Buyiswa Twala

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  • Buyiswa Twala

Country :
South Africa
Sustainability Zone :
Sustainable Food Systems; Food Security; and Healthy Nutrition
When Buyiswa worked in farming — trying, and often struggling, to produce her own food — she experienced two root causes of Africa’s food security crisis firsthand: up to 65 percent of productive land across the continent is degraded, according to analysts; desertification affects 45 percent. With her business, Agrigreat Soiltech & Envirocare, this driven young CEO from South Africa makes affordable, environmentally-friendly compost — as a counter-force. To develop her product, she became an expert in organic chemistry and taught herself chemical formulation. A part-time job helped her buy what she needed to create a lab at home. There, she got to work on her prototype. Buyiswa’s vision is of a South Africa where people from all classes have access to healthy organic food that’s grown widely and successfully in rich,...
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Country :
South Africa
Sustainability Zone :
Sustainable Food Systems; Food Security; and Healthy Nutrition