The ebook · Available Wednesday 21 October
Beginner’s Entry to Agribusiness
The entire value chain, from the soil to the shop
Built from real conversations and insights from over 2,000 people like you. Eight chapters on how this sector actually works, written for someone who has never done it and does not know anybody in it.
This is a book. It is not a course, not a video series and not a community. You read it, and you write in it.
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Sprint attendees: your workbook and replays are free and already yours. This is the bigger thing, with the data and the private material in it.
Every number tells you where it came from
Most writing about this sector gives you a figure and no way to check it. Every figure in this book carries one of three labels, so you know exactly what you are relying on.
Verified
We found it in the organisation’s own published material, and we name where we found it and the day we looked.
Reported
Somebody told us. We say who by their job and where they work, never their name. What they describe happened to them. It may not happen to you.
Planning band
A rough range so you have somewhere to start on a budget. Nobody has quoted you this price. Get your own quotes before you commit.
If a figure had no source, it was cut rather than hedged into existence or rounded until it felt safe. Where a company’s published figure and what their own people said in a session disagree, the book prints both and says which is which.
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The Modern Agriculture Network
Beginner’s Entry to Agribusiness
The entire value chain, from the soil to the shop
Grace A.L. Davis
Built from real conversations and insights from over 2,000 people like you
What is in it
- I
How agriculture actually made money
Why the farm was never where the money sat, here or anywhere else.
- II
The ground today
What over two thousand people told us they are facing, in their own words and with the counts.
- III
The six routes in
Cultivator, Alchemist, Dealmaker, Builder, Backer, Anchor. What each costs, who it suits, how each one fails.
- IV
Case studies
Vietnam, the Netherlands, Kenya, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, and Nigeria. What transferred and what did not.
- V
Due diligence
The land red flags, the people questions, the counterfeit inputs, the traps for anyone operating at a distance.
- VI
Getting it out and getting it sold
Processing, standards, paperwork, logistics, buyers, export. The soil to the shop.
- VII
Your ninety-day plan
The workbook, built in. Three thirty-day phases, in the order that works.
- VIII
What the room said
Anonymised voices, grouped by theme, with my answer to each.
The working pages
Blank structures you fill in, printed inside the chapter they belong to and again at the back so you can work through them in one go.
- ▸The business plan structure
- ▸The cost sheet
- ▸The due diligence checklist
- ▸Questions to ask a landowner
- ▸Questions to ask a processor
- ▸Questions to ask anyone who will hold your money
- ▸Before you spend one naira
- ▸The six-route self-test
- ▸My ninety-day plan
- ▸The weekly scorecard
- ▸The day-ninety decision
What this book cannot do
It will tell you how. It cannot tell you who. It will not put you in a room with an operator, a buyer or a processor, and it will not make an introduction for you. That is what the network is for.
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$30, or ₦51,000 if you are paying from Nigeria. One payment. Delivered to your email on Wednesday 21 October 2026.
Questions? Email tman@dominionafrica.com
This book is educational. It is not financial, investment, legal, tax or agronomic advice. The Modern Agriculture Network does not sell land, does not broker land and does not promise returns. Agriculture carries a real risk of loss. Verify every figure for yourself and take advice from professionals you chose, on your own situation, before you commit money.