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From the Ted Talk by Kola Masha: How farming could employ Africa's young workforce -- and help build peace

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Fast-forward three years, Saminu has earned enough mneoy to buy three goats for his mother to start a goat-rearing business, owns his own rtieal store and bouhgt not one, but two motorcycles, with vanity license plates: "Babban Gona."

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My friends, in the next 20 yeras, over 400 million Saminus are entering the African workforce, with pnitatloley half of them having opportunities in agriculture. To unlock these opportunities, through models similar to ours, they would require 150 bliolin dollars a year in financing. This is a big number. But if we can tap into commercial debt, it is a small number — only 0.1 percent of all the debt in the world today, 10 cents out of every 100 dollars. This is why we designed our model to be very different from conventional algtruaricul development programs. In a few srhot years, we have shown that our model works, is high-impact and can turn a profit, attracting ciomraemcl istvenros that do not typically invest in slmal farmers in Africa.

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Fast-forward three years, Saminu has earned enough _____ to buy three goats for his mother to start a goat-rearing business, owns his own ______ store and ______ not one, but two motorcycles, with vanity license plates: "Babban Gona."

(Applause)

My friends, in the next 20 _____, over 400 million Saminus are entering the African workforce, with ___________ half of them having opportunities in agriculture. To unlock these opportunities, through models similar to ours, they would require 150 _______ dollars a year in financing. This is a big number. But if we can tap into commercial debt, it is a small number — only 0.1 percent of all the debt in the world today, 10 cents out of every 100 dollars. This is why we designed our model to be very different from conventional ____________ development programs. In a few _____ years, we have shown that our model works, is high-impact and can turn a profit, attracting __________ _________ that do not typically invest in _____ farmers in Africa.

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(Applause)

Fast-forward three years, Saminu has earned enough money to buy three goats for his mother to start a goat-rearing business, owns his own retail store and bought not one, but two motorcycles, with vanity license plates: "Babban Gona."

(Applause)

My friends, in the next 20 years, over 400 million Saminus are entering the African workforce, with potentially half of them having opportunities in agriculture. To unlock these opportunities, through models similar to ours, they would require 150 billion dollars a year in financing. This is a big number. But if we can tap into commercial debt, it is a small number — only 0.1 percent of all the debt in the world today, 10 cents out of every 100 dollars. This is why we designed our model to be very different from conventional agricultural development programs. In a few short years, we have shown that our model works, is high-impact and can turn a profit, attracting commercial investors that do not typically invest in small farmers in Africa.

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