From concept to bankability to operations
AMPM Futures originates and structures agriculture, aquaculture, energy and processing projects as a single integrated system. We prepare each one to a standard that governments can approve, investors can fund, and communities can own a share of what they build.
01 The problem
Fewer than one in ten African infrastructure projects reach financial close, and around 80% fail at the feasibility and business-planning stage.1 Most opportunities arrive too early, with too little preparation to pass due diligence.
A farm without processing. Processing without reliable energy. Energy without a committed buyer. When each part stands alone, it carries every risk alone. This is why a continent holding close to 60% of the world’s uncultivated arable land still imports around US$75 billion of food each year.2
Ten to twelve million young Africans enter the workforce each year, while the continent creates around three million formal jobs.3 Every project that stalls at concept stage represents employment, food security and export revenue that never arrives.
Communities live this pattern daily: unreliable power, fragmented farming, weak market links, young people without work, and little access to modern tools.
If you allocate capital, you know the pattern: a promising concept arrives too early and dies in diligence, at your cost. If you hold a mandate or an asset, you have watched funding pass you by for want of preparation, not potential.
Demand is moving the other way. Climate-resilient infrastructure, localised food production and enterprise models communities can own are what development finance and private capital now look to fund. The AfDB-led SAPZ Alliance has committed US$3bn to agro-industrial processing zones: integrated production is a funded asset class. What remains scarce is preparation.
Closing that gap takes disciplined preparation. Capital on this continent is also costlier than it should be, partly because poorly prepared projects confirm the risk premium. Well-prepared projects are how that cycle breaks, and structuring them to the standard capital requires is the work we have done since 2019.
02 Our approach
The IPHM brings together what fragmented development keeps apart. Production, processing, energy, water, digital management and community ownership are designed as a single economic system, connected from the local resource base to export markets. Digital infrastructure runs through every hub: ICT, IoT and artificial intelligence applied to production, monitoring and management.
Read from the bottom up, from the local resource base to global markets: one connected system.
Shared renewable energy, water and logistics. Internal offtake between hub components. Diversified revenue streams. The hub design itself absorbs market, disease, production and climate risk, rather than adding mitigation afterwards.
Processing at source captures the margin Africa exports raw. Growth originating in agriculture is two to four times more effective at raising the incomes of the poorest than growth in any other sector.4
Skills programmes, cooperative participation and enterprise development are built into the structure of every hub, not added as corporate responsibility.
Across Africa
Each flagship project is a node in the same system, the Integrated Production Hub Model. It is designed to be repeated, connecting local resources to global markets.
03 Current work
Projects reach bankability in stages, so we show clearly where each stands today: concept, feasibility, structuring, then financing. Every figure below reflects that stage.
Poultry, aquaculture and agri-tunnel farming feeding an integrated processing hub. Pilot targeted for 2026.
Tuna extraction, aquaculture and tunnel farming, integrated with processing and export, designed as a national PPP.
Revitalising an EU-approved multi-species abattoir into a fully integrated livestock value chain.
A portfolio of mini-hydro schemes beginning with the Mfu pilot in the Sanaga River Basin.
Project concept · Terebinte Zambia
Poultry, aquaculture and agri-tunnel farming feeding a central processing hub, connected to export and local markets. Concept stage, pilot targeted 2026.
AMPM Futures: lead developer & concept owner · Promoter: Luvias Investments (Zambia) · South African partner collaborations · All figures targeted, subject to feasibility outcomes.
04 Partnership
A pipeline prepared for institutional due diligence.
Stage-gated projects with named counterparties, offtake intentions and integrated risk design, presented for due diligence rather than marketing.
Request a project briefingYou hold the mandate or the asset. We prepare it for investment.
We develop the path from concept to bankable: structure, partnerships, feasibility leadership and funding strategy, within formal PPP frameworks.
Submit an opportunityA defined role in an active pipeline.
Engineering, aquaculture, agronomy, energy, offtake and operations roles across our hubs, with bankable contract intentions.
Start a partnership conversation05 How we work
Resource identification and concept design. We turn the productive potential of a place into an integrated hub concept.
Outcome: a concept worth testing.
Feasibility studies, stakeholder engagement and engineering design with proven technical partners.
Outcome: evidence in place of assumptions.
Bankability: partnerships, offtake agreements, risk allocation, funding strategy and PPP frameworks.
Outcome: a project that capital can commit to.
Implementation partnerships, operational deployment and impact monitoring.
Outcome: a hub that operates, and a model that repeats.
The mark: a feather quill and the handwritten AMPM script.06 The people
AMPM Futures was founded in 2019 by Marisa and Petrus Naudé. The name carries their inspiration: more time, more life for people in Africa. Petrus brings decades of experience across energy systems, industrial engineering, infrastructure development and project structuring. Together they lead a venture built on a clear conviction: that African projects are best developed locally and funded globally.
07 Impact & alignment
Every figure below is a design target for projects in development, stated per project stage.
Designed capacity across current hub concepts: poultry, fish, prawns and vegetables (projected).
Renewable, grid-independent energy in every hub; 29 MW+ hydro pipeline in development.
Permanent positions designed into current flagships, plus indirect employment across value chains.
Processing, logistics and digital infrastructure at every node, capturing value where it is created.
Cooperative participation and enterprise development structured into every hub design.
08 Plain answers
We are a project developer, not a fund. We originate hub concepts, lead feasibility and structuring, assemble technical and funding partners, and carry projects to bankability, the point where investors and governments can commit. Our role is stated explicitly on each project.
In development, and we say so. Current flagships range from concept-complete to bankable-business-plan stage. No project on this site is presented as operational. Transparency about stage is the foundation of a credible pipeline.
Each project is structured for its own capital stack, typically blending development finance, impact investment, strategic and commercial investors and, where appropriate, PPP frameworks with government counterparts. AMPM Futures structures the pathway, and committed offtakers and creditworthy counterparties anchor it.
A real asset or mandate: land, a facility, a resource quota, a development priority. We bring concept design, the IPHM framework, feasibility leadership, partnerships and funding strategy. Engagement scope and terms are defined per project.
Terms are defined per engagement. Depending on our role, compensation combines development fees from the promoter, success-based fees at financial close, and in some projects a developer’s equity position. We state our role and terms at the start of every engagement.
We are based in Johannesburg, South Africa, with active development in Zambia, South Africa and Angola, engagements in Cape Verde, Namibia and Cameroon, and a model designed to be repeated across African regions.
Next step
Whether you allocate capital, hold a mandate, or bring an asset, tell us where you stand. We will come to the conversation prepared.
Prefer email? Write to info@ampmfutures.com. It reaches Petrus and Marisa directly, and we respond within two business days.
