Within a space of two years, JATI Investments, one of flourishing businesses supported by CAT, has registered exponential growth in its farm operations and contribute significantly towards smallholder value chain diversification in Lilongwe district. Since 2019 when CAT partnered with the company, JATI Investments has scaled up its satellite farm operations from one to four farmer clubs, with three of them actively producing 500kgs of mushroom monthly which is sold at food service channels, households, hotels, and restaurants. Construction of additional mushroom production sheds are currently underway, a development which has attracted the entrepreneurial eye of other impact investors who have expressed interest to partner with CAT. JATI Investments is already leaving footprints in its business niche of mushroom production, which has provided hope for jobs to the surrounding communities. The company has already started witnessing poverty reduction and community transformation even though the full impact of the intervention will manifest a few more years from now. “The support from CAT is unique and directly respond to our business goals despite Covid-19 pandemic which has negatively affected most businesses in the country,” says Temwani Gunda, Managing Director for JATI Investments. Under its Hub and Spoke Model, the company now owns a central farm as a hub and contracts women and youth groups that produce button mushrooms through low-cost community farming techniques in community satellite farms as spokes. The groups are then trained and provided with inputs for mushroom production thereby, creating jobs and developing skills in mushroom farming and processing. JATI Investments started in 2016 to lead and improve smallholder button mushroom farming using social impact investments model of “Hub and Spoke”. It provides market linkages between smallholder farmer mushroom producer groups and existing and potential mushroom market establishments