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Number 45 on the 2024 list
Salimata Toh is a co-founder from Côte d'Ivoire, named to the AFN 100 in 2024 for winning a GoGettaz Impact Award for Agribanana, which turns banana waste into packaging.
Salimata Toh won a US$15,000 Impact Award at the 2024 GoGettaz Agripreneur Prize, presented at the Africa Food Systems Forum in Kigali in September 2024. She co-founded Agribanana, which uses a patented process to turn banana waste left after harvest into natural fibres, paper pulp and biodegradable packaging. She was one of 12 finalists named in August 2024 and one of four Impact Award winners that year.