Louise Mabulo

Activist, Change agent, Connector, Entrepreneur, Environmentalist, Explorer, Foodie, Global soul, Idea generator, Social entrepreneur, Startup, World traveler

Louise Mabulo is a chef, farmer, and entrepreneur. She is the Founder of The Cacao Project, which cultivates resilient and Climate-smart livelihoods, positioning farmers for sustainable success in San Fernando, Camarines Sur, Philippines. Her work has supported over 200 farmers to plant over 300,000 trees, reforesting 741 acres of land-- creating regenerative agroforests and empowering local communities to set up their own enterprises. Louise is a National Geographic Explorer, a featured honouree for Forbes Asia’s list ‘30 Under 30’, Named as one of BBC’s 100 Most Inspiring and Influential Women of the Year, a Young Champion of the Earth under the United Nations Environment Programme, a UN Foundation SDG Vanguard Award, Young Activists Summit Laureate, an honouree of Tatler’s ‘Generation T’, and one of the World’s 50 Next Game-changing Producers listed by the World’s 50 Best Restaurants Awarding Body. Louise is an Ambassador of the World Resources Institute’s Food and Land Use Coalition, a member of the Climate Overshoot Commission under Paris Peace Forum, a member of the UN Decade for Ecosystem Restoration Advisory Committee, and is an official TED Speaker. She is a television presenter for the Channel News Asia documentary series, “Tech to Save the World”, where she explores technological innovation and Artificial Intelligence-driven Climate Solutions to some of the leading challenges of our time. She also hosts the cooking show ‘Simply Sarap’, promoting cultural diplomacy under the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Philippines. She is also the host of #GenGeo Conversations under the National Geographic Society, and NatGeo Presents: Earth Day Stories: Diet vs. Planet Documentary series. Louise is also co-founder of a new startup, 'Pull to Refresh', working to decommission landfills and put more carbon back into the ground than we take from it. Louise strives toward empowering farmers and advancing climate action & environmental stewardship through her work.

I’m passionate about bridging ancestral wisdom with future-facing tech to heal land, people, and policy — and also food: how we grow it, make it, buy it, and trade it.

Our grandmothers’ ‘crazy stories’ were really centuries of empirical, peer-reviewed organic science passed down orally.

Recurve Archery, Starting revolutions… politely, food diplomacy