Tag: youth

Benin: The trio of inventors-innovators

AgribusinessTV November 21, 2017 5002 No Comments

image

Franck, Francis and Calixte are passionate about creating things. In Benin, they are conceiving different technologies for food and agriculture. Frank and Francis are twin brothers. While they were at school itself, they started vegetable production at the back of their house through the financial support of an acquain

Read More

Cote d’Ivoire: Student and aspiring agri-entrepreneur

AgribusinessTV November 14, 2017 3881 No Comments

image

Marie-Therese TANOH is a student in Economics. Recently, she ventured into the production of cassava and vegetables. Marie-Therese got interested in agriculture following a course that she did on agricultural economics at University. She discovered the importance of the agriculture to her country’s economy and its ro

Read More

Régis EZIN: “Failure is still a beautiful thing when you know how to take advantage of it”

AgribusinessTV November 7, 2017 3239 No Comments

image

Regis EZIN is a serial entrepreneur from Benin. While he has had many successes, Regis has also known failures in his career. In this video, he tells us about one of his initiatives that did not work very well, but he learned a lot from the experience.

Read More

Michel JOSEPH: “Behind every successful person, there are surely failures”

AgribusinessTV October 31, 2017 3954 No Comments

image

Michel JOSEPH, journalist at the Caribbean Radio, has had many successes. Recently, he won the prize of the Young Francophone of the Year 2017. Michel became very popular in his country by specialising in social issues. But behind his success and popularity of Michel lies also some failures that he shares in this video

Read More

Sarah MESBAHI: “When you fall off your horse, you have to go back up”

AgribusinessTV October 24, 2017 4560 No Comments

image

Sarah MESBAHI is a young chocolatier from Belgium. With a background in Human Resource Management, Sarah had a passion for chocolate making. And to bring her passion to a professional level, she decided to take a course in chocolate and confectionery, and she completed it by attending evening classes. After her graduat

Read More

Charly Tchatch: “Sometimes, we need to fail to discover that good door which is ours”

AgribusinessTV October 17, 2017 4201 No Comments

image

In this first video of our series on “Our Sweet Failures”, Charly Tchatch, a young entrepreneur from Gabon shares his story and reflections on failure. These difficult situations that has led him to unexpected success.

Read More

Burkina Faso: M’YAABA, solar incubators made in Burkina

AgribusinessTV October 3, 2017 3722 9 Comments

image

Eugène ROUAMBA is an electrician, and has a passion for poultry breeding. He uses his knowledge in electronic conception to develop a range of high-performing solar incubators of different capacities: 200, 400, 1000, 3000 eggs. “Very often, people take me for a crazy person because of the work that we are doing. Peo

Read More

Kenya: Low cost organic fertilizer from farm waste

AgribusinessTV September 19, 2017 2724 3 Comments

image

Samuel Wanderi RIGU is the founder of Safi Organics Limited, a company that manufactures a low cost organic fertilizer from crops’ waste. Samuel saw that farmers were using expensive fertilizers to increase their yield, but instead the yield was decreasing. For him, this was inacceptable and he had to bring a solutio

Read More

Cameroon: From helper to multi-millionaire farmer in 7 years

AgribusinessTV September 12, 2017 2030 1 Comment

image

Auréol Sinclair MBAKOP is an agro-industry and food engineer. In 2010, he started the production of pineapple on ½ ha. Today, he cultivates several crops on over 100 ha. Auréol developed a passion for agriculture since his childhood when he went to his grandparents’ place and worked in the fields during school hol

Read More

Cote d’Ivoire: The queen of “garba”

AgribusinessTV September 5, 2017 4062 No Comments

image

Justine YAO did not get the chance to go to school. She has transformed her sewing workshop into production site for cassava semolina called “attieke”. With her sewing business, Justine was not able to cater for the needs of her family and pay the house rent by the end of each month. Therefore, she started Read More