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.
It will use the capital injection to expand its geographic footprint, build out its supply chain capabilities, and introduce insurance products.
The UK-based startup secured the funds from US investor Regenerate Ventures.
SokoFresh provides a mobile cold storage solution for smallholders in Kenya, based on a ‘pay-as-you-store’ business model.
Nigeria’s ThriveAgric and Kenya’s Apollo Agriculture raised close to $100 million between them this week in a watershed moment for African agrifoodtech.
It’ll now be able to back more high-growth, ‘mid-cap’ agribusinesses aiming to become regional and global players, says chief investment officer Chris Isaac.
East Africa faces drought, livestock deaths, and starvation. Rapid digitalization is helping – but infrastructure development needs to keep pace.
The Jakarta-based startup links sellers of fertilizers, seeds, and other inputs with local ag stores that serve smallholder farmers across Indonesia.
It’s the startup behind grain trading and logistics platform CropChain and financial services provider LendIt.
Drones could be revolutionary for Indian agriculture – but their cost means they remain out of reach for most of the country’s farmers.
It’s boosting farm incomes and reducing food waste by providing logistics, warehousing, and financing solutions to small-scale grain growers.
Agrolend will use the funds to increase its credit portfolio, enabling more options for farmers using its fintech platform.
Cellular agriculture startups aim to solve agrifood’s biggest sustainability problems. But smallholders must be part of the solution, writes Saron Berhane.
It’s on a mission to help India’s 100 million dairy farmers and workers get access to formal banking and other financial services.
The Kenyan fund’s CEO talks about its own hard-learned lessons in everything from promoting tech as a tool, to fighting climate change on the continent.
E-grocers, online ordering, and door-to-door delivery have entwined how people buy and consume food with the gig economy. Mozare3 thinks how food is grown should be, too.
The fintech startup is creating a digital community of women who are financially empowering other women – namely, unbanked smallholder farmers.
