Despite the vital role they play, they face barriers to accessing finances, mentorship thus failing to develop to their full potential and scaling up market-based solutions that can improve consumption of safe and nutritious foods. It is against this backdrop that Scaling Up Nutrition Business Network (SBN) Ethiopia in collaboration with key partners, organized the 2021 Ethiopia Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Pitch Competition under the theme Scale Up, Boost Your Business. The competition has focused on identifying innovative nutrition sensitive SMEs that can provide scalable, inspiring, disruptive and investable solutions to the following food system innovation challenges.
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are one of the critical actors in the accessibility, affordability, and availability of nutritious food in Ethiopia. They can serve as a strong impetus for harnessing innovative solutions that address local food system constraints. The upcoming UN Food Systems Summit later in the year serves as a motivation for building back stronger food systems. Not only do SMEs occupy critical positions along agri-food value chains as input suppliers, off-takers, processors, distributors, or retailers at the global level but also feed an expansive majority of individuals who purchase their food in the open market.
Food Design Innovations
How can your business offer a unique solution to develop or introduce new, affordable and nutritious food products for local vulnerable populations?
Food Safety Innovations
How can your business offer a unique solution to ensure food safety along the supply chain to improve the local consumption of safe and nutritious foods?
Market Connectivity Innovations
How can your business offer unique solutions to improve the linkage between the supply, demand and distribution of affordable nutritious foods upto the last mile?
Post-harvest Loss Reduction Innovations
How can your business offer a unique solution to reduce post-harvest loss along the supply chain and ensure the retention of nutrients in nutritious food?
The application deadlines have been set for June 10th 2021 whereby finalists will be selected by 14th June with boot camp and mentoring sessions to take place in preparation for the final event on the 28th of June 2021. The competition has been sponsored by the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), the World Food Programme (WFP), and Irish Aid with the support of BoP Innovation Center.The Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Pitch Competition, organised by the SUN Business Network Ethiopia,
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