22.02.2022

Can adopting regenerative agricultural practices - that include topsoil regeneration, increasing biodiversity, improving the water cycle, enhancing ecosystem services, increasing resilience to climate change, and strengthening the health and vitality of farm soil - create new opportunities for the 600 million farmer families globally?

Obrobibini Peace Complex (OPC) and Roxbourg HYPR Accelerator are taking the first step towards forming a strategic partnership that will allow regenerative leaders recommended by OPC to receive $400,000 of grants and scholarships towards completing their 100-Day Roxbourg HYPR Acceleration Program that leads to the Humanitarian.MBA degree at the Roxbourg Institute of Social Entrepreneurship (RISE).

Why?
Obrobibini Peace Complex (OPC) is led by Christian Andres, a Roxbourg Fellow and graduate of the Roxbourg Humanitarian.MBA Program where he won the Roxbourg Gold Medal. In short, Christian is a mentor, a leader who has provided guidance and coaching to students and the Roxbourg team members. He has experienced Roxbourg from different vantage points including recommending his team members for scholarships at Roxbourg.

What?
Imagine a world where sustainable innovators and regenerative leaders are able to collaborate, learn, experiment, test and scale up new ideas in months instead of years as part of a community where everyone can teach and everyone can learn how to grow innovation in their own farm or their local community.

How?
The Obrobibini Peace Complex (OPC) Team will be able to nominate anyone, anywhere in the world for the 100-Day Acceleration Program that leads to the Roxbourg Humanitarian.MBA degree. The Roxbourg Grants Board will allocate the $400,000 for up to 100 students recommended by OPC.

About Obrobibini Peace Complex (OPC)
Christian Andres is the founder of the Swiss-based association OPC (Obrobibini Peace Complex), which is implementing projects in Ghana, among them the establishment of a centre of excellence for sustainable social enterprises and circular economy, and a 20 hectare organic agroforestry farm. Christian is a Post-Doctoral Research Scientist at ETH Zurich in sustainable cocoa production systems. From 2011 to 2019, Christian worked at the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), where he compared organic vs. conventional cocoa production systems in Bolivia for their agronomic, economic and ecological performance. Between 2015 to 2018, he completed his PhD on the cocoa swollen shoot virus disease in Ghana. He continues to work in the country on dynamic agroforestry systems with cocoa for his Post-Doc. Learn more at Obrobibini.

About Roxbourg HYPR Accelerator
Alexandre Srivastava, currently pursuing architectural studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne is the co-founder of Roxbourg HYPR Accelerator and the Roxbourg Institute of Social Entrepreneurship (RISE) which are sister initiatives of the GoodFestival that are co-founded by Rajiv Srivastava as part of Majamba SARL in Vaud, Switzerland. Roxbourg is for sustainable, regenerative, humanitarian or social innovators who are leading startups or established organizations. The Roxbourg HYPR Acceleration Program provides a complete suite of services from scholarships for the Humanitarian.MBA Program to supporting the professionals to get accredited by the SwissMBA.Org program and receive the invitation to the Roxbourg Fellowship. With the Roxbourg Grants & Scholarship Program, our goal is to allocate Roxbourg Grants to support regenerative and humanitarian ventures around the world. Learn more at Roxbourg.

Contact: spaa@roxbourg.mba / info@obrobibini.org