Entrepreneurs from African Food Changemakers

Julia Kamau

Nyakazi Organics Limited

Kenya

Agribusiness SMEs, Nutrition, Processing

About Company

Nyakazi organics is a youth women led social enterprise whose main focus is dehydrating of African Indigenous Vegetables (AIVs) which includes black night shade(managu), amaranth(terere), spider plant(saga. we have also introduced oyster mushrooms which are in dried and powder form. Our aim is to provide convenience to our customers through the dried vegetables which have a shorter preparation time and are light in weight making them to be transported to different places, we are also providing consistent market access to small-scale women farmers who are practicing agroecology, we are working towards providing employment opportunities to the youths.