: by joining a cooperative or a processor, starting a business of their own, or working alongside AMRIC and the farmers we serve.

  • Learn how global agribusiness works from the inside
  • Bring those skills back to farmers, cooperatives and new businesses
  • Keep more of the value of Cameroonian crops in Cameroon
  • Show the next student that a career in agriculture can be a career in business
Programme
NexGen Educational Scholarship
Run by
AMRIC, Agribusiness Market Research and Investment Consulting, Buea
Started
2023
Awards each year
Between four and six, depending on the funds available and the approval of the AMRIC Executive Board
2026 award
€15,500 per scholar, for undergraduate study abroad
2026 scholars
Fernandez Ekwede Edienjume and Tatuh Emeafuet Nji

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