00:00 Introduction: Make America (and Africa) Healthy Again
00:49 Welcome to Nairobi: When entrepreneurs step in as problem solvers
01:43 Jean-Paul’s origin story: Watching his father’s harvest spoil
02:54 The scale of the crisis: Africa loses $1 trillion annually to food waste
04:03 Studying Agriculture Science at Uganda Christian University
04:51 Why cold storage and chemical fungicides weren’t the answer
06:03 The turning point: Looking to nature and asking God
07:18 The oil discovery: How orange peels naturally preserve longer
08:53 Two paths to food scarcity: Production vs. preservation
09:35 KaFresh breakthrough: Doubling and tripling shelf life
11:20 The personal motivation behind rejecting synthetics
13:55 “Make America Healthy Again” resonates in Kenya too
15:01 Cancer crisis and tracing food system contamination
16:15 Innovation from the ground truth, not ivory towers
17:06 Genesis 1:29 and plant-based science inspiration
18:50 Farmers losing over 50% of harvests post-harvest
20:29 Mile 10 Lagos market: 90% tomato loss case study
21:38 Why Western cold chain solutions don’t scale in Africa
23:56 History of food preservation: 1800s monks and beeswax
26:00 World War I and the turn to unsafe synthetic preservatives
27:47 Concrete for cabbages, formalin for fruit: Dangerous methods today
29:33 God’s way of engineering solutions for His glory
30:52 Connection with German scientist providing rare ingredients
33:11 Daily photo time-lapses proving the miracle
34:52 When produce thinks it’s still on the mother plant
37:40 The validation moment: Empowering his father against exploitative traders
39:32 “God Engineering”: Connecting the dots He leaves as clues
42:30 Uganda’s 2 million farmers as the backbone of the country
45:23 The mindset shift: Like small business owners in America
47:35 Expanding beyond preservation: GrowFresh for seed germination
49:09 Making insects invisible to produce instead of killing them
50:04 Innovating with farmers: Listening to powder form preferences
52:40 How God speaks through amazing teammates
54:11 The power of stories to help people see differently
56:35 Call to action: Solving world’s greatest problems together
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