African Food Changemakers

Teff is found in 🇪🇷 Eritrea and 🇪🇹Ethiopia and is cultivated for its edible seeds. 🧇It can be eaten whole and steamed, boiled or baked as a side dish or main course 🧇It can be ground into flour to make an excellent gluten-free flour alternative. 🧇It can be used to make waffles, cookies, bread, crackers and an assortment of other baked goods 🧇It is a better source of iron than most other grains and also provides more calcium. To learn more, visit our website https://lnkd.in/dmpJarRF Source: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia #funfactsfriday #friday #teff #agriculture #food #nutrition #agriculturelife #changingnarratives #changingafricasnarrative

📢 Announcing Our Week Three BRACE Top Scholars! 🌟 Join us in celebrating the incredible achievements of our Week Three BRACE Top Scholars! These outstanding individuals have shown exceptional dedication and innovation in their agribusinesses. They are truly an inspiration to us all. Let's cheer them on and celebrate their success! 🎉🙌 Zebediah Sichinga Ebi Enoch Chukwuemeka Chikezie Kazeem Dauda Gabriel Kalichi Erick Karani Hon Adeola Yusuf Olajide Evangeline Izuakor Mohamed Mohamedy Ajayi Oladipupo Idris #TopScholars #BRACEProgram #Agripreneurs #ClimateResilience #AfricanAgriculture #inspiration

Sharing Insights from Week 3 BRACE Live Interactive Session ✍️ 💡Dr Ibrahim Yusuf and Rechi Dlamini led the cohorts on an illuminating session as they shared key strategies for logistics and distribution. They both emphasised the importance of sourcing for quality feed and going smart for agripreneurs. BRACE Participants, we’re eager to hear your thoughts! Share your key takeaways using #MyBRACEJourney. Let’s continue the conversation and inspire each other! #BRACE #ClimateAdaptation #TechInnovation #ClimateAdaptation #TechInnovation

What would you pick? Meanwhile, do you know that all these foods were made by African chefs? Africa is blessed with many talents and we are proud to know these creatives, fellows of The Leading African Women in Food Fellowship (LAWFF) Program. So tell us, what kind of person are you? We'd rather do bulk cooking and use chopsticks 😉 #AFC #changingnarratives #changingafricasnarrative #agripreneurs #africanchefs #africanbrands

Picture this: you drive into a farm, and you see livestock milling around, the plants are swaying in the wind, and then up ahead, just ahead of the corn stalks, you see, oh wait, solar panels beside the rows of yam. Welcome to 2024, where farmers embrace Agrivoltaics... Click the link to keep on reading... https://lnkd.in/dbZ-sNjJ

It's another Building Resilience Against Climate and Environmental Shocks (BRACE) Live Interactive Session, exclusively for BRACE Green Steward Cohort 2 Batch 2 participants! For week four, the speakers will explore the topic "Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies in Logistics and Production" Join us on Friday, August 9th, 2024, at 3 PM (WAT) for this enlightening and interactive session with Nnaemeka ikegwuonu and Adeyemi Adetola. Don't let your fellow BRACE participants miss out! Tag them in the comments below. @skippoo22 @wilfred.serikali @rchp_durmawa @i_am_queenviva @b_kadikilo @ddw_business_and_solutions_ltd @a_s_abdulhamid @jonell.consult @oluwafemij.olayemi #africanfoodchangemakers #BRACE #Climate #Climateresilience #Environment #liveinteractivesession #EmpoweringEntrepreneurs

Opportunities closing soon!!!🔥🔥🔥 The 2024 Womenpreneur Pitch-a-ton programme for Nigeria is offering financial grants, an exclusive certified capacity-building program and business coaching aimed at empowering women entrepreneurs. Interested female entrepreneurs who meet the criteria of having an existing business for at least one year with at least 50% female ownership and between the age range of 18- 55 years are eligible. 📌 mini MBA Scholarship and N5, 000, 000 in business grants 📌Deadline: 9th of August 2024 📌 Nigeria https://lnkd.in/dWEReX8 U.S. Embassy Djibouti invites proposals from local organizations to combat climate change and urban heat in Djibouti City through reforestation and sustainable landscaping. 📌 Grant 📌Deadline: 15th of August, 2024 📌 Djibouti https://lnkd.in/dQcdasxK The Matching Grant Fund for climate-resilient value chains is a unique opportunity for you to realize your goal! The maximum contribution channelled through GIZ will account for 40% (for cashew) or up to 50% (for other value chains) of the total project budget and can go up to 100.000 € 📌Deadline: 18th of August 2024 📌 Liberia, Guinea, Congo (DRC), Guinea Bissau, Eritrea https://lnkd.in/eRFEckcz The U.S. Embassy in Ouagadougou announces an open competition for organizations to submit applications to carry out a project to support the rehabilitation of an urban green site to mitigate climate change impacts, reduce net greenhouse gas emissions, and strengthen community livelihoods and resilience. 📌Grant 📌Deadline: 19th of August 2024 📌 Burkina Faso https://lnkd.in/djk-T7wh #community #africanfoodchangemakers #opportunities #funding #womenpreneur #agribusiness #usembassydjibouti #usembassyburkinafaso

Sharing Insights from our "First Thursday: August Edition 💡Tenemba Anna Samake shared financial insights for entrepreneurs and how they can leverage technology to drive innovation in the agro space. Aisata Guiro on the other hand emphasized the need for African entrepreneurs to understand production systems and how to navigate through them. Did you join in? What did you learn? Tell us in the comment section 👇 #AfricanFoodChangemakers #AFC #africulture #agric #AgriculturalInsights #TechInnovation

When we understand and appreciate this fact, the world will be a better and much healthier place. Dear Agripreneur, you are valuable. This week, be productive. Happy new week! #MondayMotivation #Mondaymood #agriculturalimpact #agripreneurs

Happy new month, everyone!!!🥳 We wish you productivity, progress and measurable success. This month, remember that networking is a necessity for an entrepreneur. Have a productive month ahead! 🌴 #AfricanFoodChangemakers #HappyNewMonth #NewMonth #August #HelloAugust