MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 17, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Food companies
and entrepreneurs across Africa
are benefitting from the expertise of an organization supported by
some of the brightest minds in the food industry.
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Partners in Food Solutions (PFS) connects corporate experts with
the food sector in several countries in Africa, where one in four in sub-Saharan
Africans lacks adequate food to live a healthy, active life.
In 2008, PFS started as an employee volunteer program within
General Mills. Today, it's an independent nonprofit consortium of
volunteers and retirees from six companies: General Mills, Cargill,
DSM (Dutch), Bühler (Swiss), Hershey and Ardent Mills.
"Partners in Food Solutions was born from the clear-eyed passion
of General Mills leaders and employees who believed that the
company had a responsibility to help improve food security and
nutrition throughout Africa," says
Jeff Dykstra, a co-founder of
Partners in Food Solutions, and now the organization's CEO. "This
work that has allowed us to engage and improve hundreds of food
companies to benefit millions of consumers and farmers would have
never happened without the vision and commitment of General
Mills."
The companies involved in PFS fund and provide experts with deep
food knowledge and experience solving technical problems, ensuring
food safety and developing products.
Employee volunteers primarily communicate with PFS clients via
videoconferencing.
Learn more about Partners in Food Solutions, from interviews
with Jeff Dykstra, CEO of PFS, and
Madison Barre, a research and
development engineer at General Mills (who has volunteered with
small food companies in Malawi,
Ethiopia and Kenya), in episode 26 of the "A Taste of
General Mills" podcast.
To view the full article and listen to the podcast, visit:
https://blog.generalmills.com/2017/10/a-passion-for-fighting-hunger/
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