Zimbabwe entrepreneur giving wasted bananas new appeal

Bananas are one of the main crops grown in Zimbabwe, but growing the fruit can be tricky. Bananas don't store well and suffer in transportation, so around a third of banana harvests are ultimately thrown out.

Bright Nezomba, a young entrepreneur, has found a solution for this banana waste. His banana processing company, Nezox Brands, takes unsellable bananas from 40 small-scale farms and turns them into flour, fruit snacks and dried banana skins. The process simultaneously preserves the environment and banana crop yields in a region affected by climate change.

"I realized that we are losing a lot on bananas, so we started finding ways to mitigate those losses," Nezomba said. "That's when the idea of processing bananas came."