Winners of Food
GOLD WINNER – Doti Gold
Team 15: Benjamin Moore, Anja Rabezanahary, Eric Nwoko, Courage Saba, and Blessing Mene Edward Odgers
Solution:
Doti Gold is a for-profit organization that transforms food waste to gold (animal feed and fertiliser) using the Black Soldier Flies. Doti Gold will produce more affordable inputs mainly proteins for fish and bio fertiliser for crops contributing to farmer’s livelihoods. Urban and rural households will have access to affordable and nutritious food including proteins from fish and chicken contributing to zero hunger.
SILVER WINNER – The Milky Way
Team 14: Oliver Klewe, Nicola Dravers, Esther Mienis and Fouad Elshaghabe
Solution: The Milky Way offers a really simple, scaleable and on the ground solution that will help
standardise the post-harvest stage, give confidence to companies investing in the dairy industry, and ultimately mean that smallholder farmers can increase their income, feed and educate their children and community and know that their delicious quality milk is not going to waste.
BRONZE WINNER – HarvestHub
Team 9: Alexandra Berns, Magda Michalikova, Prince Prosper, Rachel Voss and Sabeen Dhanani
Solution: HarvestHub connects farmers in Tanzania to post-harvest services including storage, processing, transportation, and direct connections to markets. Leveraging existing USSD technologies, high mobile phone penetration and mobile money services, HarvestHub will allow farmers to contract services on demand, and pay for the exact time and duration they need. By giving farmers a range of options postharvest, HarvestHub will reduce food loss and improve farmer livelihoods.