Future Agro Challenge
Securing Water for Food (SWFF) is a programme developed to help farmers around the world grow more food using less water, enhance water storage and improve the use of saline water and soil to produce food.
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The Future Agro Challenge (FAC), a global leading initiative that discovers innovative and fundable ventures in food and agriculture, will be welcoming agripreneurs to the third Future Agro Challenge Global Championships. The event will be held in Sandton from 12 to 15 March 2017 during the Global Entrepreneurship Conference.
Carla Tanas, co-founder of Future Agro Challenge said, “For the first time, we will be hosting our Championship in joint collaboration with the Securing Water for Food (SWFF) Grand Challenge, in what will be the Global Agripreneurs Summit 2017. Securing Water for Food (SWFF) is a programme developed to help farmers around the world grow more food using less water, enhance water storage and improve the use of saline water and soil to produce food.”
Themes for this year’s summit include food, agricultural technology and disruptive agricultural innovation to adopt to tomorrow’s world. Other topics include increasing the global nutritional value of food and securing water from food, as well as increasing the global GDP contributed from agriculture.
The programme includes an Innovator Coaching Camp, Private Investor Sessions and Innovation Marketplace that concludes with the 3rd Future Agro Challenge Global Championships on 15 March where the winner of this year’s challenge will be announced.
For more information: www.facagro.com/gas/.
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