Deadline: 18 June 2020
Entries are now open for the GoGettaz Agripreneur Prize which is a pan-African competition for innovative, young entrepreneurs pursuing the trillion-dollar opportunity of Africa’s agri-food sector.
The entries will be judged to award two young agripreneurs with pioneering business ventures, one of two US$50,000 cash prizes that will help them change their world and transform the agrifood business.
One male and one female winner will be chosen based on the innovation, originality, scalability and environmental sustainability of their business venture.
All applicants benefit from inspiration, education, and support via access to an online platform for entrepreneurs.
Prize Information
- Each Winner will receive a sum of US$ 50,000.00 (fifty thousand United States Dollars) (“Prize Money”).
- Each Winner agrees to participate in a prize awarding ceremony or similar event/s in relation to the Prize Money, without further compensation (financial or otherwise).
- The Prize Money (and related technical support) is neither transferable nor negotiable.
- Each Winner accepts that certain other conditions as regarding the Prize Money may apply as may be prescribed by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa in their sole and absolute discretion.
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible to enter into this Competition, you and/or your (venture/enterprise/business/company) must:
- Be a legal entity (i.e. company, partnership, corporation, trust, a non-profit organization), a sole proprietorship which is registered in country that is a member state of the African Union, or an individual who will have commenced the registration of such an entity prior to 1 August 2020.
- Have headquarters in one of the member states of the African Union.
- Be designed to be financially sustainable, either as a for-profit business or as a market-based social venture generating revenue at least in part and aiming for non-donor-based sustainability.
- Play a role in the agri-food sector.
- For purposes of this competition, the definition of eligible “agri-food value chain” companies (whether for profit or not-for-profit) is defined as, but may not be limited to: agri-food research & development; primary production; crop nutrition; irrigation; mechanization or robotics; crop protection; hydroponics or urban farming; transport, distribution, storage or logistics; food processing, packaging or marketing; food retail or service; waste management or recycling; digital or technology solutions/services to agri-food sector; innovative finance solutions/services to agri-food sector; renewable energy or environmental solutions/services to agri-food sector; education or business model solutions/services to agri-food sector, or such as may be determined by the Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and the Partners.
- Employees of AGRA, Econet Group, Yara International, Corteva Agriscience, Syngenta Foundation and any other partners of Generation Africa (“the Partners”), as well as employees of any of their associated entities, affiliates, holding companies and/or subsidiaries, are not eligible to enter into or win this Competition. Further, agents of such employees, as well as immediate family members of and those living in the same household as such employees, are not eligible to enter into or to win this Competition.
- Previous winners and finalists are ineligible to participate in this Competition.
- Further, natural directors or natural person exercising control over any applicant to this Competition must:
- Have attained the age of majority with respect of his/her country of residence (i.e. is an adult in terms of the laws of his/her country of residence) and no older than age 35 on the last day of submission to the Competition.
- Hold nationality (with official ID) from any of the member states of the African Union.
- Be the founder/co-founder of the enterprise he or she represents in the competition and play an active role in its operations and leadership.
- Have no criminal record related to corruption, tax evasion, financial impropriety, felony or other offence.
- Entries are limited to 1 (one) entry per legal entity.
Selection Process
- A jury selected by AGRA and its Partners (hereinafter “the Jury”) shall review entries to this Competition as received from all eligible contestants, and select the semi-finalists from amongst the first round entrants to this Competition (“Semi-Finalists”), which selection of Semi-Finalists shall be conducted by the Jury.
- If selected as a Semi-Finalist you shall agree to take part in an online interview and be required to produce documentation with regard to your legal entity or sole proprietorship as determined by the Jury.
- From amongst the Semi-Finalists, 10 (ten) finalists shall be selected by the Jury (“Finalists”).
- If selected as one of the Finalists you shall be expected to be able to travel to the GoGettaz Finale, which shall be held in Kigali, Rwanda during the AGRF Summit 2020. You shall further agree to take full responsibility as and when requested, and in a timely manner, to apply for and secure all official authorizations to take part in travel related to the GoGettaz Finale, including but not limited to obtaining a valid passport, visas and related approvals as stipulated by national and international authorities.
- AGRA shall cater for expenses for the 2020 AGRF Summit for the Finalists as follows:
- Airfare vouchers from the country of residence to the venue of the 2020 AGRF Summit; and
- Coverage of such other reasonable expenses and/or costs as determined by the Partners.
- If Finalists do not secure all required travel documentation in a timely manner to attend the GoGettaz Finale, AGRA reserves the right to replace any such Finalist with another eligible finalist at their sole and absolute discretion.
- If Finalists do not secure all required travel documentation in a timely manner to attend the GoGettaz Finale, AGRA reserves the right to replace any such Finalist with another eligible finalist at their sole and absolute discretion.
- You hereby agree that, should you be selected as a Finalist, that neither AGRA, the Partners nor their parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, employees, distributors, retailers, assignees, advertising/promotion agencies, representatives or agents (as the case may be), shall have any liability toward you or any party in relation to any travel you may undertake as part of this Competition, and that you hereby release such parties from and against any and all claims, actions or proceedings of any kind, and from any and all damages, liabilities, costs and expenses whatsoever (whether direct, indirect, consequential or otherwise) relating to or arising out of any travel that you may undertake arising from your participation in this Competition.
- Should you enter this Competition or be selected as a Semi-Finalist or Finalist, you acknowledge and agree that:
- All entries submitted as part of this Competition become the property of AGRA.
- AGRA and the Partners may publish, post, review, modify or remove any part of or all of your video entry without your prior approval;
- In respect of your online application or interview into this Competition, as the case may be, you grant to AGRA, a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide, transferable, sub-licensable and non-exclusive licence to use, copy, distribute, publish, exhibit, reproduce, digitize, modify, adapt, create derivative works from, publicly perform, publicly display, incorporate, and otherwise exploit all or any part of such video entry, for any purpose, in any media in any part of the world. This includes the right for AGRA to exercise all copyright and publicity rights over such video entry, and you also waive all moral rights in such video entry;
- AGRA shall have the right to arrange the posting of your video entry into this Competition in any way, in its sole and absolute discretion, without your prior approval;
- Each Applicant agrees to any Partner using their name and likeness in publicity without notice or any additional compensation, except where prohibited by applicable law. The winner acknowledges that AGRA and any Partner has the right to publicise and broadcast the winner’s name, voice, and likeness, the fact that they won, and all matters incidental thereto. AGRA and the Partners are not obligated to attribute an Application to the Applicant who submitted it.
- You will have not have any approval rights, or any claim to compensation or any claim (including but not limited to, claims based upon breach of privacy, defamation or intellectual property infringement) against AGRA or any Partner arising out of any use, alteration, editing, distortion or faulty reproduction of your video entry into this Competition.
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