Introduce yourself please

My name is Babajide Oluwase, CEO of Ecotutu.

Tell us more about Ecotutu

Ecotutu is a cleantech company working to enable businesses in the agriculture value chain to have access to affordable solar-powered cold storage solutions in Africa. Through a suite of cold chain solutions, Ecotutu has consistently served small and medium businesses across the value chain using Ecotutu Hub, a solar-powered walk-in cold room, in open markets and farm clusters, and mobile Fresh Box for express delivery of temperature-sensitive items. Ecotutu’s business model eliminates the need for any high upfront cost to access a cold storage service, thanks to its integrated pay-as-you-chill model. This allows farmers and traders to pay as low as N250 per crate per day to store their produce.

What is Ecotutu doing to improve nutrition?

Enabling small and medium-sized businesses in the agriculture value to have access to cost-efficient cold storage solutions that help preserve the economic value of their produce, eliminate waste and maximize profit.

What has inspired you to engage in business in Nutrition as a youth, and what opportunities are available for the youth?

I got into the Nutrition space when I saw how much of horticulture harvests that ends as waste in landfills. For a society that is still struggling to meet its national nutritional needs, the incessant food waste statistics did not make sense to me from a social, economic and environmental standpoint. Hence, I committed my resources and expertise to solve the problem with other like minds. This amongst many others is the gap we deal with in many African countries. Rather than complain about what is not working, I think it provides an avenue for a lot of opportunity for growth and young people must be willing to seize such opportunities.