Awards
Carla Tanas, co-founder of FAC
says, “A warm congratulations to
Claire Reid, we are excited that our
championships was held for the first
time in its third leg in South Africa
and crowning a South African as
the most innovative agripreneur.”
Opening doors
Last year’s winner, Nicolás Morelli,
25 is the one of the heads behind
VACuCh an R&D company and
was awarded as the best industrial
innovation of Chile in 2016.
“Winning
the
championship
opened many doors for me and I
look forward to seeing what Reid
will achieve being propelled from
this platform.”
“We are experiencing a bottom
up approach in order to address
the revolution in agriculture. It
is interesting and scary to note
that while agriculture is 40% of
the world’s workforce, but only
contributes 3, 8% to global GDP.
This means we need to take action
otherwise more people will go
hungry,” adds Tanas.
Michalis Stangos, co-founder
of FAC concludes, “This year’s
Future Agro Challenge has been
so rewarding, it is mobilising
agripreneurs to make an impact
on individuals, families, and local
communities. We wish our 2017
Agripreneur of the Year winner
all the best and hope that her
business continues to grow and
serve the communities in which
she operates in.”
Judges - Agripreneur of the Year Championship
If you are an innovative
agripreneur with big ideas
and need resources to
develop your ideas that will
make a positive impact in
the world? Take up the 2018
challenge to help shape
the future of the agriculture
sector. Applications will be
open in early April 2017,
please keep an eye out
on www.Facagro.com and
perhaps next year you could
be Agripreneur of the year!
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