Meet the founder: Ahmed Umar on how his fintech platform addresses food security for Nigerians
FoodInsure’s Ahmed Umar wants to offer a path to food savings insurance while connecting Nigerians with smallholder farmers and cheaper food prices.
FoodInsure’s Ahmed Umar wants to offer a path to food savings insurance while connecting Nigerians with smallholder farmers and cheaper food prices.
Africa is responsible for just 3% of global carbon emissions. While there are calls for developing nations to seek compensation from the world’s biggest emitters at COP27, developing nations must also look to technology to mitigate the impacts of climate change – or adapt.
African Agrifoodtech investment deals in 2021 were dominated by seed stage deals, which took 80% of 150 deals recorded.
Farmerline claims to have reached over 1.5 million farmers in 35 countries via its Mergdata platform.
Mzansi Meat’s Brett Thompson and Tasneem Karodia discuss how their company and South Africa’s cultivated meat industry could evolve in the near future.
Nigeria, Egypt and Kenya collectively secured close to 90% of agrifoodtech investments in 2021, according to the Africa AgriFoodTech Investment Report by AgFunder.
Neruva Technologies is a Kenyan-based startup that’s leveraging indoor farming to simplify agriculture and bring food production to urban markets.
The trend for African alternative protein startups is coming to the African continent. Here’s a closer look at five of them.
Kenya’s iProcure closes $10.2 M in a Series B led by impact investor I&P
American ag equipment manufacturer John Deere made a minority investment into the tractor sharing and management platform, Hello Tractor. Here’s why.
Crop2Cash’s online sales and payments marketplace is helping Nigeria’s unbanked farmers build a financial identity and improve their livelihoods.
Argentina’s ucrop.it, a blockchain-enabled platform, announced the close of its pre-series A funding round to track sustainable farming practices.
Nigeria’s female-led Traders of Africa is helping facilitate the trade of African sourced produce, bridging the trust divide between buyers and sellers while at it.
The 7th Agritec Africa Conference was a three-day event showcasing agricultural technologies. Key sessions involved organic agriculture, soil health and its conservation, agri-mechanization and application of plasticulture.
In providing access to quality inputs, financing, and training, Good Nature Agro is aiming at ultimately helping Zambia’s farmers – the primary income earners in rural Zambia – transition to the middle class through higher incomes.
Hailing from Mali, Oumar Barou Togola wanted to give back to his home country in a way that empowered and subsequently increased incomes for the project’s benefactors – female smallholders. Thus the journey of Hello Savanna began.
Kenya’s Tushop is scaling to allow communities to purchase groceries in groups, thereby getting wholesale prices for goods.
The Lagos-based startup is connecting local smallholder farmers to the international spice markets.
Provivi will use the funds to sell its pheremone-based pest control products to smallholder farmers in Kenya, Bangladesh, and India at cost.
The Woburn, Mass.-based startup uses pharmaceutical discovery techniques to advance promising modes of action for fighting crop pests.
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International Fresh Produce Association launches year 3 of its produce accelerator