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12th Aug 2021

Gender-based stereotyping and security concerns pose major challenges to Nutripreneurs

When viewing the food industry through a gender lens, cultural and security issues are among the main concerns shaping entrepreneurship for Nutripreneurs...

8th Mar 2021

Soupah Limited: Adapting to COVID-19 challenges for Nigerian nutrition

The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have been as far-reaching as they have been devastating for all sectors of society, worldwide. SMEs...

3rd Dec 2020

Findings from GAIN/SBN pilot project for the elimination of industrially produced trans fatty acids (iTFA) in Nigeria and Pakistan

The SUN Business Network (SBN)/Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), with the support of Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative of Vital...

16th Oct 2020

World Food Day: Innovative approaches to nourish the world

With rising levels of malnutrition globally, innovative approaches should be harnessed to improve the food system’s ability to make nutritious food more...

29th Sep 2020

Tackling food loss & waste: SMEs saving nutritious food in Africa

With almost 690 million people, or 8.9% of the world’s population, without enough to eat, concerns about food loss and waste are an...

18th Sep 2020

COVID-19 and SMEs: supporting small enterprises to avoid a nutrition crisis

Today, 2 billion people suffer from an inadequate diet, and the emergence of COVID-19 is only expected to accelerate the number of...

20th Aug 2020

IoT supported food kiosk provides nutritious food in Nigeria

Through a mobile marketplace app, and the installation of vending machines within offices, schools and hospitals in Nigeria, Mealimeter has been working hard to...

17th Aug 2020

Baby Grubz: An award-winning business plan for tackling child undernutrition in Nigeria

In 2013, Nigerian agri-entrepreneur Oluwaseun Sangoleye founded Baby Grubz, a food company that manufactures complementary baby and infant food products. This year, on...

12th Aug 2020

Award-winning approaches to solving nutritional challenges in Africa and Asia

Shining a spotlight on agri-food entrepreneurs from across Africa and Asia, winners of the 2020 Global SUN Pitch Competition were announced on Thursday 30th...

7th Jul 2020

“Embracing a culture of continuous innovation is so important, now more than ever”

On 16 October 2018, Nigerian entrepreneur Ope Olanrewaju emerged as the winner of the first ever SUN Pitch Competition. Here, he outlines the...

27th Jun 2020

COVID-19 and the Nigerian MSME – This is Soupah’s Story

SUN Business Network Nigeria member, Soupah Limited, a food processing company located in the heart of Oyo State in Nigeria, was founded by...

23rd Apr 2020

COVID-19 and our Food Systems: How Nutritious Food SMEs in Nigeria Can Adapt and Respond

Forty minutes wait at the carefully marked “social distancing” lines in front of my local Shoprite supermarket in Jabi, Abuja, moving forward...

2nd Apr 2020

Mapping Industrially-Produced Trans-Fatty Acids in Nigeria

The SUN Business Network (SBN) / Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) are conducting a pilot project with the International Food and Beverage Alliance (IFBA) to support the...

24th Mar 2020

NutriPitch 2019: The Nourish Nigeria Challenge Selects Winners

NutriPitch – the Nourish Nigeria Challenge – is a unique accelerator programme developed in partnership with the SUN Business Network Nigeria, GAIN, and supported...

10th Dec 2019

Replacing Industrially Produced Trans Fatty Acids in Nigeria, a B2B initiative

The SUN Business Network (SBN)/Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) are conducting a pilot project with the International Food and Beverage Alliance (IFBA) to support the replacement...