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“We want Africans to be healthy, we want malnutrition to be a thing of the past on the continent. This will be achieved when nutritious food across Africa is widely distributed,” says Lawrence Alaba AFERE, founder of SPRINGBPARD Nigeria.
Springboard is a cooperative of Cocoa, Plantain and Rice smallholder farmers in Nigeria. It aims to empower 100,000 farmers across Nigeria by 2030.
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