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Mission

Building a more resilient food system across the Americas.

Appetite for resilience

America's appetite is hemispheric.

Its food industrial architecture isn't.

America wants optionality. Not replacement. Not isolation. More qualified partners and productive geographies capable of stepping up.

The strategic need

America wants optionality.

Resilience requires more than additional suppliers on a map. It requires qualified partners and productive geographies capable of stepping up when supply chains are disrupted.

The moment

Partners are being selected now.

Qualification histories, industrial capacity and commercial relationships established now can shape supply networks for years.

The Dominican Gateway

The Dominican Republic is the gateway.

The Americas are the opportunity.

An established industrial export platform deeply integrated with the United States.

The export architecture already exists. The opportunity is to connect agriculture to it.

~0% of Dominican exports to the United States come through the free-zone system.* *Derived from governing 2025 official Dominican trade data. Full methodology and sources in the evidence layer.
WHY HERE? · THE DOMINICAN ADVANTAGE

An agricultural base connected to an established export platform.

Year-round agriculture and diverse productive geography sit alongside a trainable workforce, an export-oriented free-zone system, inland connectivity and established logistics infrastructure. The opportunity is to create more value before export.

WHY NOW? · THE U.S. DEMAND PULL

More supply only matters if the market can use it.

Institutional buyers increasingly value food that arrives closer to usable form. Moving repetitive preparation into qualified industrial production can reduce preparation at destination while improving consistency, convenience and operating simplicity.

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Horizontal Integration

Expand the network of qualified supply.

More productive geographies and industrial partners give the market more places to turn when supply is disrupted.

More qualified sources→More optionality→Greater resilience
02

Vertical Industrialization

Turn agricultural potential into qualified food capacity.

Transformation, preparation and qualification move closer to origin—creating more value before export and delivering food closer to the form the market actually uses.

Agriculture→Transformation→Preparation→Qualification

Market proof · defined comparable import universe

The market is already moving in this direction.

US$2.50BN Prepared / value-added frozen 62.3% · ~11% CAGR
US$1.51BN Plain frozen vegetables 37.7% · ~4% CAGR

Defined comparable frozen-import universe: US$4.01BN. Not the total U.S. frozen-food market or AFG total addressable market.

Value created on both sides

More value before export. Less preparation after import.

Producing regions participate in more of the activity between crop and customer. Destination kitchens receive food closer to usable form—with less repetitive preparation, greater consistency and lower operating complexity.

The human truth

The farmer shouldn't have to stop at the crop.

The kitchen shouldn't have to start at the crop.

AFG integrates both

AFG is the industrial layer of a hemispheric food system.

Horizontal Integration expands qualified supply. Vertical Industrialization turns agricultural potential into qualified food capacity. AFG organizes both into a more resilient hemispheric food system.

Supply More qualified sources.
Capacity More food the market can use.
System More optionality. Greater resilience.

Operating proof

From agriculture to qualified industrial capacity.

Preparation, transformation, qualification and export execution are the capabilities that connect agricultural production to institutional demand.