2024 Global AgriFood TechPreneur Programme
About
Global AgriFood TechPreneur Programme is a food system sustainability business development programme designed to last for 12 months.
The Global AgriFood TechPreneur is focused on supporting young graduates to engage in addressing key food sustainability challenges in their country to improve food production and distribution, end hunger, end obesity and malnutrition while preventing food waste.
Young graduates are invited to submit an application about a food system challenge in their country and their solution to addressing it. All qualified proposals submitted for AgriFood TechPreneur programme will be promoted in March as we celebrate World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development.
All qualified AgriFood TechPreneur will be enrolled in a 6 week interactive course on Entrepreneurship, Tech and Sustainability in the Food System starting in April and supported by RBS via Business Builder platform.
Eligibility Criteria:
To be considered for the Global AgriFood TechPreneur Programme:
Interested applicants must be available for the duration of the programme. Supports made available to the AgriFood TechPreneurs will be dependent on the quality of their proposal, their participation at the he 6 week interactive course on Entrepreneurship, Tech and Sustainability in the Food System and the supports that our partners can provide to them.
Benefits:
To support the AgriFood TechPreneurs to apply for finance to start or scale up their solution by improving their business plan based on the learning from the 6 week interactive course on Entrepreneurship, Tech and Sustainability in the Food System. Where a small scale trial is feasible, we will encourage the AgriFood TechPreneur to explore it as it will boost their business plan.
