Tag: AWP Network Agropreneur

• The King Baudouin Foundation Honors Founder of WeCyclers, Bilikiss Adebiyi-Abiola

  

  On October 25, The King Baudouin Foundation, the leading resource for philanthropic giving to Europe and Africa, held a private dinner at Sea Grill in New York City to honor Bilikiss Adebiyi-Abiola the founder of WeCyclers. WeCyclers is a Lagos-based social enterprise focused on giving low-income communities in developing countries a chance to capture value from…

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  November 12, 2019

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• AWP Network Agribusiness Training for Women

  

  The AWP Network continues to work with women farmers in Taraba State, Nigeria. For this training session, AWP partnered with locally-based entrepreneur Zanau Hassan Maikusuwa, a seasoned farmer and CEO of Farmfields Agro-Allied Services with funding support from the Planet Earth Institute. Zanau Hassan will continue to coordinate and manage the day-to-day activities of the…

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  March 21, 2016

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• Founder of the AWP Network on How to Improve the Lives of Women Farmers

  

  “It’s about creating an ecosystem and putting women farmers in the supply chain of how agriculture is done specifically in Nigeria.” Africa Data Challenge Winner Mary Olushoga – Helping Nigerian women farmers become entrepreneurs Co-winner of the Planet Earth Institute’s Africa Data Challenge, Mary Olushoga is the founder of AWP Network. In this interview, she…

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  April 7, 2015

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  Africa, African youths, agriculture, agropreneurs, awards, AWP Network, AWP Network Agropreneur, AWP Network The African Women Power Network, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Farmers, girls, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, Lagos, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, mobile technology, my voice matters, Nigeria, Planet Earth Institute, program, progress, public policy, small business, solutions, South Africa, strategy, support, sustainability, Taraba State, technology, The AWP Network, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, women farmers, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth, youth unemployment, Youths, Zanau Hassan Maikasuwa

• Planet Earth Institute Invests in the AWP Network Agropreneur Project

  

  The Planet Earth Institute (PEI), an international NGO working for the scientific independence of Africa has made a commitment to fund the AWP Network Agropreneur project.  Dr Álvaro Sobrinho, chairman of the Planet Earth Institute said, “data holds a huge amount of promise for scientific development in Africa and for many different business sectors too, but we have…

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  January 13, 2015

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  Africa, African youths, AWP Network, AWP Network Agropreneur, Álvaro Sobrinho, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Farmers, growth, idea, Innovation, Inspiration, leadership, marketing, Mary Olushoga, my voice matters, Nigeria, Planet Earth Institute, program, progress, small business, solutions, strategy, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, training, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, young voices, youth