Sanoussi Diakité (pictured), a Senegalese entrepreneur is tackling food security in West Africa.
Diakité has invented a machine that processes cereal in a fraction of the time it usually takes. Fonio is one of the most nutritious cereals in West Africa and needs little water to yield up to three crops annually.
It is drought resistant, grows nearly anywhere and does not need fertilizer, however, it can take up to two hours to husk just 2 kilograms (4.4 lbs) of the cereal by hand,
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