Fix the Chain
A Social Enterprise!
We empower women across Africa to fight climate change, extreme poverty, and gender inequality by teaching them the business of mushroom growth and connecting them to local and international food markets.
Our business partners are the inspiring smallholder farmers with whom we work.
All of our projects are 100% locally-managed and run.
All of our projects are 100% locally-managed and run.
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What exactly does Fix the Chain do?
and why?
Ecosystem Development
Develop sustainable mushroom market ecosystems across Africa
Market Navigation
Connect mushroom growers from across Africa with local and international buyers
By working together with the smallholder farmers themselves to create market- and climate-resilient agricultural practices, we ensure fair and reliable incomes for ALL
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Our Advisors
they blow us away!
Scott Poynton
Scott is a changemaker par none. In 1999 he founded The Forest Trust (now the Earthworm Foundation), and has directly navigated the complicated arena of guiding massive international enterprises as they fully commit to and carry out the creation of tangible climate-positive impact internationally. In 2016, Scott stepped aside from his position as CEO of The Forest Trust, remaining with the organization as they transitioned to a new leadership team. In 2019, he left the The Forest Trust with a tremendous workforce of over 260 people working in 48 countries, and impacting the environmental and social credentials of over $1 trillion of annual supply chain transactions across over 20 different commodities.
In 2019, Scott founded ‘adifferentway’, an online community of social entrepreneurs in which socially-focused founders and changemakers can find guidance, support, and a wealth of knowledge to help as they make international change. Then in 2021, Scott founded the Pond Foundation, an advisory not-for-profit that guides organizations and individuals towards taking definitive climate action and building regenerative, 21st-century supply chains.
Nina Hjortlund
Nina is the founder of Australia for Cedar Tanzania, a fully registered not-for-profit creating positive sustainable change and empowering people to live with full access to healthcare and free of poverty. Australia for Cedar Tanzania’s core projects include constructing and managing a local hospital servicing 35,000 residents who were otherwise sorely lacking in basic healthcare, creating a mobile medical healthcare unit servicing disabled individuals who are unable to travel, promoting gender empowerment, prevention of violence against women, prevention and youth education regarding HIV/AIDS, and entrepreneurship training for vulnerable groups.
Nina founded Australia for Cedar Tanzania after having lived in Tanzania for 13 years, and currently serves as its Director and CEO. Her entrepreneurial personality is driven by her strong dedication, passion, and enthusiasm, and she believes in creating opportunities for all. She strongly advocates for not-for-profits to be managed and viewed as businesses, since such a vantage point reflects their true goal to utilize their revenue for positive change across the world.
Fahad Awadh
Fahad is a young entrepreneur from Tanzania. He is the founder of YYTZ Agro-Processing; a social enterprise that is building an inclusive cashew nut value chain by working with rural cashew farmers and women processing groups to help them add value to their own crop and earn more income. YYTZ provides access to automatic shelling machines and GAP, food safety training and financial literacy training for farmers. By integrating them in the cashew value chain, the farmers are able to earn more from their crop.
YYTZ has developed its More than Cashews™ brand as the first packs of fully traceable cashews using blockchain technology. Using technology and community processing they are able to create more value at the rural level for cashew farmers and bring transparency to the cashew nut. By empowering farmers, YYTZ can help alleviate poverty in rural Tanzania.
Fahad is passionate about enabling young Africans to add value and create finished products; ensuring that value remains in Africa.
Fahad has been a featured speaker at the African Union – UN dialogue at the 72nd UN General Assembly (New York, USA), SIMLESA Conference (Arusha, Tanzania), Aga Khan Development Network – Scale Talks (Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania), African Union Private Sector Forum (Pretoria, South Africa) and the International Tropical Agriculture Conference 2017 (Brisbane, Australia). Fahad was nominated for African Leadership Awards’ Young Person of the Year 2017.
Fahad has been named by Forbes’ as one of the 30 Most Promising Young Entrepreneurs in Africa for 2017 and 2018.
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WHY WOMEN? HOW IS GENDER EQUITY AT THE CRUX OF IT ALL?
WITH ALL DUE RESPECT, WHY SHOULD I CARE ABOUT POOR PEOPLE HALFWAY ACROSS THE WORLD?
How are climate change and extreme poverty deeply linked, and what dangers and hopes lie in this connection?
WHAT IS A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE ANYWAY? WHY NOT STICK WITH BUSINESSES AS WE KNOW THEM?
WHY MUSHROOMS? HOW DID YOUR BUSINESS COME TO BE?
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SPREADING THE WORD IS A CRUCIAL FIRST-STEP TOWARDS FIXING THE CHAIN!
