Transforming Food Waste into Animal Feeds in Tanzania
Emanuel Kungu, Afri-EcoFeeds - Tanzania
Emanuel Kungu is the founder of Afri-EcoFeeds. He was a beneficiary of the ILO Green Challenge initiative and attended GYB and SYB trainings. GYB helped him to sharpen his initial idea. He had a broad focus on waste recycling and veterinary services supply, and after the GYB training, he narrowed down his idea to a business model that uses food waste peels and trimmings to produce nutritional animal feeds. The product is sold to poultry, pigs, and dairy farmers in Tanzania.
Poor waste disposal is rampant in many towns in Africa. Seventy percent of food waste is produced by street food vendors, who are major suppliers of nutritional food for urban residents. Unattended waste is detrimental to the environment and people’s health. Afri-EcoFeeds came up with the innovation of producing nutritional animal feeds from food waste.
After attending the SYB training, Emanuel developed a business plan with a better use and mobilization of resources, securing grants from two sources, which allowed him to improve the operations of the business. AfriEcoFeeds now can process up to 50,000 megatons per year and produce about 1,000 megatons of animal feed per year, serving about 2,000 animal farmers in Manyara and Arusha regions in Tanzania.
A farmer using Afri-EcoFeeds product to feed his cow
Poor waste disposal is rampant in many towns in Africa. Seventy percent of food waste is produced by street food vendors, who are major suppliers of nutritional food for urban residents. Unattended waste is detrimental to the environment and people’s health. Afri-EcoFeeds came up with the innovation of producing nutritional animal feeds from food waste.
After attending the SYB training, Emanuel developed a business plan with a better use and mobilization of resources, securing grants from two sources, which allowed him to improve the operations of the business. AfriEcoFeeds now can process up to 50,000 megatons per year and produce about 1,000 megatons of animal feed per year, serving about 2,000 animal farmers in Manyara and Arusha regions in Tanzania.
It has been so awesome to me because SIYB has changed an idea that I had for a long time into a real venture, actually producing a meaningful impact in the lives of smallholder farmers, street food vendors and the environment. The good feedback from the farmers is very emotional to all of us, because it proves the power of what we dreamed to be the solution but were not able to execute without the support we received through this program."
Emanuel Kungu