Sylvia Banda

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Sylvia Banda (born 1962) is a Zambian business woman, restaurateur and social entrepreneur.[1][2][3][4] She is an Ashoka fellow.[5] Banda promotes local food use, choosing ingredients for her restaurant from local and small-scale farms.[1][6] She started her own business, Sylva Professional Catering in 1986.[1] By 2009, she had 16 restaurants in Lusaka.[2] In 2014, she invested $105,000 in US dollars to open a food processing plant in Zambia.[7]

Banda has also served as the chair of the Zambia Chapter of the African Women Entrepreneurship Programme (AWEP).[8] Lusaka Voice calls Banda "one of Zambia's most recognisable entrepreneurs."[9] Banda and her husband, Hector, publish Zambian cuisine recipes in a weekly Times of Zambia column called "Zambian Dishes with Sylvia Catering."[10] Banda also trains women on how to preserve local foods.[11] She has a nonprofit organization, Sylva Food Solutions (SFS) to help local farmers increase business.[12]

Banda works with the University of Zambia to offer an agriculture-based training programme that promotes innovative thinking as well as traditional foods and recipes.[13]

References

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  7. ↑ Lusaka Voice. 2014-11-26. URL. Accessed 2018-02-17. (en-US). “nil”.
  8. ↑ Lusaka Voice. 2013-04-24. URL. Accessed 2018-02-17. (en-US). “nil”.
  9. ↑ Lusaka Voice. 2015-03-19. URL. Accessed 2018-02-17. (en-US). “nil”.
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  12. ↑ Ann Brown. "Innovator Sylvia Banda Is Changing The Way Zambians Eat And Farm". AFKInsider. 2014-01-08. URL. Accessed 2018-02-17. (en-US). “nil”.
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