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Dysmus Kisilu is helping small farmers in sub-Saharan Africa
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3/25/2025
1.3 billion tons. That's how much food is wasted every year.
And it's the challenge this young entrepreneur his trying to tackle in sub-Saharan Africa.
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In the Western countries, such as Europe and America, it's a lot of food waste, whereby
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you have like a big burger and you just eat half of it and you throw the other half.
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But in Africa, the problem is food loss.
00:29
What this means is when a farmer harvests a tomato, it doesn't even reach the market,
00:35
it spoils at their farm, because they don't have access to cooling facilities, to storage,
00:39
and these are the challenges that we are trying to tackle.
00:59
Say you're like a fresh produce farmer, so this is like a fruit, let's say a mango or
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a tomato, and you just harvested it and you don't have a market for it.
01:23
So we tell you, like you send an SMS and you ask is there space in the cold storage and
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we reply, yes there is space, and we provide a logistic service where you just come with
01:33
it and you store.
01:51
This ideally helps you reduce the desperation of selling at a cheap price, because you don't
01:57
have a market, and then it also helps you preserve your produce for longer.
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If food loss was a country, it would be the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases
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after the US and China, that's like a very big country.
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On top of that, the impact of food loss is not only in climate, you can see it in the
02:27
water use, and it's a lot of land that gets wasted, because you have to cut forests to
02:32
increase your cultivation, you have to remove the biodiversity to increase the agricultural
02:39
yields.
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So if you maximise with the land that you have and you increase your productivity, you're
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going to have more, which means that you're going to utilise the land much better and
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water use much better, and it's better for the climate and better for your stomach also.
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