{"id":79050,"date":"2019-06-12T05:05:21","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T03:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=79050"},"modified":"2019-06-12T05:14:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T03:14:55","slug":"econet-partners-yara-in-youth-dvt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/06\/12\/econet-partners-yara-in-youth-dvt\/","title":{"rendered":"Econet partners Yara in youth dvt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Serah Makondetsa:<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_79057\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79057\" style=\"width: 412px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/strive-masiyiwa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-79057\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/strive-masiyiwa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/strive-masiyiwa.jpg 412w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/strive-masiyiwa-300x266.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-79057\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MASIYIWA\u2014Africa is full of entrepreneurs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>PAN-African telecommunications, media and technology group Econet has partnered global crop nutrition leader, Yara International initiative, to inspire young African entrepreneurs to join the agri-food sector as a viable business.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued Tuesday, the two institutions say, through a project called Generation Africa, they intend to reach thousands of young people in the agri-food sector.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThe initiative will support a cohort of 12 budding young agri-food entrepreneurs to scale and prosper their ventures.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Across Africa\u2019s agri-food chain, innovations can be found in how we grow, harvest, process, store, transport, package, sell and consume food.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cTogether with the pioneers of Africa\u2019s next generation, we want to seize these opportunities,\u201d<\/em> said Svein Tore Holsether, President and CEO of Yara.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Africa has about 600 million hectares of arable land, yet it imports food worth $35 billion a year, a figure that is estimated to rise to $100 billion by 2025.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cAfrica is full of entrepreneurs. We have more entrepreneurs than any other continent.\u201d<\/em> Econet\u2019s founder and Group Chairperson Strive Masiyiwa said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Generation Africa\u2019s vision is to strengthen the ecosystem for youth entrepreneurs in the agrifood sector across the continent, allowing them to unlock this untapped potential.<\/p>\n<p>Generation Africa\u2019s GoGettaz competition is open to young, adult agrifood entrepreneurs, aged 35 and under, from across Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serah Makondetsa: PAN-African telecommunications, media and technology group Econet has partnered global crop nutrition leader, Yara International initiative, to inspire young African entrepreneurs to join the agri-food sector as a viable business. In a statement issued Tuesday, the two institutions say, through a project called Generation Africa, they intend to reach thousands of young people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79050"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79059,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79050\/revisions\/79059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}