Cassava Change-Makers Pitch Competition

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About Cassava Change-Makers Pitch Competition

In celebration of World Cassava Day 2025, they invite passionate young innovators to take part in the Cassava Change-Makers Pitch Competition — a platform to showcase bold, original ideas with the potential to transform the cassava value chain.

Theme: Youth-Led Innovations for a Sustainable Cassava Future

This competition is an opportunity to gain national recognition, funding, and business development support for your impactful ideas.

They're seeking practical, scalable, and technology-driven solutions, as well as culturally and community-based innovations, that can unlock the full potential of cassava for people, profit, and the planet.

Focus Areas

• Production Innovations that increase yield and reduce labor requirements.
• Technologies that improve efficiency, reduce energy consumption and enable new product development.
• Market solutions that connect value chain actors and build consumer awareness and demand.

• Sponsor Organisation: Agbeyewa Farms

Benefits of Cassava Change-Makers Pitch Competition

1st Place: ₦2,000,000 + Business Development Support

2nd Place: ₦1,000,000 + Business Development Support

3rd Place: ₦800,000 + Business Development Support

4th Place: ₦700,000 + Business Development Support

5th Place: ₦500,000 + Business Development Support

Cassava Change-Makers Pitch Competition Requirements

• The Competition is open only to Nigerian youth aged 15-35 and finalists must be available to attend World Cassava Day in Abuja on June 28 to pitch live if selected.

Application Date and Process

Submission Guidelines

• Detail your concept in a 5-slide pitch desk including background, problem statement, solution and implementation strategy, ask and expected outcomes
• Introduce yourself and pitch your idea in a short, clear video. Upload and share the link with your application
• Submissions must be your own innovation and focused on solving real challenges in Nigeria's cassava value chain based on its reality

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Application Deadline

25 June, 2025

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