Young Food Entrepreneur of the Week – Ghana – Alloysius Attah

Alloysius Attah decided to become an agripreneur form a different angle. Attah has seen the struggles of rural farmers and now his company, Farmerline, build technologies to connect rural customers to information, financial services, and supply chains, with focus on smallholder farmers
Alloysius Attah is the CEO and Co-founder of Farmerline. When he was five years of age, his parents divorced and he moved in with his aunt, a small-scale farmer in rural Ghana. It was there that he witnessed the challenges faced by small-scale farmers. In college, Alloysius was determined to give back to the people who supported him and founded Alloyworld, a photography and video production company, and iCottage Networks, a Web and Mobile startup. In 2013, Alloysius launched Farmerline in partnership with Emmanuel Owusu Addai in order to support small-scale farmers. Alloysius has spoken about his work at the 2013 Social Capital Markets Conference and Mobile World Congress 2014. He is a 2014 Echoing Green Fellow.
(Source: http://youngafricaworks.org/speaker/alloysius-attah/ )