Apply now for the Leading African Women in Food Fellowship (LAWFF) Program 2025.
The Leading African Women in Food Fellowship (LAWFF) Program is a game-changing initiative that aims to empower and recognize female leaders in Africa’s food and agriculture sectors.
Over a six-month period, the program offers training, mentorship, and a supportive community to exceptional female disruptors, entrepreneurs, policymakers, chefs, trendsetters, and storytellers.
LAWFF actively promotes gender equality, contributes to poverty reduction, and fosters sustainable economic growth, aligning with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Categories
- Top Chefs in Africa: Culinary artists who, through their creativity and innovative cooking methods, are changing narratives about African food.
- Disruptors: Create or adapt tools, models, approaches, and/or harness technology to solve challenges within the food system (e.g., inventor, researcher, product developer, intrapreneur, etc.)
- Trailblazers: Accomplished change agents who have made ground-breaking contributions to the African food ecosystem and paved the way for others.
- Ecosystem Enablers: Private, public, and non-profit leaders who introduce and scale innovative products, ideas, and/or opportunities that contribute to a more sustainable and inclusive food system.
- Food/Beverage Narrative Changers: Storytellers and digital media gurus that create content, experiences, or products that amplify positive changes and opportunities in the ecosystem, change global narratives and connect people to different African foods and beverages (e.g., journalist, food blogger, food stylist, curator, content creator, consumer packaged goods entrepreneur, etc.).
Eligibility
- Open to women only;
- Aged between 25-40 years;
- At least three years experience working in the agri-food sector;
- Demonstrable impact;
- A citizen of an African country;
- Resident in an African country at the time of application.
Deadline: Ongoing
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