ADELINE LESCANNE Price "Veuve Clicquot" the businesswoman
AGE 28
TITLE Director Of Plumpy'nut in the field
COMPANY Nutriset SAS
LOCATION France
Adeline Lescanne is the public face of Nutriset SAS, a company her father founded specializing in products to fight malnutrition.
Nutriset first attracted attention with Plumpy'Nut, a paste made of milk powder, sugar, vitamins and peanut oil. It has been widely used over the past two years by nongovernment organizations such as Save The Children and Medecins Sans Frontieres to feed the children or Darfur and Niger.
Ms. Lescanne, an agricultural engineer, has been heading efforts to develop a franchise network of local Plumpy'Nut producers in Niger and the Democratic Republic of Congo, among others. Her attempts to reconcile humanitarian goals with capitalist methods make her one of France's most promising female entrepreneurs.
This award Adeline Lescanne, graduated 5 years ago the ISTOM. She works in the company Nutriset food product development Plumpy'Nut, therapeutic infant food, used to treat severe cases of malnutrition by the United Nations and many NGOs and health agencies.
The merit of Adeline, is to have sought to produce the Plumpy'Nut also outside France, in user countries. As a technology transfer was made with three African enterprises, Niger, Malawi and RDCongo, which manufacture successfully Plumpy'Nut.
Among his many projects, Adeline Lescanne soon will be seeking to develop a network of independent producers in Ethiopia, Mozambique, Nepal and the Dominican Republic.
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