Conducting Cost Effective Analysis and Baseline Surveys for Crop Yields
2013Overview
The Washington, D.C.-based Grassroots Business Fund (GBF) is a not-for-profit organization that uses a venture capital approach to support businesses in developing countries that provide sustainable economic opportunities to thousands of people at the Base of the Economic Pyramid. Student intern Owen Henkel worked with one of GBF’s portfolio companies, Corredor Agro, to implement a cost effectiveness analysis for a new capital expenditure, and also created a baseline survey regarding crop yields.