One-line solution summary:
Food Safety and Standards, Processing & Production.
Pitch your solution.
In the African context, the standardization and certification of forest products is an innovation because these products are 99% of the time consumed in their raw state either as food or as medicines, we seek to transform them to secure populations in terms of dosage, quality and packaging to allow the greatest number to consume them. As far as food products are concerned, we want to adapt African cooking methods with industrial manufacturing to preserve African flavours and originality. We intend to manufacture 100% organic products by identifying the active ingredients of each product to manufacture food supplements to reduce the occurrence of non-communicable diseases. Our project aims to build climate resilience by increasing the forest cover with new plantations of trees and plants considered essential to feed humans and animals while sequestering large amounts of CO2.
What specific problem are you solving?
51 million people are threatened by hunger in Central Africa while this sub-region has a biodiversity capable of curbing hunger and malnutrition.
What is your solution?
Our company aims to develop food products and food supplements based on organic products from the primary forests of the Congo Basin, these products have not only very important nutritional properties, but also curative properties. These products help prevent diseases such as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, etc. to fight hunger, malnutrition, obesity, , anaemia and Covid 19. .Cultural impact This project will have a leverage effect in terms of promoting cultural industries in Africa because the enhancement of African culture also involves the promotion of traditional uses and technologies, products and consumption patterns.
Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?
African rural and urban people still consume Africann products in a traditional way without transformation or standardization These populations are exposed to several dangers, including viruses transmitted by animals such as primates and bats, and there is no such thing as drug dosages.
We want develop food and food supplements capable of strengthening the hymunitary system, reducing fat and sugar levels.
Which dimension of the Challenge does your solution most closely address?
Aggregate local projects to enable access to financial capital for ecosystem services such as natural hazard mitigation, water quality, and carbon storage.Explain how the problem you are addressing, the solution you have designed, and the population you are serving align with the Challenge.
Our beneficiaries are malnourished children, adults suffering from hunger, obesity, anaemia etc... Rural populations will be financially empowered through forest product collection activities and young people will find sustainable jobs.Our project has planned to recruit 141 young people in the form of direct employment and empower 50,000 villagers living on less than US$ 2 per day around the community forests where we will collect the products, these people will collect, transport and sell their products. This will allow the villagers to have financial flows to support themselves and create other income-generating activities.Gabonese populations are victims of the ravages of plantations by pachiderm and other wild beasts. Our project which aims to plant 100,000 ha of tree plantations and other plants useful for human and animal consumption goes through our intelligent system of product collection goes to the fure and to reserve the largest quantities of products collected in the forest for animals to intensify reforestation in order to also sequester more and more quantities of Co2 to fight effectively against climatic changes.
In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?
Libreville, GabonExplain why you selected this stage of development for your solution.
Because we are looking fund for:
-Carrying out feasibility, market and technological benchmark studies to refine the design of our project.
-Analysis and construction of business models / business plans to define our positioning
-Strategy definition, technical and economic analysis, process structuring, identification of partners to deploy our solution / business model on a large scale.
-Environmental and socio-economic impact assessment
What is your solution’s stage of development?
Pilot: An organization deploying a tested product, service, or business model in at least one community.Who is the Team Lead for your solution?
bertin IKOUMBOU IKOUMBOU , Founder and CEO
Which of the following categories best describes your solution?
A new business model or process that relies on technology to be successfulWhat makes your solution innovative?
Our project is innovative because of the fact that artisanal prototypes of a large number of these products already exist on the African market, our action which consists in standardizing and certifying them will make it possible to the populations to consume them like food or like drugs with safety, this thanks to the respect of the conventional manufacturing standards.
Please select the technologies currently used in your solution:
Select the key characteristics of your target population.
Which of the UN Sustainable Development Goals does your solution address?
In which countries do you currently operate?
In which countries will you be operating within the next year?
How many people does your solution currently serve? How many will it serve in one year? In five years?
currently 1.500.000 people consume our products, in one year we expect to reach 20.000.000 people and in five years 90.000.000 people in the sub region
How are you measuring your progress toward your impact goals?
Our valuation methodology is clearly defined as follows:
It is aligned with the economic priorities of the community,. Aligned with local / regional economic development strategies.
. Clearly demonstrates that our impact goals are necessary and wanted by the community.
Make it clear that the investment method chosen is likely to yield positive results. Feasibility Strong Very achievable without any significant unresolved technical, legal or operational issues.
Legitimacy Stakeholder involvement Strong support from a diverse set of project stakeholders. Involved these stakeholders in the development and implementation of the project. Give stakeholders a voice and decision-making capacity in certain elements of the investment design. Trust of the community which strongly supports the project and its objectives.
Strong confidence in the investors and developers involved.
Knows a concrete plan to involve community members as the project progresses.
Strong political commitment Provide strong and vocal support. Action Measure Strong We have identified a comprehensive set of quantitative and qualitative impact measures that match our impact goals.
We have defined specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-based goals.
Creating a concrete plan to monitor metrics, report progress to important stakeholders, and adjust the investment approach as needed over time.
Internal alignment Strong We have identified all the people and organizations responsible for achieving our impact goals.
We made sure they shared our vision for impact. Created specific incentives that match our impact goals.
Strong management that ensures people understand their roles and responsibilities in achieving these goals. Create an actionable plan to ensure progress is made.
What type of organization is your solution team?
Hybrid of for-profit and nonprofit
How many people work on your solution team?
03 full-time staff
04 part-time staff
60 volunteers
How long have you been working on your solution?
03
How are you and your team well-positioned to deliver this solution?
Our founder is specialized in project management, social entrepreneurship and business management He received the AGOA Civil Society Leadership Awar idn 2015 .
Our biochemist is a university professor, former director of studies at
The Gabonese Institute of Agronomy and Biotechnology and is currently deputy director general of the International Medical Research Center of Franceville.
The specialist in plant biotechnology has a master's degree and is a researcher at the national center for scientific and technological research.
The phytochist is a doctor and a teacher-researcher at the National Institute of Agronomy and Biotechnology.
We have already realized the identity cards of the various products, identified the techniques of collection, conservation, transport and transformation of a great number of products.
All these people have already carried out surveys and work with the populations we serve.
What is your approach to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive leadership team?
Our criteria are competence, application of the gender approach and ethnic balance.
Do you primarily provide products or services directly to individuals, to other organizations, or to the government?
Individual consumers or stakeholders (B2C)Why are you applying to Solve?
We submit to solve not only for funding, networking to find financial and technological partners but also for visibility and a strategic partnership.
Africa has several traditional technologies that deserve to be valorized, this process is complex because the natural resources are very diversified. Our solution consists in adapting these traditional technologies to industrial transformation modes.
In which of the following areas do you most need partners or support?
Please explain in more detail here.
We are looking for a multiform support because our project is complex structuring and transversal, which obliges us to work with Solve to benefit from all the opportunities of training, industrial and technological companionship
What organizations would you like to partner with, and how would you like to partner with them?
We wish to find technological partners in the field of plant food biotechnologies and in bio-pharmaceuticals, we wish to do co-creation with partners able to accompany us from the idea to the project by drawing on traditional and modern practices.
Do you qualify for and would you like to be considered for The Andan Prize for Innovation in Refugee Inclusion? If you select Yes, explain how you are qualified for the prize in the additional question that appears.
Yes, I wish to apply for this prize
Explain how you are qualified for this prize. How will your team use The Andan Prize for Innovation in Refugee Inclusion to advance your solution?
we are eligible for this award because our solutions aim to feed refugees and people at risk of hunger, malnutrition and non-communicable diseases . our project fights both for the fight against poverty through empowerment and against hunger, malnutrition and the occurrence of non-communicable diseases while increasing the the vegetation cover
Do you qualify for and would you like to be considered for The GM Prize? If you select Yes, explain how you are qualified for the prize in the additional question that appears.
Yes, I wish to apply for this prize
Explain how you are qualified for this prize. How will your team use The GM Prize to advance your solution?
We are eligible for this award because our organization works in climate resiliency through our forestry program which aims to plant 100 million trees and which also aims to set up an intelligent system for collecting forest products.
Do you qualify for and would you like to be considered for the Innovation for Women Prize? If you select Yes, explain how you are qualified for the prize in the additional question that appears.
Yes, I wish to apply for this prize
Explain how you are qualified for this prize. How will your team use the Innovation for Women Prize to advance your solution?
We are eligible because our organization and our local partners, the association GABON INITITIVES JEUNESSE and the Gabonese network of non-state actors for community development in rural areas, promote women's economic initiatives.
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Do you qualify for and would you like to be considered for the Minderoo Prize to End Global Overfishing? If you select Yes, explain how you are qualified for the prize in the additional question that appears.
No, I do not wish to be considered for this prize, even if the prize funder is specifically interested in my solution
Do you qualify for and would you like to be considered for The ServiceNow Prize? If you select Yes, explain how you are qualified for the prize in the additional question that appears.
Yes, I wish to apply for this prize
Explain how you are qualified for this prize. How will your team use The ServiceNow Prize to advance your solution?
For the sustainability of our project, we will set up a program to plant trees considered essential in the production chain, or in danger of extinction. We plan to plant 100,000 hectares of forest over 10 years, in the hope of sequestering nearly 100,000,000 tons of CO2 per year. This program will allow us to domesticate these products to support production while facilitating the work of picking and transporting the products
Solution Team
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Bertin IKOUMBOU IKOUMBOU Founder, BIO Natura GABON
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Solution Name:
FOREST PRODUCTS INNOVATIONS