Name: Ágata Correia
Country: Mozambique
Organisation: DEV MOZAMBIQUE

Agata Correia holds a bachelor’s degree in Biomedicine by Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (UEM), Mozambique, with a focus on ethnobotanical and phytomedicine research. She has been a collaborator to UEM’s Coordination Center for Gender Issues (CeCaGe), participating in several projects concerning Gender Equality and Women Empowerment. Agata is also a member of TEDxMaputo Team, having organized several events. At the time being, she is SANBio’s FemBioBiz and Future Agro Challenge project manager at DEV Mozambique, as well as a SANBio Youth Ambassador, while developing her own company – SATIVA, a native medicinal herbs food supplement manufacturer.

For Agata, the Future Agro Challenge is one of the projects that she runs as part of her role at DEV MOZAMBIQUE.

Please enjoy getting to see and follow a little of Agata’s journey as a FAC Impact Maker.

“The future agro challenge is one of the most dynamic and engaging competitions, regarding Agripreneurship and Agrinnovation, that we host, both in our company and in the country. First of all, because it is centred on a common ground world issue – food safety – which is greatly prioritized in developing countries such as Mozambique. In the last decades, especially in the last ten years, food safety has taken over a big chunk of the national agenda, therefore, there has been an increasing effort to tackle this problem from different approaches.

FAC brings to the country a more practical and inclusive approach to the issue. Getting together, not only different stakeholders from society (agripreneurs, investors, government, scientists, etc.), but ultimately, different countries , bringing a sense of unity and cooperation, is, in my opinion, what makes FAC stand out from other similar initiatives.

As a country in development, in Mozambique we face many basic structural challenges. The economy, while growing, is still fragile, so young entrepreneurs struggle to create a strong and stable ground for their endeavours.  Agri innovation, agritech, digital agribusiness, are well integrated concepts on the agripreneurship scene in many countries in the globe, yet, the challenges inherent to our economical and structural profile limits, in a way, the ability to be innovative, and ultimately to compete on the same level with other countries.”

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