Can seaweed bring relief to rural African farmers? Anga Mbeyiya, Co-Founder Ole Blue

Happy Planet Wednesday! 

Pack your bags, we're headed to Kenya! This week we'll be speaking to Anga Mbeyiya, a South African seaweed entrepreneur whose company, Ole Blu, is transforming seaweed into biostimulants to help rural farmers adapt to climate change.

While her company is still young, it's also already having a big impact both socially and economically. They're buying seaweed from a woman run cooperative seaweed farm, running demo farms themselves, and working with well over 400 small farmers to help improve their crop yields. 

Anga has big plans and shares her insights into the blue economy in Africa, as well as what it's like to be a female entrepreneur there. 

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