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Foundation
Titled land secured. The licensing pathway opened with the Ministry of Health. Soil, water and security baselined.
Real land
1,800 titled acres
Licensed medicinal cultivation
Built for export
Owned per m²
Kongo Central · First light
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Agricultural investment group
We turn productive African land into asset-backed investments: regulated, high-value crops grown by licensed operators on titled ground.
5°35′S · 14°42′E
Kwilu-Ngongo · Kongo Central, DRC
In brief
The project, plainly
Agric-Dev is an agricultural investment group. We acquire and hold productive African land, then build the regulated infrastructure that turns it into an asset institutions can own.
1,800Titled acres · clan title
50 haLicensed GACP campus
500,000 m²Owned per square metre
Our first estate is Ngandu: 1,800 titled acres in Kongo Central, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, held under clan title. On fifty hectares of it we are developing a licensed campus for high-value medicinal crops, built to GACP standard, engineered for the EU-GMP pathway, and instrumented so every batch can be traced from seed to certificate.
We do not farm. Licensed operators cultivate our ground under contract, and we hold what lasts: the title, the infrastructure and the record. That ownership is divisible, priced per square metre of the campus.
- Entity
- Agricultural investment group
- First estate
- Ngandu · 1,800 acres · clan title
- Location
- Kwilu-Ngongo · Mbanza-Ngungu · Kongo Central, DRC
- First development
- 50 ha licensed campus
- Standard
- GACP, on the EU-GMP pathway
- Operations
- Cultivation by licensed operators, under contract
- Participation
- Asset-backed · priced per m² of the campus
- Partner
- Ngandu Estate Management
- Status
- Licensing pathway open · development staged
CompleteEstate secured
CompleteSite survey and record
OpenLicensing pathway
In progressCampus engineering
OpenInvestor registration
What this becomes
A scalable, future proof model
Everything built at Ngandu: the title work, the licensing pathway, the engineering standard, the record. All of it is designed to be repeated. A second estate does not begin at zero. It begins from a template that regulators, banks and buyers have already accepted.
The ambition is not a farm, and not a fund. It is the standard by which productive African land is titled, built, financed and held.
The Congo is a continent within a continent
2.34M km²of national territory
One quarterthe size of the European continent
Two thirdsthe size of Western Europe
Ukraine, France, Spain, Germany and Finland would fit inside its borders together. At this scale a province is the size of a country: the estate sits in Kongo Central, on the Atlantic side of the DRC, more than a thousand kilometres from the country's eastern regions
The thesis
High-value regulated crops are the most demanding asset in agriculture, and the most defensible. Every hectare *titled*, every operator *licensed*, every harvest *traceable* from seed to export. Licenced, Secure, Recorded
Agric-Dev · Founding doctrine
The moment
Why now
The window is open It is not open indefinitely
Demand is ahead of certified supply
Europe's largest regulated market imports more than nine tenths of what it consumes. Domestic licensed production there is capped at a fraction of demand, and certified capacity takes years to build rather than quarters. A shortfall of that shape does not close quickly.
The corridor is already proven
Certified African production has been clearing into European pharmaceutical supply chains since 2021. This is no longer a theory about what the continent could export. It is a route that works, with the paperwork to prove it.
The economics are geographic
That gap is filled today from Canada, the Netherlands, Portugal and Denmark. None of them are low-cost producers. Equatorial sun, natural rainfall and a low operating base grow the same certified material for a fraction of the cost, and that advantage is written into the latitude rather than into a business plan.
The ground is being taken
International capital is already acquiring African production land. Titled, uncontested estates at scale are finite, and the ones with water on them and a road out of them go first.
One seed
One system
Acres held under clan title · Kalunga ni Mbamba
Registered · Surveyed · Held
0villagesBordering communities
0kmAccess road · Kwilu-Ngongo
0+ varietiesProven in ground
0haFirst development · GACP campus
The programme
05 disciplines
The sequence
Phase 01
01
Ground works
Greenhouses, water, power and secure perimeter, built once, as permanent works, to the standard the end market demands.
02
Processing
Drying, extraction and an on-site laboratory on the GACP → EU-GMP pathway. Quality is engineered in, not inspected in.
03
First harvest
Cultivation begins under licence. Every batch tested, recorded and traceable from seed to certificate.
04
Export
Certified product moves to licensed international buyers, shipment by shipment, under full authorisation.
05
Platform
The model replicated across new estates and geographies. A continental platform for regulated production.
Phase 00
Phase 05 →
Why this ground
Land is not interchangeable
Pharmaceutical buyers do not audit a company first. They audit the place it grows in, the water it draws, and the road its product leaves by.
01
Equatorial light
Five degrees south of the equator: near-constant daylight hours and no winter. Growing conditions that do not stop for a season.
02
Water inside the boundary
Rivers, springs and rainfall on the estate itself. Irrigation that competes with no one.
03
An established corridor
The estate sits behind the Sucrière sugar works at Kwilu-Ngongo: existing road access, and a district with a long history of commercial agriculture.
04
A route to market
Eight kilometres of road to Kwilu-Ngongo, in the same province as the Port of Matadi.
05
Title and community
One clan title, seven bordering villages. Social licence here is inherited, not bought.
The estate
Held for generations Built for more
- Title holder
- Kalunga ni Mbamba Clan
- Province
- Kongo Central, DRC
- Territory
- Mbanza-Ngungu
- Access
- 8 km from Kwilu-Ngongo, behind the Sucrière factory
- Trade route
- Province of the Port of Matadi
- Borders
- Mbanza Makuta · Nzau · Ngunda · Nkuku · Maseke · Viaza · JVL
- Representative
- Ngandu Estate Management ↗
The structure
How ownership works
Boring by design
The structure as designed: six links, each contractual, each verifiable. Follow them in order and you arrive at what a holder actually owns.
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The land
Eighteen hundred acres held under clan title, inside a dedicated in-country entity. Nothing here rests on a handshake.
02
The campus
Fifty hectares built as permanent works: greenhouses, water, power, laboratory, road head. Built once, to the standard the end market demands.
03
The operator
A licensed cultivator works the ground under contract. They carry the farming. We carry the asset.
04
The offtake
No crop is planted against hope. Contracted demand from licensed buyers precedes production — that is the rule the model is built on.
05
The unit
The campus is divided into square metres. Each one is a claim on real, built infrastructure — not on a crop, and not on a promise.
06
The record
Every unit is registered, verifiable and transferable. The same discipline that tracks a batch tracks ownership.
The paper
Three documents create the holding
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Subscription
Your order and your funds, against a stated number of square metres in a named allocation.
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Sale agreement
Ownership of those square metres of built campus, identified and recorded against you by number.
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Sublease
Exclusive use of the ground your square metres stand on, for the term of the holding.
Held together, the three give a claim on a specific thing in a specific place · Templates are released in the data room
Land does not remove risk. It changes what happens when things go wrong: an operator can fail and a season can fail — the ground, the buildings and the title remain.
Governance
Jurisdiction
Operations licensed in-country. Capital held through a regulated offshore issuer.
Security
Holders' claims secured against the estate's assets, not against a forecast.
Verification
Independent laboratory testing, audited accounts and third-party valuation.
Eligibility
Verified investors only. Automated KYC and sanctions screening before allocation.
Behind it Chartered surveying and land title · In-country partnership and community relations · Regulated cultivation and processing operators · Corporate, international banking and offering structure · International offtake and export logistics
Named principals released with the documentation · Nothing here is built to be clever, it is built to survive due diligence
The people
Six responsibilities · First principals named
Structures do not farm
Six responsibilities carry this project: the ground, the licence, the crop, the certificate, the capital and the corridor. Each one sits with a single individual who answers for it. The first principals are named below. Remaining names, portraits and credentials are released with the documentation, once consent and verification are complete.
Group principal
Stewart DixonCo-director of Ngandu Estate Management. A seasoned international businessman across hospitality, resort development, mining, agriculture, banking and private equity, and a pioneer of fractional investment models. Leadership roles at ABIS Investment Group, Family Office Athens Management and DGC Africa.
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Ngandu Estate Management
Director, in country
Amorinho K. MalomboCo-director of Ngandu Estate Management and successor, Ngandu Village. Founder of Amolectro Global with twenty years in electrical infrastructure across Europe, now bridging funding institutions with government and private sector partners across Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Ngandu Estate Management
Head of agronomy
Name to confirmGACP cultivation, genetics, soil and water. Sets the standard the licensed operator is held to.
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Placeholder
Quality and compliance
Name to confirmLaboratory, batch release and the EU-GMP pathway. Nothing leaves the estate without a certificate.
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Placeholder
Capital and structure
Name to confirmCorporate structure, the offering, reporting and audit. Answerable to the paper trail, not to a forecast.
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Placeholder
Export and logistics
Name to confirmPermits, custody and the corridor to the province of the Port of Matadi. Shipment by shipment.
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Placeholder
Advisers and counsel
Engaged by discipline, not by retainer
Surveying and land title
Chartered survey, boundary and title opinion on the holding.
To be appointedLegal counsel
Corporate, licensing and offering counsel, in country and offshore.
To be appointedMarket and offtake
Pharmaceutical import, distribution and market access in regulated markets.
To be appointedAudit and valuation
Independent audit, third party valuation and financial reporting.
To be appointedEvery entry on this page is a placeholder. Nobody is named publicly without their consent and a credential that can be checked.
Principals and advisers are named in the data room
Standing
The licence pathway · Status by document
A licence is either held or it is not
Agric-Dev holds land and builds infrastructure. It does not cultivate, and it does not hold cultivation licences in its own name. Regulated work is performed by licensed operators under contract, and the register below states, document by document, what is held today, what is in progress, and what has not yet been obtained. Where an item sits with an operator it says so. Where it does not exist yet it says that too.
Held
In progress
Not yet obtained
Tick · documented and held today
ACultivation and activity
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Level 3 exploitation licence (cultivation)Issued under Ministerial Order No. 1250/CAB/MIN/SPHP/038/DCA/CPh/2022, Art. 97
ACOREP Held by the licensed operator
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Agricultural activity licence
Ministry of Agriculture Held by the licensed operator
03
Business registration and tax identification
DGRAD In placeBImport and export
04
Import authorisation, medical cannabis
ACOREP Held by the licensed operator
05
Export authorisationRequired before a single kilogram leaves the country. No export revenue is assumed before it is in hand
ACOREP and Ministry of Health Not yet obtained
06
INCB registration and I2ES reportingThe DRC is registered with the INCB as a cannabis-producing country and reports through the I2ES system
INCB, international Country level, in forceCProcessing and certification
07
Pharmaceutical processing and API authorisation
ACOREP In progress
08
GACP certificationA standard the campus is built to meet, not a certificate held today
Certification body Target standard, on completion of works
09
EU-GMP certificationNo operator in the region holds it yet. Treat every price built on it as conditional
EU competent authority Phase two objective
10
Product specification, THC and CBD parameters
ACOREP and Ministry of Health Under discussion, not finalisedDInspections, environment and land
11
Site inspection report
ACOREP Inspection reported complete
12
Environmental impact assessmentUnder DRC Law 11/009. Confirmed either way before construction begins
Ministry of Environment Required over five hectares
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Estate land, 1,800 acresCustomary tenure, not a registered commercial lease. Registration is part of the programme, and is stated as work to be done
Customary clan title Held under clan title, managed under contract
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Hydrogeological survey
Independent surveyor Commissioned before constructionStatuses reflect what the holder of each document has stated, and are marked as such until an independent check is complete. Nothing on this page is a licence held by Agric-Dev. Copies are released to verified investors on request, with the holder's consent, alongside the verification note that accompanies each one.
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The record
Field photography · January survey
Photography · Ngandu Estate, Kongo Central
Questions
Straight answers
What am I actually buying?
A unit representing a claim on built infrastructure — square metres of the campus — issued through the offering entity. Not a share of a harvest, and not a share of a promise.
Can I get my money out?
Yes. Units are transferable and Agric-Dev arranges the resale: your square metres are re-allocated to an incoming holder and the proceeds come to you. Timing depends on demand when you sell and the price is set by the allocation then open, so neither is guaranteed. What is guaranteed is that the asset behind the unit does not go anywhere while you wait.
What if a licence does not come?
Agric-Dev does not hold the cultivation licence; licensed operators do. If an operator fails or a permission is refused, the operator changes. The land, the works and the title do not move.
Why the land and not the crop?
Because crops fail and land does not. A season can be lost to weather, disease or a bad operator. The ground, the buildings and the title survive all three.
Who is allowed to participate?
Eligible investors in permitted jurisdictions only, after verification. This is not open to everyone, and it is not intended to be.
What happens to the money?
It funds land, permanent works and the working capital to reach production. Capital is committed against development milestones rather than released in one movement.
Is any of this legal?
The Democratic Republic of Congo has permitted cultivation for medical and scientific purposes under licence since 2021. Agric-Dev invests. Licensed operators cultivate. Participation happens only through formal offering documents.
When does it open?
Documentation is released in sequence to registered investors, and allocation windows are announced to that list first. Registering costs nothing and commits you to nothing.
Access · Open registration
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