Forest products innovations

821 million people are now hungry and more than 150 million children are stunted, threatening the Zero Hunger goal. The Covid-19 is threatening humanity for lack of medicines

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

Team
Our team consists of a plant biotechnology specialist, a biochemist, a
Phytochemistry specialist, a desiner and a sales representative.each
Specialist’s role is to contribute his know-how to develop the products
And market them.

Customer issues
Our company wants to develop organic products from the primary forests
of the Congo Basin, these products not only very important nutritional
Properties, but also healing. These products help prevent diseases such as caner, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases etc.

Products/Services
We will produce food and dietary supplements of plant origins in the natural state
With out chemicals.

Target market
Patients and consumers of organic products
Business model
Priority given to the growth and profitability of the company. Diversification
of customers and suppliers. Reduced operating costs. Evaluation of
Discretionary Spending. Tax reduction strategies, including restructuring of
The company's potential. Development of a sound management
Infrastructure to reduce dependency on you and ensure that knowledge is
Not overly concentrated. Withdrawal of excess assets.
Clients
Our customers are the sick, the consumers of organic products and the vegetarians, our choice is on them
Because they are the potential consumers our products and it represents a market of nearly 40% of the
African market.

Marketing/Sales Strategy
Market studies provide a clear understanding of the expectations and needs of consumers, the growing or declining segments, the seasonality of products, the distribution of sales by distribution channel, competitive intelligence consists of monitoring competitors' product news (innovations, launches,
Prices, etc.), their marketing actions (newsletter, advertising campaigns, etc.), their commercial practices

821 million people are now hungry and more than 150 million children are stunted, threatening the Zero Hunger goal. The Covid-19 is threatening humanity for lack of medicines .

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.

Our solution is primarily aimed at the populations of the Congo Basin, estimated at 90 million people, who consume these products in their raw state or processed by hand.
These modes of consumption do not guarantee the safety of the products because no preliminary analysis is carried out before consumption, and the packaging and conservation of these products leaves much to be desired because of their unsuitable nature and non-optimal conservation.
These products recovered in the forest sometimes have nutritional properties but also curative, the quantities or the limit of the doses is not known as well as the side effects.
We believe that the standardization of these products and their certification will allow the population to consume them safely.
50.000 people for the operations of collection, transport and crushing allows these populations to be financially autonomous and that encourages them to better protect these vegetable species which allow them to live with dignity. 

Our solution is consistent with ecosystem resilience because we believe that the natural resources of the Congo Basin are an alternative to the problem of slash-and-burn agriculture that ravages millions of hectares of forest in Africa. The valorization of these products will be a source of income for the populations and will serve as an advocacy tool to better preserve biodiversity .
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. 

We have selected this stage because we are already working with the Gabonese network of non-state actors for community development in rural areas, which has 49 associations and cooperatives that collect the products on a national scale for artisanal processing before marketing them. So the artisanal prototypes have already been tested, all that remains is for us to move on to industrial processing to market them on a large scale.
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For thousands of years, the indigenous peoples of the Congo Basin have fed and healed themselves in part with non-wood forest products, seeds and wild fruits, honey, mushrooms, asparagus etc ...
The artisanal transformation of these products is done manually by pounding, pressing using the smoke to collect the honey etc ... these techniques do not allow to produce in large quantities hence our ambition to standardize the production using machines and certify these products to meet food or pharmaceutical standards. On the other hand, no phytochemical analysis is performed during manual production, which exposes consumers to dangers in terms of dosage or side effects. Our approach aims to transform these products industrially to mass produce after preliminary analyzes to bring new products and new curative solutions to the international market in order to fight against hunger, malnutrition and diseases such as diabetes, anemia, etc. ..
This project will have a leverage effect on producers and will encourage people to better protect forest ecosystems thanks to their financial empowerment through the activities of gathering, transport, crushing, etc.

Our solution serves an average of 1,500,000 in Gabon, 25,000,000 people in the sub-region and in one year we will be able to reach 90,000,000 people across Central Africa

The objectives are: clearly defined and are set at the start of the process. Aligned with community economic priorities, if established. Aligned with local / regional economic development strategies.
Evidence
Evidence: is extensive and has many examples to back it up. Clearly demonstrates that your impact goals are necessary and desired by the community. Make it clear that your chosen investment method is likely to yield positive results.
Feasibility
Your plan is: Highly achievable with no significant technical, legal or operational issues left behind.
Legitimacy
Stakeholder engagement
You did it: Strong support from a diverse set of project stakeholders. Engaged these stakeholders in the development and implementation of the project. gave stakeholders a voice and decision-making capacity in certain elements of the investment design.
Community trust
The community: strongly supports the project and its objectives. She has great confidence in the investors and developers involved. Knowledge of a concrete plan to involve community members as the project progresses.
Political commitment
Civil servants and public officials: Provide strong and speaking support.
Action
Measured
You did it: Identified a comprehensive set of quantitative and qualitative impact metrics that match your impact goals. Set specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound objectives. Created a concrete plan to monitor metrics, report progress to important stakeholders, and adjust the investment approach as needed over time.
Internal alignment
You did it: Identified all the people and organizations responsible for achieving your impact goals. You made sure they shared your vision for impact. created specific incentives that are aligned with your impact goals.
Direction
You Did It: Ensured that people understood their roles and responsibilities in achieving these goals. Create a workable plan to ensure progress.
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Define the measures to be taken

We aim to hire 141 people for the processing activity and we will enroll 50,000 villagers for the gathering, transport and crushing, these people we will sell their productions and will be financially empowered thanks to our project.

Our team is composed of a plant biotechnology specialist, a botanist, an agroforestry specialist, a biochemist, a phytochemist, a designer, a cook and a sales representative.

Nous prévoyons d'utiliser l'approche genre tout en recrutant des personnes  qualifiées et motivées des deux sexes et de toutes

I submit my request to solve to benefit from its financial support, its network and its tools to achieve the start of my activity and if possible enter into a strategic partnership with solve or with its technological and financial partners 

My ambition is to work with a strategic partner like solve to collaborate throughout the implementation of the project by helping me find the right people and organizations to accompany me in all phases of the project.
I'm ready to share the benefits and the intellectual property.

We are looking for a strategic partner capable of supporting us in the implementation by letting us benefit from its network in terms of research and development, equipment and financing.We wish to develop partnerships in the key areas of the project while foreseeing an industrial, financial and commercial partnership.

DSM , Forest partnership ; Livelihoods Funds ,  Responsability investments AG , FMO , BBVA Foundation Frontiers , world good fund ,  Goodwell Investments

Hivos Food and Lifestyle Fund , GAWA Capital , : New Venture Fund ,  Actiam Impact Investing ,  Bamboo Capital Partners , SME Impact Fund , Waterloo Foundation , Africa Media Ventures Fund ,  Elevar Equity , Goggio Family Foundation , Fondation Segré Grants ,  Ernest Kleinwort Charitable Trust Grants ,  Gray Matters Capital , Noel Buxton Trust Grant , Agri-Business/Small and Medium Enterprise Investment Scheme

Because our project aims to provide cheaper food to refugees and we will work in partnership with the World Food Program to help refugees around the world through sales, donations and we will adapt the quality of products with the types of needs and deficiencies observed on the ground.

In the countries where we will be established like DRC we will hire refugees, train them and employ them in the manufacturing process of our products, we will also conduct surveys on their consumption patterns and culinary uses and we will also manufacture products according to their techniques while practicing co-design to allow them to benefit from the intellectual property and profits.

We will also encourage refugees to form subcontractors to work with us to create jobs in the camps and create wealth.

We are concerned about the suffering of the refugees, that's why we will develop nutritional and curative solutions adapted to the problems of hunger, malnutrition, anemia often frequent in the refugee camps.

The standardization and certification aims to allow refugees to access our products, the prolonged conservation and the use of appropriate packaging will allow us to export our products in large quantities.

We will significantly reduce our prices to allow humanitarian organizations to buy massively our products in order to distribute them quantitatively and as long as possible to refugees.

We will promote women's innovations inspired by traditional African culinary techniques and practices. 90% of this knowledge is held by women, so these women will own part of the intellectual property of their innovations because we will co-design the products and will have their share of benefits .

Our project applies the gender approach and also promotes innovation in products collected mostly by women .

Women will represent 60 to 70% of the people who will produce our products throughout the value chain. They will benefit from training and will be represented at all levels of the company.

Women will be encouraged to form a company to subcontract with us and we have written rules protecting women from all forms of discrimination into our internal regulations 

We offer nutritional products from natural sources such as wild seeds, wild fruits and mushrooms, almonds, etc. to enable people to reduce the consumption of animal protein and overfishing, our organic solutions will help convince consumers to limit fish consumption and discourage illegal fishing.

The reliability and results of our solutions will push local fishermen to give up fishing to dedicate tghemselves to reforestation in order to earn their living

We will use new technologies to set up an intelligent collection system and we will disseminate our work through new information technologies, in particular ServiceNow for connect communities to develop, share, and replicate best practices for carbon absorption and decarbonization.

Our reforestation program, which aims to plant one million trees to sequester carbon and fight climate change, the ServiceNow tool will help us communicate our results to partners and the scientific and climate communities.

We will use new technologies to set up an intelligent collection system. This system will include the collection of data on biodiversity, in terms of typologies, quantity, space where to find them and quality.
On the other hand, data on product identity cards, collection techniques, transport, conservation and processing are already the subject of research work on site and will be included in the system.

We will set up a data bank on biodiversity, uses, techniques of collection, transport of resources and conservation, to do this we will need the blockchain technology that will allow us to secure the data.