About Us | Imena Commodities

Our Company

Imena Holdings Limited, trading as Imena Commodities

We are an agricultural and livestock company registered under Ugandan law, with deep roots in the DR Congo. Our medium-term calling is to develop intensive agriculture in DR Congo, Uganda and the Central African Republic to meet the food needs of the continent and help alleviate the growing global food crisis.

Our ambition rests on three pillars: to produce, to transform and to distribute food products, and above all to develop agriculture and livestock at the continental level.

Registered in Uganda: Reg. No. 80034625398641, TIN 1038060661
Headquartered at 6 Colville Street, Kampala
Active production in Northern Uganda, with more than 15,000 hectares secured

The Imena team on farmland in Northern Uganda

Our History

A heritage built in the highlands of North Kivu

Imena Commodities did not begin with a business plan. It began with generations of breeders and farmers who fed a region, lost almost everything, and chose to build again.

Cattle grazing on the hills of the Kivu region

1970s

The birth of ACOGENOKI

Breeders and farmers in North Kivu organised themselves to create an Association of Breeders and Farmers Cooperatives, ACOGENOKI, headquartered in Goma. Our founder's family were members and promoters of the structure from the start.

1970s to 1990s

A cooperative that fed 100 million people

The cooperative prospered until it held more than a million dairy cows, more than 750,000 animals for butchery and millions of hectares of arable land, coming to serve the food production market of more than 100 million people in DR Congo and its neighbouring countries.

1990s

Conflict destroys a legacy

As the European market opened, conflict swept the sub-region and destroyed what generations had built. The loss shaped our founder's conviction that food security must be rebuilt on African soil, by African hands, with committed partners.

Today

A new company for a new era

Imena Holdings Limited was created to take up that unfinished work: producing grain at scale in Uganda, with a roadmap into DR Congo and the Central African Republic, and an open invitation to partners who share the mission.

Why We Exist

Africa holds the land. The world holds the need.

Africa has millions of hectares of unexploited arable land, yet millions of its people, including the displaced and refugees, face hunger. Climatic calamities are driving scarcity on a scale that worries everyone. At the same time, the sub-region is organising itself into economic integration zones to jointly secure its economic, social and political future.

It is in this context that we are committed to defeating the challenge of hunger, with a determination to bring our accessible arable land into production and to invite economic actors from the agricultural and financial industries to build that future with us.

Vision, Mission and Values

What guides our work

Our Vision

A continent that feeds itself: intensive, mechanised agriculture across Uganda, DR Congo and the Central African Republic supplying food security for the region and beyond.

Our Mission

To produce, transform and distribute food products at scale, and to develop agriculture and livestock at the continental level, in synergy with partners who share the mission.

Our Values

Stewardship of land and livestock, transparency with partners, resilience learnt through hardship, and a commitment to common interests over short-term gain.

About Imena Commodities

Deep roots, renewed purpose