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

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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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AWP Network Agribusiness Training for Women

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

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\”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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Planet Earth Institute Invests in the AWP Network Agropreneur Project

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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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