We are honoured to welcome William Kwende as our new Strategic Sustainability Advisor in our efforts to introduce Economic Social Governance (ESG) into the metaverse.
William Kwende is a leading sustainable business entrepreneur. Born in Burkina Faso, he is a descendant of the royal family of the capital of (now) Benin and works seamlessly at all levels in the most challenging circumstances. William has spent over 10 years working for the UN Organisation on Migration before founding Agritech in 2005.
Agritech has focused on achieving Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) sustainability for the water-energy-food nexus, including by developing and training clusters of farmers in the West African Sahel through to global trading.
The crypto/ NFT space as a whole has been heavily criticised for its negative environmental impacts so together with William we plan to flip this narrative by using the power of the blockchain, NFTs, crypto and the metaverse as a force for good to contribute to sustainable projects like the Great Green Wall Initiative.
— Kirck Allen, CEO & Founder of Kaloscope
In 2020 the Malian musician Inna Modja and Oscar-nominated director Fernando Meirelles launched a documentary to escalate the profile of the over a decade-old Great Green Wall Challenge: to reverse desertification; eradicate poverty; and empower women’s roles for individual, family, and community decisions across a 1 million km2 belt of the Sahel.
William’s project, ‘Zero Carbon, Zero Deforestation Shea Value Chain by Serious Shea’, has been implementing actions since 2010 to step by step incorporate local knowledge and global partners to work towards interconnected ecovillages; provide renewable fuel and power, organic fertilizer, seedlings and other sustainable agro technologies; and replant natural parklands across 100,000 km2 of The Great Green Wall by 2030.
Clean food processing centres are at the heart of the ecovillages offering women’s group shareholders the facilities and logistics to reach international markets, quality standards, and opportunities from the multi-billion dollar Shea butter industry and other commodities.
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