Kenyan Emerges Second in Innovation Prize for Africa 2015 Competition- Alex Mwaura bags Kshs 2.4 million prize money

Kenya’s Alex Mwaura Muriu has won Second Prize in an all-Africa competition for the mother continent’s “most talented innovators

Farm Capital Africa, the entry that earned Muriu US$25000 cash prize in the Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA), is a “risk-sharing agri-business funding model that not only draws in investors for a share of farming profits” but also “identifies, screens and shortlists full-time farmers with small holdings and helps them devise farming plans to attract potential investors.”

South Africa and Kenya have contributed 60% of the nominees for Africa’s most talented innovators  in 2015.

While South Africa has four nominees and Kenya two, Uganda, Burundi, Cameroon and Morocco have a nominee each. The 10 Africans were selected from among a record-setting 925 applications from 41 countries representing the mother continent’s “most talented innovators”.

Researcher Adnane Remmal of Morocco  was announced  the Grand Winner  Alex Mwaura Muriu of Kenya won Second Prize, and South African, Lesley Erica Scott was awarded the Special Prize for Social Impact, receiving US$25 000 respectively

Morocco’s Adnane Remmal, whose initiative seeks to provide “farmers with a solution to improve livestock production while taking into account consumer health needs”, beat Muriu’s innovation to the US$100000 Grand prize

Adnane Remmal’s innovation, a patented alternative to livestock anti-bio-tics, was described as being “set to transform the broader medical and agricultural sector in Africa. The natural innovative anti-microbial formula reduces health hazards in livestock, preventing the transmission of multi-resistant germs and carcinogens to human beings through consumption of milk, eggs and meat.”

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