Access Agriculture is now accepting proposal from young people living in Latin America, Africa or Asia-Pacific for its 2019 Young Entrepreneur Challenge Fund. The deadline for submission of entries is 21st March, 2019.
Do you have a business idea or an existing business around the dissemination of agricultural videos? Are you younger than 30 years, living in Latin America, Africa or Asia-Pacific? If your answer is yes, check out the young entrepreneur challenge fund.
Access Agriculture is a non-profit organisation that supports the distribution of quality training videos to share practical knowledge on farming and food processing across the global South. Farmers in Latin America, Africa and Asia can learn from their peers on other continents.
Women and young people are the future and backbone of agricultural development. Promoting agriculture as a business has gained currency in recent times to create more economic value and to encourage youth into agriculture.
Agriculture has been supported by rapid developments in information and communication technologies (ICT). Across developing countries mobile financial services are booming. Likewise, social media and apps help farmers forecast the weather or know about market prices.
Through the Young Entrepreneur Challenge Fund (YECF), Access Agriculture is requesting young people to propose innovative ideas to make a business, or expand their existing business, around the dissemination of agricultural videos. Through this competitive grant, the most inspiring and promising young entrepreneurs will receive a Digisoft smart projector. This projector has an in-built computer and contains the entire Access Agriculture library with over 200 videos in more than 75 international and local languages. The smart projector comes with a battery and a portable solar panel, so videos can be shown without the internet or electricity.
By building on the ICT skills and networks of young men and women, we believe we can better train farmers and make agriculture more attractive to youth and reach more women.
Access Agriculture Young Entrepreneur Challenge Fund Eligibility.
- One person or teams of up to 4 young people can submit a proposal
- Age: younger than 30 years
- Country of residence: any country in Latin America, Africa or Asia-Pacific
Access Agriculture Young Entrepreneur Challenge Fund Proposal guidelines, submission and review process.
- You need to be registered and logged in on Access Agriculture before you can submit an application form
- Individuals or teams of up to 4 people can submit
- Each person can only be part of one proposal
- Submission of proposals is only through our online system
- The form must be submitted at one sitting, so decide what you want to write for each section and then copy and paste the information into the appropriate section on the form
- No email or other type of applications will be accepted
- You need to present the key ideas of your business proposal as laid out in the submission form
- Proposals need to be submitted before 21st March 2019
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