The winner of the Creating Shared Value Prize for 2016 is Agro-Hub from Cameroon.
The organisation has successfully linked smallholder cassava farmers to markets.
Nestlé CEO Paul Bulcke presented the CHF 300,000 prize to Agro-Hub at the Creating Shared Value Forum in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.
Natural Extracts Industries, a social enterprise from Tanzania, was the runner-up and receives CHF 200,000 for pioneering the sustainable extraction of vanilla in Tanzania.
Read more about the 2016 Prize winner and runner-up.