Measureit247: February 2023

Monday 20 February 2023

Competition for the 2023 International Women’s Day Conference Pitch (N1,000,000 Prize)

The International Women Day Conference is a venue and a lighthouse for all female business owners to learn, connect, and get pertinent advice on how to achieve as a woman in every field.

Female entrepreneurs will have the chance to network with other successful women business owners who are strategic and brilliant innovators at this one-day intensive conference. Female investors and female business owners will also engage in conversation and create connections that will be mutually beneficial. To be eligible for a chance to pitch at the conference and win N1,000,000, apply.

Deadline:10th June 2023

Applications open for the Climate Science Olympiad 2023 a student contest to identify climate change remedies. Are you prepared to assume the role of a world leader?

The Climate Science Olympiad 2023 has three age brackets: under 16s, 17-19, and 20-25 years old. Regardless of age, participants compete in the same qualifiers and answer the same type of problem statements. However, we only compare participants within their age brackets.

Deadline: February 28, 2023

Applications open for the Rice University Business Plan Competition 2023. The competition, now in its 22nd year, gives collegiate entrepreneurs practical experience to pitch their ideas, enhance their business plans, and discover what it takes to found a successful company.

The “advancement of letters, science, and art” is the mission statement of Rice University, a private, independent institution. With a wide range of academic programs in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, engineering, architecture, music, and business management.

Deadline for Applications: February 25, 2023

The first cohort for the years 2022–2024. Was developed by the World Food Forum (WFF) Youth Action Track Focal Points Group (FPG). Which included 12 young leaders from throughout the world.

This group’s mission is to develop youth policy positions on food and agricultural issues. And to coordinate regional activities. It also provides strategic guidance for upcoming major events. And the Youth Action Assembly during the WFF flagship event. Which is held at the FAO Headquarters in Rome, Italy, in October of each year.

Deadline for applications: March 1st, 23:59 (CEST)

The World Food Program (WFP) Innovation Accelerator seeks for, promotes, and scales innovative new approaches to end world hunger and accomplish the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The World Food Program (WFP) Innovation Accelerator seeks for, promotes, and scales innovative new approaches to end world hunger and accomplish the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Agricultural Innovation for Climate Resilience Program seeks to assist agripreneurs and high-impact solutions in LMICs that address resource-efficient farming.

NIPC committed to making Nigeria preferred investment destination

The Nigerian Investment Promotion Council (NIPC) has expressed its commitment to ensure that Nigeria becomes a preferred investment destination of choice for investors.

Its Executive Secretary, Mrs Saratu Umar, said this at the NIPC stakeholders’ engagement forum with state Investment Promotion Agencies (IPAs) yesterday in Abuja.

The Co-founder, Shea Integrated Global Foundation (SIGF), Priscilla Nwosu, has said the shea market creates opportunities for women to thrive.

Nwosu stated this at a briefing on the Conservation and Livelihood Improvement of Women Through Shea Tree Value-Chain Development Project.

A Nigeria-based energy firm, Eden Lotus Power, has announced the launch of a new carbon offsetting app, Eden Zero, that would help users reduce activities that affect the environment.

The firm, in a statement, said Eden Zero was designed to make sustainable action accessible for everyone, by providing users with an easy way to measure and track their carbon footprint and actively reduce it through offsets.

A crowdfunding intermediary, Obelix, has raised N100 million from 9,324 registered small-ticket retail investors in the country, the company said in a statement yesterday.

Obelix, a subsidiary of Alternative Finance Limited, said the fund would be invested in three promising pre-selected Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Nigeria.

The Comptroller General of Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service (NAQS), Dr Vincent Isegbe, has said with the lifting of the ban on the exportation of hibiscus flower to Mexico, Nigeria will benefit a lot considering the huge investment in the sector’s value chain and foreign exchange earnings.

Two hundred Nigerian female entrepreneurs have been selected to pitch their sustainable business ideas to receive N2 million grants each, in the ongoing Y’ellopreneur initiative by MTN Foundation.

Deadline: June 15, 2023

Applications for the CMCC Climate Change Communication Award 2023 are now open. The CMCC Climate Change Communication Award “Rebecca Ballestra” aims to showcase and promote the most creative and impactful initiatives that:

WIPO Global Awards for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses in 2023 (SMEs)

March 31, 2023 is the deadline for submissions | WIPO Global Awards for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses in 2023 (SMEs)

The WIPO Global Awards honor outstanding businesses and individuals. Who creatively and innovatively exploit intellectual property for commercialization while simultaneously making a positive impact on society.

Deadline: May 9, 2023 | 2023 iF Social Impact Award (EUR 100,000)

The iF Social Impact Prize 2023 application period is currently open. The iF Social Impact Prize provides funding for initiatives that advance society. Your project is eligible if it contributes to achieving one or more of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

A total of EUR 100,000 will be awarded as prizes for the top projects. You are welcome to propose any initiatives, including CSR projects and active support for a particular societal issue, that assist to address the most pressing problems of our time and improve living conditions.

If you’re leading a non-profit or social venture, and you aspire to affect positive change on the scale of billions, you’ve come to the right place. (100x Impact Accelerator by LSE 2023 (£150,000 in funding))

We’re looking for the radical thinkers, the visionaries, the entrepreneurs who see a new world, a better world.

Deadline: 25-Mar-2023

Applications are now open for the First Innovation Small Call for Start-ups/SMEs from EU Member States or Third countries associated to Horizon Europe.

The primary focus of the Innovation Small Call will be on EIT Urban Mobility Strategic Objectives SO3/TSO3 Deploy and scale green, safe and inclusive and mobility solutions for people and goods and SO4/TSO4 Accelerate market opportunities with an agile innovation approach.

In its tenth year, the World Bank Group Youth Summit aims to engage youth on the most pressing issues impacting their generation, bringing together thousands of people from around the world. The theme of the 2023 Summit, From the Ground Up: Local Ideas to Drive Global Impact, highlights development solutions that are created locally, scaled up regionally, and elevated globally. This topic also reflects the World Bank Group’s commitment to developing local ownership, expertise, and solutions as essential components of tackling global development issues.

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Agri-Job Vacancy: Agro Extension Officers at Contec Global Group (6 Openings)

Location: Abuja (FCT), Gombe, Lagos, Osun, Plateau, and Taraba

Employment Type: Full-time

World Food Prize Laureate 2023 (Prize $250,000 )

The World Food Prize is awarded for a specific, exceptionally significant, individual achievement that advances human development with a demonstrable increase in the quantity, quality, availability of, or access to food through creative interventions at any point within the full scope of the food system.

Fields of achievement include, but are not limited to: soil and land; plant and animal science; food science and technology; nutrition; rural development; marketing; food processing, packaging and storage; water and the environment; natural resource conservation; physical infrastructure; transportation and distribution; special or extraordinary feeding programs; social organization and poverty elimination; economics and finance; policy analysis and implementation; and public advocacy.

How do you define your interest in Agribusiness?

To build a global brand?

To be self employed?

To build a side-hustle or another stream of income?

To get busy with something?

Application Deadline: Ongoing

Savvy is a global virtual Fellowship program, available in 111 languages, for passionate and brilliant young individuals seeking to be part of the new generation of impact entrepreneurs. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many have lost their jobs and are now living in an uncertain world. Also, due to the recent macroeconomic downturn, increased market competition, and revenue loss, many big and small companies continue to lay off their employees to become leaner and more efficient.

There are no deadlines. Applications are accepted year-round. Anyone from anywhere can apply.

The Catalyst Fund makes grants between $2,500–$15,000 to anyone, anywhere in the world who has an early-stage idea or project that addresses pressing global challenges.

Deadline: February 28, 2023

The Y&Y Fellowship is a highly customized program for passionate young social entrepreneurs around the world, accessible from wherever they live and work. More than 300 social businesses have been successfully accelerated in the past years.

The application deadline is 5:00 PM GMT on February 23rd, 2023.

The Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) invites African researchers to apply to our 2023-2024 CEGA Fellowship Request for Applications (RFA). The CEGA Fellowship Program equips early-career African social scientists with the skills to carry out rigorous impact evaluations of economic development programs and become champions for evidence-informed policy. Selected researchers will audit courses, develop skills in impact evaluation, access a personalized mentorship program to develop their research ideas, and build their research networks. Successful fellows will be invited to join the Network of Impact Evaluation Researchers in Africa (NIERA). We invite researchers from East and West Africa to apply for one of two opportunities:

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A Nigerian-based agricultural fintech company, Genesis360, has identified the cost of production, transportation, and electricity as key factors hindering the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises in the country.

In a statement, the Chief Executive Officer of the firm, Morakinyo Oluwadara, who decried the poor road infrastructure in the country, also blamed the hike in fuel prices for the shutdown of many agri-fintech companies in the country.

Tension is on the rise in Ose Local Government Area of Ondo State after herdsmen recently killed about six persons in Molege, Ute, Arimogija communities, over the refusal of farmers in the area to allow the herdsmen to graze on their farms. Here are the experiences of the residents and farmers in these communities.

For the umpteenth time, armed herdsmen again invaded the agrarian community in Ose Local Government Area of Ondo State, killing, injuring farmers, traders and destroying farmlands.The attack on the communities in the area, which include Arimogija, Ijagba, Molege, Ute and other communities in the Ose axis of the northern region of the state, was one of the bloodiest in the area in recent times.

Have you been having issues with pests on your farm and you have been researching on how to locally produce organic pesticide before now, if yes, then your search is over! In this resource, we are going to look into the best possible way of preparing organic pesticides in your farm by yourself.

Deadline: 28-Feb-23

HELIOZ is inviting expressions of interest from organizations, profit and non-profit to join its Water4Africa Partnership Program.

The program’s objective is to provide 1 million people in rural areas of developing African countries with access to safe drinking water, while promoting economic development and climate innovations.

This call aims to initiate partnerships for the development and implementation of several project proposals. They encourage organizations across all countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.

How to Prepare Organic Fertilizer With Ripe Bananas and other Ingredients

Have you been looking for means to improve productivity, increase yield by improving the fertility of your farm land, if yes, then this is for you. Organic Fertilizers makes food crops safer for human consumption and also protect our environment. They are also relatively cheap because they can be prepared with cheap ingredients that can be found readily available in the farm and environment.

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Thursday 9 February 2023

Joint Statement by the heads of FAO, IMF, World Bank, WFP and WTO

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director-General QU Dongyu, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, World Bank Group (WBG) President David Malpass, World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director David Beasley and World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala issued the following joint statement calling for continued urgent action to address the global crisis on food and nutrition security:

We offer our deepest sympathies to the people of Türkiye and the neighboring Syrian Arab Republic who have suffered the recent earthquakes. Our organizations are closely monitoring the situation, assessing the magnitude of the disaster, and working to mobilize necessary support in accordance with each organization’s mandates and procedures.

Experts identify factors militating against food sufficiency

Adverse weather conditions like global warming and climate change are some of the factors militating against high food yield and food security in the country, Kwara state government has said.

It added that the consequences would lead to global food insecurity.

Chairman, Kwara state Teaching Service Commission, Mallam Taoheed A. Bello, raised the alarm in Ilorin at the first international symposium on biotechnology and molecular science organized by the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ilorin.

The theme of the symposium is ‘visionary trends in biotechnology and molecular science.’

Some 1,700 farmers in Enugu have benefitted from N3.4 billion grants from the World Bank’s Agro-Processing, Productivity Enhancement and Livelihood Improvement Support (APPEALS) project in the state.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), this was made known recently during the flag off of the implementation of “Women and Youths Empowerment Programme (WYEP)” by Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi in Enugu.

APPEALS project is solely funded by the World Bank to improve livelihood of women and youths and it is supported by the Enugu State Government.

Agro-Processing, Productivity Enhancement and Livelihood Improvement Support (APPEALS) is a six year World Bank assisted project designed in line with the Agricultural Promotion Policy (APP) of the Federal Government.

The project has a target of reaching 60,000 persons in the six participating states, but from the last review of the project implementation, about 55,864 persons have been assisted in the project.

It is expected that 35 per cent of the beneficiaries of the project will be women and youths who will be empowered along Rice, Cocoa, Poultry, Cashew, Maize, Ginger, Diary, Wheat, Tomato, Cassava and Aquaculture value chains.

Competitions and Awards

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Deadline - 28 February,2023

Country - Africa

Open to - All

Organizer - Youth Tourism Summit

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Our objectives

Innovation: Make Expo City Dubai a hub for global innovations that both inspires, and acts as a catalyst for creative and scalable solutions
Partnerships: Establish a network for collaboration between nations, organisations, and innovators via shared environmental challenges
Impact: Create tangible impact that improves the lives of people around the world and the status of our planet, by supporting the development and application of new solutions
Engagement: Foster a community of agents of change by first sensitizing them to climate challenges, and then engaging with them to collectively create impact solutions

We back exceptional early-stage ventures that are made in Africa. Application closes on March 31, 2023.

Madica is a structured investment program for pre-seed stage companies in Africa. Madica aims to empower mission-driven founders by democratizing access to world-class company building support, which is available today only to a few well-networked entrepreneurs.

World-class venture building support for African founders!

Madica will inspire and empower mission-driven founders with access to world-class support, mentorship, resources and networks throughout their startup journey.

Norrsken Impact Accelerator 2023

If you win, we all win!

Closes February 28, 2023

Program dates - Jul 25 - Sep 29

Organizer - Norrsken Foundation

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Targets - Africa, Americas, Antarctica Region, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Europe, Micronesia

Sectors - Sector agnostic

SDG (17) - All

Grow Impact Accelerator Cohort 4

Driving Transformative Change in our Global AgriFood System

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Closes February 28, 2023

Organizer - GROW

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Targets - Africa, Americas, Antarctica Region, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Europe, Micronesia

Sectors - Agribusiness, Accounting services, Adtech, Agritech, Biofuels, Biomass, Business services, Clean technology, Fintech, Food production, Green transportation and electric motors, HealthTech, Hydropower, ICT, Internet, Internet of things (IoT), Renewable energy, Waste management and recycling, Wind power

SDG (17) - All

SAIS Investment Readiness Programme 2023 – Farmed Animal Tech Start-ups

For digital and sustainable start-ups in the African livestock value chain

Closes February 13, 2023

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Organizer - GIZ

Targets - Africa

Sectors - Agritech, Animal farming, Business services, Clean technology and energy, Cloud solutions, Farm machinery, Financial services, Food production, ICT, Information technology, Software as a Service, Transport and logistics, Wind power

SDG (6) - 1. No Poverty, 12. Responsible Consumption and Production, 15. Life on Land, 2. Zero Hunger, 8. Decent Work and Economic Growth, 9. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure.

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Nigeria-based agritech startup ThriveAgric has been selected as the West African winners of the annual AYuTe Africa Challenge, receiving a $1m grant prize.

Organised by Heifer International, the Agriculture Youth Technology (AYuTe) Challenge was set up to support young entrepreneurs working to scale food security on the continent by developing and deploying affordable tech solutions to support smallholder farmers.

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