Global public debt, the highest seen in 60 years, is causing a spike in food insecurity, according to a new iPES Food report that exposes a debt and hunger loop forcing countries to choose between feeding people and repaying debt.
Sustainable Planet works with smallholder farmers in some of the world’s most arid places to produce water lentils that provide both food and income.
Learn from other geographies with similar challenges, create room for blended financing and other snippets from the Africa-Korea Agtech Summit
BII plans to designate $250 million to African and Indian startups by 2026, including those developing solutions for smallholder farmers.
‘Building an Africa that feeds itself’ is what RiceAfrika says it’s out to accomplish. Ibrahim Maigari its founder and CEO believes that if we’re serious
Operating both a B2B and B2C marketplace, Mayani has nearly 140,000 fish farmers on its platform.
“Our work has always been at the intersection of climate tech and agri,” says Devendra Gupta, CEO of Ecozen.
Pyramidia Ventures is taking an alternative approach to venture capital to help solve Kenya’s pressing food security and climate change challenges.
The just concluded African Agri Investment Indaba hosted ag stakeholders, chiming in on the sector’s state of financing, inclusion and productivity.
Eratani, an Indonesian startup providing digital farm management solutions has secured $3.8m in a seed round led by Singapore’s TNB Aura
Achieving food security and boosting smallholder farm incomes go hand in hand; Robert Madziva aims to do both with his digital agribusiness platform.
Indian farmtech startups raised $1.5bn in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2022, which was around 30% of total funding but 60% of deal count.
Attendees to the AgriTech 4.0: Crops, Seeds & Soil conference discussed the need for sharing research and access to financing between academia and industry.
FoodInsure’s Ahmed Umar wants to offer a path to food savings insurance while connecting Nigerians with smallholder farmers and cheaper food prices.
Ghana’s Wangara Green Ventures is an impact and climate focused fund supporting small and growing climate-friendly businesses.
Taimba, a Kenyan B2B agritech startup, has expanded its marketplace to offer transportation, cold storage, fintech solutions and is now eyeing up input procurement too.
Crop2Cash’s online sales and payments marketplace is helping Nigeria’s unbanked farmers build a financial identity and improve their livelihoods.
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.
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