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Number 49 on the 2024 list
Tinotenda Mhiko is a CEO from Zimbabwe, named to the AFN 100 in 2024 for winning the 2024 Africa Food Prize for expanding irrigation at ARDA.
Tinotenda Mhiko, CEO of Zimbabwe's Agricultural and Rural Development Authority, won the 2024 Africa Food Prize, worth US$100,000, announced at the Africa Food Systems Forum in Kigali on 5 September 2024. The prize recognised irrigation work at ARDA, where the irrigated area grew from 6,000 hectares in 2016 towards a projected 15,000 hectares by 2025, through drip and solar-powered systems and crop diversification.