Cairo, Egypt – 23 November 2025:
engazaat was named the winner of the Disruptive Duo for Market Innovation Award at the Egypt Entrepreneur Awards (EEA) 2025, recognizing its cross-sector partnership with Nestlé to build a reliable, low-carbon, and locally anchored sourcing ecosystem.
The award highlights a collaboration that began in 2024, when Nestlé sought an Egyptian partner capable of providing sustainably produced agricultural inputs for its brands, while strengthening water and energy efficiency across its operations and farmer network. engazaat offered a model that removes capital hurdles, delivers clean infrastructure as a service, and embeds farmer training directly into the value chain. engazaat created a sourcing system grounded in local production rather than imported inputs.
With Nestlé sponsoring this shared value initiative to achieve its global Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and regenerative agriculture commitments, engazaat designed and delivered a tailored program that has already trained over 650 farmers and agricultural professionals, with a plan to exceed 5,000 farmers over the next five years.
Muhammad El Demerdash, Co-Founder and CEO of engazaat, said:
“Through our partnership with Nestlé, engazaat is deploying 5 MW of solar infrastructure, managing and treating water at up to 95% efficiency, and extending regenerative agriculture support to Nestlé’s farmer network across Cairo, Alexandria, the Delta, and Upper Egypt. These results show what happens when infrastructure is designed around real constraints, namely affordability, reliability, and the needs of the people who keep supply chains running. EEA’s recognition is a culmination of dedication to building systems that make clean energy, water efficiency, and regenerative agriculture accessible to farmers and industries alike. As we grow across the region and globally, our focus revolves around building infrastructure that supports livelihoods and anchors sourcing in reliable, local production.”
This collaboration sits within engazaat’s broader work as one of Egypt’s most integrated clean-infrastructure companies, with a vision to democratize access to sustainable resources by removing upfront capital and technical barriers. engazaat designs, finances, builds, owns, and operates solar and water assets while providing agronomic support and capacity-building programs through engazaat Agro, and its ecosystem of companies. Its subscription-based model is based on Pay-As-You-Go and Buy-Now-Pay-Later financing, eliminating upfront investment requirements for both companies and farmers. This allows farmers to upgrade to modern systems without capital burden, allowing for solar energy to replace diesel, waste-cuts through smart irrigation, rising productivity, and falling operating costs.
Today, engazaat manages more than 15 million cubic meters of water annually, operates 63 MW of developed solar capacity, and has delivered over USD 70 million in in Water-Energy-Food projects. Its portfolio includes large-scale developments such as Egypt’s largest off-grid desert reclamation project, major solar-powered desalination deployments for open-field irrigation, and one of the region’s largest industrial rooftop solar installations. engazaat’s contributions were previously highlighted by the Ministry of Planning during COP27, bringing national visibility to its approach and accelerating demand for its model nationwide.
Following sustained growth in Egypt, engazaat is now expanding into the Middle East and Africa, including establishing operations in Lebanon and Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM).
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About engazaat
engazaat is a pioneering Egyptian company transforming access to clean energy, water, and sustainable agriculture, with operations expanding across the Middle East and Africa. Through its holding entity, engazaat consolidates five sister companies spanning Solar-and-Water Infratech, Sustainable Agriculture Value-Added-Services and De-Risking Tools, Water-Energy-Food Ecosystem Capacity Building and Acceleration Programs, Asset Management, and Fund Management. It delivers clean-tech utilities and infrastructure as a service, removing capital and technical barriers for commercial, industrial, and agricultural communities. engazaat’s business model involves privatizing clean Infratech via delivering the full development value chain – design, finance, build, own, and operate solar water assets to serve all sectors on a Pay-As-You-Go basis.
Today, it produces and manages over 15 million cubic meters of water annually – equivalent to supplying a city of more than one million people, developed $70 million in Water-Energy-Food projects, and 63 MW of Solar Energy Projects, with sizeable decarbonization and job creation impact, deployed an Operation-and-Maintenance Hub of 500 MW capacity, and undergoing a nationwide capacity building program for 5,000+ farmers and growing.
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