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]

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